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My father died in 1989 before I knew what I was going to do with my life. I had just graduated from ...
PAUL GIAMATTI![]()
When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to be...
PAT CONROY![]()
My childhood was kind of complicated. I have an older sister, but my father, my mother's husband...
ORLANDO BLOOM Then I heard this young veteran on TV speaking about the war. It was John Kerry. He put everything I...
MAX CLELAND I was raised by my great-great aunt. I was adopted within our family. My mother had me when she was,...
ERIC DICKERSON My mom was a single mother, raising my sister and me. My mom has an incredible talent for living in ...
GABY HOFFMANN![]()
The only day I remember of my parents' marriage was the day my dad walked out. As I stood there ...
ELLIE GOULDING![]()
My real father died when I was two years old, so I never knew him. He was a barber in Chicago.
DONALD JOHANSON![]()
I guess the most seminal moment going early way back was my father died when I was 3 years old. I wa...
RAM SHRIRAM![]()
I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shat...
JOAN LINGARD![]()
It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
ANNE SEXTON![]()
I came to Harlem from West Virginia when I was three, after my mother died. My father, who was very ...
WALTER DEAN MYERS I lived with my mother all my life until she died, and I don't really think I knew her, because ...
HARRIET WALTER![]()
From my foster parents, the Deans, I received the love that was ultimately to strengthen me, even wh...
WALTER DEAN MYERS I remember he bought me my first Cabbage Patch Kid. When he was younger, he was really quiet. It was...
MAGGIE DIXON![]()
Though I didn't quite plan it that way, I had my two sons at just about the same ages my mother ...
JULIA GLASS![]()
My mother told me I was dancing before I was born. She could feel my toes tapping wildly inside her ...
GINGER ROGERS![]()
For those that don't know, my sister was born with Down Syndrome, and she was institutionalized ...
NIKKI SIXX My father and my mother separated when I was two.
CARLA GUGINO![]()
My first memory in the world is my gym teacher ripping my mother's necklace off her neck and thr...
MIKE NICHOLS![]()
I don't believe in regretting - one should try to move on. My mum was good at that. She was deep...
ROBERT WINSTON I was the child who would leave school and take her clothes off the second I got into the house. I m...
ALESSANDRA TORRESANI![]()
I was fourteen years old when I went to my first suffrage meeting. Returning from school one day, I ...
EMMELINE PANKHURST When my sister and I were very young, my father used to tell us fairy stories that he'd made up....
NICOLAS ROEG My mother was a dramatic and egocentric person, and she died before my father, who died of Alzheimer...
SUE MILLER I have a strong memory of my early childhood. I can remember life before I was two. I remember being...
CAROLL SPINNEY I want to see her naked, " Mengele said pointing to Marlene. She cried and shock. My mother flung he...
WENDY HOFFMAN![]()
I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for ...
EDMUND WHITE![]()
I grew up with singers. My father's mother sang opera. My dad was a big band singer. I can't...
J. D. SOUTHER![]()
I've always had an affinity with women. It probably started with my mother when I was young, but...
MARIO TESTINO I remember when I was young, I was watching TV, and my father came into the room, agitated, and told...
SEBASTIAN MANISCALCO He drove me home, and I remember sitting in my driveway for two hours in the middle of the night tal...
ALLYSON DARNELL![]()
Literature has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. I can't think back before a t...
ALEXANDRA ADORNETTO![]()
Mama said it's probably because of Suzanne, and that you are never the same after a child dies. That...
NANCY E. TURNER![]()
I lived in New York until I was eleven years old, when my mother left my two older sisters and my fa...
VICTOR MITCHELL I remember when I met my wife and that she could just grab my hand and I would just ease. I don'...
RANDY HOUSER![]()
It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
ANNE SEXTON![]()
It was driving me crazy that I couldn't remember something that I studied the night before. All ...
TERRY BRADSHAW![]()
I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I...
SALMAN RUSHDIE![]()
My father was very energetic; my mother was very energetic. He lived to a very old age, and so did m...
DONALD TRUMP I was born five days before D-Day in 1944. My father was a mechanical engineer, which was a reserved...
