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My mother told me once that she and my father agreed that I would not be brought up Jewish in Chicag...
WESLEY CLARK![]()
I love my mother. My mother made sure, her stubbornness - she made sure we was going to eat. She mad...
TRACY MORGAN![]()
My mother and father had so many ups and downs and stayed with each other and helped each other. My ...
PATTI SMITH My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
BEVERLY CLEARY![]()
My father died when I was young, and my mother, Ruth, went to work in an office selling theater and ...
ALAN FURST![]()
My mother didn't want me to be in fashion. She was in the fashion business, so was my brother, a...
DONATELLA VERSACE![]()
That's what my mother did. And my father was the first person she'd met who treated her kind...
LYNN JOHNSTON![]()
My mother married my father in 1956. She was twenty-eight, and he was thirty-one. She loved him with...
JILL LEPORE![]()
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 was a great believer in reincarnation — she believed she and my father had been married ...
CATHERINE BARRETT ANDREWS My mother was a great believer in reincarnation she believed she and my father had been married m...
CATHERINE BARRETT ANDREWS![]()
My mother is my biggest role model, and she showed me how to do it right. She was very present in ou...
KERRI WALSH JENNINGS![]()
I remember when I watched 'Hellraiser' with my mother. She cried when she saw my name in the...
CLIVE BARKER My parents were dishonest people. If it was my birthday, I knew my mother took me to the K-Mart and ...
VINCENT GALLO My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very you...
AARON DIEHL![]()
My Aunt Helen was my favorite person in the whole world. She was my mom’s sister. She got straight...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY My mother was a dramatic and egocentric person, and she died before my father, who died of Alzheimer...
SUE MILLER![]()
I always feel sad for the girl that I was, because it never occurred to me that my mother might comf...
GILLIAN FLYNN My mother had heard the story of Hannah and Samuel, so she prayed that if God would give her a son, ...
STANLEY HAUERWAS The difference between our family and other poor families was that my mother actively chose to be po...
SAID SAYRAFIEZADEH My mother got to read the book in print ... before she died and she was pleased with it.
KARLA REINHARD I grew up in Hollywood during WWII, and my mother was afraid that my father was going to be drafted ...
KAROLYN GRIMES![]()
My father was a history professor, and my mother a housewife—"
She married a house?
SHERRILYN KENYON![]()
It was not easy for my mother, being a struggling actress and raising a child. We were these two sor...
CHRISTINA APPLEGATE![]()
My mother was an artist and highly strung, whereas my father was much calmer.
LIZA MINNELLI My mother was a teacher. She was grooming my brother and me to be successful, accomplished people.
LAVERNE COX When my father died, my mother came back from being Mrs. Birkin to being Judy Campbell. She was a st...
JANE BIRKIN![]()
My father who was there in the house, he wasn't at all a role model. And my mother, who was tryi...
TYLER PERRY My mother was a phenomenal speaker. She used to amaze me. There was not a note in front of her. It w...
JOAN MCGEE![]()
My mother was madly adventurous. My father was an actor - he worked with Gielgud - and my mother cam...
FRANCESCA ANNIS![]()
I don't believe in regretting - one should try to move on. My mum was good at that. She was deep...
ROBERT WINSTON She didn't ask my anything, and nor did she say anything. She just stared into my eyes as i was lost...
UZAIR ALAM![]()
I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for ...
EDMUND WHITE![]()
My mother looks at me with love and understanding, and I realize: she knows what my father did. She ...
ALLY CONDIE Believe me what I did came from my heart. She asked me for help and I gave it to her. She wanted her...
JOE SPARICO My wife is a painter, musician, and fiber artist. We married in 1993, and as she worked, I found tha...
FLOYD SKLOOT It was something she didn't want me to do because she thought the rejection would ruin my self-e...
ELLEN MUTH![]()
When my father, Ronald Reagan, was running for president in 1980, my mother, Nancy, traveled with hi...
PATTI DAVIS They tape everything in the casino and save it. But, apparently, the FBI confiscated the tapes, whic...
WALDEMAR KNERLER![]()
My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer.
JAMES CAMERON My doctor decided it would be easier on me if I didn't wait. It was really easy. It only took six mi...
CATHERINE WOOD![]()
My mom was essentially a single mother raising three boys. If anyone could have had any reason to gi...
CHUCK NORRIS![]()
When my mother left me waiting for her, [she] established in me the habit of waiting and expectation...
