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PAUL GIAMATTI My mum was a wonderful mother. She died, aged 80, of Alzheimer's disease, which was dreadful to ...
BONNIE TYLER![]()
I talk to my kids about my mother's energy and how she would have loved them. I talk about how k...
LEMON ANDERSEN![]()
My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and d...
VICTOR BORGE![]()
While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucil...
BILL MURRAY My mother got to read the book in print ... before she died and she was pleased with it.
KARLA REINHARD![]()
I don't believe in regretting - one should try to move on. My mum was good at that. She was deep...
ROBERT WINSTON When my mother died, and when my father died, it's big. Our parents are giants; they're tita...
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III![]()
My father died when I was young, and my mother, Ruth, went to work in an office selling theater and ...
ALAN FURST![]()
My childhood was kind of complicated. I have an older sister, but my father, my mother's husband...
ORLANDO BLOOM I had a friend, Melissa, who was 28 years old. She was my best friend's wife, and she was my wif...
JASON ALDEAN My mother Molly had a nervous breakdown after my father Chic died, aged 50. He was a very generous m...
BRIAN COX![]()
I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shat...
JOAN LINGARD My mother died young. A lot of people wanted us to be adopted out, but before she died, my mother as...
EMMA BIEL![]()
I never thought I'd be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I di...
CAROLINE KENNEDY When my father died, my mother came back from being Mrs. Birkin to being Judy Campbell. She was a st...
JANE BIRKIN My mother desperately wanted children. She had a child that was stillborn - something I learned when...
STANLEY HAUERWAS![]()
That's what my mother did. And my father was the first person she'd met who treated her kind...
LYNN JOHNSTON I was born five days before D-Day in 1944. My father was a mechanical engineer, which was a reserved...
ROBERT POWELL I've just built a studio in my mama's old bedroom, which I thought was fitting; she died las...
STEPHEN STILLS Prior to my father's death, I was having a hard time committing to a career as an artist, but th...
KIKI SMITH 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 in my arms. That's tumult. That's everything exploding.
RICHARD FORD 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 mother, who died aged 82, had Alzheimer's. Losing your memory is bad enough, but everything s...
BONNIE TYLER![]()
You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time ...
PAUL MCCARTNEY I lived with my mother all my life until she died, and I don't really think I knew her, because ...
HARRIET WALTER![]()
I've had dialogues with my dead mother over the 40 years since she died.
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I grew up in one of the most socially conservative neighborhoods in Ohio, and my parents were tradit...
GAIL COLLINS![]()
Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked t...
MITT ROMNEY![]()
When my father died in Greece, leaving my mother strapped, a cheque arrived next day from my Greek p...
EMMA TENNANT![]()
My mother died of lung cancer last year. I felt helpless. As an economist, I thought, 'What can ...
ANDREW LO That was taken the day before she died.
CONNIE GUTHRIE My father died when I was 11. He was a vaudeville comedian. He worked in one movie, 'Ladies of t...
TERI GARR![]()
My grandmother died from Alzheimer's, and it was a big shock. For the families left behind, it i...
ROSECRANS BALDWIN My mother had a heart attack when she was about 50. My uncle died of a heart attack at 58. Both of m...
JOY BEHAR My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland...
JOHN C. HAWKES I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my gra...
JOHN NASH![]()
I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my gra...
JOHN FORBES NASH, JR.![]()
My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I w...
B. B. KING My parents were dishonest people. If it was my birthday, I knew my mother took me to the K-Mart and ...
VINCENT GALLO My grandmother died in 1991 and I was born in '86. We only met once, but I didn't speak Engl...
OONA CHAPLIN I lost my mother, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease, and we had to relocate my dad after 58 ...
DOUG DAVIDSON![]()
My parents were practicing Jews. My mother grew up in an orthodox synagogue, and after my grandfathe...
JUDITH BUTLER I grew up in Hollywood during WWII, and my mother was afraid that my father was going to be drafted ...
