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GEORGE ZIMMERMAN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES![]()
My father was frightened of his mother. I was frightened of my father and I am damned well going to ...
KING GEORGE V My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mothe...
JACK WAGNER![]()
My son was born during my last semester in college. His due date was Thanksgiving, but he didn't...
LZ GRANDERSON![]()
Anyway I will go same road because I, I was born in gymnastics. This is my, how to say, my life and ...
OLGA KORBUT My mother was born in your state, Mr. Walter, and my mother was a Quaker, and my ancestors in the ti...
PAUL ROBESON![]()
But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24.
RACHAEL LEIGH COOK![]()
My mother and my father were teachers. My grandmother and my grandfather were teachers. This is some...
WARREN BEATTY![]()
My father didn't know his real name. My father got his name from his grandfather and he got his ...
MALCOLM X My mother was the total influence. My father was what we call a nomadic person; he was a wanderer.
DANNY AIELLO My mother was an actress and my voice teacher, an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is ...
LAURA BENANTI![]()
My mother was a domestic goddess and Mother Earth figure. She was sweet and placid - just what the p...
JOAN COLLINS![]()
My father was very energetic; my mother was very energetic. He lived to a very old age, and so did m...
DONALD TRUMP![]()
My mother and father told me I was god. I was a good Italian boy who hung out with the same four guy...
CHAZZ PALMINTERI My father and my mother separated when I was two.
CARLA GUGINO My father was an alcoholic. My mother was gone. She's the only mother I ever knew.
CHARLES PLANCON I think it reminds me of my childhood, my father, ... I think people have the same reaction. It remi...
ARTIE LANGE![]()
I love my dad and respect him and miss him, but I never hung around my father that much because my d...
ROBERT DAVID HALL Annie Lee Smith was my mother's name. My father's name was George Washington Smith. I have t...
BRUCE SMITH My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where ...
ALISON BECHDEL![]()
My father was a certain kind of man - I saw how he treated my mother and his family and how he treat...
SIDNEY POITIER![]()
I grew up without a father, who was kept a mystery to me. There was a sense of uprootedness, things ...
JOHN IRVING I saw how, when my brother smoked reefer, it made my mother cry. He was 16 at the time. And I saw th...
VING RHAMES As I was being born my father claims that he was playing his fiddle/violin to soothe my mother and w...
FAIRUZA BALK![]()
Before I was born my father disowned me. You know those ones who get the females pregnant, and then ...
DREXEL DEAL![]()
My first memories of religion were being taken to Episcopal church. My father was Catholic, but my m...
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My name is Jidenna, which means 'to hold or embrace the father' in Igbo. It was my father wh...
JIDENNA I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paint...
CHRIS STAPLETON It's amazing--my parents call everything a discussion. If I were standing across the street, firing ...
JORDAN SONNENBLICK My mother sat a vigil for the Rosenbergs; my oxymoronic father was a Jewish racist. I had uncles who...
ARTHUR SHAPIRO My father is from Bosnia, and my mother is from Croatia, but I was born in Sweden.
ZLATAN IBRAHIMOVIC I didn't feel a strong bond with the parents who raised me, and I had anything but a happy child...
LISA LUTZ![]()
My mother was murdered by my step-father, my brother's father, who was also named Joel, twenty-f...
NATASHA TRETHEWEY My parents were divorced when I was three, and both my father and mother moved back into the homes o...
PATRICIA POLACCO![]()
My mother thinks I am the best. And I was raised to always believe what my mother tells me.
DIEGO MARADONA![]()
I came to Harlem from West Virginia when I was three, after my mother died. My father, who was very ...
WALTER DEAN MYERS Tuppence was what my grandmother nicknamed my mother, so she gave it to me. My sister is called Ange...
TUPPENCE MIDDLETON I was scared when I lost my mother, my father, my brother, my sister.
ISRAEL KAMAKAWIWO'OLE![]()
My father chose my name , and my last name was chosen by my ancestors . That’s enough, I myself ch...