MARILYNNE ROBINSON![]()
My mom told me to cover up my arms ever since I was little because I was muscular. She wanted me to ...
MARTINA NAVRATILOVA![]()
For she had embodied the Great Perhaps--she had proved to me that it was worth it to leave behind my...
JOHN GREEN My mother was the worst kind of stage mother. She would make me and my younger sister and brother li...
RENEE FLEMING![]()
My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong; she had great faith in the ultimate triumph ...
JOHN H. JOHNSON My father died in 1989 before I knew what I was going to do with my life. I had just graduated from ...
PAUL GIAMATTI Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small n...
JIM JARMUSCH I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES My first injury ever was a broken toe, and my mother made me run laps around the mat for the rest of...
RONDA ROUSEY![]()
My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head...
ALICE WALKER My mother encouraged it so much. She was so supportive. Even if as a kid, I would do the dumbest tri...
DAVID BLAINE![]()
I always had short hair, and I hated my short hair. I was always mistaken for a boy, but my mom woul...
DOROTHY HAMILL![]()
My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
VIDAL SASSOON How could I have ever thought she was what was wrong in my life? She was the only thing that made an...
ELLA FRANK My mother-in-law was with me during all four of my births and when she was sitting next to me holdin...
PATRICIA HEATON![]()
My mother praised me when I did something good, and then the next moment, she would say, 'Don...
BHUMIBOL ADULYADEJ My mother had abandoned the family, so grandmother raised me. And she was instrumental in that she t...
JEWELL PARKER RHODES My mum was no pushy parent. She would drop me off for auditions when I was in my teens at the Lyric ...
RACHEL TUCKER![]()
I watched my mother do what she did best, and realized there would never be a way to cut myself from...
SARAH DESSEN![]()
And she was mine, she was mine, the key was in my fist, my fist was in my pocket, she was mine.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV![]()
My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my fat...
STEVE JOBS I was born five days before D-Day in 1944. My father was a mechanical engineer, which was a reserved...
ROBERT POWELL![]()
My mother, who grew up in Pennsylvania, literally washed my mouth out with soap once for saying, ...
JOHN PIPER My mother was a librarian, and she worked at the Black Resource Center in South Central Los Angeles ...
KARYN PARSONS![]()
I've seen my mother struggling, everything that she did to raise me and my brothers and my siste...
NATE ROBINSON It was probably my parents who inspired me most. My father was a scientist and answered my scientifi...
NANCY ROMAN My mum was a quintessential businesswoman. She taught me problem-solving. She can solve any problem.
OBIAGELI EZEKWESILI![]()
When we were arguing on my twenty-fourth birthday, she left the kitchen, came back with a pistol, an...
DENIS JOHNSON My mother used to say, 'You gotta exercise.' She would really pound on me to exercise every ...
DICK GEPHARDT![]()
My mother pretty much raised me to be a free spirit. Anything my father would say, she would tell me...
ACTION BRONSON![]()
The doctor's wife wasn't a bad woman. She was sufficiently convinced of her own importance to believ...
DIANE SETTERFIELD![]()
My mother started out by being a very good girl. She did everything that was expected of her, and it...
RUTH REICHL My mother as a young girl went out with a young SS officer and she didn't really know what was g...
MICHAEL HANEKE She encouraged any artistic impulse I had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse I had. The...
BILL GRIFFITH I inherited my weight problem from my mum. She was always on diets. If there was a box of chocolates...
LESLEY NICOL![]()
My mother was truly my saving grace, because she would take me to church with her. I would see my mo...
TYLER PERRY![]()
Jane was my wicked stepmother: she was generous, affectionate and resourceful; she salvaged my schoo...
MARTIN AMIS![]()
My mother sees things but from the distance; she does not weigh them in regard to my position, and s...
MARIE ANTOINETTE![]()
When I look back at those pictures of my mother performing - and listen to her recordings - it makes...
MARLO THOMAS![]()
Mummy was absolutely the rock in my life. It was not that I didn't love my father; he was such a...
MIRIAM MARGOLYES My mother saw a movie when she was 14 years old. I forget the name of the movie, but one of the lead...
LARK VOORHIES I was born into the Chicago branch of Negroland. My father was a doctor, a pediatrician, and for som...
MARGO JEFFERSON She said I did good and I think she was happy with what I did. She just wants me to get my higher St...