KAROLYN GRIMES It's really sort of morbid, but she said her mother wanted to see me all her life. And when she ...
HANK SNOW 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 I could have one wish, it would be to put the clock back and for everything to be like it was bef...
PAUL BURRELL![]()
Mama said it's probably because of Suzanne, and that you are never the same after a child dies. That...
NANCY E. TURNER![]()
I'm destiny's child. I wasn't meant to be born: my mother bled for four months when she ...
SHILPA SHETTY My father died in 1930, but if you told him or anybody almost in that time that you'd be able to...
DESMOND LLEWELYN At the time she died, she had a severe medical disease. She did not know what she was doing.
DR. XIAOYAN WU She saw it and thought that they made the statue for a little boy who might have died. So she wanted...
LINDA REED![]()
My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 yea...
WALTER MOSLEY![]()
When he died, I went about like a ragged crow telling strangers, "My father died, my father died." M...
KIRAN DESAI![]()
I was raised in the Baptist church... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with ...
T. D. JAKES![]()
I first heard it on a demo right before my aunt died. And then she died, and it was the hardest thin...
BRAD PAISLEY![]()
My mother had taught shorthand and typing to support us since my father died, and secretly she hated...
SYLVIA PLATH I played the piano as a boy for six years, from the time I was six to 12 years old. My piano lessons...
JOHN GOKONGWEI The two saddest moments of my life were when my mother died and when I was told I couldn't play ...
ART DONOVAN![]()
If I'd seen a grown man beating a crippled boy, of course I'd intervene. If my father died a...
CHARLIE HUNNAM![]()
Mom was so funny and loving to us kids. She was our first audience. When my dad died, I was suddenly...
BILLY CRYSTAL![]()
The way they were writing Christine as this older woman who got married, which she shouldn't hav...
SHARON GLESS![]()
Mum was an amazing parent and my best pal. The tragedy of it, really, was that she died from breast ...
ROBERT WEBB I learned hard lessons in life; I had to because I had so much happen: My mother died my sophomore y...
BERNIE MAC![]()
In the short summer night she learned so much. She would have thought a woman would have died of sha...
D.H. LAWRENCE When my father died, my mother was still alive. And I think when your second parent dies, there is t...
ROZ CHAST My mother encouraged it so much. She was so supportive. Even if as a kid, I would do the dumbest tri...
DAVID BLAINE I realized she did not have to die. She died from a decision, not a disease.
JENNIFER BERRY My mother died when I was 12, and right after, my dad died in a car crash. I was 15 and had no famil...
KAROLYN GRIMES My mother, Delle Hunter, was a physically small woman, yet she was the biggest person I’ve ever kn...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD When I was 15, I begged my grandfather to give me this guitar he'd always had in the back of his...
VALERIE JUNE After my mother died, I found, a little book of hers which recorded everything I had ever done, how ...
CONRAD VEIDT![]()
My father died five days before I returned to New York. He was only fifty-three years old. My parent...
BEVERLY SILLS I don't revisit anything unless there's a really good occasion, like BAM screened 'This ...
GABY HOFFMANN![]()
My grandfather killed my father in my mind. I know he died of cancer - but it was because of what my...
HENRY FORD What sorrows I have now, I have to accept because that is her fate. She died not in vain. She died f...
ESTELITA MARAVILLOSA I was my mother's favorite, and she'd help me with everything.
H. R. GIGER I was 12 years old when I said goodbye to my family and relatives. I never saw my parents again. I l...
ANNE FOX![]()
When my mother died, my father was in a crisis, my sister was in a crisis, everyone was in a crisis....
STUART ROSE My father's from Australia and my mother was born in India, but she's actually Tibetan. I wa...
DICHEN LACHMAN The doctors told us it would be a matter of hours (before she died). But it wasn't. It was another w...
BECKY HOLLAND Millie ... lived to 3-1/2-years-old and ... taught me more about living than any person or experienc...
LINDA JACOBS Did she say anything before she died?" he asked.
