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RANBIR KAPOOR I was raised by my great-great aunt. I was adopted within our family. My mother had me when she was,...
ERIC DICKERSON I met Gemma, my wife, when she was 12. She had a schoolgirl crush on me and her dad had arranged for...
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My mother was truly my saving grace, because she would take me to church with her. I would see my mo...
TYLER PERRY![]()
I came to love, I came into my own.
THEODORE ROETHKE She had actually asked to sing at my Mom's funeral and wanted me to stay in touch with her, but I ha...
GARY GIBSON![]()
When my mother took her turn to sit in a gown at her graduation, she thought she only had two career...
SHERYL SANDBERG My mother would work 14 hours, and she'd come home, and she'd just get right into cooking......
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LENNY BRUCE My mother had a bout with cancer. I can't fight the fight for her, but this event is a way I can com...
CATHERINE MELVIN My mother is with her sister in Arkansas, my brother is in Baton Rouge with his wife's family and my...
BOB BALLARD I lived with my mother all my life until she died, and I don't really think I knew her, because ...
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I don't believe in regretting - one should try to move on. My mum was good at that. She was deep...
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I grew up in one of the most socially conservative neighborhoods in Ohio, and my parents were tradit...
GAIL COLLINS When I was a child, next to my own mother, no woman that ever lived took as much interest in me, gav...
HEBER J. GRANT My sister lives with my family because she has separated from her husband and my older brother had d...
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As far back as I can remember, my mother would have me down by the bed at night with her, praying. I...
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PAUL MCCARTNEY I was definitely a tomboy. My mother liked to dress me differently, but it was her loss when I came ...
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies. It was her way of getting out, a...
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But soon I loved her completely and wished to possess her, own her, absorb her, eat her. I wanted he...
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ANNE LAMOTT![]()
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NIKKI SIXX My mother died when I was 12, and right after, my dad died in a car crash. I was 15 and had no famil...
KAROLYN GRIMES![]()
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 She grabbed me with her other arm, and my brother tried to drag me, but I ran way. I didn't even loo...
ASTRID VAN GENDEREN STORT I had a fifth-grade education when I decided to leave home, ... My mother gave me $9, and I took it ...
LARRY MARSHALL During the telecast ... I was asked a question in the top five, by Tony Danza, about my platform iss...
KATIE HARMAN She looked at me, she rolled her eyes back, a tear came down her face and she died in my arms.
EDWIN REYES My brother Kobi made my mother very proud when he was elected deputy mayor of Jerusalem. My sister m...
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VICTORIA PRINCIPAL My mother used to sit at the foot of my bed, and she would share her dreams with me.
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I love my mother. My mother made sure, her stubbornness - she made sure we was going to eat. She mad...
TRACY MORGAN I remember my mother had this deck of cards that her mother had given her and that she passed on to ...
DAVID BLAINE I had to force my mother to leave. I sent her (there), where she drowned.
BRIAN MOLLERE I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her gr...
SAM RAIMI![]()
I knew I wanted to sing when I was a very small boy. When I was probably 4 years old. My mother play...
JOHNNY CASH When i see how amazing my mother is with all her grandchildren, i realise how patient and understand...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE My brain came alight with tenderness for her. I felt so sorry for everything. I yearned to embrace h...
HANNAH LILLITH ASSADI![]()
My mother is my biggest role model, and she showed me how to do it right. She was very present in ou...
KERRI WALSH JENNINGS![]()
Is my mother my friend? I would have to say, first of all she is my Mother, with a capital 'M'; she'...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Jessie's family I had known because they had been in the arts world with her older sister for years....
PATTY GAIR![]()
I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for ...
EDMUND WHITE in all the years i had blundered along in search of my own footing, she had never given me an inklin...
GAIL CALDWELL![]()
I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shat...
JOAN LINGARD![]()
My childhood was kind of complicated. I have an older sister, but my father, my mother's husband...
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My father died when I was young, and my mother, Ruth, went to work in an office selling theater and ...
ALAN FURST![]()
When I look back at those pictures of my mother performing - and listen to her recordings - it makes...
MARLO THOMAS My mother desperately wanted children. She had a child that was stillborn - something I learned when...
STANLEY HAUERWAS My mother was in vaudeville, but after she had her children, she quit working.
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I have lived with passion and in a hurry, trying to accomplish too many things. I never had time to ...
ISABEL ALLENDE I raised my sister. I was six when she was born. My mother had to make a living for herself and it w...
NATALIA VODIANOVA My cousin in Louisiana started a small company with a little savings, renovating houses. A single mo...
CAMPBELL BROWN![]()
My mother, father, stepmother and surrogate mother have all died of cancer; my best friend has got t...
ARABELLA WEIR![]()
My mom used to tell me, “I don’t like my mother, but I love her.
ASPEN MATIS I smiled and looked at her- there she was with such a genuine grin and twinkle in her eyes. I kissed...
JORI NUNES But I'll tell you this, it started with my mother. I have to give her. God bless her and rest he...
DAVE WINFIELD It's really sort of morbid, but she said her mother wanted to see me all her life. And when she ...
