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JEAN SASSON
When we were arguing on my twenty-fourth birthday, she left the kitchen, came back with a pistol, an... DENIS JOHNSON
It was not easy for my mother, being a struggling actress and raising a child. We were these two sor... CHRISTINA APPLEGATE
She wanted to eat my heart and be lost in the desert with what she'd done, she wanted to fall on her... DENIS JOHNSON She, I think, always kind of exemplified leadership. She was extremely active in high school and ass...
JOAN SUTER Probably my mother. She was a very compassionate woman, and always kept me on my feet. And I think p...
ED BRADLEY
My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a ... TWYLA THARP It started with modeling. Ever since she was a baby, she would always get stopped. She was a beautif...
MICHELLE TUCKER She always amazes me. At the beginning of the game, I really thought she was struggling. I think she...
JOSH MEEKER From a child, I knew I didn't have the face I wanted to have. My mother was a baroness. She was ...
PETE BURNS
I'm destiny's child. I wasn't meant to be born: my mother bled for four months when she ... SHILPA SHETTY As a child, I was rather active for my age. Sensing something special about me, my father told me th...
SUNIL MITTAL She hoped that they would someday find a cure for cancer. She never wanted her kids, or anyone, to g...
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My daughter is one of my greatest inspirations. She's an environmentalist, she plays piano, she&... PATTI SMITH
My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension i... NATALIE MERCHANT
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DELILAH SUE BRASHEAR
My mother didn't want me to be in fashion. She was in the fashion business, so was my brother, a... DONATELLA VERSACE
My mother, who was in the Resistance in the Second World War, passed away at 96, and it was like she... JEAN-MICHEL JARRE
My mother was a big influence; she was exceedingly chic, completely dressed in a completely differen... IRIS APFEL My mother was totally different from the mothers of my friends. She would never separate from me. In...
CHANTAL AKERMAN
It's not forever', she'd said, but to my mother, it might as well have been. She had make her choice... SARAH DESSEN 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 first injury ever was a broken toe, and my mother made me run laps around the mat for the rest of...
RONDA ROUSEY Lori was part of our family, ... She was there for all of my graduations. Whenever my big brother ca...
ANDRES PEREZ My mom wasn't a fan of public school systems. She was scared of letting me go. So, she home-scho...
BRITT ROBERTSON Another tug and a yank at my chestnut curls and she snarls at me, “You are so much like her.”
A very dirty little fellow came in from playing in the yard and asked his
mother, "Who am I?" Ready... UNKNOWN
My mom has always been kind of my backbone. She keeps me strong. She is a mother, a friend. She is r... AERIN LAUDER
I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you fou... ANNE TYLER My mother is Ukrainian. She immigrated to the U.S. from Canada as a child.
BOB SCHAFFER
I went to my grandmother, your great-great-grandmother, and asked her to write a letter. She was my ... JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER
I always feel sad for the girl that I was, because it never occurred to me that my mother might comf... GILLIAN FLYNN
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.
We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother - but... when she became our chi... EMILY DICKINSON
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JEWELL PARKER RHODES Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small n...
JIM JARMUSCH 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 is a natural care giver, ... When she would do something for me, I would thank her, and sh...
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The shame and the downfall of a modern materialistic society is her inability to treasure, care for,... C. JOYBELL C.
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History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I tried to get my mother to move in with me, but she wanted to stay in her own home. When my mother ...
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In cricket, my superhero is Sachin Tendulkar. He has always been my hero and will continue to remain... VIRAT KOHLI
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HAILEE STEINFELD My mother was working on her college degree throughout my childhood, and being the youngest in the f...
VALORIE CURRY
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I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life... CHARLES BUKOWSKI My first female lover was a Jewish woman. She was butch, but not in a swaggering macho way- she coul...
LAWRENCE SCHIMEL
The one thing I always knew about my mother was that she always loved me, ... And I give her tremend... EARTHA KITT My mother is a very keen businesswoman. She came to this country from Poland in 1959. Her parents we...
