Alexander McCall Smith
Related I was encouraged by my mother and, to a lesser extent, by my father. CARLISLE FLOYD JACK BLACK YVETTE CLARKE My parents brought us up in a very clever way, which was that they saw what we were interested in na... KIT HARINGTON My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a diff... C. K. WILLIAMS PAULO COELHO ALEX GREY CAROLINE KENNEDY My parents always encouraged me to do what I wanted. KATE CURRAN Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make. The nice... LETA GANDOLFINI Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make, ... The ... JAMES GANDOLFINI I was lucky because my mum was a teacher and showed me how to read and write. But most importantly, ... DARREN SHAN EDMUND WHITE My parents really encouraged me. RANDY CASTILLO My mother was adorable, a great giggler. My father was very strong and could be quite frightening. ZOE WANAMAKER My parents always encouraged me to do creative stuff, to do weird stuff. JACK KILMER DONALD TRUMP SUSAN ANTON MARTHA STEWART YAYA DACOSTA She was my right hand woman and always encouraged me. She kept me on track. DAN PROVINCE DONALD TRUMP DAN STEVENS It was clear to my parents that I had the gift of voice, and they encouraged me to pursue it. RAIN PHOENIX IAN MCEWAN WINONA RYDER VENKATRAMAN RAMAKRISHNAN JOHN HUME WALE My mother was always supportive. ADAM LAMBERT My parents were no ordinary people. My mother turned Gandhian, and my father was a staunch communist... KABIR BEDI WALTER DEAN MYERS JOAN LINGARD IAN MCEWAN My parents always encouraged us to get an education and establish a profession. However, my brothers... FERID MURAD JUDITH VIORST My parents, and especially my mother, encouraged by the director of the local school which I was att... LEON JOUHAUX I was playing sports all the time, and my parents, Anne and John, encouraged me to play in grade sch... JACK RAMSAY KURT COBAIN IAN MCEWAN I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer. BILL GRIFFITH My childhood in Arlington, Va., a middle class suburb of Washington, was uneventful. Ours was a very... DAVID GROSS I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very... CHARLES KIMBROUGH As a young child, I suffered from poor health. My parents encouraged me to swim, which really improv... SUI HE My mother was an actress and my voice teacher, an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is ... LAURA BENANTI My brother always wanted to see me do well, and he always encouraged me. KATE CURRAN It was probably my parents who inspired me most. My father was a scientist and answered my scientifi... NANCY ROMAN My parents found what I was interested in and encouraged me. They didn't put me in front of a te... NASTASSJA KINSKI My parents always encouraged me and I had a good home life. We were always taught to respect things ... BETTY CUTHBERT I had a happy childhood, with many stimulations and support from my parents who, in postwar times, w... CHRISTIANE NUSSLEIN-VOLHARD My parents were Zionists born in Poland. My father was a rabbi who didn't know much about scienc... ADA YONATH RITA DOVE My father was placid and easygoing. He owned a small shoe store where I helped out on Saturdays. I t... ALAN W. LIVINGSTON By the grace of God, my parents were fantastic. We were a very normal family, and we have had a very... ABHISHEK BACHCHAN LAURA MVULA My mother is a very keen businesswoman. She came to this country from Poland in 1959. Her parents we... LAURA PUCHOWICZ My parents had a wonderful marriage, but it was a very dependent relationship. My mother was entirel... ERIKA SLEZAK I saw my father as a man, and not, as a man who was my father. RICHARD LLEWELLYN My parents were divorced when I was three, and both my father and mother moved back into the homes o... PATRICIA POLACCO My kindergarten teacher encouraged me to learn, as did my school headmaster, who gave me a grant to ... ADA YONATH The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt ve... CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG My parents always encouraged me and I had a good home life. We were always taught to respect things ... BETTY CUTHBERT T. D. JAKES As a warning to parents, I mention that my father preferred me to my brother, which was very injurio... GEORGE MULLER I didn't feel a strong bond with the parents who raised me, and I had anything but a happy child... LISA LUTZ My father also encouraged my love of nature. He urged me to become a Cub Scout, and later a Boy Scou... ED BEGLEY, JR. GREG NORMAN JACK LOWDEN IVANKA TRUMP MARA WILSON I would ask my parents something, but then go to my siblings. We were encouraged to bounce ideas off... AHMET ZAPPA As a child, I was rather active for my age. Sensing something special about me, my father told me th... SUNIL MITTAL GAIL KELLY PAIGE BUTCHER In a way I was [disappointed], but my coach encouraged me to get better the next year. ISARIA RANSON My grandfather was a faith healer and medium, and he always encouraged faith in the unseen. I believ... LUKE GOSS I was very angry. I was hurt inside. You can say like father, like son. Some of my kids were angry t... ALLIE SALLUVINIQ S. E. HINTON GREG NORMAN HANNAH KENT PETE SEEGER My road to publishing actually came through a colleague who connected me to my agent, and the facult... TEA OBREHT ROBERTO BENIGNI My father was the church organist; the village curate was my mother's brother, a former monk fro... WLADYSLAW REYMONT JON KABAT-ZINN HILL HARPER JOHN UPDIKE I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very dif... VANESSA KERRY It's amazing--my parents call everything a discussion. If I were standing across the street, firing ... JORDAN SONNENBLICK JENNA MORASCA RACHAEL LEIGH COOK My mother, a teacher, encouraged me to use my creativity as an actual way to make a living, and my f... GREG ILES I grew up in a broken home, working class. My paternal grandmother raised me and my brother; my fath... ELIZABETH RODRIGUEZ RUDY GIULIANI JHUMPA LAHIRI CHANG-RAE LEE MARTHA STEWART My mother sat a vigil for the Rosenbergs; my oxymoronic father was a Jewish racist. I had uncles who... ARTHUR SHAPIRO RUPERT MURDOCH SAINA NEHWAL
