My childhood name that my father gave me, my mother, my grandmother, grandfather, family and friends all call me T.I.P.
T.I.
Related
On my 14th birthday, my grandfather and my grandmother gave me the best birthday present ever: a dra...
JARRETT J. KROSOCZKA My sincere thanks to friends and family, especially my mother, father, brother, and Mandy, who conti...
JONATHAN BALL Tuppence was what my grandmother nicknamed my mother, so she gave it to me. My sister is called Ange...
TUPPENCE MIDDLETON My grandfather gave me inspiration to cook, and love food and flavors. My Aunt Raffie, gave me creat...
GIADA DE LAURENTIIS teacher:"I'm teacher, not because i want to teach children something. I am teacher just because I li...
MY TEACHER My friends call me Wrath,” says Raffe. “My enemies call me Please Have Mercy. What’s your name...
SUSAN EE I grew up in a broken home, working class. My paternal grandmother raised me and my brother; my fath...
ELIZABETH RODRIGUEZ My mother and grandmother raised me. Queens raised me.
LAMAR ODOM My mother's very proud of the name she gave me. She thought it sounded rhythmically better. It d...
HOLLY MARIE COMBS My mother's very proud of the name she gave me. She thought it sounded rhythmically better. It doesn...
HOLLY MARIE COMBS My childhood memories of my grandparents are of a wonderful, complementary couple. While my grandfat...
KRISTINA MCMORRIS At 9 years old, I moved in with my father because my mother could no longer care for me. Looking bac...
DWYANE WADE I think that the best way to explain that is that my mother gave me all the color and character and ...
JULIE ANDREWS I've said it before, but it's absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gav...
LIZA MINNELLI If a studio is going to offer me the opportunity to invite my mother and grandmother and all my frie...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO My mother and my father were teachers. My grandmother and my grandfather were teachers. This is some...
WARREN BEATTY I have been grateful for the influence of my grandmother and my grandfather in my life. I remember m...
JAMES E. FAUST I love God, Jesus Christ, my three children, mother, father, brother, sisters, family in general, my...
ANA MONNAR My father didn't know his real name. My father got his name from his grandfather and he got his ...
MALCOLM X My name is Jidenna, which means 'to hold or embrace the father' in Igbo. It was my father wh...
JIDENNA My mother wanted to abort me, and that was basically a family secret. My grandfather stopped her and...
ALVEDA KING It's on an oval table my grandmother gave me.
ALENE GENTRY'S an inner strength that my parents gave me, especially my mother.
LIZA MINNELLI My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
QUENTIN CRISP My father has been the real anchor of the family. He's the one who has always encouraged my moth...
YVETTE CLARKE All my life, people have been underestimating me.
HUGH CAREY My name, my real name, is Tracy. I always thought I was like a boy named Sue. So I made my friends c...
ICE T Oddly enough, my grandfather probably had more of an influence on me than my father.
JAMIE WYETH My grandfather was from outside of Moscow, and my grandmother, although some of her family were Fren...
ALEXIS DENISOF My mother, twenty-two, was Harriet Gautier Brooks, named for her paternal grandmother, but always ca...
HORTON FOOTE I complained to my mother about wanting to look less like myself and more like my friends. My mother...
TAYE DIGGS My mother and my great-aunt told me stories, like how when my grandfather first met my grandmother a...
LEON BRIDGES My mother gave me the foundation.
ERNESTINE POTTS It's my name on the ballot, and it's me running this race. I'm the one doing this. Not m...
JOSEPH P. KENNEDY III I am from a woman's family. My great-grandmother had three daughters and a son. My grandmother h...
CHANTAL AKERMAN I am in agreement with everything my father taught me and nothing my mother taught me.
FRIDA KAHLO I grew up in Tuscany in a very poor family. My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, ...
ROBERTO BENIGNI My childhood gave me resilience - and there's little that can surprise me in life.
NATALIA VODIANOVA I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I...
SALMAN RUSHDIE T.I.'s my mentor; he's a really close friend of mine. I call him my brother like we talk on ...
IGGY AZALEA Every child growing up will look to their parents, my mother and my father. My grandmother lived wit...
JOHN HUME You gotta understand, my great-grandfather was German and Irish. My grandmother was Indian, and my g...
TRACY MORGAN My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats...
YANCY BUTLER My family was very encouraging, and both of my grandparents were both beautiful singers. My grandmot...
CLARE BOWEN the only name my parents gave me.
PAT MORITA Being a mother and grandmother is the best of the best in my life. My grandchildren multiply the joy...
ALEXANDRA STODDARD I know my father believed and my mother believed in and supported the suffrage movement, and I remem...
ALICE PAUL My father and mother had tremendous integrity, and obviously that affected me.
DAVID GREEN The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being r...
DAN RATHER My good friends call me Bobby.
KID ROCK Father mother god, help me to feel my oneness with you. Help me to feel my equality with my brothers...
PAUL FERINNI My family is everything. I am what I am thanks to my mother, my father, my brother, my sister... bec...
RONALDINHO My mother, whose family was heavily rabbinic, said she wanted me to continue the family tradition in...
NORMAN LAMM My uncle was a second father to me. I spent most of my childhood with him.
REY MYSTERIO When my mother and father fell in love, my mother's family would never accept it.
EUZHAN PALCY My family and my friends are most important to me. These people are my foundation.
FAITH HILL As a boy, I remember my father telling me a bedtime story about the day my grandfather was decapitat...
JUSTIN BIENVENUE Evan Hunter is not a pseudonym. It has been my legal name since 1952. It is the name I answer to, th...
EVAN HUNTER My mother read nursery rhymes to me, and my grandmother told me folk stories, but as a child I had n...
