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My mother taught me to drive using the 'Detroit Method,' where speed limits and traffic ligh...
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The Americans are violently oral. That's why in America the mother is all-important and the father h...
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I stand here today - in the shadow of my parents' and grandparents' accomplishments - becaus...
DAVID IGE The dynamics are pretty much the same among me and my friends as they were when I was 18 years old.
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EULANE MELLON I was 12 years old when I said goodbye to my family and relatives. I never saw my parents again. I l...
ANNE FOX
I remembered some people who lived across the street from our home as we were being taken away. When... GEORGE TAKEI I grew up with my grandparents around. I think that's important for a child. If for no other rea...
AL ROKER
I talk to my kids about my mother's energy and how she would have loved them. I talk about how k... LEMON ANDERSEN
My grandparents - both of my mother's parents - were actors, and they ran the Reading Repertory ... KATE WINSLET Parents raise hell and refuse to send their kids to classrooms infested with asbestos. Yet every day...
JOSEPH CALIFANO My parents were divorced when I was three, and both my father and mother moved back into the homes o...
PATRICIA POLACCO Both my parents were born and raised in the county. My dad - his mother and his grandparents were he...
EDDIE WILLIAMS
If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. EMILY DICKINSON
My parents were, had a marriage of passion, and the passion was about their religious beliefs. They ... PHIL JACKSON
My parents were both born and raised in the Depression. They instilled great values about integrity ... MARY BARRA
Of course, fairy tales are transmissible. You can catch them, or be infected by them. They are curre... NEIL GAIMAN
While my parents never had the time or money to secure university education themselves, they were ad... SHELDON LEE GLASHOW
My parents were born and brought up in New York City. My father was trained as an electrical enginee... DAVID LEE Those farmers were working in their paddy fields when they were taken and shot.
BRIGADIER SAMARASINGHE Those farmers were working in their paddy fields when they were taken and shot.
BRIGADIER PRASAD SAMARASINGHE
Education is my next big thing. When music and art were taken out of the schools, I went berserk! BETTE MIDLER
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... LAURENCE STERNE
In the 1950s and 1960s, many parents were generally standoffish with their male children and acted a... EZEKIEL EMANUEL
My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for moder... PATRICIA BRIGGS
My first memories of religion were being taken to Episcopal church. My father was Catholic, but my m... MARILYN MANSON
I have sometimes questioned the advice and direction I received from my parents and grandparents, bu... JAMES E. FAUST There were nine children in my father's family and eight in my mother's. My grandparents did...
CHERYL LADD We were taken to a foster home and my parents were never prosecuted for what they did to us, ... And...
ANGELA SHELTON [Parents] think their kids can dress themselves and they can feed themselves and they can let themse...
LINDA PERLSTEIN My dad's paternal grandparents were musically inclined. And I remember as a little kid going to ...
AARON LAZAR My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. She said little, especially when...
AGNES SMEDLEY I remember how important and loved it made me feel when I was a youth to be taken fishing and huntin...
BRUCE COMPTON
I think a lot of writers, male and female, write as if their parents were killed in a car accident w... MINDY KALING
People my age, we would hear from our parents and grandparents who were raised in Detroit about how ... DAN GILBERT My parents were strict and taught me the proper fundamentals that I would use in my life. They taugh...
BILLY CASPER
When my sisters and I were kids going to DC public schools, school supplies were not the big deal th... ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON
I remember a conversation with my parents about who the people on the TV were, and learning they wer... DAVID TENNANT
My parents always taught me never to take anything for granted because it can be taken away from you... LANCE GROSS My mother and father taught me about black excellence and dynasty. They experienced racism personall...
LIZZO Hearing the human spirit stories of her experience was striking. She treated so many victims and the...
BETTY ANN DUFFY My parents were pretty lenient with me. But, they gave me morality while I was growing up. They taug...
MARK HOPPUS
My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem ... ORSON WELLES
I remember as a little kid, I would always feel comfortable if the light in the crack of my parents&... JAMES GRAY
The bits I most remember about my school days are those that took place outside the classroom, as we... ALAN BENNETT My parents were born in Norfolk and spent their early years working in the big houses of that rural ...
PAUL NURSE I grew up in Brooklyn, and my parents were Holocaust survivors, so they never taught me anything abo...
LOUIE SCHWARTZBERG My parents were no ordinary people. My mother turned Gandhian, and my father was a staunch communist...
KABIR BEDI Teenagers talk about the idea of having each other's 'full attention.' They grew up in a...
SHERRY TURKLE
My father and my mother were both teachers. They inculcated to us the importance of studies. HUGO CHAVEZ I thank God for schools that are serious about the gospel of Jesus Christ. They are vital to perpetu...
JAMES C. DOBSON
I have been grateful for the influence of my grandmother and my grandfather in my life. I remember m... JAMES E. FAUST
Back in the days when men were hunters and chest beaters and women spent their whole lives worrying ... ERICA JONG
My mother's sister married a man from Barbados, and my cousins were raised in Barbados. So we tr... MATISYAHU My parents split up when I was about 2. I realize more and more how much I'm like my father. My ...
JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE Father and Ivy used to go off on their excursions, never knowing that I was relieved when they were ...
