Daisy Shah Quotes

My mother was a housewife. My father was a garment worker.

My dad's a jeweller, and my mom works for a bank.

My dad was a produce man. He worked in grocery stores for 35 years. My mom just babysat kids and raised us. I have four sisters and one brother. I'm the baby.

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.

It is obvious that the role of the father as the central authority in the family has been considerably challenged in Western societies. Parental responsibilities, and I knowingly use the term responsibility instead of the term authority still used in the French Civil code, are nowadays shared equally between both parents.

My mom worked for Apple, and my dad owned his own business.

Family dinner in the Norman Rockwell mode had taken hold by the 1950s: Mom cooked, Dad carved, son cleared, daughter did the dishes.

Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise small children without the help of multiple adults, making for an unsupported life.

My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer.

While unions did not play a part in my family life when I was being brought up, my early years were most certainly spent in a working-class community.

My ma is an economist. My dad is a software engineer.

My mother's a secretary; my father's an electrician in a mining company.

The old man sold beer after hours on weekends. And that was something that he probably did to top up his earnings as a truck driver. Mum was the traditional housewife. Loving, caring, sharing - always the keynotes of the family.

Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them.

My mom and dad got divorced when I was very young, and growing up in a family where the head of the household wasn't a man made a big difference.

I was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, the youngest of four girls, including my oldest sister, Lisa, who has special needs. My mom was a special education teacher, and my dad worked on the Army base. We weren't wealthy, but we were determined to succeed.

I came from a very, very small valley in the middle of South Wales. I grew up there with my father, who's a coal miner, and my mother worked in a normal factory.

I am the first one to go to university in my family. I am the first writer as well. My dad is a retired policeman, and my mom works for a glass-processing company. She is health-and-safety manager, and my stepfather is a plumber. I have four half siblings, one from my mom's marriage and three from my dad's marriage, so we are kind of scattered.

My father was a manual worker.

My mother works in a bank, and my dad is the head of my management team and also works in finance.

My mom and dad met at Anaheim High School. After they got married, all they wanted to do was have four children, and they did.

My dad was a cop. My mom worked at various jobs - she worked as a homemaker, a bank teller, a bartender.

As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I've done my job.

My father is a businessman, and my mother is a schoolteacher.

My mum is a school teacher and my dad is an electrician.