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My parents really encouraged me.
RANDY CASTILLO The condition of my child was very poor.
ETHEL ROSENBERG![]()
I was taught as a young child by my parents and family to love myself.
ZENDAYA My parents always encouraged me to do what I wanted.
KATE CURRAN![]()
It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I ...
PAULO COELHO I came from a happy family with loving parents, so my associations with marriage and children were a...
DAVID FURNISH I suffered from severe depression for over a decade. My condition deteriorated steadily. I was suici...
BYRON KATIE![]()
I was a very curious person because of my parents. They encouraged me to be as curious about as many...
MARTHA STEWART![]()
I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor me...
JEAN PIAGET![]()
I was very obsessed with my music, and I think that, as a young girl, I really wanted to get into th...
BEBE REXHA My parents always encouraged me to do creative stuff, to do weird stuff.
JACK KILMER![]()
I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poo...
JEAN PIAGET![]()
It was always the view of my parents...that hot weather encouraged loose morals among young people.
IAN MCEWAN![]()
My parents were very supportive and always encouraged us. My father was a gentle, nice man. My mothe...
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH He did not suffer from a poor education; he suffered from the belief that he had a poor education.
GEORGE WILDMAN BALL As a child, I was rather active for my age. Sensing something special about me, my father told me th...
SUNIL MITTAL Not long ago someone said I should shorten it to just Emma. But I really, really love my name. From ...
EMAYATZY CORINEALDI![]()
Girls see these defined roles they're supposed to follow in life, but when I was a young child, ...
JOAN JETT The state of my poor boy's health prevents me from leaving home for a night.
EDWARD IRVING![]()
My parents suffered from that ideal of a perfect nuclear family. They found that a difficult pressur...
TIM BURTON![]()
He that filches from me my good name robs me of that which enriches him and makes me poor indeed.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE![]()
My interest was directed, from my medical student days, to Immunology, and particularly to the mecha...
BARUJ BENACERRAF![]()
As a young child, I suffered all sorts of digestive problems and was constantly under the weather.
JAMEELA JAMIL![]()
It was always the view of my parents," Emily said, "that hot weather encouraged loose morals among y...
IAN MCEWAN![]()
As a child, I was a brat, and my parents didn't know how to control me. So they told me ghost st...
BIPASHA BASU![]()
I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my paren...
MARA WILSON![]()
My parents owned a pharmacy in Budapest, which gave us a comfortable living. As I was their only chi...
JOHN HARSANYI![]()
For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to e...
EDVARD MUNCH My father also encouraged my love of nature. He urged me to become a Cub Scout, and later a Boy Scou...
ED BEGLEY, JR.![]()
I came to Harlem from West Virginia when I was three, after my mother died. My father, who was very ...
WALTER DEAN MYERS![]()
When I was kidnapped as a child my parents sent a letter to the hijackers me Pay 5,000 dollars or yo...
RODNEY DANGERFIELD I was very poor. As a child my dream was to have a leather football.
STEPHEN CHOW![]()
He that filches from me my good name
Robs me of that, which not enriches him,
And makes me poo...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My dad taught me something as a very young child -- never presume anything. But some big stuff is go...
GRACE POTTER It was clear to my parents that I had the gift of voice, and they encouraged me to pursue it.
RAIN PHOENIX I was a loner as a child and happiest at home, launching toy rockets and aeroplanes. When I started ...
GARY NUMAN![]()
I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me - I wasn't neglected enoug...
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART![]()
My parents told me in the very beginning as a young child when I raised the question about segregati...
JOHN LEWIS![]()
I became a soldier, not because I had a military vocation initially, but because it was the only way...
HUGO CHAVEZ As a child, I loved Christmas only for my parents presents. Now that I'm an adult, I love Christmas ...
NICHOLAS A. FERRONI![]()
In my forties, my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allo...
PATRICIA CORNWELL![]()
Who steals my purse, steals trash, but he that filches from me my good name robs me of that which no...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My parents brought us up in a very clever way, which was that they saw what we were interested in na...