ROBERT POWELL![]()
I used to say that my own father was dead, because he might as well have been. He was in Argentina a...
OLIVIA HUSSEY![]()
One time, two years ago, I took a draught of morphia, meaning to end my life. My mother found me bef...
SARAH WATERS![]()
I had a sister who was killed in a motorcycle wreck when I was around 4 years old. My parents adopte...
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ART DONOVAN![]()
I grew up in one of the most socially conservative neighborhoods in Ohio, and my parents were tradit...
GAIL COLLINS When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he ...
FRANK GEHRY![]()
My brother Alan - who was seven years younger than me - died from leukemia when he was 52. He never ...
BRIAN BLESSED![]()
I remember when I watched 'Hellraiser' with my mother. She cried when she saw my name in the...
CLIVE BARKER![]()
I was raised by a mother who told me I was great every day of my life.
ADAM SANDLER![]()
The first film I ever remember - I think my mother took me to it - was called 'She Married Her B...
HARRY DEAN STANTON![]()
My father was murdered when I was two. Duane, even though he was only a year and 18 days my elder, h...
GREGG ALLMAN My mother was the worst kind of stage mother. She would make me and my younger sister and brother li...
RENEE FLEMING![]()
As an adult, it's hard for me to remember my mother before her sickness. But if I go back into c...
BRUCE ERIC KAPLAN![]()
My father died when I was young, and my mother, Ruth, went to work in an office selling theater and ...
ALAN FURST![]()
My own mother died when I was 10 years old. My folks have told me that what little humor I have come...
WILL ROGERS I was 13 years old at music school talking to my teacher. I can't quite remember what it was I w...
DEV HYNES My sister died and my mum was really distant, as you do - you don't expect your offspring to die...
MAX WALKER![]()
I was born 20 years after my eldest sister. I was the pampered child. That kind of love gives you an...
CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN![]()
I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays... and my father used to wait outside. ...
BONO My stepfather met my mother when I was seven years old, and he was a guitar player. So he caught me ...
GEORGE BENSON It sounds super cliche, but my sister is 12 years younger than me, and I remember when I was there h...
DACRE MONTGOMERY![]()
I met India Arie, who is one of my favorite artists of all time. It was really sweet; I was broken u...
ARIANA GRANDE There was a great strain in our family because my father didn't want anything to do with me. He ...
CAROL VORDERMAN I can tell you that my sister never expressed fear to me. I talked to her the Sunday before she died...
LUHANNA CHESLEY![]()
My father died five days before I returned to New York. He was only fifty-three years old. My parent...
BEVERLY SILLS I was scared when I lost my mother, my father, my brother, my sister.
ISRAEL KAMAKAWIWO'OLE When I was standing on the podium, actually, I found her in the crowd and I don't think I have seen ...
DENIS PETUKHOV I remember my mother had this deck of cards that her mother had given her and that she passed on to ...
DAVID BLAINE When my father died, my mother came back from being Mrs. Birkin to being Judy Campbell. She was a st...
JANE BIRKIN 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 I don't remember ever not singing. My mother loved music, and she taught me songs, country music...
FLORENCE HENDERSON I met this woman who was a hundred, this housekeeper, a hundred years old. I interviewed her. She ju...
TATE TAYLOR![]()
My family was going back to England to visit my mother's grandmother, who was very ill. We went ...
KIM CATTRALL I met Gemma, my wife, when she was 12. She had a schoolgirl crush on me and her dad had arranged for...
GARY NUMAN I don't remember my mother ever playing with me. And she was a perfectly good mother. But she ha...
PATRICIA HEATON![]()
I can remember when I was just, like, about four years old in Compton, and my mother would have me s...
DR. DRE My mother was an actress and my voice teacher, an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is ...
LAURA BENANTI I remember specifically my mother telling me growing up don't put my business in the street. I w...
KARRINE STEFFANS![]()
When my mother died, my father was in a crisis, my sister was in a crisis, everyone was in a crisis....
STUART ROSE When I was eight years old I went to visit my brother who was working on a movie of the week with my...
MACKENZIE ASTIN![]()
My Aunt Helen was my favorite person in the whole world. She was my mom’s sister. She got straight...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY![]()
Before I was born my father disowned me. You know those ones who get the females pregnant, and then ...
