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My father was a certain kind of man - I saw how he treated my mother and his family and how he treat... SIDNEY POITIER
I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse ... RUPERT MURDOCH My parents came from different backgrounds. My father's was grander than my mother's, so my ...
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I love God, Jesus Christ, my three children, mother, father, brother, sisters, family in general, my... ANA MONNAR
I think I am a product of my mother's sensibilities and my mother's values. There has been l... CHER My mother's a secretary; my father's an electrician in a mining company.
EVA HERZIGOVA
My father has been the real anchor of the family. He's the one who has always encouraged my moth... YVETTE CLARKE
You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but i... LYNN JOHNSTON
My mother's family raised grains and crops. My father's grew sugarcane and mangos. So I knew... MARGOT ROBBIE My mother's Mohawk and my father is Scottish/German from Nova Scotia.
KANIEHTIIO HORN My sincere thanks to friends and family, especially my mother, father, brother, and Mandy, who conti...
JONATHAN BALL If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle clas...
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My mother pretty much raised me to be a free spirit. Anything my father would say, she would tell me... ACTION BRONSON There were nine children in my father's family and eight in my mother's. My grandparents did...
CHERYL LADD
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've always loved writing, and my heritage has been interesting, growing up in a bi-cultural fam...
MYLENE DINH-ROBIC The family of my mother had a lot of money; the family of my father, nothing.
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DOUG DAVIDSON My mother is Italian and my dad's Irish. In my family, we're expressive. Nobody holds back.
KATE WALSH My father and my mother separated when I was two.
CARLA GUGINO
Music is my mother and my father; it is my work and my rest...my blood...my compass...my love... JEFF BUCKLEY
I suppose you could say my father's world was Thomas Hardy and my mother's D.H. Lawrence. SEAMUS HEANEY My mother was born in your state, Mr. Walter, and my mother was a Quaker, and my ancestors in the ti...
PAUL ROBESON My mother Diana was a true-blue aristocrat, descended from William the Conqueror and listed in '...
CELIA IMRIE I used to steal my father's cologne, and it was so strong. My mother would always know when I di...
TREY SONGZ
My love of fashion stemmed from my mother's passion for it. FRANCISCO COSTA
My father has acted in over 700 films. My mother acted in one film, 'Kismat with Mithun Chakrabo... SHRADDHA KAPOOR
I grew up Catholic. My mother is from El Salvador, so my family on her side is Roman Catholic. My fa... CHRISTY TURLINGTON
I love my mother. My mother made sure, her stubbornness - she made sure we was going to eat. She mad... TRACY MORGAN
My father and I are friends and my mother and I don't speak. It's a bummer. I miss her. JENNIFER ANISTON I'm from a family with five kids in it, and my father almost became a Catholic priest. And my mo...
CARRIE COON Although I come from a family who are Muslim - my mother is Egyptian, my father is Palestinian - my ...
YASMINE AL MASRI When my mother died, and when my father died, it's big. Our parents are giants; they're tita...
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III I love soccer. My father is from Argentina and my mother is from El Salvador. I grew up watching Arg...
J. D. PARDO My childhood name that my father gave me, my mother, my grandmother, grandfather, family and friends...
T.I. I was born in Nizhny Novgorod to a very poor family and unfortunately my father and mother separated...
NATALIA VODIANOVA My father's from Australia and my mother was born in India, but she's actually Tibetan. I wa...
DICHEN LACHMAN I love children and I love family and I love that interaction. Because I had a really close relation...
ALICIA KEYS
Original Poems for Infant Minds My MotherWho ran to help me when I fell,
And would some prett...
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My mother and father had so many ups and downs and stayed with each other and helped each other. My ... PATTI SMITH
When I asked my mother why crowds shouted my name and said 'We love you,' she would dust it ... SHIRLEY TEMPLE I was 12 years old when I said goodbye to my family and relatives. I never saw my parents again. I l...
ANNE FOX
My doctor told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother. WILMA RUDOLPH My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, ...
MACKENZIE PHILLIPS
The fact of leaving one's country, one's family, one's roots, can be painful. My father ... NAJAT VALLAUD-BELKACEM
My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family's subscription to the newspaper I was working on... CHARLES KURALT I would have been willing to do anything for my father. I would have moved in with my father to look...
BRUCE PALTROW My mother's side of the family, they're from Montserrat in the Leeward Islands.
