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I never got along with my dad. Kids used to come up to me and say, "My dad can beat up your dad." I'... BILL HICKS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES 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 Considering our extensive grass-roots fund-raising operation, I'd say we have an appropriate level o...
ANN LEWIS Considering our extensive grass-roots fund-raising operation, I'd say we have an appropriate level o...
ANN F. LEWIS
Your father used to come home to my mother, and why may not I be
a chippe of the same block out of ... A.H. BULLEN My mother wanted to name me Jackie or Jacqueline but she got to name my sister and my brother, so my...
ARIEL WINTER
But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24. RACHAEL LEIGH COOK My two boys were the same ages as the kids in the show. In real life or in between the breaks I was ...
ALAN THICKE Radio was my life growing up. Then, I started in our family band with my uncle, my father, my aunt a...
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ELIZABETH RODRIGUEZ Me and my brother used to play on our driveway for the Stanley Cup all the time when we were kids. I...
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MORDECAI BROWN
My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every... JACK BLACK
My dad is an art director for BBC TV shows, and my mum does screen printing workshops. Both of my pa... KING KRULE I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would t...
MAHESH BABU My dad's idea of punishment was to dress me up in all green to disguise me as grass, and then th...
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I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays... and my father used to wait outside. ... BONO My mother used to take my brother and me to get any books we wanted, but they were second hand books...
ALEJANDRO AMENABAR
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DEBRA WILSON
Growing up, my father was a financial analyst for an oil company. He was just a regular dad. And whe... ERIC MCCORMACK
In the 1950s and 1960s, many parents were generally standoffish with their male children and acted a... EZEKIEL EMANUEL There are co-ed schools in Saudi, but those are American or British. My dad, of course, believed in ...
KARAN SINGH GROVER My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
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FELICITY KENDAL I used to dress up in my mom's old clothes and play with these kids from the neighbourhood and m...
HEATHER GRAHAM My mother used to sit at the foot of my bed, and she would share her dreams with me.
LIZ MURRAY People can punch me in the shoulder and it still probably wouldn't bother me as much as raising my a...
AISHA JEFFERSON The first thing I would say is . . . rip out that stupid Kentucky bluegrass and put in native grass....
DAVID SALMAN Both my parents were born and raised in the county. My dad - his mother and his grandparents were he...
EDDIE WILLIAMS
As a brother and sister, our tastes were pretty different growing up. He liked a lot of early hip ho... TARYN MANNING 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 was the youngest of seven, and nobody lived to be 60. And so we were always sitting shiva ...
JUDY BLUME I would rather be a good man with mediocre book sales, than a mediocre man with big book sales. Book...
DOUG WEAD Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He ...
CANDIS CAYNE
My mom was essentially a single mother raising three boys. If anyone could have had any reason to gi... CHUCK NORRIS I haven't done any major fund-raising efforts. It's a local election. It should be grass roots.
RAE WATERS To the stupidity of men, " Dakota said, raising a glass. "And my brother, who is their king.
SUSAN MALLERY I was actually born in L.A. My sisters and I were playing in a parking lot, and my dad was like, ...
RACHEL KELLER
My mother pretty much raised me to be a free spirit. Anything my father would say, she would tell me... ACTION BRONSON My mother was the worst kind of stage mother. She would make me and my younger sister and brother li...
RENEE FLEMING He's been a big influence on all of us as far as sports are concerned. We all grew up around sports....
BRIDGET BRENNAN
I watched Italia '90 with my Mum and Dad and my brother, you know, leaping around the house when... STEVEN GERRARD
I remember, as a kid, I'd follow the rooster and the chickens and watch what type of grass they&... ADAM BEACH
My parents were kind of over protective people. Me and my sister had to play in the backyard all the... JIMMY FALLON
Both my grandfathers and my mother's brother were musicians. STURGILL SIMPSON My uncle who helped in a big part of raising me from when I was young, had moved from California, an...
THEO ROSSI My dad raised cattle on a small ranch. After the brandings, my brother and I would ride the calves. ...
CODY HORWEDEL My first job was cutting grass. In Miami, this grass grows everywhere. You just get the lawn mower o...
BARRY JENKINS All over the land are vast and handsome pastures, with good grass for cattle, and it strikes me the ...
ALVAR N. C. DE VACA I come from a family where soccer has always been very present. My uncles, my father and my brother ...