"Yes," the surgeon said. "She said, 'Forgive h...
SHERMAN ALEXIE My mother had early-onset Alzheimer's, and it took her four years to die. She was only 44; I was...
KAROLYN GRIMES My mother died of metastatic colorectal cancer shortly before three P.M. on Christmas Day of 2008. I...
MEGHAN O'ROURKE I have a pin on today that says, 'Remember Florida,' ... Members of my race died because of this iss...
CARRIE MEEK![]()
Nine years ago, my mother died and my father wore black for a year and a half.
NICHOLAS SPARKS My father, Cecil Banks Mullis, and mother, formerly Bernice Alberta Barker, grew up in rural North C...
KARY MULLIS![]()
When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease - of joy that kills.
KATE CHOPIN I had a very bad year in my life. My mother died in February. I was 16 in April and graduated from h...
JAMES ROUSE My sister died and my mum was really distant, as you do - you don't expect your offspring to die...
MAX WALKER![]()
I came to Harlem from West Virginia when I was three, after my mother died. My father, who was very ...
WALTER DEAN MYERS My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damo...
NATASCHA MCELHONE I would have been willing to do anything for my father. I would have moved in with my father to look...
BRUCE PALTROW My parents don't have a lot of money, and it was only when my mum's mum died that we could b...
CHARLOTTE DUJARDIN![]()
When my mother passed away several years ago—well, wait a minute. Actually, she didn’t ‘pass a...
STEVE ALLEN My mother arrived in Brussels in 1938 from a small town near Krakow. But strangely enough, in 1942 o...
CHANTAL AKERMAN![]()
I began photographing in 1946. Before that, I was a painter and drawer, with my mother and father...
HAROLD FEINSTEIN![]()
I always appreciated the magnitude of my mother's imagination. She always saw beauty in what was...
BLAKE LIVELY
PAUL GIAMATTI My mum was a wonderful mother. She died, aged 80, of Alzheimer's disease, which was dreadful to ...
BONNIE TYLER
I talk to my kids about my mother's energy and how she would have loved them. I talk about how k... LEMON ANDERSEN
My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and d... VICTOR BORGE
While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucil... BILL MURRAY My mother got to read the book in print ... before she died and she was pleased with it.
KARLA REINHARD
I don't believe in regretting - one should try to move on. My mum was good at that. She was deep... ROBERT WINSTON When my mother died, and when my father died, it's big. Our parents are giants; they're tita...
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III
My father died when I was young, and my mother, Ruth, went to work in an office selling theater and ... ALAN FURST
My childhood was kind of complicated. I have an older sister, but my father, my mother's husband... ORLANDO BLOOM I had a friend, Melissa, who was 28 years old. She was my best friend's wife, and she was my wif...
JASON ALDEAN My mother Molly had a nervous breakdown after my father Chic died, aged 50. He was a very generous m...
BRIAN COX
I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shat... JOAN LINGARD My mother died young. A lot of people wanted us to be adopted out, but before she died, my mother as...
EMMA BIEL
I never thought I'd be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I di... CAROLINE KENNEDY When my father died, my mother came back from being Mrs. Birkin to being Judy Campbell. She was a st...
JANE BIRKIN My mother desperately wanted children. She had a child that was stillborn - something I learned when...
STANLEY HAUERWAS
That's what my mother did. And my father was the first person she'd met who treated her kind... LYNN JOHNSTON I was born five days before D-Day in 1944. My father was a mechanical engineer, which was a reserved...
ROBERT POWELL I've just built a studio in my mama's old bedroom, which I thought was fitting; she died las...
STEPHEN STILLS Prior to my father's death, I was having a hard time committing to a career as an artist, but th...
KIKI SMITH 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 in my arms. That's tumult. That's everything exploding. RICHARD FORD 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 mother, who died aged 82, had Alzheimer's. Losing your memory is bad enough, but everything s...
