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My father and I are friends and my mother and I don't speak. It's a bummer. I miss her.
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GARRY SHANDLING It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
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My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My...
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I think I am a product of my mother's sensibilities and my mother's values. There has been l...
CHER![]()
Before I was married to Martin and became a King, I was a proud Scott, shaped by my mother's dis...
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At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I'm Church of England Protestant. My fath...
MICHAEL CAINE When my mother and father fell in love, my mother's family would never accept it.
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I suppose you could say my father's world was Thomas Hardy and my mother's D.H. Lawrence.
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My family was musical on both sides. My father's family had a famous flautist and a classical pi...
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At 9 years old, I moved in with my father because my mother could no longer care for me. Looking bac...
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When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my moth...
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I lost my mother when I was 7 and they put her in a mental hospital. My brother and I watched her be...
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My mother was keen that I complete my graduation and never ever wanted me to be in the movies, as my...
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My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family.
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Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my gran...
CALEB LANDRY JONES I used to take my mother to Yosemite. When I turned 14, I got my driver's license, and that'...
DAVE BRUBECK I had long been resistant to doing a documentary about my mother for personal reasons. And I thought...
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DARIO ARGENTO My mother, grandmother and older sister all cooked, so it was hard to get into the kitchen. So I hav...
CHERYL LADD I was a complete brat but was an angel with my mother. I used to be perfectly behaved, and my mother...
KAJOL I spent a lot of time in the school psychologist's office. I didn't apply myself. My mother ...
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There've been a few mother-daughter movies that are somewhat realistic. But the mother-son movie...
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I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched ...
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There is no substitute for kindness in the home. This lesson I learned from my father. He always lis...
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Even losing my mother, I wanted my mother. That's who you want instinctually when you're hav...
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When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale Coll...
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SUGAR RAY LEONARD I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ...
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My mother insisted that I pursue music. I rented out my father's musical equipment and earned so...
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My mother and I will continue on some level that I haven't determined yet. I think my mother'...
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If I walked into the kitchen without washing my hands as a kid, I'd hear a loud 'A-hem!'...
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That's what my mother did. And my father was the first person she'd met who treated her kind...
LYNN JOHNSTON I've had a lot of mother figures. But by the time my mom came into my life, it wasn't a '...
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ADA YONATH I do have a nickname with my family; I'm called Snappy, because I do get to be a bit snippy at t...
ELIZA COUPE![]()
I always appreciated the magnitude of my mother's imagination. She always saw beauty in what was...
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My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's ...
ICE T Here's my advice to my brown friends: The next time you're on an airplane in the U.S., just ...
MAZ JOBRANI My mother was a beauty queen in her hey day. That's where I learnt a little about makeup and hai...
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I'm used to very strong women because my mother was particularly strong, and my father was away ...
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I'll never forget the time my mother showed up with her best friend and two daughters, and all f...
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MONA SIMPSON I used to sneak into my mother's closet and try to wear her lingerie to school.
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When I was 13 I asked my mother if it was possible for this to end - I'd had enough of it. And t...
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My mother was truly my saving grace, because she would take me to church with her. I would see my mo...
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JULIAN FELLOWES
My father and I are friends and my mother and I don't speak. It's a bummer. I miss her. JENNIFER ANISTON It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father u...
JACK STRAW
I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse ... RUPERT MURDOCH
My first memory in the world is my gym teacher ripping my mother's necklace off her neck and thr... MIKE NICHOLS I became fascinated with the concept of speak no, see no, hear no evil. And - and the actual depicti...
MACKENZIE PHILLIPS Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON I'm part Spanish. My paternal grandfather came from Spain via Singapore to Manila. On my mother&...
JESSICA HAGEDORN My number one inspiration was my mother. She worked two jobs and had breakfast and dinner prepared. ...
CHRISTOPHER JUDGE I was my mother's favorite, and she'd help me with everything.
H. R. GIGER
My mother was murdered by my step-father, my brother's father, who was also named Joel, twenty-f... NATASHA TRETHEWEY
I love my mother. My mother made sure, her stubbornness - she made sure we was going to eat. She mad... TRACY MORGAN
I don't know why men are so fascinated with television and I think it has something to do with -... GARRY SHANDLING It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON
My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My... CHUCK D The piece I most love wearing is Mother's gold brocade cocktail dress with matching jacket... It...
