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She was a little sick today and she t... IVICA KOSTELIC My mom was a dancer, my dad's a singer and I've always had that kind of music in my life. ELVIS STOJKO Mom was 50 when my Dad died. She got on a bus every weekday for years, and rode 40 miles each mornin... PAUL RYAN My mom is one of my role models in a complicated way. I learned from her how to be a good mom. She w... LESLIE MORGAN STEINER Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked t... MITT ROMNEY But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24. RACHAEL LEIGH COOK My dad started racing when I was about four. My mom thought it was interesting, so she started to tr... BRANDON DAVIS The fact that one of these ladies was my mom made me particularly sad because my mom is beautiful. A... STEPHEN CHBOSKY My mom was always my biggest teacher, my inspiration, my role model. My mom was just the most amazin... CHRISTIE BRINKLEY I asked him to say hi to my mom to prove he was there, and he was really great and nice and talked t... SASHA COHEN I am the first one to go to university in my family. I am the first writer as well. My dad is a reti... SAMANTHA SHANNON Yesterday she was feeling very weak, she was tired and she was hungry as well, ... And my mom said t... JESSICA LYNCH My dad was a copywriter on Madison Avenue at the same time as the TV show 'Mad Men' is set. ... PETER HELLER I was four when I started modeling. My mom was very much an off-the-stage mom who knew nothing about... CHARLOTTE ARNOLD They flipped. I mean, my dad was pretty cool about it actually. He was much more laid back about it.... MATISYAHU MILLER My dad did show me interesting movies at a young age. I remember he showed me 'A Clockwork Orang... JONATHAN KRISEL This is actually something no one knows, but my mom was really the one who created the entire style ... ROBYN LIVELY My mom was Sicilian, my dad was Sicilian. 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ELOISE MUMFORD My dad is a civil engineer, and my mom is a stay-at-home mom. The fact that my parents weren't r... LORDE My mom is awesome. She's really young. My mom is 40, and she raised me listening to Nirvana and ... HALSEY My mom is a painter and an artist. She would play music, and she always had very good taste in music... RUBY ROSE Two weeks ago at the U.S. Amateur, my mom caddied, and that is kind of a different feeling, because ... LYDIA KO One day I went up to my mom and I said, 'Mom, can I have permission to build a 2.3-million elect... MICHIO KAKU My dad was a plumber, and my mom was on and off again, either a stay-at-home mom or working with the... CRAIG THOMPSON Mom was so funny and loving to us kids. She was our first audience. When my dad died, I was suddenly... BILLY CRYSTAL My dad, when he was young, did Shakespeare in school, and my mom was a little bit of an artist, but ... ATO ESSANDOH She was talking a lot of stuff about my mom. She pushed me, I hit her and it was done. CHRISTI NARDOZZI My hat was pulled down and this girl said 'Are you really him?' I whispered 'Yeah, I'm really him.' ... JOSH HARTNETT Yes, my dad's a marathoner. He used to do sprint distances and then started marathoning. My mom ... DEAN KARNAZES My hat was pulled down and this girl said 'Are you really him?' I whispered 'Yeah, I'... JOSH HARTNETT My father loved 'Godard and Truffaut.' He was more artsy. My mom loved the 'Bourne' ... ALICE BRAGA My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough. LANCE ARMSTRONG My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comical... LAKE BELL Like a lot of kids, I had a Superman cake or different theme cakes, but then I hit the age where I t... WILLIE GEIST My mom had beautiful clothes. My mom is elegant; my mom is glamorous. But my mom is also really real... TRACEE ELLIS ROSS My mom graduated from the University of Michigan, which is a great school. Then she got her Master... BIG SEAN Lori was part of our family, ... She was there for all of my graduations. Whenever my big brother ca... ANDRES PEREZ My mom started smoking when she was 11. She went to the hill next door to try her first cigarette. S... LONI ANDERSON I'm a first - I was the first person in my family born in the United States. My mom is from Croa... OTTESSA MOSHFEGH My mom worked as a pharmacist, but she is one of the best storytellers I know. My sister is a gospel... TUNDE ADEBIMPE I credit my singing to my mom because she didn't give me a binky when I was a baby. I cried and ... AULI'I CRAVALHO My mom jumped up and down, ... She was so excited. JENNIFER NELSON My mom was a free spirit, and she brought me up to be a free spirit. MARK BRADFORD We bumped into each other while shopping in LA and she invited me to one of her rehearsals. So I wen... FEFE DOBSON My first time coming over to North America was to New York around Christmastime when I was 7. My mom... BECKY LYNCH I have my name Cory on my left arm, and I have my mom's name on my right with a cross. She passe... CORY HARDRICT My mom was onstage when she was pregnant with me. ZOSIA MAMET I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES My mom, she's a breast cancer survivor and because of that I had started getting mammograms once... KATE WALSH My mom's a chemist, so she's pretty smart. LUCAS TILL She had good phases where she was the mom giving me my Flintstones vitamins. She was a nurse, an LPN... HEATHER WEBB I always loved movies, especially watching some of my mom's films when I was younger, like '... EVAN ROSS That's what my mother did. And my father was the first