Maira Kalman quote: "I still do have the little lunch bag that my mother made out of a towel and embroidered with my name on it for when I went to kindergarten."

I was so excited when I got my name on my bag. Usually when you're an amateur, you can't have your n...
MICHELLE WIE

I've never changed my life since I was 4 and went to the YMCA with a gym bag. I still have that ...
DAN GABLE

If you make me lunch," he said, "will you put it in a brown paper bag?...Because when I see kids com...
LAURA SCHROFF

I saw my mother crying for the first time, which made a huge impression on me, when I came home from...
TIM KAINE

My grandmother used to cook for eight every day - sitting down lunches and dinner, the way you do it...
CARRIE ANN INABA

Actually, because of new technologies, my full studio is on my laptop. And I have a little keyboard ...
DAVID GUETTA

My mother had a sewing machine. I was never allowed to use it, but I was so fascinated by this littl...
PHILIP TREACY

When I made my Broadway debut, I was still cleaning houses, something I'd done since I went out ...
AIDA TURTURRO

On my daughter's first day of kindergarten, another mom said something that made me realize I ha...
NIA VARDALOS

I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother.
ZIYI ZHANG

I have a big bag of M&M's in the pantry, and I have a scoop after lunch. That's my treat...
SUMMER SANDERS

When I have lunch with those guys, they're paying for my lunch. I'm not paying for their lunch.
MEL KARMAZIN

I like to accessorise shirts with a little ribbon tied round my collar or a country style ascot. I&#...
JESSICA BROWN FINDLAY

I have my name Cory on my left arm, and I have my mom's name on my right with a cross. She passe...
CORY HARDRICT

My mother made me do all the housework as a boy. I still do it, even in hotels.
ERNEST BORGNINE

When I was a little girl, I used to walk around with a towel on my head, pretending I was a nun. And...
OLIVIA HUSSEY

People expect you to change when you become a mother, and of course my priorities changed when I had...
IMELDA MAY

I hate going out for lunch during a workday because it slows down my pace and ruins my rhythm. I pre...
TOM FORD

My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, ...
MACKENZIE PHILLIPS

I cried when I found out I was a finalist, I kind of went limp when they called my name. I felt like...
NAIMA ADEDAPO

My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She'...
LAURA DERN

I was myself brought up with my brother, whose name was Matthias, for he was my own brother, by both...
FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS

I thought it went OK. I got my feet wet and was able to kind of establish myself a little bit. I did...
BRAD ELDRED

I still went to church regularly every Sunday; that is we all went there together. I reverenced the ...
PIERRE LOTI

If a leaf fell from a tree, I'd stop juggling and play with the leaf. I went to my prop bag and ...
PHILIPPE PETIT

I have many memories of waking up to eat breakfast that my mother carefully prepared for us and her ...
LISA LOEB

I need to be able to be at a gig and just put my bag on the floor and not worry about it being stood...
CARA DELEVINGNE

I do have a little chip on my shoulder. I want to make a name for this state. I want to represent th...
CARSON WENTZ

I mainly cook British food with a few things I've had on my holidays. I went to the Canary Islan...
MARY BERRY

I have written my life in small sketches, a little today, a little yesterday . . . I look back on my...
GRANDMA MOSES

I'm still able to just do my thing and still be a mother at the same time, ... I guess I'm lucky wit...
KASEY CHAMBERS

I can't towel-dry my hair, because it'll tangle. So I put a towel on the bed and smack my head on th...
ALANIS MORISSETTE

My mother had bought a sewing machine for me. When I went away to college, she gave me a sewing mach...
ALICE WALKER

I once went into a meeting, and every woman put her a million-pound bag on the table. Then I'm t...
CAITLIN MORAN

I was very, very little - it was the first time I ever cooked on my own, with my mother's superv...
GAIL SIMMONS

Everything that went on in my life... it was super important for me to have Camden first. And by tha...
VANESSA LACHEY

I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money....
ORNETTE COLEMAN

My left eye went when I was young. I was working the speed bag, and some steel went in the eye and s...
JOE FRAZIER

I just went out there and went for it. When I'm just thinking about my skiing, I'm OK ... and I was ...
CAITLIN CICCONE

When I was eight years old I went to visit my brother who was working on a movie of the week with my...
MACKENZIE ASTIN

'Paranormal Activity' was a unique project in that I made it basically on my own, with a lit...
OREN PELI

For the first time, I have a parking place with my name on it.
BRUCE HAYWOOD

I'm going to try to do something on my own. I doubt we pull anything out of the bag on A-Day.
COURTNEY TAYLOR

My most treasured item is the brown leather bag that my mum bought me from a little Italian shop for...
FELICITY JONES

At Norwich, I was injured, and then I went to Leicester, and I found myself on the bench. But I stil...
HARRY KANE

I follow the Patriots, but the Steelers were my first and true love. I still have a 'Terrible To...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

Then I went back to my mother when I was 13 and she was ready for me.
MAYA ANGELOU

When I got started, I was a sideshow. At my first Consumer Electronics Show, in 1977 in Chicago, peo...
BRENDA LAUREL

I have a dream of re-creating the fantastic family I grew up in with my brother and my parents. I am...
CATERINA MURINO

Why do they blame me for all their little failings? They use my name as if I spent my entire days si...
NEIL GAIMAN

