Why, on my mother's birthday, am I thinking about 'Father Knows Best?' At our house, mother knew best at least as often as father did, but then the title of the old sitcom, a homogenized portrait of American family life, was meant to be slightly sardonic.
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Related My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family's subscription to the newspaper I was working on... CHARLES KURALT My mother's family raised grains and crops. My father's grew sugarcane and mangos. So I knew... MARGOT ROBBIE My mother was murdered by my step-father, my brother's father, who was also named Joel, twenty-f... NATASHA TRETHEWEY My mother's kitchen was built to be the focal point of our house. I got into the kitchen often a... GAIL SIMMONS As I was growing up, you know, I'm a white Jewish American born to Holocaust parents. My father ... EUGENE JARECKI My parents came from different backgrounds. My father's was grander than my mother's, so my ... JULIAN FELLOWES My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family. SIMON VAN DER MEER I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse ... RUPERT MURDOCH It was nearly midnight on the night of February 26, 1806, and Alexandre Dumas, the future author of ... TOM REISS Father's Day was great, but all the family gatherings brought up my mother's death. Maybe it... DOUG DAVIDSON There were nine children in my father's family and eight in my mother's. My grandparents did... CHERYL LADD My mother's family came from the British West Indies. And my father's family came from, well... RICHIE HAVENS I never met a person as determined as my mother. From working hard for six kids to just trying to ke... SUGAR RAY LEONARD When my mother and father fell in love, my mother's family would never accept it. EUZHAN PALCY The fact of leaving one's country, one's family, one's roots, can be painful. My father ... NAJAT VALLAUD-BELKACEM Brando's a family friend. His mother gave my father a shot to be in a play at the Omaha Communit... PETER FONDA I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided ... B. B. KING I'm part Spanish. My paternal grandfather came from Spain via Singapore to Manila. On my mother&... JESSICA HAGEDORN I'm considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the f... RUPERT MURDOCH When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my moth... MR. T I believe that at least 70 percent of parenting goes to the mother. In our house, I'm the one wh... CINDY CRAWFORD My mother, father, stepmother and surrogate mother have all died of cancer; my best friend has got t... ARABELLA WEIR He was a giver. He took all of the good things our mother and father taught. He was the best son a m... BILL HARMON Growing up, my mother and grandparents often talked about our family's Native American heritage.... ELIZABETH WARREN My father's from Australia and my mother was born in India, but she's actually Tibetan. I wa... DICHEN LACHMAN I come from a blue-collar family. My father worked at the American Can Company as a mechanic. He bro... JOSEPH ABBOUD Fortunately, I grew up in a family that was grounded. My mother and father knew how to guide my care... LARENZ TATE I came from a poor family. My father was from Glasgow, Scotland; my mother's brothers were brake... MICKEY ROONEY I'm over the moon to be involved in the 'Doctor Who' Christmas special. I can't quit... KATHERINE JENKINS For myself, it's trying to do my best in whatever I am doing. At this time, it is boxing; then w... SONNY BILL WILLIAMS I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of... JAMES JOYCE I'm actually half Brit and half American. I have a British father and an American mother, but as... ADAM RAYNER When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house... ORIANA FALLACI My father who was there in the house, he wasn't at all a role model. And my mother, who was tryi... TYLER PERRY My family was musical on both sides. My father's family had a famous flautist and a classical pi... GLORIA ESTEFAN I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays... and my father used to wait outside. ... BONO Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always w... ROBERT CORMIER I used to steal my father's cologne, and it was so strong. My mother would always know when I di... TREY SONGZ My father was a soldier, which meant that he was a warrior, which meant that he was important. My mo... SPIKE MILLIGAN I had a very normal, very typical American childhood. My father worked for the government at the Pen... JEFF KINNEY My mother was madly adventurous. My father was an actor - he worked with Gielgud - and my mother cam... FRANCESCA ANNIS Fortunately for me, my mother loved travel. Our first non-beach family trip abroad - to England, Fra... ANDREW SOLOMON I am half Scottish. My father is an expat from Glasgow, and on my mother's side there's a bi... ADELAIDE KANE Absolutely father knows best, always do what your fathers say, and if you can't find one then ju... RAINN WILSON I have three older brothers, and we all have different combinations of parents. My father was the be... INARA GEORGE It is a lot of responsibility. But I enjoy being a father. That's one of the best parts of my li... T.I. I grew up Catholic. My mother is from El Salvador, so my family on her side is Roman Catholic. My fa... CHRISTY TURLINGTON Until I was six years old we lived in the projects, then my two brothers and three sisters and I mov... DAVID JOHANSEN But then my mother, who's a very selfless, stoic