BONNIE TYLER
You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time ... PAUL MCCARTNEY I lived with my mother all my life until she died, and I don't really think I knew her, because ...
HARRIET WALTER
I've had dialogues with my dead mother over the 40 years since she died. DREW GILPIN FAUST
I grew up in one of the most socially conservative neighborhoods in Ohio, and my parents were tradit... GAIL COLLINS
Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked t... MITT ROMNEY
When my father died in Greece, leaving my mother strapped, a cheque arrived next day from my Greek p... EMMA TENNANT
My mother died of lung cancer last year. I felt helpless. As an economist, I thought, 'What can ... ANDREW LO That was taken the day before she died.
CONNIE GUTHRIE My father died when I was 11. He was a vaudeville comedian. He worked in one movie, 'Ladies of t...
TERI GARR
My grandmother died from Alzheimer's, and it was a big shock. For the families left behind, it i... ROSECRANS BALDWIN My mother had a heart attack when she was about 50. My uncle died of a heart attack at 58. Both of m...
JOY BEHAR My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland...
JOHN C. HAWKES I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my gra...
JOHN NASH
I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my gra... JOHN FORBES NASH, JR.
My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I w... B. B. KING My parents were dishonest people. If it was my birthday, I knew my mother took me to the K-Mart and ...
VINCENT GALLO My grandmother died in 1991 and I was born in '86. We only met once, but I didn't speak Engl...
OONA CHAPLIN I lost my mother, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease, and we had to relocate my dad after 58 ...
DOUG DAVIDSON
My parents were practicing Jews. My mother grew up in an orthodox synagogue, and after my grandfathe... JUDITH BUTLER I grew up in Hollywood during WWII, and my mother was afraid that my father was going to be drafted ...
KAROLYN GRIMES It's really sort of morbid, but she said her mother wanted to see me all her life. And when she ...
HANK SNOW 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 I could have one wish, it would be to put the clock back and for everything to be like it was bef...
PAUL BURRELL
Mama said it's probably because of Suzanne, and that you are never the same after a child dies. That... NANCY E. TURNER
I'm destiny's child. I wasn't meant to be born: my mother bled for four months when she ... SHILPA SHETTY My father died in 1930, but if you told him or anybody almost in that time that you'd be able to...
DESMOND LLEWELYN At the time she died, she had a severe medical disease. She did not know what she was doing.
DR. XIAOYAN WU She saw it and thought that they made the statue for a little boy who might have died. So she wanted...
LINDA REED
My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 yea... WALTER MOSLEY
When he died, I went about like a ragged crow telling strangers, "My father died, my father died." M... KIRAN DESAI
I was raised in the Baptist church... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with ... T. D. JAKES
I first heard it on a demo right before my aunt died. And then she died, and it was the hardest thin... BRAD PAISLEY
My mother had taught shorthand and typing to support us since my father died, and secretly she hated... SYLVIA PLATH I played the piano as a boy for six years, from the time I was six to 12 years old. My piano lessons...
JOHN GOKONGWEI The two saddest moments of my life were when my mother died and when I was told I couldn't play ...
ART DONOVAN
If I'd seen a grown man beating a crippled boy, of course I'd intervene. If my father died a... CHARLIE HUNNAM
Mom was so funny and loving to us kids. She was our first audience. When my dad died, I was suddenly... BILLY CRYSTAL
The way they were writing Christine as this older woman who got married, which she shouldn't hav... SHARON GLESS
Mum was an amazing parent and my best pal. The tragedy of it, really, was that she died from breast ... ROBERT WEBB I learned hard lessons in life; I had to because I had so much happen: My mother died my sophomore y...
BERNIE MAC
In the short summer night she learned so much. She would have thought a woman would have died of sha... D.H. LAWRENCE When my father died, my mother was still alive. And I think when your second parent dies, there is t...
ROZ CHAST My mother encouraged it so much. She was so supportive. Even if as a kid, I would do the dumbest tri...
DAVID BLAINE I realized she did not have to die. She died from a decision, not a disease.
