Born Virginia Marshall but nicknamed Gig, my mother was a home economics teacher who had come all the way across the whole state of Virginia, from her home on the Eastern Shore to our little Appalachian coal town to marry my daddy, Ernest Smith, whose family had lived in these mountains for generations.
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Related My mother was actually born in Ohio but raised in West Virginia where her family had a laundry. She ... LAURENCE YEP Having come from Virginia, my home doctor was five states away. ALEX PRADO Annie Lee Smith was my mother's name. My father's name was George Washington Smith. I have t... BRUCE SMITH In 1979, when I was toddler, the Russians invaded Afghanistan, and my whole family fled to Vienna, V... AZITA GHANIZADA I had full rides to Nebraska, West Virginia, Marshall, Youngstown State and Pitt, ... But I struggle... BILLY BLANKS My whole life had split in two: Smith and not Smith. I liked the Smith parts of it so much better. SARRA MANNING My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survive... DAVE GROHL I lost my mother, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease, and we had to relocate my dad after 58 ... DOUG DAVIDSON When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies. It was her way of getting out, a... AL PACINO In 1984, I invited members of the Virginia Landmarks Commission to my home on the night of a City Co... CLARA LAMBETH I had a fifth-grade education when I decided to leave home, ... My mother gave me $9, and I took it ... LARRY MARSHALL My mother's background was Scottish. She came from an old family, some of whom lived in upper Ne... ALAN HOVHANESS When Friedan came to Smith in the fall of 1938 from a provincial town in Illinois, she was not very ... DANIEL HOROWITZ I think family is very important in West Virginia and has long been so because the mountains made tr... DAVID SELBY Why is it coming to Idaho? Because we've never had a coal-fired plant, because we have excellent air... DAVID MEAD When a mother saw a thunderstorm forming in mid-afternoon, she worried about her seven-year-old daug... UNKNOWN My mother and I were born in Mieres, Asturias, the most beautiful region you'll ever see in Euro... JOSE ANDRES My parents, Mary Agnes Smith and Rowland Smith, both had to work since their early teens, she in the... MICHAEL SMITH My grandfather was a miner for some time. Many in the Miami Valley have ties to the coal mine indust... CAROL BAUGH My family influenced me very deeply because my dad came from a musical background, from the hillbill... CHARLIE HADEN The accused rapist, Calvin Smith, had graduated from a small-town high school the previous June, whe... JON KRAKAUER My parents were born and brought up in New York City. My father was trained as an electrical enginee... DAVID LEE In some instances, even when crisis intervention has been intensive and appropriate, the mother and ... JUDITH LEWIS HERMAN I grew up in southwestern Virginia. I was born in South Carolina, but only because my parents had a ... WILLIAM GIBSON I know my father believed and my mother believed in and supported the suffrage movement, and I remem... ALICE PAUL I was going into the whole recruiting process thinking it was going to be a big, long process. But o... DOMINIQUE JOSEPH I chose the Republican Party early on in the 1950s and 1960s in Massachusetts. My father was a Repub... EDWARD BROOKE I tried to get my mother to move in with me, but she wanted to stay in her own home. When my mother ... CAROL REBELLO I tried to get my mother to move in with me, but she wanted to stay in her own home. When my mother ... CAROL S. REBELLO Allison started doing pageants because she came from a single-parent home and virtually had no money... LAVINIA MANN CUMMINGS The state of Virginia gets its primary revenues from income tax. Virginia, as a state, has very litt... HORACE COOPER My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc.... ELIZABETH GARRETT ANDERSON I grew up in a modern home, but my grandmother lived across the street in an old house that was buil... LAURA ESQUIVEL My mother was born in June and later, feeling a vacancy, chose her birth month for her middle name. ... JUDITH VIORST He was in hospital very near his home in Virginia. MARGO LEWIS I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and ... VIDAL SASSOON We were all miners in our family. My father was a miner. My mother is a miner. These are miner's... ALAN BENNETT The solid, middle-class values of hard work, responsibility, family, community, and faith my father ... CHELSEA CLINTON I came to think that nobody from England could draw American comic books, because they were clearly ... DAVE GIBBONS I grew up in a small town in West Virginia called Kenova. It's the city where the plane crashed ... BRAD D. SMITH Jefferson also founded the first intentionally secularized university in America. His vision for the... DARYL C. CORNETT Throughout the whole absurd life I'd lived, a dark wind had been rising toward me from somewhere dee... ALBERT CAMUS I believe that our interpretation of the number of students is accurate because [those opposed to th... JOSH HESS When I found out she was going, I had to do something special for her. Because music is her love, it... AMY BEHELER I came to Harlem from West Virginia when I was three, after my mother died. My father, who was very ... WALTER DEAN MYERS When I was 2, my mother took me on a trip to Monticello, Virginia, ... I can't remember the trip, bu... BARBARA FRYE I come from a magnetic field of Catholicism. I was baptised by my mother's family, who were all ... PAWEL PAWLIKOWSKI This time I fought a very good boxer in Casson, who had several fights under her belt, and I believe... MAUREEN SHEA I was born