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My parents were both storytellers. They always spoke with metaphorical richness.


Alice Walker

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PAUL NURSE My parents were both entrepreneurs.
CAPRICE BOURRET My parents were very well read. They were both New Englanders, not highly educated, but they had a s...
PATTI SMITH My parents were always living from pay cheque to pay cheque. They were always struggling.
SONNY BILL WILLIAMS Both of my parents were musicians.
BRYAN WHITE My parents were both born in England.
JANE BOUCHARD They were not merely quipsters and storytellers, nor were they only song and dance entertainers. The...
STANLEY GREEN I was raised to be kind. My parents were underdogs. Immigrant Jews. I spoke with an accent. I didn&#...
SAUL RUBINEK My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active i...
KAMALA HARRIS Both my parents are first-generation success stories.
SOLANGE KNOWLES The happiest people are not always the richest, but they are always abundant with kindness and conte...
DEBASISH MRIDHA My parents both had Oxford degrees, they read important books, spoke foreign languages, drank real c...
ARABELLA WEIR There was this wonderful trick of going to the theater with my parents and sitting in the audience u...
TYNE DALY My parents were divorced when I was three, and both my father and mother moved back into the homes o...
PATRICIA POLACCO Luckily my parents were not against my ambition, they've always been very supportive. But they w...
ARCHIE PANJABI I think because both of my parents were essentially salespeople, and Italian-Americans, I always see...
BOB COLACELLO Both of my parents graduated from high school, both attended college, both have government jobs now....
CHANCE THE RAPPER My parents were both from extremely different backgrounds. My father's Italian, my mother was of Swe...
SUSAN LUCCI Both my parents were born and raised in the county. My dad - his mother and his grandparents were he...
EDDIE WILLIAMS My parents were pretty much open. They didn't restrict me. I've always been interested in special ef...
JOSHUA REALE I've always loved to learn. I've always enjoyed school, and it might have gotten me into trouble wit...
BEN CLABO I'm very careful with money - both my parents were very sensible with it and I grew up to become...
MURRAY WALKER My parents were both in the army for 20 years and then worked in government departments; but they ha...
VERONICA WEBB Storytellers don't show, they tell. I'm sticking with that.
ASHLY LORENZANA After my parents died, people were always asking me, 'Where are the dancers? I had no idea they danc...
JOAN BLEDSOE I'm always interested to meet my friends' parents, or who they were raised by. Where they gr...
EMILY BETT RICKARDS Here's the thing, say Shug. The thing I believe. God is inside you and inside everybody else. You co...
ALICE WALKER My parents met on a set in Paris. They were both hand models. And they realized if they had a child,...
BILL AUSTIN I have always been a very keen walker, though, and I often took a camera with me on my walks.
FAY GODWIN My parents were very giving. They taught us to always help other people. Maybe that's what got me in...
JOAN MANDZUK My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families - second families, perhaps I shou...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN My grandparents - both of my mother's parents - were actors, and they ran the Reading Repertory ...
KATE WINSLET My parents were, had a marriage of passion, and the passion was about their religious beliefs. They ...
PHIL JACKSON Also I just think I've been lucky enough to have great parents, and I've had good people aro...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE I spoke to a lot of parents that were crying when they called not knowing if their kids were safe. T...
DEBBIE SZPANKA My parents were both born and raised in the Depression. They instilled great values about integrity ...
MARY BARRA She was a strong, independent woman. She was intellectual, capable, industrious and hard-working. My...
BARBARA JUDD It always seemed to be a constant that my parents were political.
ALEXEI SAYLE Both principals, when I spoke to them said at no time did they feel any of their students or staff w...
BECKY MCILRAITH I will read anything by Laura Hillenbrand, Walter Isaacson, Barbara Kingsolver, John le Carre, John ...
HILLARY CLINTON My parents were self-made people, and they were a team.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN, JR. Both parents were very encouraging - especially my father. My father thought the sun rose and set wi...
GORDON GETTY My parents were big music fans, and my dad plays music, so I grew up with Madonna, Frank Zappa, the ...
MADI DIAZ Her parents were well-off. They both had good jobs, a nice place. They grabbed everybody and sent th...
CRISTINA CORREA Before we were born, a whole society of storytellers was already here. The storytellers who were her...
DON MIGUEL RUIZ They were as confused as I was, but my parents were thrilled.
JUSTIN HOLEMAN Both my parents are educators. My siblings and I always had to get good grades no matter what outsid...
YAYA DACOSTA My parents were very close in everything they did.
LINDA MAXWELL My parents had always been so careful with me, until the day they decided I needed to die.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER While some of my closest friends were jocks, it seemed that they spoke a different language with eac...
MO ROCCA Both of my parents have been actors; there were a lot of show tunes on in the car all of the time. I...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE My parents were worried about their flight. They were to leave on Monday.
JOSIE NEVITT Both my parents are chefs... I grew up in a restaurant and was always surrounded by cooks. I love fo...
MING-NA WEN My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother and t...
PAULE MARSHALL My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother and th...