DREXEL DEAL Organ donation is very personal to me. My mother, before her death, was on kidney dialysis for sever...
JOHN PEREZ Ray Bradbury published his first story 29 years before I was born. He established himself as an inte...
SAM WELLER I'm convinced my heart knew who it belonged to, long before I met her.
KARLA CAMPOS![]()
My mother was the greatest example to me of anyone I've ever known. She didn't have an easy ...
LAUREN BACALL![]()
My mother's husband died when I was 4, and I thought he was my dad until I was 15 and found out that...
ORLANDO BLOOM I wanted to drop the emotional hammer on Steph and tell her my thought: that I would very much like ...
SUSAN SPENCER-WENDEL![]()
I remember running down a road on my way to a nursery of flowers. I remember her smile and her laugh...
JENNIFER NIVEN![]()
When I met Elvis, we didn't really have a conversation. I was introduced by my uncle, and he sor...
TOM PETTY (Trevor) recognized my voice when I got home. But I think it took him about two days before he reali...
JED WESTOVER![]()
Before I was married to Martin and became a King, I was a proud Scott, shaped by my mother's dis...
CORETTA SCOTT KING![]()
I knew I wanted to sing when I was a very small boy. When I was probably 4 years old. My mother play...
JOHNNY CASH I was born into the Chicago branch of Negroland. My father was a doctor, a pediatrician, and for som...
MARGO JEFFERSON![]()
He never knew my name, He never knew my name. And though I never met him, I knew him just the same, ...
BOB DYLAN When I was younger, I used to pray that I would die before my mom. That's just how much my mom m...
DAK PRESCOTT![]()
I was given baby doll toys myself, and they proved a stark reminder that my life was expected to rev...
BETH DITTO Dear Beloved woman,
Time… so much time has passed since my love wrote his last words fo...
TALON P.S. Three days after my brother died, my father was in the hospital. He just did not want to live anymor...
MARC FORSTER
PAUL GIAMATTI
When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to be... PAT CONROY
My childhood was kind of complicated. I have an older sister, but my father, my mother's husband... ORLANDO BLOOM Then I heard this young veteran on TV speaking about the war. It was John Kerry. He put everything I...
MAX CLELAND I was raised by my great-great aunt. I was adopted within our family. My mother had me when she was,...
ERIC DICKERSON My mom was a single mother, raising my sister and me. My mom has an incredible talent for living in ...
GABY HOFFMANN
The only day I remember of my parents' marriage was the day my dad walked out. As I stood there ... ELLIE GOULDING
My real father died when I was two years old, so I never knew him. He was a barber in Chicago. DONALD JOHANSON
I guess the most seminal moment going early way back was my father died when I was 3 years old. I wa... RAM SHRIRAM
I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shat... JOAN LINGARD
It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was. ANNE SEXTON
I came to Harlem from West Virginia when I was three, after my mother died. My father, who was very ... WALTER DEAN MYERS I lived with my mother all my life until she died, and I don't really think I knew her, because ...
HARRIET WALTER
From my foster parents, the Deans, I received the love that was ultimately to strengthen me, even wh... WALTER DEAN MYERS I remember he bought me my first Cabbage Patch Kid. When he was younger, he was really quiet. It was...
MAGGIE DIXON
Though I didn't quite plan it that way, I had my two sons at just about the same ages my mother ... JULIA GLASS
My mother told me I was dancing before I was born. She could feel my toes tapping wildly inside her ... GINGER ROGERS
For those that don't know, my sister was born with Down Syndrome, and she was institutionalized ... NIKKI SIXX My father and my mother separated when I was two.
CARLA GUGINO
My first memory in the world is my gym teacher ripping my mother's necklace off her neck and thr... MIKE NICHOLS
I don't believe in regretting - one should try to move on. My mum was good at that. She was deep... ROBERT WINSTON I was the child who would leave school and take her clothes off the second I got into the house. I m...
ALESSANDRA TORRESANI
I was fourteen years old when I went to my first suffrage meeting. Returning from school one day, I ... EMMELINE PANKHURST When my sister and I were very young, my father used to tell us fairy stories that he'd made up....