I still felt it was a series, so I woke up every morning at 4:30 before I went to my other job and I...
GREG GARCIA

My kids are in school and in all these clubs - chess club, fashion club, you name it. When my dad ca...
OMAR DORSEY

I remember when I watched 'Hellraiser' with my mother. She cried when she saw my name in the...
CLIVE BARKER

It was one of the moves in my bag of tricks I tried to pull out and give the crowd a little exciteme...
GREG LEWIS

Oddly enough, my partner went on Prodigy when it first came out, and I ended up playing with some of...
BOBBY SHERMAN

My father worked, and my mother played bridge. Every time I went out of the house, I was chauffeur-d...
J. G. BALLARD

[My dad] didn't do much apart from the traditional winning of bread. He didn't take me to get my hai...
MICHAEL CHABON

I am someone who tweets about what I have for breakfast, what I have for lunch, what I have for dinn...
JACK DORSEY

I was born 'Harmony,' and it was weird because when I was a little kid, I was picked on so m...
HARMONY KORINE

My mother used to go out on her own, and I used to have to keep a look out for my stepfather coming ...
CHRISTINE KEELER

Before all this happened, I always used to see my stammer as being a negative, all my life, but then...
GARETH GATES

I know there's a Derby out there with my name on it.
PAT DAY

As far back as I can remember, my mother would have me down by the bed at night with her, praying. I...
CHARLES R. SWINDOLL

I fell in love with stories watching a British television puppet show called 'Thunderbirds' ...
PETER JACKSON

I'm sorry, but I was born with a towel on my head.
CHARLES OLSON

My last two years of high school, I think I went to Burger King every day for lunch.
CAMERON RUSSELL

I was going to shave it. It went in two parts. I got a bob first but it kept falling all over my fac...
CATHY FREEMAN

My secret skill is baking bread. My mother was a farmer's daughter and still made bread every da...
RICHARD FLANAGAN

When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My ho...
JIM HENSON

I'm so grateful to my mother for helping us out while we went through all of the paperwork. We would...
LUZ HOYT

I basically started performing for my mother, going, 'Love me!' What drives you to perform i...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

for me, it went beyond being a beauty queen. For me, it was about being the 20-year-old girl from In...
AISHWARYA RAI

When blacks made purchases in any store, they weren't given paper bags; instead, they had to carry o...
AUGUST WILSON

I love my mother. My mother made sure, her stubbornness - she made sure we was going to eat. She mad...
TRACY MORGAN

It was fine til I went and stretched before my first at-bat. I have my little routine I do on deck s...
DOUG MIENTKIEWICZ

The butterfly went on to fly. I stood still to watch as it went by. My eyes followed with longing th...
LEAH DANCEL

I went to school at this log school house. A white woman was my teacher, I do not remember her name....
JOE DAVIS

I did go on safari in Kenya when I was 17, with my mother, stepfather and little brother, and I kept...
JENNIFER EGAN

I was fourteen years old when I went to my first suffrage meeting. Returning from school one day, I ...
EMMELINE PANKHURST

My mother wanted to name me Jackie or Jacqueline but she got to name my sister and my brother, so my...
ARIEL WINTER

I want nothing to do with O.J. Simpson. I want that name so far behind me, I want it out of my life.
FAYE RESNICK

I do Thai boxing Mondays, jujitsu Tuesdays and Thursdays, and Wednesdays I do boxing with Mark - he ...
MILLIE BOBBY BROWN

The story of my birth that my mother told me went like this: "When you were coming out I wasn't read...
SIERRA D. WATERS

I came out of the womb drawing on everything; I used to draw on my mother's white furniture and ...
ALDIS HODGE

Every tongue on the planet still speaks the name of Jesus, whether it's in a curse or a praise, even...
ED BULEY

Then I went through a whole bunch of crap with my lousy movies and pop records. I had people behind ...
PIA ZADORA

Feminists of my mother's generation argued that both mom and dad should work a little less and e...
EMILY OSTER

When I was a kid, for my birthday every year, my mother made me pasta bechamel, which is rigatoni wi...
GIADA DE LAURENTIIS

I wrote out little mysteries in longhand, and my mother typed them out on an old Remington.
ALAN FURST

My own mother died when I was 10 years old. My folks have told me that what little humor I have come...
WILL ROGERS

I always was a weird child. My mother told me the story that, in kindergarten, I would come home and...
JOHN WATERS

I saw how, when my brother smoked reefer, it made my mother cry. He was 16 at the time. And I saw th...
VING RHAMES

I got in and I got situated at the home, went for lunch with my host family. I'm going to take it li...
CHRISTINA MONACELLI

I didn't come from a trailer park. I grew up middle class and my dad had money and my mom made m...
KID ROCK

When my mother died, my father was in a crisis, my sister was in a crisis, everyone was in a crisis....
STUART ROSE

I still wake with your name on my lips every morning.
MELINA MARCHETTA

The crowd was so loud. I went out for the warm-ups and they started shouting my name. I never had th...
EMILY HUGHES

I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it...
GEORGE BUSH

It has everything to do with the deep feeling and desire I have to still contribute, the feeling tha...
ALLAN RULE

I still do have the little lunch bag that my mother made out of a towel and embroidered with my name on it for when I went to kindergarten.

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I still do have the little lunch bag that my mother made out of a towel and embroidered with my name on it for when I went to kindergarten.

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