PAULE MARSHALL It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Pe...
ELIZABETH GILBERT My parents had three kids right after the Second World War, and we were all sort of sickly. Then I h...
PATTI SMITH My parents have been together for 65 years. They're both really stubborn. They're not quitte...
MARY-LOUISE PARKER My parents never told me to get a real job. They always said, 'Go for it! If this is what you wa...
IMELDA MAY My parents were both actors; my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she...
SAM ROCKWELL I was raised in a little church, the Grundy Methodist Church, that was very straight-laced, but I ha...
LEE SMITH Comedy and horror are cousins; they're related. They both come from storytellers who want to spe...
JASON REITMAN Both my father and mother were survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto and the Nazi concentration camps. Apar...
NORMAN FINKELSTEIN I'm close to both my parents and very proud of what they've achieved.
JACK DAVENPORT David and I started talking about obscure theater, and A, My Name Is Alice came up. We both enjoyed ...
BILL KIRKLEY Both my parents are Catholic and staunch believers. I'm not a Catholic now, but I still carry pa...
ANDY SERKIS No matter how painful something is, you have to take it. I saw that in both my parents.
BERNARD LAGAT My own parents were touchy-feely.
BEN STILLER Growing up, my parents were my heroes, in the way they conducted their lives.
CHRIS HEMSWORTH Both of my parents are actually music teachers.
CHARLIE DAY I kind of always took it for granted the fact that my parents were Olympic medalists.
TAYLOR PHINNEY My parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that's where a lot of preac...
JOEL OSTEEN Our parents provided us with the essentials, then got on with their own lives. Which makes me realis...
RACHEL JOHNSON Both of my parents would say they were atheists, so where I inherited my connection to God I don'...
LISA BONET Because I'm a walker, natural history is my subject; I've always been obsessed with landscap...
JIM CRACE My parents were always pretty free with me. They were of the school of thought that if you really cr...
KATHRYN PRESCOTT We've asked them to bring our team to the playoffs. They are both older guys, so we expect a lot out...
FRANCOIS GIGUERE Biggie and Big Pun were the best storytellers of the '90s. I would get wrapped up in the narrati...
LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA I studied Shakespeare all through high school. Both of my parents teach English and history, so it h...
XAVIER SAMUEL Everybody in my family were great storytellers. My dad and his brothers would just go on and on; the...
IRVINE WELSH Even when my parents were together, they both had to travel and work, and it wasn't like they ha...
GEORGIA JAGGER I was a super-duper Tupac fan, and I realized later, when I became a huge Nas fan and a huge Eminem ...
J. COLE Both hospitals were wonderful. The staff was always very caring and concerned, and they went out of ...
LEILANI BOND My parents were hardworking. They made every penny stretch as far as possible. That was probably the...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Can you row?" the Sheep asked, handing her a pair of knitting-needles as she spoke.
"Yes, a lit...
LEWIS CARROLL My parents were involved in community theater in New Jersey. Instead of hiring a baby sitter, they w...
JANE KRAKOWSKI Fact is just fiction with different storytellers
ABBY SLOVIN My parents have always been cool. They even became surrogates to friends of mine who didn't have...
OLIVIA WILLIAMS How can that be if both parents were awarded custody of their children?
JUDY KATZ ..And because he was still able to move his hands - Morrie always spoke with both hands waving - he ...
MITCH ALBOM My parents were hippies.
BALTHAZAR GETTY My parents were Christian.
WYCLEF JEAN Musicians were always coming and going in our house. My parents didn't play much, but they were ...
ERIK HASSLE My parents were pretty lenient with me. But, they gave me morality while I was growing up. They taug...
MARK HOPPUS My parents were in short street, so they had to go abroad to economize.
QUEEN MARY (CONSORT OF GEORGE V) My parents divorced when I was very, very young, but they maintained an incredibly amicable relation...
NATALIE ZEA My parents weren't extremely successful financially, but they were happy people. They gave me co...
JACK WAGNER I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally boun...
LAURENCE STERNE I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally boun...
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ALICE WALKER Here's the thing, say Shug. The thing I believe. God is inside you and inside everybody else. You co...
ALICE WALKER Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved.
ALICE WALKER And I thank God let me gain understanding enough to know love can't be halted just cause some people...
ALICE WALKER A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is th...
ALICE WALKER Well how you spect to make her mind? Wives is like children. You have to let 'em know who got the up...
ALICE WALKER All my life I had to fight... But I never thought I'd have to fight in my own house... I loves Harpo...
ALICE WALKER I had assumed that the Earth, the spirit of the Earth, noticed exceptions -- those who wantonly dama...
ALICE WALKER The longer I am a writer--so long now that my writing finger is periodically numb--the better I unde...
ALICE WALKER Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.
ALICE PAUL I think fashion can always date, but I think if a woman has elegance, she doesn't date.
ALICE TEMPERLEY The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way.
ALICE WATERS When the wind blows through a wood, its mass is cut and closed by every leaf, forming a train of jit...
ALICE OSWALD After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to...
ALICE DREGER After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to...
ALICE DREGER