Marc Brown

My siblings are my best friends.

My mom has always been my champion. She was very smart and grounded. She said, ‘Save your money. Pay your taxes. Don’t put everything in one basket,’ but she let me explore and be creative.

The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being’s mental and physical health is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time, because it’s too hard…To put it loosely, the reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up…

My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.

They say that no matter how old you become, when you are with your siblings, you revert back to childhood.

Siblings are the people we practice on, the people who teach us about fairness and cooperation and kindness and caring, quite often the hard way.

I didn’t want to disrespect my parents, so I never played blues around the house. But I knew then, same as I know today, that I wasn’t doing anything wrong. I think that before they died, they both felt very proud of me.

It’s incredible watching my son grow up and learn to read, discover the world and test boundaries. Being a mum is the greatest joy of my life, definitely.

Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.

I guess my parents were strict. There were a few times when being with my friends and had bring my sister. It was just my parents best interests.

Your siblings are the only people in the world who know what it’s like to have been brought up the way you were.

Siblings – the definition that comprises love, strife, competition and forever friends.

It’s her first grandchild, so she’s really, really, really excited. I guess my mom is a little more stressed out than me.

I just want to make sure when I have kids, I can spend time with them. That’s the whole point.

I owe much to mother. She had an expert’s understanding, but also approached art emotionally.