KIT HARINGTON![]()
As a child, I lived with being punier than other boys in class. The only consolation was my parents&...
JAMES D. WATSON![]()
Whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my ...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS![]()
My parents were keen for me to have the education they themselves never had. They weren't able t...
IAN MCEWAN![]()
Every child growing up will look to their parents, my mother and my father. My grandmother lived wit...
JOHN HUME I grew up as an only child with a single mother. Because we were poor and because I knew my father h...
MONA SIMPSON My parents, and especially my mother, encouraged by the director of the local school which I was att...
LEON JOUHAUX As a child, I was raised by native Hawaiian elders - three old women who took care of me while my pa...
ELIZABETH KAPU'UWAILANI LINDSEY As a child, I was raised by native Hawaiian elders - three old women who took care of me while my pa...
ELIZABETH KAPU'UWAILANI LINDSEY![]()
What I really had was stories, the oral traditions of my parents. We moved so much that that was rea...
JUAN FELIPE HERRERA![]()
Shortly before the United States entered World War II, I received an invitation to come to the Ameri...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL My kindergarten teacher encouraged me to learn, as did my school headmaster, who gave me a grant to ...
ADA YONATH When I entered college, I wasn't sure what I was going to do. My advisor happened to be from the...
DAVID SELBY From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always ...
GAVIN O'CONNOR![]()
When I was sixteen I started acting, and I also started to embrace my tradition and culture. I had a...
ADAM BEACH I was playing sports all the time, and my parents, Anne and John, encouraged me to play in grade sch...
JACK RAMSAY I would ask my parents something, but then go to my siblings. We were encouraged to bounce ideas off...
AHMET ZAPPA My parents found what I was interested in and encouraged me. They didn't put me in front of a te...
NASTASSJA KINSKI I knew what he was thinking. Thanks to Mickey, I had been elevated from child-who-can’t-learn-to-s...
FIROOZEH DUMAS![]()
I see my upbringing as a great success story. By disciplining me, my parents inculcated self-discipl...
AMY CHUA I gave my children what my parents didn't give me, and that's stability. I'd like to give that to my...
MARY TURNER![]()
In my mind, numbers and words are far more than squiggles of ink on a page. They have form, color, t...
DANIEL TAMMET As a child, I was spoilt by my parents as an only son. They indulged my every whim, and I grew up in...
ASIF ALI ZARDARI![]()
I definitely was always expected and encouraged to be a songwriter from a very young age, ... But re...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT I have been using Victorinox Cutlery since I was a young man, when my parents gave me a block set to...
DANIEL HUMM![]()
The way my father raised me was really informative of how I think about my role as a female and how ...
IVANKA TRUMP![]()
Fortunately, my parents always encouraged me to be grateful that I was healthy, and stand up and be ...
SUSAN ANTON My parents were really nice to me.
BRYAN CALLEN![]()
What I learned as a young child continues to have a tremendous impact on my life today.
NOVAK DJOKOVIC My brother always wanted to see me do well, and he always encouraged me.
KATE CURRAN![]()
And my parents' separation was tricky. But my mum had always been really honest with me, and tre...
LISA SNOWDON As is said about most writers, on the one hand, all I ever did from when I was a child was read, and...
ELFRIEDE JELINEK![]()
Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased.
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON![]()
My parents noticed my love for clothes and encouraged me to study design abroad. I decided to join t...
NAEEM KHAN![]()
To me in my childhood, elves and fairies of all sorts were very real things, and my dolls were as re...
ANNIE BESANT My dad really started to love football during my sophomore season, which meant a lot to me because h...
JULIAN DALANHESE![]()
My parents were divorced when I was young. I was really brought up by my mother's side of the fa...
BILL DE BLASIO I feel like it's me singing back to myself as a younger person and saying have confidence in being a...
CORINNE BAILEY RAE![]()
How do I pray? Not in any organized form, really; I go to temples sometimes with my family, but they...