MARGO JEFFERSON
He's just like my father that way-my father just adored my mother and let her do whatever she wa... JUNE CARTER CASH
I've changed in my sympathies since I've become a mother myself. In high school I went throu... SARAH DESSEN
In 1965, I went to what was called the worst Bihar famine in India, and I saw starvation, death, peo... BUNKER ROY My mother had a sewing machine. I was never allowed to use it, but I was so fascinated by this littl...
PHILIP TREACY I realized that my mother was at the center of my work, because now that my mother is no longer ther...
CHANTAL AKERMAN
I think I am a product of my mother's sensibilities and my mother's values. There has been l... CHER
Before I was married to Martin and became a King, I was a proud Scott, shaped by my mother's dis... CORETTA SCOTT KING
My mother wouldn't allow me to speak slang when I was growing up. But when I got outside, around... QUEEN LATIFAH
I think that every Saturday, we ought to say, 'My father's a Jew, my mother was a Jew, and I... ED KOCH Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill
ROLAND SMITH
I started on the clarinet. I was going to a music school - my mother took me - and the guy said, ... CHRISTOPHER GUEST
I love celebrating Mother's Day. Since I was a kid, it was a special day to tell my mother and g... KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND My father's from Australia and my mother was born in India, but she's actually Tibetan. I wa...
DICHEN LACHMAN It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON I am from a woman's family. My great-grandmother had three daughters and a son. My grandmother h...
CHANTAL AKERMAN My mother is not a CIA agent, but she's an Italian mother, and she'd do anything for her son...
ADRIANO GIANNINI Growing up with three brothers and three sisters, I was the storyteller of the family... what my mot...
JAMES ROLLINS
At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I'm Church of England Protestant. My fath... MICHAEL CAINE When my mother and father fell in love, my mother's family would never accept it.
EUZHAN PALCY
I suppose you could say my father's world was Thomas Hardy and my mother's D.H. Lawrence. SEAMUS HEANEY
My family was musical on both sides. My father's family had a famous flautist and a classical pi... GLORIA ESTEFAN
My mom was a professional fitness competitor, so I go into the gym with her. I train with my dad and... BOOBOO STEWART
At 9 years old, I moved in with my father because my mother could no longer care for me. Looking bac... DWYANE WADE My mother's a secretary; my father's an electrician in a mining company.
EVA HERZIGOVA I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my moth... MR. T
I lost my mother when I was 7 and they put her in a mental hospital. My brother and I watched her be... QUINCY JONES
My mother was keen that I complete my graduation and never ever wanted me to be in the movies, as my... KARAN JOHAR
I always was a weird child. My mother told me the story that, in kindergarten, I would come home and... JOHN WATERS I'd seen all the great entertainers by the time I was 14 or 15. My mother was artistic. My fathe...
LAINIE KAZAN I have three older brothers, and we all have different combinations of parents. My father was the be...
INARA GEORGE
My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family. SIMON VAN DER MEER
Until I was six years old we lived in the projects, then my two brothers and three sisters and I mov... DAVID JOHANSEN
My mother pretty much raised me to be a free spirit. Anything my father would say, she would tell me... ACTION BRONSON
My favorite song as a boy was definitely 'Downtown' recorded by Petula Clark. I still love i... BRYAN BATT My mother was born in your state, Mr. Walter, and my mother was a Quaker, and my ancestors in the ti...
PAUL ROBESON
I grew up Catholic. My mother is from El Salvador, so my family on her side is Roman Catholic. My fa... CHRISTY TURLINGTON
My mother and grandmother had me in church, and I was the kid that played in church. But pastor was ... JOE GIBBS
My mother and father had so many ups and downs and stayed with each other and helped each other. My ... PATTI SMITH
Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my gran... CALEB LANDRY JONES I used to take my mother to Yosemite. When I turned 14, I got my driver's license, and that'...
DAVE BRUBECK I had long been resistant to doing a documentary about my mother for personal reasons. And I thought...
RORY KENNEDY My mother was a famous photographer for actresses, including Sophia Loren, Gina Lollobrigida, and so...