NICOLAS ROEG My mother was a dramatic and egocentric person, and she died before my father, who died of Alzheimer...
SUE MILLER I have a strong memory of my early childhood. I can remember life before I was two. I remember being...
CAROLL SPINNEY I want to see her naked, " Mengele said pointing to Marlene. She cried and shock. My mother flung he...
WENDY HOFFMAN
I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for ... EDMUND WHITE
I grew up with singers. My father's mother sang opera. My dad was a big band singer. I can't... J. D. SOUTHER
I've always had an affinity with women. It probably started with my mother when I was young, but... MARIO TESTINO I remember when I was young, I was watching TV, and my father came into the room, agitated, and told...
SEBASTIAN MANISCALCO He drove me home, and I remember sitting in my driveway for two hours in the middle of the night tal...
ALLYSON DARNELL
Literature has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. I can't think back before a t... ALEXANDRA ADORNETTO
Mama said it's probably because of Suzanne, and that you are never the same after a child dies. That... NANCY E. TURNER
I lived in New York until I was eleven years old, when my mother left my two older sisters and my fa... VICTOR MITCHELL I remember when I met my wife and that she could just grab my hand and I would just ease. I don'...
RANDY HOUSER
It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was. ANNE SEXTON
It was driving me crazy that I couldn't remember something that I studied the night before. All ... TERRY BRADSHAW
I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I... SALMAN RUSHDIE
My father was very energetic; my mother was very energetic. He lived to a very old age, and so did m... DONALD TRUMP I was born five days before D-Day in 1944. My father was a mechanical engineer, which was a reserved...
ROBERT POWELL
I used to say that my own father was dead, because he might as well have been. He was in Argentina a... OLIVIA HUSSEY
One time, two years ago, I took a draught of morphia, meaning to end my life. My mother found me bef... SARAH WATERS
I had a sister who was killed in a motorcycle wreck when I was around 4 years old. My parents adopte... BIG SMO The two saddest moments of my life were when my mother died and when I was told I couldn't play ...
ART DONOVAN
I grew up in one of the most socially conservative neighborhoods in Ohio, and my parents were tradit... GAIL COLLINS When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he ...
FRANK GEHRY
My brother Alan - who was seven years younger than me - died from leukemia when he was 52. He never ... BRIAN BLESSED
I remember when I watched 'Hellraiser' with my mother. She cried when she saw my name in the... CLIVE BARKER
I was raised by a mother who told me I was great every day of my life. ADAM SANDLER
The first film I ever remember - I think my mother took me to it - was called 'She Married Her B... HARRY DEAN STANTON
My father was murdered when I was two. Duane, even though he was only a year and 18 days my elder, h... GREGG ALLMAN My mother was the worst kind of stage mother. She would make me and my younger sister and brother li...
RENEE FLEMING
As an adult, it's hard for me to remember my mother before her sickness. But if I go back into c... BRUCE ERIC KAPLAN
My father died when I was young, and my mother, Ruth, went to work in an office selling theater and ... ALAN FURST
My own mother died when I was 10 years old. My folks have told me that what little humor I have come... WILL ROGERS I was 13 years old at music school talking to my teacher. I can't quite remember what it was I w...
DEV HYNES My sister died and my mum was really distant, as you do - you don't expect your offspring to die...
MAX WALKER
I was born 20 years after my eldest sister. I was the pampered child. That kind of love gives you an... CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN
I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays... and my father used to wait outside. ... BONO My stepfather met my mother when I was seven years old, and he was a guitar player. So he caught me ...
GEORGE BENSON It sounds super cliche, but my sister is 12 years younger than me, and I remember when I was there h...
DACRE MONTGOMERY
I met India Arie, who is one of my favorite artists of all time. It was really sweet; I was broken u... ARIANA GRANDE There was a great strain in our family because my father didn't want anything to do with me. He ...
CAROL VORDERMAN I can tell you that my sister never expressed fear to me. I talked to her the Sunday before she died...
LUHANNA CHESLEY
My father died five days before I returned to New York. He was only fifty-three years old. My parent... BEVERLY SILLS I was scared when I lost my mother, my father, my brother, my sister.
