Beverly Sills
Related My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland... JOHN C. HAWKES TONY VISCONTI ORLANDO BLOOM When I was six years old, my parents told me that we were moving back home to Armenia. I didn't ... HENRIKH MKHITARYAN My father came from Germany. My mom came from Venezuela. My father's culturally German, but his ... FRED ARMISEN My parents came from different backgrounds. My father's was grander than my mother's, so my ... JULIAN FELLOWES I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would t... MAHESH BABU My father had to go back to Iran to take care of his father when I was 13 and was detained for six y... DARA KHOSROWSHAHI My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him a... P. L. TRAVERS GREGG ALLMAN CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE Prior to my father's death, I was having a hard time committing to a career as an artist, but th... KIKI SMITH DANIEL DAY-LEWIS My father died when I was 11. He was a vaudeville comedian. He worked in one movie, 'Ladies of t... TERI GARR I was born five days before D-Day in 1944. My father was a mechanical engineer, which was a reserved... ROBERT POWELL I had a very difficult and complex relationship with my father, ... It was only when I was 15 years ... RAMON MAGSAYSAY My mum left my dad when I was six months old, so I don't know him at all. I had no male figures ... CATHERINE TATE DONALD TRUMP DONALD JOHANSON Three days after my brother died, my father was in the hospital. He just did not want to live anymor... MARC FORSTER CARLOS SANTANA JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN WALTER MOSLEY ATHOL FUGARD MR. T VALENTINO ROSSI FRANK GIFFORD The reason why I found acting is because my father passed away. He passed away really young. I was g... ADEPERO ODUYE I can't even give my father a proper gift. Every single Father's Day means so much to me. I&... KYRIE IRVING I had just been promoted to the first rugby team. It was a perfect, wonderful coming of age. My brot... ANTHONY BROWNE VICTOR MITCHELL J. G. BALLARD KIRAN DESAI My mother died of cystic fibrosis before I knew her. I was two years old, and I don't remember h... JOHN LLOYD YOUNG My father died when I was 4 years old, so I can't really say anything about his hearing. GEORGE KENNEDY I had written two or three books before my husband noticed that in every one of them a family member... JENNY NIMMO When my sister and I came along, my father's political life was completely over. He ran for pres... ANNE COX CHAMBERS NATASHA TRETHEWEY I have a strong memory of the day I was told that my father had a weak heart and that he had to go t... ALAN J. HEEGER RUDY GIULIANI I started boxing when I was 5 years old because my father was a boxer. He taught me how to fight. MANNAA MANNAA When my mother died, and when my father died, it's big. Our parents are giants; they're tita... LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III My uncle was a hero, Lewis Roundtree. He was not even related to me really, but he was always called... ED BRADLEY That's the great thing about New Year's, you get to be a year older. For me, that wasn't... ALAN KING ROWAN ATKINSON My dad was a New York City cop. His father was a New York City fireman. And my mother's dad was ... JOE LHOTA WALTER DEAN MYERS DAVID JOHANSEN JODI PICOULT EMMANUELLE CHRIQUI FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR. WARREN BEATTY In my city of Maracay, there is a go kart circuit about five minutes from my home. When I was about ... PASTOR MALDONADO My father's record collection was full of New Orleans music of all kinds. I used to listen to th... MADELEINE PEYROUX LEONARD SUSSKIND KARAN JOHAR JIGME KHESAR NAMGYEL WANGCHUCK NATE ROBINSON DIANE LANE SANJEEV BHASKAR SUGAR RAY LEONARD My father died when I was only five years old, and that was the moment when I learned a cruel lesson... KARA SWISHER My father was one of 11. He was an attorney. My mother worked for the Syracuse newspaper as a column... SIOBHAN FALLON HOGAN CORETTA SCOTT KING My parents had a wonderful marriage, but it was a very dependent relationship. My mother was entirel... ERIKA SLEZAK WYNTON MARSALIS SALMAN RUSHDIE MARY ELLEN CHASE ELEANOR ROOSEVELT MARTHA STEWART EDMUND WHITE I believe I inherited my sense of music from my father. My father was an ear piano player; he could ... RICHIE HAVENS WILBUR SMITH My childhood was defined by my father's absence. His presence looms so large. Up until the age o... SAID SAYRAFIEZADEH My fondest memory of Tupac is my father producing 'Toss It Up' for him when I was 7 years ol... DEMETRIUS SHIPP, JR. B. B. KING I was born in Brooklyn and raised in Pittsburgh. I've never been to Iran, I don't speak the ... SAID SAYRAFIEZADEH INDIRA GANDHI SARAH WATERS At the point when I lost my father, it really made me want to be like a father and be like my father... SCOTTIE PIPPEN APOLO OHNO My mother was a dramatic and egocentric person, and she died before my father, who died of Alzheimer... SUE MILLER DON RICKLES My father was the youngest of six brothers, and he was the brains. I never thought he was making wha... ALAN C. GREENBERG STEPHEN SONDHEIM When I was growing up, my house was filled with books. My mother was an educator, and my father was ... JEFF KINNEY JACKIE CHAN My father's Jewish, so my world is Jewish whenever I go home. BEN FELDMAN I was 12 years old when I said goodbye to my family and relatives. I never saw my parents again. I l... ANNE FOX I was born into the Chicago branch of Negroland. My father was a doctor, a pediatrician, and for som... MARGO JEFFERSON DWYANE WADE My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I w... VIKRAM CHATWAL CARLOS SLIM I'm part Spanish. My paternal grandfather came from Spain via Singapore to Manila. On my mother&... 