Samantha Shannon Quotes

And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago - by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me.

I was born in 1943 and raised in the Bronx, in a high rise apartment complex known as Parkchester, the only child of Max, an accountant who worked in the garment district in Manhattan, and Rose, an elementary school teacher.

Oh, yeah. I grew up in Southern California in the 1960's. It was very different. I was an only child as opposed to having siblings. My brothers all lived with my step-mom. I am very close to them, but we were not raised in the same house.

Married and divorced, three beautiful daughters, two in college. The other one is 16, lives with her mom. I'm 46, I've worked for the Post Office for 18 years, seven facilities in three states.

I was born Pauline Matthews and grew up in Bradford as one of three children - I had an older brother, David, and an older sister, Betty. My father Fred worked in the mills as a textile weaving supervisor, and my mother, Mary, was a housewife.

I came from a divorced mother and father, obviously mixed race.

I was the first one in the family, on either side, to go to college - much less graduate school.

My dad worked as a floor manager in a clothing mill in Dombivli and my mom is a housewife.

I grew up in Southampton. My mum was a shop assistant; my dad was a carpenter. They broke up when I was eight.

My mom and dad weren't together, so I never thought I would get married.

I was raised by my mom. My dad was always traveling, but she allowed me and encouraged me to be close to my dad. So I grew up with three parents: my mom, my dad and my stepmom. Ninety percent of the time I was with my mom, and 10 percent was with my dad.

My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious - like, I don't remember them ever being together.

My mom is a teacher, my dad was a writer for television, his dad was a writer for television, and combining those two has been sort of the goal of my life.

My mom was a waitress, and my dad was a plumber who worked for the City of San Clemente fixing mains breaks, so not too glamorous.

I was born and raised in East Los Angeles by a single mom who had three biological kids and adopted four more. I never met my dad.

My dad was young; he went to work. But he'd been to war. He'd seen some of the world. It wasn't like he was going to be an extensive traveler or something. It didn't seem to be in his nature or in the nature of his parents or many of the folks in my family, really.

I came from an intellectual Parisian family. My father was a watchmaker; my mother was a housewife. We discussed politics, art, sculpture - never fashion.

When I was 18, I applied to go to BYU like my six brothers ahead of me - I have eight boys and one girl in my family.

Dad was a baker, and Mum was tied up with church and the social club.

My mother's a Peruvian Indian from Lima who raised me and my four brothers and sisters as a single mom.

I grew up in a two-parent household. We all played sports, all sports, which cost a lot of money. My pops was an attorney; he went to College of the Holy Cross with Clarence Thomas. My mom worked a bit, then gradually came home and took care of us full time.

I like a full house because it's how I grew up. I'm one of six children.

I was an only child until I was six.

My mum came from an incredibly big family.

My parents were divorced when I was 2, so I don't remember much about them being together.