at home in rural Kentucky, in 1942, in a house that my father Howard had built. He did mo... ROBERT H. GRUBBS My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc.... ELIZABETH ANDERSON My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc.... ELIZABETH GARRETT ANDERSON She's on the stairs, ma'am, getting her breath,' said the young servant, who had not been long up fr... MARCEL PROUST It was a very weird happening. But it feels good that I had so many friends from my home town here t... JOANNIE ROCHETTE She had run away from home on several different occasions, but on this specific date her mother did ... MIKE SCHEMBRI She was the first member of her family to go to college, and her parents wanted her to stay in Balti... JOAN GRIFFITH My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a fe... RICHARD BRANSON My family has lived here for 200 years. When we came back here after the Cultural Revolution our old... BA JIN I was born in Glasgow. But my family is pretty much from a little town called Paisley, famous for it... GERARD BUTLER My grandfather lived across the garden from us, and in his attic he had a lot of radios, appliances ... MICHEL GONDRY At 1:30 in the morning, here come these crazy volunteers from Virginia, pounding on the doors. BART TUCKER [But she was closer to her mother.] I adored my mother. She was very formal and proper, but she was ... JOAN RIVERS My mother was an English teacher who decided to become a math teacher, and she used me as a guinea p... FREEMAN A. HRABOWSKI III I grew up in Florida in different cities. I was born in Mississippi. My parents moved a lot, so I mo... DIPLO While the storm clouds gather far across the sea,Let us swear allegiance to a land that's free,Let u... IRVING BERLIN Manon gazed westward across the mountains. Hope, Elide had said—hope for a better future. For a ho... SARAH J. MAAS Vita Sackville-West is one of my favorite female icons. She was a writer and a prolific gardener, bu... GWENDOLINE CHRISTIE The teacher smiled at her Sunday school group and exclaimed, "All right,
class, all those who want t... UNKNOWN When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mo... KIEFER SUTHERLAND I was in Vegas for a month, and I had to come home to take care of my cattle, DENNIS PERRY My parents being Bengali, we always had music in our house. My nani was a trained classical singer, ... SHREYA GHOSHAL I was just a bumpkin. Just a country bumpkin. I had just come to New York from Virginia. Or was it B... CASS ELLIOT I had a chance to choose a couple different places and, well, I grew up - I was a small-town kid fro... BEN ZOBRIST My grandfather was from outside of Moscow, and my grandmother, although some of her family were Fren... ALEXIS DENISOF My mother is very emotional as well, but my dad is more of the guts of the family. He was the main p... KATY PERRY All the praise I received couldn't substitute for the praise I had never received from my mother... BESS MYERSON The state of Virginia is getting the word out. Not in our state. Not to our children. CLINT VAN ZANDT Lori was part of our family, ... She was there for all of my graduations. Whenever my big brother ca... ANDRES PEREZ I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave. FREDERICK DOUGLASS These Web sites allege that the woman in the video is Miss West Virginia, but it's not. Some sites e... LAVINIA MANN CUMMINGS Tubby Smith always went out of his way to be friendly. He had me in his office. He would talk to me ... BILL DONOVAN My mother is Turtle Mountain Chippewa, and she lived on her home reservation. My father taught there... LOUISE ERDRICH I was born very far from where I'm supposed to be, and so I'm on my way home. BOB DYLAN My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art. J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER While the storm clouds gather far across the sea, Let us swear allegiance to a land that's free,... IRVING BERLIN The very name of my subject, economics, suggests economizing or maximizing. But Political Economy ha... PAUL SAMUELSON Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always w... ROBERT CORMIER I was born in a blizzard, a special out-of-season blizzard, the worst blizzard Oslo ever suffered. F... SONJA HENIE The only thing I had on my mind was tennis, and sometimes girls, ... My life was all about tennis. M... BORIS BECKER It was where my mother, Virginia Graces, spent the last year and a half of her life. They were reall... DIANE SCHMIDT I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, nois... RALPH WALDO EMERSON She was so far absorbed in this work, for it was really difficult to find how all these sounds shoul... NICOLE ARLYN I had an Aha! moment. It was October of 2001. I was speaking in my home town in Decatur. JAMES LOEWEN West Virginia is tremendously important to us. This is, for us, the center of the coal universe. DAVID GARMAN I lived in a town of 400 until I was like nine or ten. My dad coached all the sports - he was a gym ... JANUARY JONES I grew up in one of the most socially conservative neighborhoods in Ohio, and my parents were tradit... GAIL COLLINS Of course my uncle was a giant, but my dad, in particular, had the house filled with these great Dix... BILLY CRYSTAL I was the spic kid who was getting beat up by the golden guineas in the Bronx. I had to be past the ... GEORGE A. ROMERO We don't think Anna Nicole Smith will ever see any money. If Anna Nicole Smith had taken the six mil... DAVID MARGULIES I grew up at the base of a mountain in Virginia, so my comfort zone is that Appalachian area, where ... HILARIE BURTON My mother had seven children in seven years. No twins. She also had a three-legged beagle who was co... ROSEMARY MAHONEY
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