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ED SILLS Sink or swim doesn't fly in this situation. We're all in this together. ED SILLS What's happened in the states east of us (Hurricane Katrina) has brought the message home in the way... ED SILLS Communication is the first step toward the kind of understanding that will help us to organize. ED SILLS I like to read, walk, cook, and travel to cities. We live in the country, so we miss museums and the... BEVERLY CLEARY I haven't been very enthusiastic about the commercialization of children's literature. Kids ... BEVERLY CLEARY Survivors who don’t stand up for themselves often develop physical and emotional illnesses. Many b... BEVERLY ENGEL As a child you received messages from your family to keep your mouth shut and remain invisible. You ... BEVERLY ENGEL BEVERLY LEWIS One of my earliest memories was of seeing horse-drawn buggies with little Amish children peering out... BEVERLY LEWIS I grew up Protestant. My dad was a Charismatic pastor of the Families of God denomination. Often, we... BEVERLY LEWIS If you're a good Amish girl, you're courting, you have three or four different beaus, and yo... BEVERLY LEWIS My mother's people are Old Order Mennonite - horse and buggy Mennonite, very close cousins to th... BEVERLY LEWIS Growing up around Amish farmland, I enjoyed the opportunity to witness firsthand their love of famil... BEVERLY LEWIS In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matin... BEVERLY CLEARY I think personal growth has much to do with acting ability. BEVERLY D'ANGELO With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture b... BEVERLY CLEARY As you recover, you will feel more conscious of your surroundings. Freed from the ‘fog’ of your ... BEVERLY ENGEL The idea is to bring quality entertainment to the community. BEVERLY THOMAS What we, Alexander City Arts Inc. try to do is just bring a variety of programs for our series. BEVERLY THOMAS We're just hoping for a big turnout. BEVERLY THOMAS We realize that not every program is going to be at the top of the list. Different programs have dif... BEVERLY THOMAS Mostly, nothing's really changed. I'm still the dorky nerd that I always was. BEVERLY MITCHELL Still, it's tough trying to combine my acting career with my college career. BEVERLY MITCHELL I think the hardest part about being a teenager is dealing with other teenagers - the criticism and ... BEVERLY MITCHELL I was strong enough not to let them get the best of me, but I'm definitely one who has taken what pe... BEVERLY MITCHELL Part of growing up is just taking what you learn from that and moving on and not taking it to heart. BEVERLY MITCHELL We've had casino gaming here for 13 years. So we know we're going back at least 14 years. But if we ... BEVERLY MARTIN I expect to see Las Vegas style hotels. BEVERLY MARTIN They would prefer to stay here if we had some rooms for them. If we can get the casinos, or at least... BEVERLY MARTIN With the lesser days of the month coupled with the fact that January had New Year's Eve, the busiest... BEVERLY MARTIN Forgiveness is a rebirth of hope, a reorganization of thought, and a reconstruction of dreams. Once ... BEVERLY FLANIGAN I feel sometimes that in children's books there are more and more grim problems, but I don't know th... BEVERLY CLEARY I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the ver... BEVERLY CLEARY I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story th... BEVERLY CLEARY Children want to do what the grownups do. Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just s... BEVERLY CLEARY Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in scho... BEVERLY CLEARY My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books. BEVERLY CLEARY I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library: A... BEVERLY CLEARY I grew up before there were strict leash laws. BEVERLY CLEARY I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all. BEVERLY CLEARY Children want to do what grownups do. BEVERLY CLEARY The way it is now, none of these piecemeal things will deal with FEMA being buried in a gigantic bur... BEVERLY CIGLER FEMA went from being a laughingstock to one of the most effective federal agencies we had, ... A lot... BEVERLY CIGLER The Bush people really shied away from having the active military do law enforcement, BEVERLY CIGLER All the media is focusing on is the credibility of FEMA people  an... BEVERLY CIGLER I particularly enjoy cello music because our daughter plays the cello. I have listened to her practi... BEVERLY CLEARY Hypercritical, Shaming ParentsBEVERLY ENGEL This is particularly true of those who "love too much" and those who tend to lose themselves in thei... BEVERLY ENGEL Why isn't there a commandment to "honor thy children" or at least one to "not abuse thy children"? T... BEVERLY ENGEL Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother. BEVERLY JONES I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind. BEVERLY CLEARY I had a bad time in school in the first grade. Because I had been a rather lonely child on a farm, b... BEVERLY CLEARY Go pretty rose, go to my fair,