علی شریعتی ALI SHARIATI علي شريعتي When I lost my sight, Werner, people said I was brave. When my father left, people said I was brave....
ANTHONY DOERR I was supposed to be a mother like my mother, who didn't work.
SONIA RYKIEL I grew up in Rome, in actually what I would say was a liberal, open-minded family. My father was an ...
FRIDA GIANNINI![]()
I was a Yankee fan in Brooklyn because my father was a Yankee fan. And my father was required to liv...
RUDY GIULIANI![]()
I was myself brought up with my brother, whose name was Matthias, for he was my own brother, by both...
FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS![]()
I never met a person as determined as my mother. From working hard for six kids to just trying to ke...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD My brother and my father both got laid off around the same that I was starting to do this movie '...
MICHAEL PENA![]()
No, I have not a drop of what they call white blood in my veins. My father was a full blooded Negro,...
EDMONIA LEWIS My mother died of cystic fibrosis before I knew her. I was two years old, and I don't remember h...
JOHN LLOYD YOUNG I was encouraged by my mother and, to a lesser extent, by my father.
CARLISLE FLOYD![]()
I suppose you could say my father's world was Thomas Hardy and my mother's D.H. Lawrence.
SEAMUS HEANEY![]()
Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many yea...
QUENTIN CRISP I was born in Brooklyn in 1922. Both my mother and father were Russian Jewish emigrants who came to ...
STANLEY COHEN![]()
My father was a Methodist and my mother was a Baptist.
T. D. JAKES I tried to stick to my game plan, which was always being aware of what my A story was - the love sto...
TED DEMME Everything in my life boils down to my mother. A tradition, which a lot of people do not know of, is...
SONU NIGAM![]()
You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but i...
LYNN JOHNSTON I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.
BILL GRIFFITH![]()
My father was a world-class scientist and my mother was a prolific painter. I could see that my pare...
JON KABAT-ZINN![]()
I used to say that my own father was dead, because he might as well have been. He was in Argentina a...
OLIVIA HUSSEY My father never signed another contract with Miller. But Miller had a return receipt that was suppos...
WILLIAM GAMBLER![]()
My mother, Evelyn, was an actress and singer, and my father, Jack, was an actor. My earliest recolle...
DAVID CASSIDY![]()
My father is Italian, and I never met my paternal grandparents. The family name was 'Caroselli&#...
STEVE CARELL The rules only applied to
people who couldn’t afford different rules.
CAMERON STRACHER![]()
My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learn...
RITA DOVE teacher:"I'm teacher, not because i want to teach children something. I am teacher just because I li...
MY TEACHER![]()
I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am r...
ZIGGY MARLEY![]()
My father was slower, but he was severer than my mother, who was quick but light and irregular in di...
LINCOLN STEFFENS My father was a military attache, so I've been traveling all my life.
EDGAR RAMIREZ The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt ve...
CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG![]()
My mother was born in Lima, Peru, and my father is American of primarily German and English descent....
BENJAMIN BRATT What I saw when I was a child was my father who was a pilot, and because of circumstances was thrown...
RAHUL GANDHI![]()
I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to ...
WYNTON MARSALIS![]()
My mother was a fashion designer, and my father was a model.
PAIGE BUTCHER I was born in South Bend, and I've been a Hoosier all my life.
JACKIE WALORSKI I was crying on the phone to my mother and asking Rob what were we going to do.
AMBER KLINGLER![]()
My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very gratef...
ROBERTO BENIGNI I knocked my first one down and it was feeling good. My guys kept looking for me, and I kept getting...
COREY BREWER![]()
That was when the world wasn't so big and I could see everywhere. It was when my father was a hero a...
MARKUS ZUSAK![]()
David Holdaway was my stage name. I was an actor for about eight years in the '90s. I had to cha...
DAVID NICHOLLS I was angry about the fact that my father would beat my mother on a daily basis, that my mother woul...