SHASHI THAROOR As a warning to parents, I mention that my father preferred me to my brother, which was very injurio...
GEORGE MULLER Wherever I go, there's always a child, an old woman, that comes to me and wants to meet me. Not ...
ELIAN GONZALEZ![]()
I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal e...
DAVID ROCKEFELLER I can remember my sister and me volunteering for Nixon. My parents liked him. I liked my parents. So...
DOUGLAS MCGRATH![]()
My views on everything from welfare to a balanced budget to affirmative action can be traced to what...
J. C. WATTS My parents were concerned that I would not get good schooling, so they put me up in my uncle's h...
NANDAN NILEKANI![]()
Yes, and when I had Aaron, he left me, and I didn't know how to raise a child. And I wasn't ...
LYNN JOHNSTON![]()
I would not have stayed at a university if it told me upfront that a condition for me getting tenure...
NORMAN FINKELSTEIN Fortunately, I grew up in a traditional family where questioning was encouraged, particularly by my ...
AMISH TRIPATHI My family's just really into the sport. My sister played, my mom played and my dad played baseball. ...
LAUREN GIBSON I was a young, & had deep loves, & my heart would overflow with enthusiasm! And I mingled wi...
COMTE DE LAUTRéAMONT The state of health is so poor at conception. The parents of the boomers didn't have the burden of e...
DR. MAXINE HAYES My parents were never condescending to us. They treated us like adults from a very young age.
ISAAC HANSON![]()
The Voice of Christ: My child, this is the disposition which you should have if you wish to walk wit...
THOMAS à KEMPIS![]()
I really started dreaming... and broke out of my shyness when I got to Howard University. My first a...
LANCE GROSS I have God, Jesus Christ: I'm Christian. I try to stay as grounded as I possibly can. And I have...
CHRISTINA GRIMMIE![]()
I love Southeast Asia. As a child, I lived in that part of the world. My first time in Burma was in ...
MUHTAR KENT That is why, as soon as I felt a real attraction for my first passion which was the motorcycle, and ...
JACKY ICKX My parents chose to donate his body. He was 22 at the time. So really my family has seen it from bot...
LARRY LAWRENCE
RANDY CASTILLO The condition of my child was very poor.
ETHEL ROSENBERG
I was taught as a young child by my parents and family to love myself. ZENDAYA My parents always encouraged me to do what I wanted.
KATE CURRAN
It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I ... PAULO COELHO I came from a happy family with loving parents, so my associations with marriage and children were a...
DAVID FURNISH I suffered from severe depression for over a decade. My condition deteriorated steadily. I was suici...
BYRON KATIE
I was a very curious person because of my parents. They encouraged me to be as curious about as many... MARTHA STEWART
I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor me... JEAN PIAGET
I was very obsessed with my music, and I think that, as a young girl, I really wanted to get into th... BEBE REXHA My parents always encouraged me to do creative stuff, to do weird stuff.
JACK KILMER
I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poo... JEAN PIAGET
It was always the view of my parents...that hot weather encouraged loose morals among young people. IAN MCEWAN
My parents were very supportive and always encouraged us. My father was a gentle, nice man. My mothe... ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH He did not suffer from a poor education; he suffered from the belief that he had a poor education.
GEORGE WILDMAN BALL As a child, I was rather active for my age. Sensing something special about me, my father told me th...
SUNIL MITTAL Not long ago someone said I should shorten it to just Emma. But I really, really love my name. From ...
EMAYATZY CORINEALDI
Girls see these defined roles they're supposed to follow in life, but when I was a young child, ... JOAN JETT The state of my poor boy's health prevents me from leaving home for a night.