LAURA PUCHOWICZ
My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man. YAYOI KUSAMA
I always credited my mother with inspiring me to be a writer because she was such a passionate reade... JUDITH VIORST
You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES The question that remains unanswered and keeps coming to the fore is ‘Are the punishment schemes f...
HENRIETTA NEWTON MARTIN LEGAL CONSULTANT She was in a very small town in Bavaria and after the war, when things settled down, she became an i...
ROBERT NOLAN It was examinations (in school) that drove my wits away, as all emergencies do. Being expected to me...
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She was crawling out from under the huge tour bus when he first caught sight of her. She was small, ... CHRISTINE FEEHAN When Dan called and asked me to prepare a eulogy for Maggie, I said yes, because there is nothing in...
SUMI MCCABE My mother, whose family was heavily rabbinic, said she wanted me to continue the family tradition in...
NORMAN LAMM She was looking for something that she really wanted to do. Something that made her happy. And this ...
KATE JACKSON Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM Then of course Keri came in and blew me away, ... She was the part. She was Felicity, which goes to ...
GREG DANIELS
I'm really close to my mother. She sacrificed a lot for me and my sister. She gave up her career... RANBIR KAPOOR
Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
My parents kept the best aspects of the Asian culture, and they Americanized the family. My mother w... ANDREA JUNG When I was a kid, my daily routine was playing make-believe, and I kind of created these stories thr...
NINA ARIANDA A girl came up to me in a bar and said she wanted to be my apple pie. I wish I'd said something cool...
JASON BIGGS
I dream of big things. I work for the small things. If you're going to dream, you might as well drea... KEVIN COSTNER From the Kindle Book Reflections in the Mirror of Life:
“In a slum somewhere in India
As...
THE PROPHET OF LIFE Mom was always doing something for somebody. She came from a Czech background, one that made her a d...
EUGENE CERNAN Mom was always doing something for somebody. She came from a Czech background, one that made her a d...
GENE CERNAN She accepted the travel and living in hotels for 11 months, ... With a child, she could have said sh...
HICHAM EL GUERROUJ I was a sickly child and couldn't digest food. Preparing food for me was a challenge for my mother, ...
KARLA LOPEZ
I watched my mother do what she did best, and realized there would never be a way to cut myself from... SARAH DESSEN My mother was a teacher, and when she wanted to show me art and literature and science, she'd ta...
DAVID BLAINE
My dad was an absentee dad, so it was always important to me that I was part of my daughter's li... SAMUEL L. JACKSON I kind of got on Katie. The whole thing was mental, but it all came together for her this weekend. T...
LISA SCHRIVER
She was always looking for guarantees in a world of none. CRYSTAL WOODS Education was something my parents always put a lot of emphasis on. It was naturally in me, and my s...
IMRAN AMED She wanted me to do it for the (Presidential) scholarship. (The second try) was kind of to appease h...
KEVIN TERRY
I always appreciated the magnitude of my mother's imagination. She always saw beauty in what was... BLAKE LIVELY
I always wanted a child. Being a mother is the central thing in my life. CAROL ANN DUFFY Music was always part of my life - my mother says I came out singing. I wanted to be Gene Kelly - or...
IMELDA MAY I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her gr...
SAM RAIMI She spoke my name for the first time in a year. She ... sort of came out of the darkness for a few m...
MICKEY HART
Each day she removes a small portion of the unwanted things in people’s lives, though all of it, s... JHUMPA LAHIRI
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
I heard stories from my mother's mother who was an American Indian. She was spiritual, although ... TINA TURNER
The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it. 
Clark Gable was the first to have called me a mermaid. 
Three events. Three gold medals. I was news, big news, in the sports world. 
If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personalit... 
How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest ... 
Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods. 
Conflict is the beginning of consciousness. 