RICK JAMES![]()
I had a Jewish grandfather. We managed to hide this fact from the authorities by falsifying document...
HELMUT SCHMIDT![]()
That's exactly what Dale Sr. was going to do. It was, 'When I quit, I've got somewhere to go. I've s...
RICHARD PETTY![]()
My parents were very supportive and always encouraged us. My father was a gentle, nice man. My mothe...
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH![]()
I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided ...
B. B. KING![]()
My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they h...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS By the grace of God, my parents were fantastic. We were a very normal family, and we have had a very...
ABHISHEK BACHCHAN I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very...
CHARLES KIMBROUGH![]()
I was born on a full moon. Both my children were born on full moons, too. Some people say that's...
KEVIN GATES![]()
I think people hear and feel the genuine nature of my passion for the causes. Specifically, with the...
ELIZA DUSHKU My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation.
ARTHUR ROCK![]()
I grew up in Queens, in New York City, in a middle class Jewish family. My mother was a public schoo...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS![]()
My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in acad...
PETE SEEGER![]()
I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched ...
T. BOONE PICKENS![]()
The happiest times in my life were the days when I was traveling with Les Brown and his band.
DORIS DAY![]()
My father, obviously, and my mother were inspirations. My uncle, Frank Harper, he was an absolute me...
HILL HARPER![]()
I basically drew my own family. My father's name is Homer. My mother's name is Margaret. I h...
MATT GROENING![]()
My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's ...
ICE T My father was a Jewish immigrant who settled in Argentina and was left to his own devices at the age...
CESAR MILSTEIN![]()
What treaty have the Sioux made with the white man that we have broken? Not one. What treaty have th...
SITTING BULL
GEORGE ZIMMERMAN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
My father was frightened of his mother. I was frightened of my father and I am damned well going to ... KING GEORGE V My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mothe...
JACK WAGNER
My son was born during my last semester in college. His due date was Thanksgiving, but he didn't... LZ GRANDERSON
Anyway I will go same road because I, I was born in gymnastics. This is my, how to say, my life and ... OLGA KORBUT My mother was born in your state, Mr. Walter, and my mother was a Quaker, and my ancestors in the ti...
PAUL ROBESON
But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24. RACHAEL LEIGH COOK
My mother and my father were teachers. My grandmother and my grandfather were teachers. This is some... WARREN BEATTY
My father didn't know his real name. My father got his name from his grandfather and he got his ... MALCOLM X My mother was the total influence. My father was what we call a nomadic person; he was a wanderer.
DANNY AIELLO My mother was an actress and my voice teacher, an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is ...
LAURA BENANTI
My mother was a domestic goddess and Mother Earth figure. She was sweet and placid - just what the p... JOAN COLLINS
My father was very energetic; my mother was very energetic. He lived to a very old age, and so did m... DONALD TRUMP
My mother and father told me I was god. I was a good Italian boy who hung out with the same four guy... CHAZZ PALMINTERI My father and my mother separated when I was two.
CARLA GUGINO My father was an alcoholic. My mother was gone. She's the only mother I ever knew.
CHARLES PLANCON I think it reminds me of my childhood, my father, ... I think people have the same reaction. It remi...
ARTIE LANGE
I love my dad and respect him and miss him, but I never hung around my father that much because my d... ROBERT DAVID HALL Annie Lee Smith was my mother's name. My father's name was George Washington Smith. I have t...
BRUCE SMITH My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where ...
ALISON BECHDEL
My father was a certain kind of man - I saw how he treated my mother and his family and how he treat... SIDNEY POITIER
I grew up without a father, who was kept a mystery to me. There was a sense of uprootedness, things ... JOHN IRVING I saw how, when my brother smoked reefer, it made my mother cry. He was 16 at the time. And I saw th...
VING RHAMES As I was being born my father claims that he was playing his fiddle/violin to soothe my mother and w...