CARLY PATTERSON My mother was a waitress in a Lyons Corner House, but she married up. She was keen on bettering hers...
CHARLES DANCE![]()
[But she was closer to her mother.] I adored my mother. She was very formal and proper, but she was ...
JOAN RIVERS My father was one of 11. He was an attorney. My mother worked for the Syracuse newspaper as a column...
SIOBHAN FALLON HOGAN![]()
My parents kept the best aspects of the Asian culture, and they Americanized the family. My mother w...
ANDREA JUNG If Terri was upset about how silly she would look, her mother was completely undone. Seems she wante...
AUDREY MEADOWS I was my mother's favorite, and she'd help me with everything.
H. R. GIGER She (my mother) could still recite them (the poems) in full when she was lying helpless and nearly b...
EUDORA WELTY![]()
My mother was the greatest example to me of anyone I've ever known. She didn't have an easy ...
LAUREN BACALL![]()
My mother was kind and forgiving and would take in all the waifs and strays in our neighbourhood; we...
TOMMY HILFIGER I had a friend where it turned out that she hated my guts, all through our friendship. I thought she...
MAE WHITMAN![]()
She was my friend. Briefly, she was my lover. She was braver than I ever would have been in the mome...
JOHN SCALZI![]()
My grandmother was amazing. She completely believed in me and was very encouraging. She would go to ...
MARC JACOBS My father's from Australia and my mother was born in India, but she's actually Tibetan. I wa...
DICHEN LACHMAN I was raised by my great-great aunt. I was adopted within our family. My mother had me when she was,...
ERIC DICKERSON![]()
I always credited my mother with inspiring me to be a writer because she was such a passionate reade...
JUDITH VIORST
WESLEY CLARK
I love my mother. My mother made sure, her stubbornness - she made sure we was going to eat. She mad... TRACY MORGAN
My mother and father had so many ups and downs and stayed with each other and helped each other. My ... PATTI SMITH My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
BEVERLY CLEARY
My father died when I was young, and my mother, Ruth, went to work in an office selling theater and ... ALAN FURST
My mother didn't want me to be in fashion. She was in the fashion business, so was my brother, a... DONATELLA VERSACE
That's what my mother did. And my father was the first person she'd met who treated her kind... LYNN JOHNSTON
My mother married my father in 1956. She was twenty-eight, and he was thirty-one. She loved him with... JILL LEPORE
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 was a great believer in reincarnation — she believed she and my father had been married ...
CATHERINE BARRETT ANDREWS My mother was a great believer in reincarnation she believed she and my father had been married m...
CATHERINE BARRETT ANDREWS
My mother is my biggest role model, and she showed me how to do it right. She was very present in ou... KERRI WALSH JENNINGS
I remember when I watched 'Hellraiser' with my mother. She cried when she saw my name in the... CLIVE BARKER My parents were dishonest people. If it was my birthday, I knew my mother took me to the K-Mart and ...
VINCENT GALLO My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very you...
AARON DIEHL
My Aunt Helen was my favorite person in the whole world. She was my mom’s sister. She got straight... STEPHEN CHBOSKY My mother was a dramatic and egocentric person, and she died before my father, who died of Alzheimer...
SUE MILLER
I always feel sad for the girl that I was, because it never occurred to me that my mother might comf... GILLIAN FLYNN My mother had heard the story of Hannah and Samuel, so she prayed that if God would give her a son, ...
STANLEY HAUERWAS The difference between our family and other poor families was that my mother actively chose to be po...
SAID SAYRAFIEZADEH My mother got to read the book in print ... before she died and she was pleased with it.
KARLA REINHARD I grew up in Hollywood during WWII, and my mother was afraid that my father was going to be drafted ...
KAROLYN GRIMES
My father was a history professor, and my mother a housewife—"She married a house?
SHERRILYN KENYON
It was not easy for my mother, being a struggling actress and raising a child. We were these two sor... CHRISTINA APPLEGATE
My mother was an artist and highly strung, whereas my father was much calmer. LIZA MINNELLI My mother was a teacher. She was grooming my brother and me to be successful, accomplished people.
LAVERNE COX When my father died, my mother came back from being Mrs. Birkin to being Judy Campbell. She was a st...
JANE BIRKIN
My father who was there in the house, he wasn't at all a role model. And my mother, who was tryi... TYLER PERRY My mother was a phenomenal speaker. She used to amaze me. There was not a note in front of her. It w...