More Alexander McCall Smith
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER SMITH ALEXANDER SMITH ALEXANDER SMITH ALEXANDER SMITH ALEXANDER SMITH ALEXANDER SMITH ALEXANDER SMITH ALEXANDER SMITH ALEXANDER SMITH ALEXANDER SMITH ALEXANDER SMITH ALEXANDER SMITH ALEXANDER SMITH ALEXANDER SMITH ALEXANDER SMITH ALEXANDER SMITH ALEXANDER SMITH ALEXANDER SMITH ALEXANDER SMITH ALEXANDER SMITH ALEXANDER SMITH ALEXANDER SMITH ALEXANDER SMITH ALEXANDER SMITH ALEXANDER SMITH ALEXANDER SMITH ALEXANDER SMITH ALEXANDER SMITH ALEXANDER SMITH ALEXANDER SMITH ALEXANDER SMITH ALEXANDER SMITH ALEXANDER SMITH ALEXANDER SMITH ALEXANDER SMITH ALEXANDER SMITH ALEXANDER SMITH ALEXANDER SMITH ALEXANDER SMITH ALEXANDER SMITH ALEXANDER SMITH ALEXANDER SMITH ALEXANDER SMITH ALEXANDER SMITH ALEXANDER SMITH ALEXANDER SMITH ALEXANDER SMITH ALEXANDER SMITH ALEXANDER SMITH ALEXANDER SMITH ALEXANDER SMITH ALEXANDER SMITH ALEXANDER SMITH ALEXANDER SMITH ALEXANDER SMITH When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing to... ALEXANDER GORDON SMITH When you're locked up in here for life, you learn to welcome the little freedoms. ALEXANDER GORDON SMITH BRUCE MCCALL BRUCE MCCALL BRUCE MCCALL BRUCE MCCALL BRUCE MCCALL BRUCE MCCALL We must have seen 600 clients and agencies before we launched the paper. We talked them through it -... CAROLYN MCCALL Our integrated marketing and retail strategy aimed to put the Guardian in the hands of as many peopl... CAROLYN MCCALL [Because advertisements generally cost less in tabloids than in broadsheets, the paper has focused o... CAROLYN MCCALL Our September ABC is a very strong performance which has exceeded our expectations. CAROLYN MCCALL Two weeks ago we celebrated the highest ever sale in the Guardian's 184-year history. Seven days lat... CAROLYN MCCALL Extraordinary measures were required and I realize that not all of these steps were popular. TOM MCCALL I'm not sure I expected us to be this deep at the beginning of the season. We've got a lot of player... AMELIA MCCALL The exciting thing to me is I don't think we've peaked yet. When we get every aspect of our game wor... AMELIA MCCALL It's great to see Jennie have a game like this. We had confidence in her taking those shots. When yo... AMELIA MCCALL If it was our third year in a row in the cellar, then I might be upset. We'll keep doing this. A few... MIKE MCCALL She has absolutely just taken this to a whole new level. She deserves a lot of credit. BETH MCCALL I tried to tell them they should pick someone else. I know nothing about golf. I've never even hit a... BETH MCCALL We realized that we really had to make the Classic one of the major focuses of our fundraising. We r... BETH MCCALL The company continues to insist on concessions with no rhyme or reason. There?s been give-and-take o... DAVID MCCALL You name it, I took it. Cocaine, ecstasy, even heroin ? although I never injected... I had a job so ... DAVINA MCCALL Straight is the line of duty; Curved is the line of beauty; Follow the straight line, thou shalt see... WILLIAM MCCALL This is the worst ran department in the state of Tennessee. Swear to God it is. BOYCE MCCALL You don't want your children playing out in the yard because those heavy metals are horrible. BOYCE MCCALL Dust settles every night. We have a black car. We get up the next morning and it looks golden. BOYCE MCCALL If Hitch were a person, he'd be Mother Theresa or Gandhi or someone who treated all living creatures... MCCALL HOYLE It's not about sour grapes. It's about a fair shot. ED MCCALL The Talmud states, "Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly now, love merc... BRIDGES MCCALL To pull this together in such a short time, and for the public to respond so wholeheartedly is amazi... DAVINA MCCALL I'm afraid you have to leave us - DAVINA MCCALL They're all... looking... a little... nervous right now DAVINA MCCALL I knew it was really, really popular when my granny told me she watched it, and was addicted. When y... DAVINA MCCALL The people who go into that house are a cross section of British culture. They're not freaks. DAVINA MCCALL He's such a lovely fellow, that Lester Piggott. DAVINA MCCALL It's easy to present - out with a very, very rowdy crowd talking to the camera, DAVINA MCCALL I can't believe you are showing no remorse. DAVINA MCCALL We knew coming in that this would be a litmus test for our team. Who better to see where you're at t... JIM MCCALL Our labor agreement was one that the membership overwhelmingly ratified, and it turned out to be a p... DAVID MCCALL Our labor agreement was one that the membership overwhelmingly ratified, and it turned out to be a p... DAVID MCCALL Do not wait and hope to be discovered...make yourself so you cannot be denied! JAMIE MCCALL We've eight players involved in the panel, and that would be a big lump out of our squad, MARK MCCALL It's a chance for us to show off to these companies. DEAN MCCALL We are just geeks who want to pull the two cities together and pool our resources. DEAN MCCALL The project (we) are working on is a community based, public-need project. The people we are focusin... DEAN MCCALL See it, learn it, do it