person from a family of Marines, would tell us ... PATRICIA RICHARDSON Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased. JOHN JAMES AUDUBON We were all miners in our family. My father was a miner. My mother is a miner. These are miner's... ALAN BENNETT My father's very public life as Famous Amos was the opposite of that of his ex-wife, my mother S... SHAWN AMOS Kingsley Amis was a lenient father. His paternal style, in the early years, can best be described as... MARTIN AMIS Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON I know a lot of people don't have their parents in their life - their mother, their father - but... J. R. SMITH As a kid, I'd eat at my mother's house, then go down the road to my girlfriend's and eat... BRUCE SMITH I was born on October 21, 1956 in Burbank, California. My father, Eddie Fisher, was a famous singer.... CARRIE FISHER I did meet 'The Everly Brothers' once, and we talked for awhile. Then we figured out we were... JAMES BEST I suppose you could say my father's world was Thomas Hardy and my mother's D.H. Lawrence. SEAMUS HEANEY My mother and stepfather were in Vaudeville. And my stepfather was an alcoholic. It was a lot of rol... JULIE ANDREWS At the beginning of my career as a writer, I felt I knew nothing of Chinese culture. I was writing a... AMY TAN My mother's a secretary; my father's an electrician in a mining company. EVA HERZIGOVA My mother Diana was a true-blue aristocrat, descended from William the Conqueror and listed in '... CELIA IMRIE I'm from a family with five kids in it, and my father almost became a Catholic priest. And my mo... CARRIE COON My father was a certain kind of man - I saw how he treated my mother and his family and how he treat... SIDNEY POITIER My father was one of 11. He was an attorney. My mother worked for the Syracuse newspaper as a column... SIOBHAN FALLON HOGAN Race, class, childhood experience, the books I found on my mother's bookshelf, the albums I foun... RASHID JOHNSON My father was an alcoholic. My mother was gone. She's the only mother I ever knew. CHARLES PLANCON I learned early on that family, as far as my mother and father, were not an option. DREW BARRYMORE If you look at us as a company, what's the one thing that's consistent? It has to be the big... ERIC TRUMP I always knew that I would give back. My mother and my father both believe you have to work hard and... THOMAS KEAN, JR. I come from a magnetic field of Catholicism. I was baptised by my mother's family, who were all ... PAWEL PAWLIKOWSKI At the age of 12 I won the school prize for Best English Essay. The prize was a copy of Somerset Mau... WILBUR SMITH I read a lot of fantasy. I adored 'Anne of Green Gables'. But my favourite books as a child ... TRACY CHEVALIER My father has been the real anchor of the family. He's the one who has always encouraged my moth... YVETTE CLARKE Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house. THOMAS BROOKS I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after,... PATRICIA KAAS It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON Call me All-American, but I love Ham and Cheese sandwiches. And not just any old ham and cheese sand... ANDY RODDICK My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My... CHUCK D As a youngster, my mother and father always drilled into my head having something to fall back on. M... SHAQUILLE O'NEAL I'm a man that's unique to the world. That's kind of the star I was born under - on the ... JOSE JAMES What is interesting about me isn't that I am a mother, it is who I am. I love my family, but if ... LAETITIA CASTA 'Master Harold' is about me as a little boy, and my father, who was an alcoholic. There'... ATHOL FUGARD He's just like my father that way-my father just adored my mother and let her do whatever she wa... JUNE CARTER CASH My mother's family is Christian: her father was a Baptist lay preacher, and her brother, in a le... SHEREEN EL FEKI When my mother died, and when my father died, it's big. Our parents are giants; they're tita... LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III My childhood was kind of complicated. I have an older sister, but my father, my mother's husband... ORLANDO BLOOM I was born at home in rural Kentucky, in 1942, in a house that my father Howard had built. He did mo... ROBERT H. GRUBBS Before I was married to Martin and became a King, I was a proud Scott, shaped by my mother's dis... CORETTA SCOTT KING My Mother is Swedish and my Father is Scottish, he played for Charlton in the 1960's and was in ... RICHARD GOUGH My mother is black and my father is Filipino. I got the best of both worlds. CASSIE VENTURA What kept me out of trouble is going right to the edge and then... thinking that my mother would be ... BILL COSBY My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Mac... BERNIE TAUPIN My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 yea... WALTER MOSLEY The only honourable work my parents knew was blue-collar. But while my father Robert ran a pawnbroke... NORMAN FOSTER Well I'm a third-generation musician. My Grandfather's a musician and my father and mother w... SAM RIVERS My mother and father had so many ups and downs and stayed with each other and helped each other. My ... PATTI SMITH I'd say my mother made more of a difference to me than anyone else did. I know that's a conv... HERB KELLEHER My mother insisted that I pursue music. I rented out my father's musical equipment and earned so... A. R. RAHMAN
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