JOAN MCGEE
My mother was madly adventurous. My father was an actor - he worked with Gielgud - and my mother cam... FRANCESCA ANNIS
I don't believe in regretting - one should try to move on. My mum was good at that. She was deep... ROBERT WINSTON She didn't ask my anything, and nor did she say anything. She just stared into my eyes as i was lost...
UZAIR ALAM
I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for ... EDMUND WHITE
My mother looks at me with love and understanding, and I realize: she knows what my father did. She ... ALLY CONDIE Believe me what I did came from my heart. She asked me for help and I gave it to her. She wanted her...
JOE SPARICO My wife is a painter, musician, and fiber artist. We married in 1993, and as she worked, I found tha...
FLOYD SKLOOT It was something she didn't want me to do because she thought the rejection would ruin my self-e...
ELLEN MUTH
When my father, Ronald Reagan, was running for president in 1980, my mother, Nancy, traveled with hi... PATTI DAVIS They tape everything in the casino and save it. But, apparently, the FBI confiscated the tapes, whic...
WALDEMAR KNERLER
My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer. JAMES CAMERON My doctor decided it would be easier on me if I didn't wait. It was really easy. It only took six mi...
CATHERINE WOOD
My mom was essentially a single mother raising three boys. If anyone could have had any reason to gi... CHUCK NORRIS
When my mother left me waiting for her, [she] established in me the habit of waiting and expectation... MARILYNNE ROBINSON
My mom told me to cover up my arms ever since I was little because I was muscular. She wanted me to ... MARTINA NAVRATILOVA
For she had embodied the Great Perhaps--she had proved to me that it was worth it to leave behind my... JOHN GREEN My mother was the worst kind of stage mother. She would make me and my younger sister and brother li...
RENEE FLEMING
My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong; she had great faith in the ultimate triumph ... JOHN H. JOHNSON My father died in 1989 before I knew what I was going to do with my life. I had just graduated from ...
PAUL GIAMATTI Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small n...
JIM JARMUSCH I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES My first injury ever was a broken toe, and my mother made me run laps around the mat for the rest of...
RONDA ROUSEY
My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head... ALICE WALKER My mother encouraged it so much. She was so supportive. Even if as a kid, I would do the dumbest tri...
DAVID BLAINE
I always had short hair, and I hated my short hair. I was always mistaken for a boy, but my mom woul... DOROTHY HAMILL
My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me. VIDAL SASSOON How could I have ever thought she was what was wrong in my life? She was the only thing that made an...
ELLA FRANK My mother-in-law was with me during all four of my births and when she was sitting next to me holdin...
PATRICIA HEATON
My mother praised me when I did something good, and then the next moment, she would say, 'Don... BHUMIBOL ADULYADEJ My mother had abandoned the family, so grandmother raised me. And she was instrumental in that she t...
JEWELL PARKER RHODES My mum was no pushy parent. She would drop me off for auditions when I was in my teens at the Lyric ...
RACHEL TUCKER
I watched my mother do what she did best, and realized there would never be a way to cut myself from... SARAH DESSEN
And she was mine, she was mine, the key was in my fist, my fist was in my pocket, she was mine. VLADIMIR NABOKOV
My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my fat... STEVE JOBS I was born five days before D-Day in 1944. My father was a mechanical engineer, which was a reserved...
ROBERT POWELL
My mother, who grew up in Pennsylvania, literally washed my mouth out with soap once for saying, ... JOHN PIPER My mother was a librarian, and she worked at the Black Resource Center in South Central Los Angeles ...
KARYN PARSONS
I've seen my mother struggling, everything that she did to raise me and my brothers and my siste... NATE ROBINSON It was probably my parents who inspired me most. My father was a scientist and answered my scientifi...
NANCY ROMAN My mum was a quintessential businesswoman. She taught me problem-solving. She can solve any problem.
OBIAGELI EZEKWESILI
When we were arguing on my twenty-fourth birthday, she left the kitchen, came back with a pistol, an... DENIS JOHNSON My mother used to say, 'You gotta exercise.' She would really pound on me to exercise every ...
DICK GEPHARDT
My mother pretty much raised me to be a free spirit. Anything my father would say, she would tell me... ACTION BRONSON
The doctor's wife wasn't a bad woman. She was sufficiently convinced of her own importance to believ... DIANE SETTERFIELD
My mother started out by being a very good girl. She did everything that was expected of her, and it... RUTH REICHL My mother as a young girl went out with a young SS officer and she didn't really know what was g...