EDWARD IRVING
My parents suffered from that ideal of a perfect nuclear family. They found that a difficult pressur... TIM BURTON
He that filches from me my good name robs me of that which enriches him and makes me poor indeed. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
My interest was directed, from my medical student days, to Immunology, and particularly to the mecha... BARUJ BENACERRAF
As a young child, I suffered all sorts of digestive problems and was constantly under the weather. JAMEELA JAMIL
It was always the view of my parents," Emily said, "that hot weather encouraged loose morals among y... IAN MCEWAN
As a child, I was a brat, and my parents didn't know how to control me. So they told me ghost st... BIPASHA BASU
I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my paren... MARA WILSON
My parents owned a pharmacy in Budapest, which gave us a comfortable living. As I was their only chi... JOHN HARSANYI
For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to e... EDVARD MUNCH My father also encouraged my love of nature. He urged me to become a Cub Scout, and later a Boy Scou...
ED BEGLEY, JR.
I came to Harlem from West Virginia when I was three, after my mother died. My father, who was very ... WALTER DEAN MYERS
When I was kidnapped as a child my parents sent a letter to the hijackers me Pay 5,000 dollars or yo... RODNEY DANGERFIELD I was very poor. As a child my dream was to have a leather football.
STEPHEN CHOW
He that filches from me my good name
Robs me of that, which not enriches him,
And makes me poo... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My dad taught me something as a very young child -- never presume anything. But some big stuff is go...
GRACE POTTER It was clear to my parents that I had the gift of voice, and they encouraged me to pursue it.
RAIN PHOENIX I was a loner as a child and happiest at home, launching toy rockets and aeroplanes. When I started ...
GARY NUMAN
I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me - I wasn't neglected enoug... CAPTAIN BEEFHEART
My parents told me in the very beginning as a young child when I raised the question about segregati... JOHN LEWIS
I became a soldier, not because I had a military vocation initially, but because it was the only way... HUGO CHAVEZ As a child, I loved Christmas only for my parents presents. Now that I'm an adult, I love Christmas ...
NICHOLAS A. FERRONI
In my forties, my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allo... PATRICIA CORNWELL
Who steals my purse, steals trash, but he that filches from me my good name robs me of that which no... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My parents brought us up in a very clever way, which was that they saw what we were interested in na...
KIT HARINGTON
As a child, I lived with being punier than other boys in class. The only consolation was my parents&... JAMES D. WATSON
Whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my ... FREDERICK DOUGLASS
My parents were keen for me to have the education they themselves never had. They weren't able t... IAN MCEWAN
Every child growing up will look to their parents, my mother and my father. My grandmother lived wit... JOHN HUME I grew up as an only child with a single mother. Because we were poor and because I knew my father h...
MONA SIMPSON My parents, and especially my mother, encouraged by the director of the local school which I was att...
LEON JOUHAUX As a child, I was raised by native Hawaiian elders - three old women who took care of me while my pa...
ELIZABETH KAPU'UWAILANI LINDSEY As a child, I was raised by native Hawaiian elders - three old women who took care of me while my pa...
ELIZABETH KAPU'UWAILANI LINDSEY
What I really had was stories, the oral traditions of my parents. We moved so much that that was rea... JUAN FELIPE HERRERA
Shortly before the United States entered World War II, I received an invitation to come to the Ameri... VIKTOR E. FRANKL My kindergarten teacher encouraged me to learn, as did my school headmaster, who gave me a grant to ...
ADA YONATH When I entered college, I wasn't sure what I was going to do. My advisor happened to be from the...
DAVID SELBY From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always ...
GAVIN O'CONNOR
When I was sixteen I started acting, and I also started to embrace my tradition and culture. I had a... ADAM BEACH I was playing sports all the time, and my parents, Anne and John, encouraged me to play in grade sch...
JACK RAMSAY I would ask my parents something, but then go to my siblings. We were encouraged to bounce ideas off...
AHMET ZAPPA My parents found what I was interested in and encouraged me. They didn't put me in front of a te...
NASTASSJA KINSKI I knew what he was thinking. Thanks to Mickey, I had been elevated from child-who-can’t-learn-to-s...
FIROOZEH DUMAS
I see my upbringing as a great success story. By disciplining me, my parents inculcated self-discipl... AMY CHUA I gave my children what my parents didn't give me, and that's stability. I'd like to give that to my...