DARIO ARGENTO My mother, grandmother and older sister all cooked, so it was hard to get into the kitchen. So I hav...
CHERYL LADD I was a complete brat but was an angel with my mother. I used to be perfectly behaved, and my mother...
KAJOL I spent a lot of time in the school psychologist's office. I didn't apply myself. My mother ...
ROGER GOODELL
There've been a few mother-daughter movies that are somewhat realistic. But the mother-son movie... ALBERT BROOKS
I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched ... T. BOONE PICKENS
There's a book called 'The Shack' - it had a lot to do with me coming full circle, meeti... RODNEY ATKINS
With the counseling of my family doctor, my mother ended up turning to Weight Watchers and their chi... GINNIFER GOODWIN My mother was always in those films where it's the end of the world and a meteor's about to ...
PAULA YATES I went to work in a woman's home in Los Angeles as a mother's helper. I worked there about t...
GEORGIA HOLT
There is no substitute for kindness in the home. This lesson I learned from my father. He always lis... JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN
Even losing my mother, I wanted my mother. That's who you want instinctually when you're hav... TIG NOTARO
When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale Coll... ANGELA BASSETT
My father's a deacon, my mother's a choir director, so I grew up in the church and singing i... KEKE PALMER
I never met a person as determined as my mother. From working hard for six kids to just trying to ke... SUGAR RAY LEONARD I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ...
MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX Maybe it's because my mother divorced and my grandmother divorced, so maybe I'm frightened d...
JULIETTE BINOCHE I'm from a family with five kids in it, and my father almost became a Catholic priest. And my mo...
CARRIE COON
My mother insisted that I pursue music. I rented out my father's musical equipment and earned so... A. R. RAHMAN
My mother and I will continue on some level that I haven't determined yet. I think my mother'... JAMES ELLROY My father... very generous, very philanthropic, very charitable man. My siblings and I and my mother...
STEVE TISCH
If I walked into the kitchen without washing my hands as a kid, I'd hear a loud 'A-hem!'... MAYA ANGELOU There's no more important bonding thing than a mother doing the daughter's hair. We sit at o...
T'KEYAH CRYSTAL KEYMAH
That's what my mother did. And my father was the first person she'd met who treated her kind... LYNN JOHNSTON I've had a lot of mother figures. But by the time my mom came into my life, it wasn't a '...
PARIS-MICHAEL KATHERINE JACKSON My parents were Zionists born in Poland. My father was a rabbi who didn't know much about scienc...
ADA YONATH I do have a nickname with my family; I'm called Snappy, because I do get to be a bit snippy at t...
ELIZA COUPE
I always appreciated the magnitude of my mother's imagination. She always saw beauty in what was... BLAKE LIVELY
My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's ... ICE T Here's my advice to my brown friends: The next time you're on an airplane in the U.S., just ...
MAZ JOBRANI My mother was a beauty queen in her hey day. That's where I learnt a little about makeup and hai...
KYLIE BAX
I'm used to very strong women because my mother was particularly strong, and my father was away ... RIDLEY SCOTT My mother had Alzheimer's, and it's a desperately, desperately cruel thing to witness.
GEMMA JONES My parents were divorced when I was three, and both my father and mother moved back into the homes o...
PATRICIA POLACCO
I'll never forget the time my mother showed up with her best friend and two daughters, and all f... BLAKE LIVELY 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 eventually made the reunion with my father that I'd used as a default daydream throughout my c...
MONA SIMPSON I used to sneak into my mother's closet and try to wear her lingerie to school.
VANITY
When I was 13 I asked my mother if it was possible for this to end - I'd had enough of it. And t... LINDA BLAIR
My mother was truly my saving grace, because she would take me to church with her. I would see my mo... TYLER PERRY
I feel so honored to be able to say "What I do is for my son" without that being an excuse to do stu... C. JOYBELL C.
It is only from the belief of the goodness and wisdom of a supreme being, that our calamities can be... 
Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often find it extremely difficu... 
It is only from the belief of the goodness and wisdom of a supreme being, that our calamities can b... 
Mankind, in the gross, is a gaping monster, that loves to be deceived, and has seldom been disappoin... 
Love makes the world go round? Not at all. Whiskey makes it go round twice as fast. 