FAIRUZA BALK
Before I was born my father disowned me. You know those ones who get the females pregnant, and then ... DREXEL DEAL
My first memories of religion were being taken to Episcopal church. My father was Catholic, but my m... MARILYN MANSON
My name is Jidenna, which means 'to hold or embrace the father' in Igbo. It was my father wh... JIDENNA I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paint...
CHRIS STAPLETON It's amazing--my parents call everything a discussion. If I were standing across the street, firing ...
JORDAN SONNENBLICK My mother sat a vigil for the Rosenbergs; my oxymoronic father was a Jewish racist. I had uncles who...
ARTHUR SHAPIRO My father is from Bosnia, and my mother is from Croatia, but I was born in Sweden.
ZLATAN IBRAHIMOVIC I didn't feel a strong bond with the parents who raised me, and I had anything but a happy child...
LISA LUTZ
My mother was murdered by my step-father, my brother's father, who was also named Joel, twenty-f... NATASHA TRETHEWEY My parents were divorced when I was three, and both my father and mother moved back into the homes o...
PATRICIA POLACCO
My mother thinks I am the best. And I was raised to always believe what my mother tells me. DIEGO MARADONA
I came to Harlem from West Virginia when I was three, after my mother died. My father, who was very ... WALTER DEAN MYERS Tuppence was what my grandmother nicknamed my mother, so she gave it to me. My sister is called Ange...
TUPPENCE MIDDLETON I was scared when I lost my mother, my father, my brother, my sister.
ISRAEL KAMAKAWIWO'OLE
My father chose my name , and my last name was chosen by my ancestors . That’s enough, I myself ch... علی شریعتی ALI SHARIATI علي شريعتي When I lost my sight, Werner, people said I was brave. When my father left, people said I was brave....
ANTHONY DOERR I was supposed to be a mother like my mother, who didn't work.
SONIA RYKIEL I grew up in Rome, in actually what I would say was a liberal, open-minded family. My father was an ...
FRIDA GIANNINI
I was a Yankee fan in Brooklyn because my father was a Yankee fan. And my father was required to liv... RUDY GIULIANI
I was myself brought up with my brother, whose name was Matthias, for he was my own brother, by both... FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS
I never met a person as determined as my mother. From working hard for six kids to just trying to ke... SUGAR RAY LEONARD My brother and my father both got laid off around the same that I was starting to do this movie '...
MICHAEL PENA
No, I have not a drop of what they call white blood in my veins. My father was a full blooded Negro,... EDMONIA LEWIS My mother died of cystic fibrosis before I knew her. I was two years old, and I don't remember h...
JOHN LLOYD YOUNG I was encouraged by my mother and, to a lesser extent, by my father.
CARLISLE FLOYD
I suppose you could say my father's world was Thomas Hardy and my mother's D.H. Lawrence. SEAMUS HEANEY
Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many yea... QUENTIN CRISP I was born in Brooklyn in 1922. Both my mother and father were Russian Jewish emigrants who came to ...
STANLEY COHEN
My father was a Methodist and my mother was a Baptist. T. D. JAKES I tried to stick to my game plan, which was always being aware of what my A story was - the love sto...
TED DEMME Everything in my life boils down to my mother. A tradition, which a lot of people do not know of, is...
SONU NIGAM
You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but i... LYNN JOHNSTON I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.
BILL GRIFFITH
My father was a world-class scientist and my mother was a prolific painter. I could see that my pare... JON KABAT-ZINN
I used to say that my own father was dead, because he might as well have been. He was in Argentina a... OLIVIA HUSSEY My father never signed another contract with Miller. But Miller had a return receipt that was suppos...
WILLIAM GAMBLER
My mother, Evelyn, was an actress and singer, and my father, Jack, was an actor. My earliest recolle... DAVID CASSIDY
My father is Italian, and I never met my paternal grandparents. The family name was 'Caroselli&#... STEVE CARELL The rules only applied to
people who couldn’t afford different rules.
