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- The relationship between Cathy and Mom in the strip is the one relationship drawn from real life that I have proudly never even tried to disguise. — Cathy Guisewite
- I visited my father for the full ten years that he was in prison, so we already had a deep and loving relationship, and remembered our mother at those times. — Sam Sheppard
- So my father grew up in an orphanage in Boston. He was then adopted by an elderly childless couple from Maine, who gave him the name of Mitchell. He moved to Maine, and there he met my mother and was married. — George J. Mitchell
- No one, however powerful and successful, can function as an adult if his parents are not satisfied with him. — Frank Pittman
- Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress. — Frank Pittman
- Fathering makes a man, whatever his standing in the eyes of the world, feel strong and good and important, just as he makes his child feel loved and valued. — Frank Pittman