ALL. JAMIE MCCALL He was all right in high school. Girls liked him. He was cool. DON MCCALL We rode bikes together sometimes. DON MCCALL Some of the guys who come in my barber shop said they saw him and he was saying to come down to the ... DON MCCALL As a coach, you remain optimistic. You go into every battle, every contest, thinking if we do what's... ED MCCALL You're playing against a stacked deck. I think that's all we're asking for was a fair shot for our c... ED MCCALL It wasn't about kicking them out. This was not a proposal made out of sour grapes. ED MCCALL We've got mobile homes rolled into mobile homes. We've got mobile homes blown into houses. It's all ... DAVID MCCALL Our labor agreement was one that the membership overwhelmingly ratified, and it turned out to be a p... DAVID MCCALL There's an advantage to belonging to an international. One obvious thing (affecting union members) i... DAVID MCCALL There's an advantage to belonging to an international. DAVID MCCALL We've broadened people's responsibilities, and we are far more productive than we use to be. DAVID MCCALL Many of these people have never, ever had a livable wage. It will also give them benefits like paid ... DAVID MCCALL We do not want people to be here. We want them out of harm's way. FRANK MCCALL You never say never. People in Florida never saw anything like [Hurricane] Andrew. FRANK MCCALL
My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every... 
My father has been the real anchor of the family. He's the one who has always encouraged my moth... 
It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I ... 
My father was a professional artist all his life who encouraged my path as an artist. 
I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and... 
I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for ... 
My father was very energetic; my mother was very energetic. He lived to a very old age, and so did m... 
Fortunately, my parents always encouraged me to be grateful that I was healthy, and stand up and be ... 
I was a very curious person because of my parents. They encouraged me to be as curious about as many... 
My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordin... 
I've never tried to find my real parents. I'm very grateful to my mum and dad for adopting m... 
It was always the view of my parents...that hot weather encouraged loose morals among young people. 
My father is an atheist. My mother is Buddhist. They encouraged my siblings and me to take the best ... 
Unusually for an Indian man of his generation, my father, being aware of my mother's intellectua... 
Every child growing up will look to their parents, my mother and my father. My grandmother lived wit... 
I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Ni... 
I came to Harlem from West Virginia when I was three, after my mother died. My father, who was very ... 
I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shat... 
My parents were keen for me to have the education they themselves never had. They weren't able t... 
My mother was a huge, huge reader. I think I picked up very early how precious it was to write thing... 
My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be... 
It was always the view of my parents," Emily said, "that hot weather encouraged loose morals among y... 
My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learn... 
My parents encouraged us to commit to things, so if we wanted to learn an instrument, it was all the... 
My father was a Methodist and my mother was a Baptist. 
I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father 
Our parents were just brilliant parents who encouraged us to do whatever we wanted to do. 
The way my father raised me was really informative of how I think about my role as a female and how ... 
I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my paren... 
I grew up in a very strong, nuclear family. My father was a sportsman. He represented South Africa i... 
My mother was a fashion designer, and my father was a model. 
My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man. 
I owe a lot to my parents, especially by mother and my father. 
I was a very imaginative child, and my parents were very encouraging of that. My sister and I would ... 
My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in acad... 
My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very gratef... 
My father was a world-class scientist and my mother was a prolific painter. I could see that my pare... 
My father, obviously, and my mother were inspirations. My uncle, Frank Harper, he was an absolute me... 
When I was born, my parents and my mother's parents planted a dogwood tree in the side yard of t... 
Since my mother passed away, my father and I forged a bond that is so tighter than one could possibl... 
But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24. 
I was a Yankee fan in Brooklyn because my father was a Yankee fan. And my father was required to liv... 
My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father ca... 
My parents - my mother, particularly - were very focused on our succeeding. I loved my parents, and ... 
I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse ... 
Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a docto... 
Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society. 
Morality is for everybody, and this means that the views of more than one person are needed to creat... 
I would certainly never consider myself a Renaissance Man; I'm not fit to look at the dust from ... 
A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity. 
I'm a great admirer of cartoons, because I can't do cartoons.