Go tell her all I fain would dare,
Tell her of hope; tell her o... MICHAEL BEVERLY One day can change your life. One day can ruin your life. All life is is three or four big days that... BEVERLY DONOFRIO Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, fo... BEVERLY JONES Halfway to the house Stan stopped and turned to Jane. BEVERLY CLEARY We've encouraged ranchers along the Gulf Coast to move their livestock to safer places, preferably t... BEVERLY BOYD Novels by British writers are among my favorites because our family has enjoyed travel in England an... BEVERLY CLEARY We find this Supreme Court nominee unqualified and her record troubling. BEVERLY LAHAYE Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters written... BEVERLY NICHOLS Quarantine is not to prevent the spread of termites but to minimize it. We have limited resources. BEVERLY BOYD I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in... BEVERLY CLEARY I have lovely memories of Los Angeles in the 1930s. I came down to live with my mother's cousin ... BEVERLY CLEARY People are inclined to say that I am Ramona. I'm not sure that's true, but I did share some ... BEVERLY CLEARY Any native species — a stand of milkweed — Porcelain-berry comes along and kills it. It's like k... BEVERLY SMITH The ramp has been talked about for years and all of our Hilltop users are glad to see it. We will be... BEVERLY BROCK These no-fat sauces add a lot of flavor to a stir-fry, and also can be used on fish. BEVERLY PRICE Networking is an often over looked soft skill that is very necessary to success in Corporate America... JENNISE BEVERLY I have some afterlife scenarios for him. On the day he dies, Nancy and all his victims will be waiti... BEVERLY PLAPP Many jurisdictions still do not prosecute these cases without medical evidence. The evidence is not ... BEVERLY ENGLE To get a change in lifestyle, you've got to start young. BEVERLY BOYD It's economics 101: small supply, big demand. It's going to shoot prices up. These are producers tha... BEVERLY BOYD Harvesting is going on right now for cotton crops but I can't really say how much of that will be ru... BEVERLY BOYD We've had fantastic response from school districts across the state. We've seen so many innovative a... BEVERLY BOYD We definitely do have a problem here, not only with the potential health problems down the road, but... BEVERLY BOYD We haven't yet determined whether the farm shrimp production will help offset production lost in the... BEVERLY BOYD He said, 'I'll just stop taking it. We can't afford it.' That drug is keeping you alive, for crying ... BEVERLY RUSSELL Everyone got one vote per parcel. Hotels and other areas, which have a lot of sewer units, got more ... BEVERLY SCOTT He liked the people, the mothers and dads, he liked the children. Every holiday they would bring him... BEVERLY MALONEY I used to work in home health, and (patients) usually wait until the family is gone, and then they g... BEVERLY MALONEY He knows where his home is, we just accepted that. We're just sojourners, this is not our home. BEVERLY MALONEY We had already identified four areas - law and order, the economy, education and governance in its w... BEVERLY LOPEZ It (2006) will be an interesting year in respect to the leadership race in the People's National Par... BEVERLY LOPEZ We can't regain tomorrow what we have lost today. So that's a problem. We are hoping good sense will... BEVERLY LOPEZ I've been through three big ones. This is the last. BEVERLY LOPEZ They've been coming in a back apartment at night. I got a barbecue brush made of wire, and that's my... BEVERLY LOPEZ If this horse wins the Derby, then we'll know who did it. BEVERLY LEWIS If I have anything to say about, we sure will. BEVERLY LEWIS Ed recognized the economic benefits of production. What Hollywood doesn't bring with them, they must... BEVERLY LEWIS I am delighted to be in a position to champion women's golf as well as having the opportunity to mak... BEVERLY LEWIS This is an amazing honor and I couldn't have been more surprised than if someone had asked me to be ... BEVERLY LEWIS Many have master's and doctorate degrees, but because of their illness, they are out of the workforc... BEVERLY LEWIS The recovery education center is staffed by peer support specialists and peer support assistants who... BEVERLY LEWIS She is a genius at being able to marry a form and style with beauty, and that is what the French exp... BEVERLY LEECH They had the same agent, so it is possible that it was an incredible publicity stunt. BEVERLY LEECH It turns out that so much is right here in our own communities. What I'm trying to do is think outsi... BEVERLY LARSON We're looking at diversity within our own community. I feel it exposes students from both schools to... BEVERLY LARSON The awards are long-term investments in people likely to lead or innovate. We look for people with p... BEVERLY