person she'd met who treated her kind... LYNN JOHNSTON I did grow up poor. My mom managed to get a job as a custodian at our church, and it was really just... CRYSTAL BOWERSOX My mom's hot. I mean she's old, but my mom's out of control. PAUL WALKER I met Gemma, my wife, when she was 12. She had a schoolgirl crush on me and her dad had arranged for... GARY NUMAN If my Dad doesn't like you, you will know. My Mom is just too innocent to ever lie. She doesn... CHANNING TATUM I look up to my mom. She's a beautiful woman. LEIGHTON MEESTER My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final pro... DAPHNE ZUNIGA My mom has always been kind of my backbone. She keeps me strong. She is a mother, a friend. She is r... AERIN LAUDER I got really bad grades, so I'd hide my report card from my dad. My mom was in on it, too, becau... DAREN KAGASOFF My mom was a folk singer and Celtic harpist. My dad was in a barbershop quartet and my great grandma... SKYLAR GREY My mom always said she wanted to get through life without ever learning how to use a computer. But p... FRANCES KRUG My mom and dad got divorced when I was very young, and growing up in a family where the head of the ... DAVE MUSTAINE Being with my families helped me a lot. You know, my sister, my mom and my dad had been really great... HILARY STANTON ZUNIN My dad said, 'Stay humble, and you gotta work harder than everybody else.' My mom said, '... NATE ROBINSON My father moved to Hawaii from Brooklyn and my mother came there as a child from the Philippines. Th... BRUNO MARS My mom, she had a lot of medical problems, and she eventually died from a kidney infection, and she ... BRUCE ROSS I'm so proud of my mom because of everything she did during the incident. She was so strong. KRISTIN HAWKINS My mom was a single mom, and she had enough on her plate. I knew when I was doing something I wasn... JASON ALDEAN My mom's family is Russian Jewish, and my dad's Puerto Rico Catholic, so it's kind of a ... IAN GOMEZ Oh, my mom. She's one of my biggest fans. PATINA MILLER My family's just really into the sport. My sister played, my mom played and my dad played baseball. ... LAUREN GIBSON My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt 'very un... RACHEL PLATTEN When I was a kid and my mom made tomato soup, she would cut buttered toast into squares and float th... TOM DOUGLAS
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MEL BROOKS No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the peopl... PHILLIPS BROOKS No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and wit... PHILLIPS BROOKS Let MEL BROOKS No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which... PHILLIPS BROOKS I just wake up and say, You're a bum, go do something worthwhile today. GARTH BROOKS Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity. PHILLIPS BROOKS It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vit... BROOKS ATKINSON You know a dream is like a river, ever changing as it flows. And a dreamer's just a vessel that m... GARTH BROOKS Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he does with his back, shoulders and ... BROOKS ATKINSON Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and pr... PHILLIPS BROOKS The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself. GARTH BROOKS The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all respons... BROOKS ATKINSON Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your a... MEL BROOKS Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool. BELLAMY BROOKS Most beautiful but dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on t... LOUISE BROOKS Most beautiful but dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on t... LOUISE BROOKS Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. PHILLIPS BROOKS We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be ... PAUL BROOKS Each body has its art... GWENDOLYN BROOKS Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die. MEL BROOKS Humor is just another defense against the universe. MEL BROOKS Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pra... PHILLIPS BROOKS If you make your robot look exactly like Albert Einstein, then the robot better be as smart as Einst... RODNEY BROOKS Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house. THOMAS BROOKS The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out h... PHILLIPS BROOKS We used to have food picked and used to have houses built and we used to have chicken properly proce... MO BROOKS Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me w... TERRY BROOKS Testing of self is a regular part of our own lives, so it seems natural to make it a part of the liv... TERRY BROOKS I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able ... TERRY BROOKS All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me... MEL BROOKS The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without. PHILLIPS BROOKS Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the d... PHILLIPS BROOKS Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune. PHILLIPS BROOKS The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. PHILLIPS BROOKS Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of ma... PHILLIPS BROOKS It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the ... PHILLIPS BROOKS Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! PHILLIPS BROOKS Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like ... PHILLIPS BROOKS The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of t... PHILLIPS BROOKS Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurre... PHILLIPS BROOKS