HANK SNOW My mother died of cystic fibrosis before I knew her. I was two years old, and I don't remember h...
JOHN LLOYD YOUNG And my mother, whose radius of travel was short, tied the letters with ribbon and kept them in her d...
FRANCES MAYES If I tried to shout over my older brother, my mother told me keep quiet. If I tried to shout over my...
PETER WELCH My mother died young. A lot of people wanted us to be adopted out, but before she died, my mother as...
EMMA BIEL It's really sort of morbid, but she said her mother wanted to see me all her life. And when she died...
HANK SNOW 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 mother was a full-time mother. She didn't have much of her own career, her own life, her own ...
ANGELINA JOLIE My mother is a natural care giver, ... When she would do something for me, I would thank her, and sh...
ANGELA MOORE I can tell you that my sister never expressed fear to me. I talked to her the Sunday before she died...
LUHANNA CHESLEY![]()
I wasn't actually trained by my mother, she said she never taught me but she was a great singer hers...
JOAN SUTHERLAND![]()
I judged my mother much too harshly for her dating life. Being her only child, I wanted her complete...
DIANE LANE I have a slight memory of being carried down the stairs by my mother. She held me in her left arm, a...
HERBERT HAMROL I started stem cells when I wanted to find a cure for my mother, who I loved very much, and western ...
PETER NYGARD![]()
My mother had an illegal abortion in 1960, which was the year the birth control pill came out, but I...
KATHA POLLITT![]()
Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in ...
ANNE LAMOTT![]()
I went to my grandmother, your great-great-grandmother, and asked her to write a letter. She was my ...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER When my father died, my mother came back from being Mrs. Birkin to being Judy Campbell. She was a st...
JANE BIRKIN Other dragons are bastards. I moved out of my mother's cave after my mother tried to rip my guts out...
ZEN CHO My mother got to read the book in print ... before she died and she was pleased with it.
KARLA REINHARD![]()
My mother was a very, very funny, outrageous, outspoken person, and she never edited me. Her whole t...
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She wanted to eat my heart and be lost in the desert with what she'd done, she wanted to fall on her...
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I’ve made her relive, over and over, the last few days,” I say softly, watching Ms. White’s bo...
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My mother is my pastor
She teaches me the Bible
I love her as my mentor
She tells me...
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I've had dialogues with my dead mother over the 40 years since she died.
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I adored my mother, and I will always have extraordinary memories about her and remember her, and sh...
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My mother would cry about my blindness and the hopelessness of my ever seeing, but I told her I wasn...
STEVIE WONDER
CAROL S. REBELLO
My youngest sister, Cindy, has Down syndrome, and I remember my mother spending hours and hours with... AMY CHUA
I'm really close to my mother. She sacrificed a lot for me and my sister. She gave up her career... RANBIR KAPOOR I was raised by my great-great aunt. I was adopted within our family. My mother had me when she was,...
ERIC DICKERSON I met Gemma, my wife, when she was 12. She had a schoolgirl crush on me and her dad had arranged for...
GARY NUMAN
My mother was truly my saving grace, because she would take me to church with her. I would see my mo... TYLER PERRY
I came to love, I came into my own. THEODORE ROETHKE She had actually asked to sing at my Mom's funeral and wanted me to stay in touch with her, but I ha...
GARY GIBSON
When my mother took her turn to sit in a gown at her graduation, she thought she only had two career... SHERYL SANDBERG My mother would work 14 hours, and she'd come home, and she'd just get right into cooking......
MICHELLE PHAN
My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with ... LENNY BRUCE My mother had a bout with cancer. I can't fight the fight for her, but this event is a way I can com...
CATHERINE MELVIN My mother is with her sister in Arkansas, my brother is in Baton Rouge with his wife's family and my...
BOB BALLARD I lived with my mother all my life until she died, and I don't really think I knew her, because ...
HARRIET WALTER
I don't believe in regretting - one should try to move on. My mum was good at that. She was deep... ROBERT WINSTON
My own mother died when I was 10 years old. My folks have told me that what little humor I have come... WILL ROGERS
And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong - to ... GLORIA VANDERBILT My father died in 1989 before I knew what I was going to do with my life. I had just graduated from ...
PAUL GIAMATTI
Lucy Mercedes Martinez, my mother, was probably my first mentor. She really tried to take care of me... RICHARD CARMONA
I grew up in one of the most socially conservative neighborhoods in Ohio, and my parents were tradit... GAIL COLLINS When I was a child, next to my own mother, no woman that ever lived took as much interest in me, gav...
HEBER J. GRANT My sister lives with my family because she has separated from her husband and my older brother had d...
MAHEN SHARMA
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
You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time ... PAUL MCCARTNEY I was definitely a tomboy. My mother liked to dress me differently, but it was her loss when I came ...
TROIAN BELLISARIO
When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies. It was her way of getting out, a... AL PACINO
I've always had an affinity with women. It probably started with my mother when I was young, but... MARIO TESTINO My mother was born on a tiny farm in County Mayo. She was meant to stay at home and look after the f...
JULIE WALTERS I have some first-hand experience with this. My sister (Kristen, a former Shamrock) lost the D3 cham...