BILLY DEE WILLIAMS
My parents were divorced when I was young. I was really brought up by my mother's side of the fa... BILL DE BLASIO
Fortunately for me, my mother loved travel. Our first non-beach family trip abroad - to England, Fra... ANDREW SOLOMON
My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my fat... STEVE JOBS My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
BEVERLY CLEARY I was scared when I lost my mother, my father, my brother, my sister.
ISRAEL KAMAKAWIWO'OLE
I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I... SALMAN RUSHDIE
I understood that my family was rich in love but would probably never own the land my father, John, ... JOHN HENRIK CLARKE Mike came up the driveway screaming, 'My mother and father are dead, my mother and father are dead.'...
DREW OUTHOUSE
I came from a poor family. My father was from Glasgow, Scotland; my mother's brothers were brake... MICKEY ROONEY My mother used to pitch to me and my father would shag balls. If I hit one up the middle close to my...
EDDIE MATHEWS
My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys ... MICHELLE OBAMA
My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's ... ICE T Growing up, my mother and grandparents often talked about our family's Native American heritage....
ELIZABETH WARREN
What I wanted to do was to earn enough money to pay for my mother's house. When my mother passed... DOROTHEA BENTON FRANK
I know my father believed and my mother believed in and supported the suffrage movement, and I remem... ALICE PAUL
My father is Jewish, and I look exactly like him... My mother is British, but she's of French ex... JOAN COLLINS
I learned early on that family, as far as my mother and father, were not an option. DREW BARRYMORE
I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's ... NAOMI CAMPBELL Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it well?...
ANN TAYLOR
Who ran to help me when I fell,
And would some pretty story tell,
Or kiss the place to make it... ANNE TAYLOR (MRS. GILBERT) When my father died, my mother was still alive. And I think when your second parent dies, there is t...
ROZ CHAST
But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24. RACHAEL LEIGH COOK
My mother's rules had to do with feminine deportment, so I never played hard enough to break a t... BHARATI MUKHERJEE
My mother was madly adventurous. My father was an actor - he worked with Gielgud - and my mother cam... FRANCESCA ANNIS
My mother-in-law fell down a wishing well. I was amazed; I never knew they worked. LES DAWSON I have a dream of re-creating the fantastic family I grew up in with my brother and my parents. I am...
CATERINA MURINO Brando's a family friend. His mother gave my father a shot to be in a play at the Omaha Communit...
PETER FONDA
My mother's family were full-on Irish Catholics - faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly co... GERALDINE BROOKS
My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My... CHUCK D
My father is Swedish and my mother is French. EVA GREEN
Even losing my mother, I wanted my mother. That's who you want instinctually when you're hav... TIG NOTARO Fortunately, I grew up in a family that was grounded. My mother and father knew how to guide my care...
LARENZ TATE
My mother was murdered by my step-father, my brother's father, who was also named Joel, twenty-f... NATASHA TRETHEWEY As I was growing up, you know, I'm a white Jewish American born to Holocaust parents. My father ...
EUGENE JARECKI
My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats... YANCY BUTLER My mother's family is Christian: her father was a Baptist lay preacher, and her brother, in a le...
SHEREEN EL FEKI My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mothe...
JACK WAGNER
My father's a deacon, my mother's a choir director, so I grew up in the church and singing i... KEKE PALMER I'm part Spanish. My paternal grandfather came from Spain via Singapore to Manila. On my mother&...
JESSICA HAGEDORN My father, Cecil Banks Mullis, and mother, formerly Bernice Alberta Barker, grew up in rural North C...
KARY MULLIS Why, on my mother's birthday, am I thinking about 'Father Knows Best?' At our house, mot...
TOM SHALES
Before I was married to Martin and became a King, I was a proud Scott, shaped by my mother's dis... CORETTA SCOTT KING What is interesting about me isn't that I am a mother, it is who I am. I love my family, but if ...
LAETITIA CASTA Within 18 months of my parents' marriage in 1900, my mother fell in love with an Englishman who ...
PAUL MELLON Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been cau...
AGNES SMEDLEY I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sci...
JACOB EPSTEIN
I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched ... T. BOONE PICKENS My father was never around, and my mother used to worry that the kids won't grow up to be connec...
RAM KAPOOR My mother is French, my father is Texan.
MIREILLE ENOS My parents had a wonderful marriage, but it was a very dependent relationship. My mother was entirel...
ERIKA SLEZAK