LARSON We wanted to back the president, and sought evidence to support this nomination, but we find this Su... BEVERLY LAHAYE The radical left is coming up with false claims of racism because they don't like his pro-life stanc... BEVERLY LAHAYE (Ashcroft) is a man of impeccable character and experience who will bring respect to the Department ... BEVERLY LAHAYE Each speaker has an opportunity to mentor our nation's next generation of role models, and they will... BEVERLY KEARNEY When you look at the stress she had before her first college meet and the way she handled it, you re... BEVERLY KEARNEY We often come out to synagogue-sponsored events. I heard him during rehearsal and he sounded really ... BEVERLY JONES A lot of people ask me what it's like to have a pro football player for a brother. I don't know beca... BEVERLY JONES Big and beautiful. He had the prettiest round face. Oh, my Lord, he was just so pretty. When he came... BEVERLY JONES It is very difficult, if not impossible, for us to conduct our business. I don't feel like an equal ... BEVERLY JONES It was worth it. It will really help us out. BEVERLY JONES Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, fo... BEVERLY JONES It's such a good day you can't help to but be out and walking, BEVERLY JOHNSON I am an attorney, ... (What) if attorneys had to get business licenses in every city where we went t... BEVERLY JOHNSON We were shaken up and scared, ... Water came in and then the roof just collapsed. BEVERLY JOHNSON Water came in and then the ceiling collapsed. We were really shaken up last night. BEVERLY JOHNSON Everyone should have enough money to get plastic surgery. BEVERLY JOHNSON The Red Cross continues to make a difference in Namibia not only to this area but in other areas whi... BEVERLY JANDRELL Hopefully, we can make some good cuts without affecting education. We don't want to cut the teachers... BEVERLY HOWELL Somebody is feeding the paper information. I leave here and it's in the paper before I get home. BEVERLY HOWELL I don't want this new (advisory) committee to tell us what to do -- or they're going to take our sup... BEVERLY HOWELL We certainly have noticed significant changes. As these kids get out in the public forums they have ... BEVERLY HOWARD The community has a responsibility for our children. We do not want our children to grow up without ... BEVERLY HOWARD The adoption process is a long process. Right now we have five children going through the process. BEVERLY HOWARD The biggest change is the kids are empowered to be a part of the process. They are making choices ab... BEVERLY HOWARD We've had a very exciting year. BEVERLY HOWARD The people of California are sick and tired of all the fighting, and they are sick and tired of all ... BEVERLY HILTON I love being a woman, BEVERLY HILTON a positive sense of the world. BEVERLY HILTON Is the frog dead? BEVERLY HILTON It's just so sad that he had [lost] his life trying to help her. BEVERLY HEADDS Nicholas would call you up and play games on the phone. He was just always a kidder, somebody to jok... BEVERLY HEADDS She was a good mom. Her babies came first no matter what. They were her life. BEVERLY HEADDS They always kept you laughing, full of life, so my whole family is going to miss them deeply and I k... BEVERLY HEADDS Those volunteers that do everything out of the goodness of their hearts are extremely valuable to us... BEVERLY GRIFFITH The routes are kind of hard because you're burning more gas. You're going, stopping, going, stopping... BEVERLY GRIFFITH A strike is a tough thing to do, but it is the only way we can get these hospitals to understand wha... BEVERLY GRIFFITH Twenty years ago we didn't have this problem. We would have had places available to house people and... BEVERLY GOULET We know it's worse than numbers indicate. BEVERLY GOULET I just felt the kids would know collard greens. BEVERLY GIRARD In some cases, it's a matter of menus already being prepared. BEVERLY GIRARD To be honest, we serve lots of fresh produce, but I love farms, coming from a farm myself in Indiana... BEVERLY GIRARD College students are wearing whatever they want, and it doesn't affect their learning. BEVERLY GALLAGHER We need our parents to start calling legislators and making a fuss before the session starts [in Mar... BEVERLY GALLAGHER We are here and we do things. But we do them quietly. Maybe we should make some noise. We would like... BEVERLY FORD Let's put it this way, America has been good to us. And we have made very good use of it. BEVERLY FORD As I remember him, he was a real gentlemen, and he represented this area real well we always had ... BEVERLY FORD I come from the old school. BEVERLY FARRAR You do what you have to do. Everyone got into school and I went to work every day. BEVERLY FARRAR If God gives you seven days a week, you can give him two hours. BEVERLY FARRAR That's my main thing, that these three children somehow get a scholarship. That's my dream. BEVERLY FARRAR While trusts have been previously used in the establishment of wine land community development proje... BEVERLY FARMER Without access to the huge amount of capital needed to go the traditional route, we are establishing... BEVERLY FARMER
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