ALAN GARNER My mother was a great inspiration to me to always do my best. My father has always been my mentor an...
LARRY FITZGERALD My family gave me values that have sustained me through situations that would challenge any person. ...
KATHY IRELAND My grandmother, Nina Eaton, founded United Cerebral Palsy. At the time that my father was born with ...
MEREDITH EATON My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very gratef...
ROBERTO BENIGNI My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me -- I'm tan, I guess.
MARIAH CAREY I don't have a traditional design background, but it's inherent to me. My father was in the ...
STACEY BENDET When my friends are gone, and i am so troubled all alone.
My mother is always right behind me, prayi...
BRADLEY B. DALINA My father, obviously, and my mother were inspirations. My uncle, Frank Harper, he was an absolute me...
HILL HARPER My father was a military attache, so I've been traveling all my life.
EDGAR RAMIREZ 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 a child, next to my own mother, no woman that ever lived took as much interest in me, gav...
HEBER J. GRANT My father was a certain kind of man - I saw how he treated my mother and his family and how he treat...
SIDNEY POITIER Tori's my legal name. My niece and nephews, they all call me Aunt Ellen, because I went by my mi...
TORI AMOS My father was a motorsports journalist and a motorbike fan. He gave me my motocross bike.
JACKY ICKX The family of my mother had a lot of money; the family of my father, nothing.
CHARO My parents, grandmother and brother were teachers. My mother taught Latin and French and was the sch...
SAM ABELL I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done...
CAROL BURNETT My grandmother was an unparalleled storyteller who gave me a preview of how life might turn out, and...
CHRIS WARE My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family.
SIMON VAN DER MEER My mother isolated herself from all family and friends for some 20 years. And never met her grandchi...
LAURA SCHLESSINGER My grandmother was musically gifted, and Annie recognized that gift. My grandmother did the same for...
ANNIE WOLAVER I have lost my mother, my father, my five, and ninety relatives in Poland. Poland is for me a cemete...
SIMON WIESENTHAL My grandfather was Catholic; my grandmother, Jewish. Crossing over from Bavaria, as immigrants to th...
EMANUEL CELLER abundant feeling of your presence in front of Allah is enjoy full solitude state where you are in bo...
M.I.SHAIKH MY SELF It's raining spiders, seriously. Maybe that's a bad sign.
MY MORNING JACKET At Dawn/Tennessee Fire Demos
MY MORNING JACKET You go up there and it's just this amazing place on top of a mountain,
MY MORNING JACKET My friends call me by my name."
"You don't have any friends."
"I don't want you to be my f...
SHANNON HALE My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my moth...
DENZEL WASHINGTON My father used to call me the laughing hyena.
PHYLLIS DILLER My friends call me Miss Worst Case Scenario.
PATRICIA CORNWELL My first instrument was an accordion. Growing up in Louisiana, my grandmother gave me an accordion b...
HUNTER HAYES I'm actually the son of Mary Guibert. My mother was born in the Panama Canal zone and came to Am...
JEFF BUCKLEY My father is conservative but has always supported my decisions. He lets me take my own decisions. H...
PRIYANKA CHOPRA My mother wanted to name me Jackie or Jacqueline but she got to name my sister and my brother, so my...
ARIEL WINTER My mother used to pitch to me and my father would shag balls. If I hit one up the middle close to my...
EDDIE MATHEWS I'm just the product of my grandmother telling me for years she would see my name on the spines of b...
HANNAH BRENCHER 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, father, stepmother and surrogate mother have all died of cancer; my best friend has got t...
ARABELLA WEIR I come from a family of actors. My grandfather was like a Laurence Olivier with the Comedie Francais...
EMMANUELLE SEIGNER My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
BEVERLY CLEARY
More T.I.
I love BET and I love the fans.
T.I. My father passed away in 2002, but yes, we were pretty close. I loved him a lot.
T.I. Acting in film, you know, I hear all the time, people say 'You did so much better than I thought...
T.I. I don't really like the sound of Auto-Tune. I don't like when it's extremely audible, wh...
T.I. I can't really see myself as an artist. Now, to step out here and there, do it when I feel like ...
T.I. I'm an honest, open father.
T.I. I wouldn't mind going somewhere and taking a president position and signing acts and taking the ...
T.I. You know, when I put out records that may not work or connect with the audience, it's because I&...
T.I. Man, I'm a conspiracy theorist by nature. You can't experience the federal penal system and ...
T.I. Danger is ever-present in life, more for some than others.
T.I. I, myself, I am not interested in reality television; just me, myself, speaking.
T.I. I think my first hit was probably '24 is a Rubberband Man,' which was my second album. My fi...
T.I. It goes without saying that it's hard to attain a certain level of success.
T.I. Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.
T.I. People put me on a box, and I love when people think they know what I am capable of or not capable o...
T.I. At the end of the day, I got to live my life for my family, for my children, and I'm going to do...
T.I. I'm an 'in the shower' or 'in the booth' kind of singer. I can sing, but I need ...
T.I. I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as a...
T.I. I've learned that one thing about my life that is certain is trouble.
T.I. It is a lot of responsibility. But I enjoy being a father. That's one of the best parts of my li...
T.I. Nobody is gonna love you like you. You're gonna be your best salesman.
T.I. I'm going to always rise above the doubt that may exist about me.
T.I. I'm happy to be on a winning team. My individual success, that lasts for a short period of time....
T.I. To expect for me to be one-way every time you see me is to expect me to be a one-dimensional man, wh...
T.I. Let it be known: I am a free agent. I'm operating as an independent label. I do not have corpora...
T.I. Refuse to give up, your mistakes don't define you
They don't dictate where you're headed, they ...
T.I. HARRIS