JENNIFER BERRY My mother died when I was 12, and right after, my dad died in a car crash. I was 15 and had no famil...
KAROLYN GRIMES My mother, Delle Hunter, was a physically small woman, yet she was the biggest person I’ve ever kn...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD When I was 15, I begged my grandfather to give me this guitar he'd always had in the back of his...
VALERIE JUNE After my mother died, I found, a little book of hers which recorded everything I had ever done, how ...
CONRAD VEIDT
My father died five days before I returned to New York. He was only fifty-three years old. My parent... BEVERLY SILLS I don't revisit anything unless there's a really good occasion, like BAM screened 'This ...
GABY HOFFMANN
My grandfather killed my father in my mind. I know he died of cancer - but it was because of what my... HENRY FORD What sorrows I have now, I have to accept because that is her fate. She died not in vain. She died f...
ESTELITA MARAVILLOSA I was my mother's favorite, and she'd help me with everything.
H. R. GIGER I was 12 years old when I said goodbye to my family and relatives. I never saw my parents again. I l...
ANNE FOX
When my mother died, my father was in a crisis, my sister was in a crisis, everyone was in a crisis.... STUART ROSE My father's from Australia and my mother was born in India, but she's actually Tibetan. I wa...
DICHEN LACHMAN The doctors told us it would be a matter of hours (before she died). But it wasn't. It was another w...
BECKY HOLLAND Millie ... lived to 3-1/2-years-old and ... taught me more about living than any person or experienc...
LINDA JACOBS Did she say anything before she died?" he asked.
"Yes," the surgeon said. "She said, 'Forgive h...
SHERMAN ALEXIE My mother had early-onset Alzheimer's, and it took her four years to die. She was only 44; I was...
KAROLYN GRIMES My mother died of metastatic colorectal cancer shortly before three P.M. on Christmas Day of 2008. I...
MEGHAN O'ROURKE I have a pin on today that says, 'Remember Florida,' ... Members of my race died because of this iss...
CARRIE MEEK
Nine years ago, my mother died and my father wore black for a year and a half. NICHOLAS SPARKS My father, Cecil Banks Mullis, and mother, formerly Bernice Alberta Barker, grew up in rural North C...
KARY MULLIS
When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease - of joy that kills. KATE CHOPIN I had a very bad year in my life. My mother died in February. I was 16 in April and graduated from h...
JAMES ROUSE My sister died and my mum was really distant, as you do - you don't expect your offspring to die...
MAX WALKER
I came to Harlem from West Virginia when I was three, after my mother died. My father, who was very ... WALTER DEAN MYERS My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damo...
NATASCHA MCELHONE I would have been willing to do anything for my father. I would have moved in with my father to look...
BRUCE PALTROW My parents don't have a lot of money, and it was only when my mum's mum died that we could b...
CHARLOTTE DUJARDIN
When my mother passed away several years ago—well, wait a minute. Actually, she didn’t ‘pass a... STEVE ALLEN My mother arrived in Brussels in 1938 from a small town near Krakow. But strangely enough, in 1942 o...
CHANTAL AKERMAN
I began photographing in 1946. Before that, I was a painter and drawer, with my mother and father... HAROLD FEINSTEIN
I always appreciated the magnitude of my mother's imagination. She always saw beauty in what was... BLAKE LIVELY
Healthy camel crickets spend a lot of their waking hours grooming, so I have learned to recognize th... 
Our human calendars take little notice of such dates, but nighthawk migrations tell of shortening da... 
Kinsey was never a lawyer. She's strictly blue collar. 
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Virtue often trips and falls over the sharp edge of poverty. 
I must have been a very strange child. I was very pretentious. Like Adrian Mole. 
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I even believe if you're killing a team, you shouldn't stop. You should respect your opponen... 
What it means to be authentic:
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I try to never lose sight of what a special time it is to be a women's basketball player. 
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It never pays to deal with the flyweights of the world. They take far too much pleasure in thwarting... 