RONALDINHO It's amazing--my parents call everything a discussion. If I were standing across the street, firing ...
JORDAN SONNENBLICK She drove right through the back of the garage. We always used to say my dad was never bored with my...
BRIDGET IDTENSOHN My dad took me and my brother to see Corrosion of Conformity. All I remember was that there was a du...
KING TUFF I used to play Donna Karan. I used my dad's home office, and Kim was my assistant. Then one of o...
KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN I completely admire my mother for raising a child with cerebral palsy at home.
NATALIA VODIANOVA When my sister and I were very young, my father used to tell us fairy stories that he'd made up....
NICOLAS ROEG And, you know, my dad would show me some things sometimes, but the best things that I got to do were...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA
My dad believed in scaring us as we were growing up. Scaring the boys who wanted to date us more. KARIN SLAUGHTER With puppets, you follow the head and the arms will follow, but Frank didn't really do that with the...
BRIAN HENSON If all the eighteen loads of vegetation became fruits, and the growing grass became sweet rice; if I...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB
It was not easy for my mother, being a struggling actress and raising a child. We were these two sor... CHRISTINA APPLEGATE I just have to get used to it. The outfield grass is different than the infield grass. I learned tha...
ADRIAN GONZALEZ
I have been grateful for the influence of my grandmother and my grandfather in my life. I remember m... JAMES E. FAUST
Raising five boys is a handful, trust me. BARBARA BUSH
My father was a military judge, and my mother was a psychiatric social worker. My brother and sister... JULIANNE MOORE I saw my dad playing and got interested in the game. My father taught me a few moves and my brother ...
MAGESH CHANDRAN PANCHANATHAN
My mother adores singing and plays piano. My uncle was a phenomenal pianist. My brother John is a do... FIONA SHAW Though I technically come from a film family, my father had stopped making films even before my brot...
RANI MUKERJI If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle clas...
DAVE VAN RONK
My parents were born and brought up in New York City. My father was trained as an electrical enginee... DAVID LEE
My parents were not affluent people and were not - didn't come from the extremities of education... DWIGHT YOAKAM When my mother and father fell in love, my mother's family would never accept it.
EUZHAN PALCY All I know is I'm saying this, and somebody's going to read it and say I'm a male chauvinist. That's...
HAKEEM OLAJUWON
My grandmother used to cook for eight every day - sitting down lunches and dinner, the way you do it... CARRIE ANN INABA
I used to meditate all the time in bed. That was when I was raising my daughter, and I'd get her... ALICE WALKER
My father, obviously, and my mother were inspirations. My uncle, Frank Harper, he was an absolute me... HILL HARPER My sincere thanks to friends and family, especially my mother, father, brother, and Mandy, who conti...
JONATHAN BALL
My mom used to get arrested for being with my dad. She would get fined. She would spend weekends in ... TREVOR NOAH I used to make up stories about my father. I would go to the movies and look for a character who loo...
DANNY AIELLO
On Christmas morning, my Mam and Dad were downstairs shouting to me to look out the window. T...
STEPHEN RICHARDS Green is my favorite. And it's my favorite because it's the color of my wife's eyes, grass, trees, l...
CASPER VAN DIEN
In this world, if you raise objections saying, ‘my mother-in-law harasses me. My father-in-law har... DADA BHAGWAN When we were in Bosnia, my dad would go to work, and when he would leave, he always would tell me to...
IGOR IVELJIC We sure didn't feel like refugees, but in hindsight, I guess we were - my father and mother left...
DARA KHOSROWSHAHI It would be equally reasonable to say that sheep are born carnivorous, and everywhere nibble grass.
EMILE FAGUET Jim Carrey and my dad were best friends. He would always be in my house and stuff like that.
DAMON WAYANS, JR. There were nine children in my father's family and eight in my mother's. My grandparents did...
CHERYL LADD
I was myself brought up with my brother, whose name was Matthias, for he was my own brother, by both... FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS
My father and my mother were both teachers. They inculcated to us the importance of studies. HUGO CHAVEZ My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where ...
ALISON BECHDEL
My biggest insecurity is that my personality is too much, and as I get older, it's just getting ... 
I pray every day for my little girls. It's hard out there for the younger generation. 
I had my plan. I had my family. We would travel the world and shoot movies and be fabulous. 