Michael Reagan Quotes

My mother's incredible diaries, which she'd written from when she was 21, and even before that. She fell in love with my father when she was 12.

His parents never talked about how they met, but when Park was younger, he used to try to imagine it. He loved how much they loved each other. It was the thing he thought about when he woke up scared in the middle of the night. Not that they loved him--they were his parents, they had to love him. That they loved each other. They didn't have to do that.

My parents didn't really know one another.

The happiest years of my mother's life were spent in Washington, D.C. It was where she met my father, where John was born and where I spent my earliest years.

'Letters From Home' is a story inspired by my grandparents' epistolary courtship.

Family is funny, and so it was not an unnatural thing for me, growing up, not to know anything about my dad or about the Vance side of our family.

The poem that became the song 'Gold All Over the Ground' was written during 1967, when my dad was really falling in love with my mother.

My brother's researched our early family history. He found a letter from a fella who said he used to be in love with my mum.

You know, people see [August: Osage County], and I tell them that it's based on my family, and they assume that I came from some kind of horrible, hysterical circumstances. That's not true. My family, my nuclear family, was actually very close. My mom and dad were great parents and they encouraged a real rich, creative life for me and my brothers. My extended family, like every family, has some darkness, and some violence of some kind, emotional or otherwise, in their past.

It was the late '70s when my parents met. My dad was a lighting director for a soap opera, and my mom was a temp at the studio. They moved into a house in The Valley in L.A., to a neighborhood that was leafy and affordable.

Brodsky was born in May, 1940, a year before the German invasion. His mother worked as an accountant; his father was a photographer and worked for the Navy Museum in Leningrad when Brodsky was young. They were doting parents and much beloved by Iosif Brodsky, who was their only child.

There are secrets in families. That is the definition of a family.

There was a time when I was willing to marry any cute boy that looked at me.

I grew up in Rhode Island. Most of my family on both sides is from Rhode Island.

I was an only child, and I spent a lot of time alone. My dad was an only child, too, so we didn't have a big family, and I was really close with both of my parents. Like any kid, I thought I knew more than they did.

I have a military background in my family.

Well, you know, my grandmother actually grew up, you know, her whole family, my mom's family outside of Parkersburg, West Virginia.

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.

I was born in Manly Hospital, I pretty much grew up in my grandmother's house until my parents bought their own home.

Tears belong within the family.

I have been proposed to a few times. I haven't counted how many, a little bit more than one hand?

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

My dad was the 10th of 11 children. My mother has three brothers. My dad was a salesman, my mum was a school nurse.

My mom and dad met at U. Conn., and their lives couldn't have been more different in terms of their upbringing.