ISRAEL KAMAKAWIWO'OLE When I was standing on the podium, actually, I found her in the crowd and I don't think I have seen ...
DENIS PETUKHOV I remember my mother had this deck of cards that her mother had given her and that she passed on to ...
DAVID BLAINE When my father died, my mother came back from being Mrs. Birkin to being Judy Campbell. She was a st...
JANE BIRKIN 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 I don't remember ever not singing. My mother loved music, and she taught me songs, country music...
FLORENCE HENDERSON I met this woman who was a hundred, this housekeeper, a hundred years old. I interviewed her. She ju...
TATE TAYLOR
My family was going back to England to visit my mother's grandmother, who was very ill. We went ... KIM CATTRALL I met Gemma, my wife, when she was 12. She had a schoolgirl crush on me and her dad had arranged for...
GARY NUMAN I don't remember my mother ever playing with me. And she was a perfectly good mother. But she ha...
PATRICIA HEATON
I can remember when I was just, like, about four years old in Compton, and my mother would have me s... DR. DRE My mother was an actress and my voice teacher, an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is ...
LAURA BENANTI I remember specifically my mother telling me growing up don't put my business in the street. I w...
KARRINE STEFFANS
When my mother died, my father was in a crisis, my sister was in a crisis, everyone was in a crisis.... STUART ROSE When I was eight years old I went to visit my brother who was working on a movie of the week with my...
MACKENZIE ASTIN
My Aunt Helen was my favorite person in the whole world. She was my mom’s sister. She got straight... STEPHEN CHBOSKY
Before I was born my father disowned me. You know those ones who get the females pregnant, and then ... DREXEL DEAL Organ donation is very personal to me. My mother, before her death, was on kidney dialysis for sever...
JOHN PEREZ Ray Bradbury published his first story 29 years before I was born. He established himself as an inte...
SAM WELLER I'm convinced my heart knew who it belonged to, long before I met her.
KARLA CAMPOS
My mother was the greatest example to me of anyone I've ever known. She didn't have an easy ... LAUREN BACALL
My mother's husband died when I was 4, and I thought he was my dad until I was 15 and found out that... ORLANDO BLOOM I wanted to drop the emotional hammer on Steph and tell her my thought: that I would very much like ...
SUSAN SPENCER-WENDEL
I remember running down a road on my way to a nursery of flowers. I remember her smile and her laugh... JENNIFER NIVEN
When I met Elvis, we didn't really have a conversation. I was introduced by my uncle, and he sor... TOM PETTY (Trevor) recognized my voice when I got home. But I think it took him about two days before he reali...
JED WESTOVER
Before I was married to Martin and became a King, I was a proud Scott, shaped by my mother's dis... CORETTA SCOTT KING
I knew I wanted to sing when I was a very small boy. When I was probably 4 years old. My mother play... JOHNNY CASH I was born into the Chicago branch of Negroland. My father was a doctor, a pediatrician, and for som...
MARGO JEFFERSON
He never knew my name, He never knew my name. And though I never met him, I knew him just the same, ... BOB DYLAN When I was younger, I used to pray that I would die before my mom. That's just how much my mom m...
DAK PRESCOTT
I was given baby doll toys myself, and they proved a stark reminder that my life was expected to rev... BETH DITTO Dear Beloved woman,
Time… so much time has passed since my love wrote his last words fo...
TALON P.S. Three days after my brother died, my father was in the hospital. He just did not want to live anymor...
MARC FORSTER
If you have a dream, it's definitely achievable through hard work, through dedication, sacrifice... 
Basically my whole life revolves around soccer. I don't take many vacations. Everything just get... 
I think - you know, I want to intimidate people when I'm on the field. I want people to be scare... 
We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning th... 
Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and... 
The greatest tragedy in the world is a divided church. We must come together. So don't start talking... 
Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it. 
Judge of a jest when you have done laughing. 
Our life is like a land journey: too even and easy and dull over long distances across the plains, t... 
I've always wanted to be an action figure. 
That is why your sacrifice was all the more difficult. You chose to be a hero not through enchantmen... 