CAMERON STRACHER
My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learn... RITA DOVE teacher:"I'm teacher, not because i want to teach children something. I am teacher just because I li...
MY TEACHER
I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am r... ZIGGY MARLEY
My father was slower, but he was severer than my mother, who was quick but light and irregular in di... LINCOLN STEFFENS My father was a military attache, so I've been traveling all my life.
EDGAR RAMIREZ The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt ve...
CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG
My mother was born in Lima, Peru, and my father is American of primarily German and English descent.... BENJAMIN BRATT What I saw when I was a child was my father who was a pilot, and because of circumstances was thrown...
RAHUL GANDHI
I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to ... WYNTON MARSALIS
My mother was a fashion designer, and my father was a model. PAIGE BUTCHER I was born in South Bend, and I've been a Hoosier all my life.
JACKIE WALORSKI I was crying on the phone to my mother and asking Rob what were we going to do.
AMBER KLINGLER
My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very gratef... ROBERTO BENIGNI I knocked my first one down and it was feeling good. My guys kept looking for me, and I kept getting...
COREY BREWER
That was when the world wasn't so big and I could see everywhere. It was when my father was a hero a... MARKUS ZUSAK
David Holdaway was my stage name. I was an actor for about eight years in the '90s. I had to cha... DAVID NICHOLLS I was angry about the fact that my father would beat my mother on a daily basis, that my mother woul...
RICK JAMES
I had a Jewish grandfather. We managed to hide this fact from the authorities by falsifying document... HELMUT SCHMIDT
That's exactly what Dale Sr. was going to do. It was, 'When I quit, I've got somewhere to go. I've s... RICHARD PETTY
My parents were very supportive and always encouraged us. My father was a gentle, nice man. My mothe... ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH
I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided ... B. B. KING
My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they h... AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS By the grace of God, my parents were fantastic. We were a very normal family, and we have had a very...
ABHISHEK BACHCHAN I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very...
CHARLES KIMBROUGH
I was born on a full moon. Both my children were born on full moons, too. Some people say that's... KEVIN GATES
I think people hear and feel the genuine nature of my passion for the causes. Specifically, with the... ELIZA DUSHKU My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation.
ARTHUR ROCK
I grew up in Queens, in New York City, in a middle class Jewish family. My mother was a public schoo... ELLIOTT ABRAMS
My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in acad... PETE SEEGER
I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched ... T. BOONE PICKENS
The happiest times in my life were the days when I was traveling with Les Brown and his band. DORIS DAY
My father, obviously, and my mother were inspirations. My uncle, Frank Harper, he was an absolute me... HILL HARPER
I basically drew my own family. My father's name is Homer. My mother's name is Margaret. I h... MATT GROENING
My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's ... ICE T My father was a Jewish immigrant who settled in Argentina and was left to his own devices at the age...
CESAR MILSTEIN
What treaty have the Sioux made with the white man that we have broken? Not one. What treaty have th... SITTING BULL
I live a very joyful life, with a lot of laughter and good times. 
It's what I tell my daughters: Know that your birthright is to shine your light, and don't l... 
She was exhausted from her own self-deprecation and inner turmoil. 
I pledge to keep you safe. 
My personal decorating style is cozy, romantic and a little rustic, with a sense of whimsy. 
I take all of my life lessons, which some people might call 'mistakes,' and apply them to my... 
I have a 4-year-old and a 14-year-old, and think I missed a recital and a graduation, and they were ... 
Whatever it is that I feel, I express it! I am free with my joy, my laughter, my pleasure, my pain, ... 
I need to have small morsels of sweets. If I have a day with the fam with a big family dinner, then ... 
My hubby makes a mean salmon steak at the grill, but he leaves all the sides up to me. I love to gri... 
I loved voices, I always had. Words held meaning, but voices held emotion. 
I juggle a lot of different balls and sometimes I don't know how I manage to keep them all up in... 