MICHAEL HANEKE She encouraged any artistic impulse I had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse I had. The...
BILL GRIFFITH I inherited my weight problem from my mum. She was always on diets. If there was a box of chocolates...
LESLEY NICOL
My mother was truly my saving grace, because she would take me to church with her. I would see my mo... TYLER PERRY
Jane was my wicked stepmother: she was generous, affectionate and resourceful; she salvaged my schoo... MARTIN AMIS
My mother sees things but from the distance; she does not weigh them in regard to my position, and s... MARIE ANTOINETTE
When I look back at those pictures of my mother performing - and listen to her recordings - it makes... MARLO THOMAS
Mummy was absolutely the rock in my life. It was not that I didn't love my father; he was such a... MIRIAM MARGOLYES My mother saw a movie when she was 14 years old. I forget the name of the movie, but one of the lead...
LARK VOORHIES I was born into the Chicago branch of Negroland. My father was a doctor, a pediatrician, and for som...
MARGO JEFFERSON She said I did good and I think she was happy with what I did. She just wants me to get my higher St...
CARLY PATTERSON My mother was a waitress in a Lyons Corner House, but she married up. She was keen on bettering hers...
CHARLES DANCE
[But she was closer to her mother.] I adored my mother. She was very formal and proper, but she was ... JOAN RIVERS My father was one of 11. He was an attorney. My mother worked for the Syracuse newspaper as a column...
SIOBHAN FALLON HOGAN
My parents kept the best aspects of the Asian culture, and they Americanized the family. My mother w... ANDREA JUNG If Terri was upset about how silly she would look, her mother was completely undone. Seems she wante...
AUDREY MEADOWS I was my mother's favorite, and she'd help me with everything.
H. R. GIGER She (my mother) could still recite them (the poems) in full when she was lying helpless and nearly b...
EUDORA WELTY
My mother was the greatest example to me of anyone I've ever known. She didn't have an easy ... LAUREN BACALL
My mother was kind and forgiving and would take in all the waifs and strays in our neighbourhood; we... TOMMY HILFIGER I had a friend where it turned out that she hated my guts, all through our friendship. I thought she...
MAE WHITMAN
She was my friend. Briefly, she was my lover. She was braver than I ever would have been in the mome... JOHN SCALZI
My grandmother was amazing. She completely believed in me and was very encouraging. She would go to ... MARC JACOBS My father's from Australia and my mother was born in India, but she's actually Tibetan. I wa...
DICHEN LACHMAN I was raised by my great-great aunt. I was adopted within our family. My mother had me when she was,...
ERIC DICKERSON
I always credited my mother with inspiring me to be a writer because she was such a passionate reade... JUDITH VIORST
I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry. 
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins... 
In California in the early Spring, There are pale yellow mornings, when the mist burns slowly into d... 
Just like any business is a living, breathing thing, an entrepreneur has to be able to adapt over ti... 
Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, missio... 
Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the per... 
In the final analysis, poverty is a condition of helplessness - of inability to cope with the condit... 
Even as my father grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, signs told him: 'No Irish Need Apply.' 
It is one thing to open the schools to all children regardless of race. It is another to train the t... 
When you do well, everybody's after you, and sometimes the motives are legitimate, and sometimes... 
Envy and jealousy are incurable diseases. 
We don't mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans. 
We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating. 
Zimbabwe will never be a colony again. 
If you want to thrive in today's economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financia... 
French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody's afraid of French fries. 
To contemplate war is to think about the most horrible of human experiences. 
The ongoing strife in Iraq, and the billions of dollars that the President is seeking to continue th... 
It was the separation of powers upon which the framers placed their hopes for the preservation of th... 
If you don't have a leg to stand on, you can't put your foot down. 
Pirate ships were built for stealth and invisibility. They filed no manifests with any agency or gov... 
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That d... 
I was first in line for the iPhone, but I'm not a fanboy of any company - I'm in favor of an... 
Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of ... 
I'm the guy who spends 15 minutes staring out of the window wondering what to have for lunch. 
Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space. 
I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the soun... 
It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope. 
I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimen... 
You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts; the ph... 
You are free to give life meaning, whatever meaning you want to give it. 
I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances. 