SUZANNE PALMIERI
To the generations of Americans raised since World War 2, the identities of criminals such as Charle... BRYAN BURROUGH My parents were Zionists born in Poland. My father was a rabbi who didn't know much about scienc...
ADA YONATH Stories can encourage us and embolden us to face ourselves and to feel. Stories can make us feel les...
TIM O'BRIEN As much pains were taken to make me idle as were ever taken to make me studious.
WILLIAM WILBERFORCE I'm always thinking about songs and how I can sing a song that would resonate with my voice, my ...
JOHNNY MATHIS
I have so many peers who say, 'I need to get away from my parents,' because even though they... DOVE CAMERON All three suspects were taken to Addington Hospital where they were treated for their injuries and r...
ANDRE BOTHA
I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children stories. They were better than t... NEIL GAIMAN
The real names of our people were destroyed during slavery. The last name of my forefathers was take... MALCOLM X They'd gone to a friend's wedding in Germany, a couple years ago, and also visited Paris. They loved...
LEE COX When I was growing up, we never had much money. My parents were divorced young, but I was always sur...
PATRICIA POLACCO Mother's father and brothers all took great interest in pugilism, and they knew the game well fr...
W. H. DAVIES
My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every... JACK BLACK You wouldn't go to a hospital, you wouldn't go to a law firm where the doctors and lawyers w...
DAVID BOIES
A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but ... ALBERT EINSTEIN
My father was very energetic; my mother was very energetic. He lived to a very old age, and so did m... DONALD TRUMP
When I went to college, as much as my parents emphasized academic achievement, they emphasized marri... SHERYL SANDBERG
The Supreme Court has insulted you over and over again, Lord. They've taken your Bible away from... PAT ROBERTSON
Doing what you love, with those you love, is an adventurous type of success. The kind that can not b... TOM ALTHOUSE
People who were gay were pitied and ridiculed by my parents - they had no modern sense of people bei... MIRIAM MARGOLYES From my father I heard only these words: "But you were born for such a day as this." He closed the b...
NADIA BOLZ-WEBER
My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they h... AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.... EMILY DICKINSON My parents lived in a poor rural community on the Eastern Shore, and schools were still segregated. ...
BRYAN STEVENSON
I began photographing in 1946. Before that, I was a painter and drawer, with my mother and father... HAROLD FEINSTEIN 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 and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriag...
PATRICK WHITE The kids knew from the beginning that we had a chance and they were determined. We had people who ha...
DREW YOAKUM We concluded that it's highly unlikely that middle ear disease had any impact on children's later de...
JACK PARADISE So much of our work in Iraq has dealt with talking to families of people taken prisoner. Our work is...
CLIFF KINDY My parents were worried about their flight. They were to leave on Monday.
JOSIE NEVITT They had minor injuries and were taken to Onslow Memorial Hospital as a precaution,
TODD WILLIAMS I was not a classic mother. But my kids were never palmed off to boarding school. So, I didn't bake ...
RAQUEL WELCH I bet that if [molecular biologists] come to use the genes responsible for cranial morphology, our r...
WALTER NEVES They placed us in a new division this year. We haven't seen any of the schools in our division. But ...
JAY CORBY
My mother taught me to drive using the 'Detroit Method,' where speed limits and traffic ligh... W. BRUCE CAMERON Do not try to be pretty. You weren’t meant to be pretty; you were meant to burn down the earth and...
SUZANNE RIVARD
As a former teacher and someone who has devoted her entire career to children and public schools, I ... RANDI WEINGARTEN
When I was seven or eight years old, I began to read the science-fiction magazines that were brought... RAY BRADBURY
I wanted to write about the idea of a multi-generational household because Americans don't live like... DAN SAVAGE
The Americans are violently oral. That's why in America the mother is all-important and the father h... W. H. AUDEN The Americans are violently oral. That's why in America the mother is all-important and the father h...
WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN
My parents were just as smart as I am, just as hard working if not harder; I think my father and gra... MARCO RUBIO Mom and Dad are our first love by nature, our pride by law and our strength in weakness. They may no...
ETC WANYANWU
I stand here today - in the shadow of my parents' and grandparents' accomplishments - becaus... DAVID IGE The dynamics are pretty much the same among me and my friends as they were when I was 18 years old.
DANNY MCBRIDE
When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion. 
Immigration in America is a highly polarized issue and there are passionate views on both sides. 
Progress requires setbacks; the only sure way to avoid failure is not to try. 
Education has for its object the formation of character. To curb restive propensities, to awaken dor... 
Know your lines and don't bump into the furniture. 
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. 
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people. 
Programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using Roman numerals. 
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people. 
However, in recent years our nation has seen a sizable influx of illegal immigration that at best hi... 
I've been learning how to shoot a gun and properly handcuff people so that on the day I need to ... 
Unless you paddle for the wave, you'll never know if you could catch it. But once you do... Ride... 
I love everything from country to alternative to Blink-182 and '90s music to Dave Matthews. 
When I was ten, I loved movies like 'Cool Hand Luke' and 'Roman Holiday.' When I wat... 
Netflix has such a knack for giving a new life to those B-movies that you thought and hoped no one w... 
I always thought that sororities were just made up of cheerleaders from high school. And I kind of p... 
Harvard Medical School, the University of South Florida and the American Psychiatric Association hav... 