MARY TURNER
In my mind, numbers and words are far more than squiggles of ink on a page. They have form, color, t... DANIEL TAMMET As a child, I was spoilt by my parents as an only son. They indulged my every whim, and I grew up in...
ASIF ALI ZARDARI
I definitely was always expected and encouraged to be a songwriter from a very young age, ... But re... RUFUS WAINWRIGHT I have been using Victorinox Cutlery since I was a young man, when my parents gave me a block set to...
DANIEL HUMM
The way my father raised me was really informative of how I think about my role as a female and how ... IVANKA TRUMP
Fortunately, my parents always encouraged me to be grateful that I was healthy, and stand up and be ... SUSAN ANTON My parents were really nice to me.
BRYAN CALLEN
What I learned as a young child continues to have a tremendous impact on my life today. NOVAK DJOKOVIC My brother always wanted to see me do well, and he always encouraged me.
KATE CURRAN
And my parents' separation was tricky. But my mum had always been really honest with me, and tre... LISA SNOWDON As is said about most writers, on the one hand, all I ever did from when I was a child was read, and...
ELFRIEDE JELINEK
Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased. JOHN JAMES AUDUBON
My parents noticed my love for clothes and encouraged me to study design abroad. I decided to join t... NAEEM KHAN
To me in my childhood, elves and fairies of all sorts were very real things, and my dolls were as re... ANNIE BESANT My dad really started to love football during my sophomore season, which meant a lot to me because h...
JULIAN DALANHESE
My parents were divorced when I was young. I was really brought up by my mother's side of the fa... BILL DE BLASIO I feel like it's me singing back to myself as a younger person and saying have confidence in being a...
CORINNE BAILEY RAE
How do I pray? Not in any organized form, really; I go to temples sometimes with my family, but they... SHASHI THAROOR As a warning to parents, I mention that my father preferred me to my brother, which was very injurio...
GEORGE MULLER Wherever I go, there's always a child, an old woman, that comes to me and wants to meet me. Not ...
ELIAN GONZALEZ
I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal e... DAVID ROCKEFELLER I can remember my sister and me volunteering for Nixon. My parents liked him. I liked my parents. So...
DOUGLAS MCGRATH
My views on everything from welfare to a balanced budget to affirmative action can be traced to what... J. C. WATTS My parents were concerned that I would not get good schooling, so they put me up in my uncle's h...
NANDAN NILEKANI
Yes, and when I had Aaron, he left me, and I didn't know how to raise a child. And I wasn't ... LYNN JOHNSTON
I would not have stayed at a university if it told me upfront that a condition for me getting tenure... NORMAN FINKELSTEIN Fortunately, I grew up in a traditional family where questioning was encouraged, particularly by my ...
AMISH TRIPATHI My family's just really into the sport. My sister played, my mom played and my dad played baseball. ...
LAUREN GIBSON I was a young, & had deep loves, & my heart would overflow with enthusiasm! And I mingled wi...
COMTE DE LAUTRéAMONT The state of health is so poor at conception. The parents of the boomers didn't have the burden of e...
DR. MAXINE HAYES My parents were never condescending to us. They treated us like adults from a very young age.
ISAAC HANSON
The Voice of Christ: My child, this is the disposition which you should have if you wish to walk wit... THOMAS à KEMPIS
I really started dreaming... and broke out of my shyness when I got to Howard University. My first a... LANCE GROSS I have God, Jesus Christ: I'm Christian. I try to stay as grounded as I possibly can. And I have...
CHRISTINA GRIMMIE
I love Southeast Asia. As a child, I lived in that part of the world. My first time in Burma was in ... MUHTAR KENT That is why, as soon as I felt a real attraction for my first passion which was the motorcycle, and ...
JACKY ICKX My parents chose to donate his body. He was 22 at the time. So really my family has seen it from bot...
LARRY LAWRENCE