ALLISON DALY We watched them pull her mother out of the water on the boat next to us. I was sort of holding Carol...
HELEN NILES
I remember when I watched 'Hellraiser' with my mother. She cried when she saw my name in the... CLIVE BARKER She came and stayed with me until the ambulance got there, ... I knew her because my sister and I ha...
ANGELA MOORE
But soon I loved her completely and wished to possess her, own her, absorb her, eat her. I wanted he... IAN MCEWAN
I didn't write about my mother much in the third year after she died. I was still trying to get ... ANNE LAMOTT
For those that don't know, my sister was born with Down Syndrome, and she was institutionalized ... NIKKI SIXX My mother died when I was 12, and right after, my dad died in a car crash. I was 15 and had no famil...
KAROLYN GRIMES
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 She grabbed me with her other arm, and my brother tried to drag me, but I ran way. I didn't even loo...
ASTRID VAN GENDEREN STORT I had a fifth-grade education when I decided to leave home, ... My mother gave me $9, and I took it ...
LARRY MARSHALL During the telecast ... I was asked a question in the top five, by Tony Danza, about my platform iss...
KATIE HARMAN She looked at me, she rolled her eyes back, a tear came down her face and she died in my arms.
EDWIN REYES My brother Kobi made my mother very proud when he was elected deputy mayor of Jerusalem. My sister m...
MOSHE KAHLON
[But she was closer to her mother.] I adored my mother. She was very formal and proper, but she was ... JOAN RIVERS
I'm destiny's child. I wasn't meant to be born: my mother bled for four months when she ... SHILPA SHETTY I grew up with gang violence. They tried to suck me in, but I wouldn't do it. I kinda got sucked in ...
DEMAUNDRAY WOOLRIDGE
Every year on her birthday, she would pick out a song which she would force me to sing at the top of... VICTORIA PRINCIPAL My mother used to sit at the foot of my bed, and she would share her dreams with me.
LIZ MURRAY
I love my mother. My mother made sure, her stubbornness - she made sure we was going to eat. She mad... TRACY MORGAN I remember my mother had this deck of cards that her mother had given her and that she passed on to ...
DAVID BLAINE I had to force my mother to leave. I sent her (there), where she drowned.
BRIAN MOLLERE I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her gr...
SAM RAIMI
I knew I wanted to sing when I was a very small boy. When I was probably 4 years old. My mother play... JOHNNY CASH When i see how amazing my mother is with all her grandchildren, i realise how patient and understand...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE My brain came alight with tenderness for her. I felt so sorry for everything. I yearned to embrace h...
HANNAH LILLITH ASSADI
My mother is my biggest role model, and she showed me how to do it right. She was very present in ou... KERRI WALSH JENNINGS
Is my mother my friend? I would have to say, first of all she is my Mother, with a capital 'M'; she'... JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Jessie's family I had known because they had been in the arts world with her older sister for years....
PATTY GAIR
I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for ... EDMUND WHITE in all the years i had blundered along in search of my own footing, she had never given me an inklin...
GAIL CALDWELL
I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shat... JOAN LINGARD
My childhood was kind of complicated. I have an older sister, but my father, my mother's husband... ORLANDO BLOOM
My father died when I was young, and my mother, Ruth, went to work in an office selling theater and ... ALAN FURST
When I look back at those pictures of my mother performing - and listen to her recordings - it makes... MARLO THOMAS My mother desperately wanted children. She had a child that was stillborn - something I learned when...
STANLEY HAUERWAS My mother was in vaudeville, but after she had her children, she quit working.
DEAN STOCKWELL
I have lived with passion and in a hurry, trying to accomplish too many things. I never had time to ... ISABEL ALLENDE I raised my sister. I was six when she was born. My mother had to make a living for herself and it w...
NATALIA VODIANOVA My cousin in Louisiana started a small company with a little savings, renovating houses. A single mo...
CAMPBELL BROWN
My mother, father, stepmother and surrogate mother have all died of cancer; my best friend has got t... ARABELLA WEIR
My mom used to tell me, “I don’t like my mother, but I love her. ASPEN MATIS I smiled and looked at her- there she was with such a genuine grin and twinkle in her eyes. I kissed...
JORI NUNES But I'll tell you this, it started with my mother. I have to give her. God bless her and rest he...
DAVE WINFIELD It's really sort of morbid, but she said her mother wanted to see me all her life. And when she ...
HANK SNOW My mother died of cystic fibrosis before I knew her. I was two years old, and I don't remember h...
JOHN LLOYD YOUNG And my mother, whose radius of travel was short, tied the letters with ribbon and kept them in her d...
FRANCES MAYES If I tried to shout over my older brother, my mother told me keep quiet. If I tried to shout over my...
PETER WELCH My mother died young. A lot of people wanted us to be adopted out, but before she died, my mother as...
EMMA BIEL It's really sort of morbid, but she said her mother wanted to see me all her life. And when she died...
HANK SNOW 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 mother was a full-time mother. She didn't have much of her own career, her own life, her own ... ANGELINA JOLIE My mother is a natural care giver, ... When she would do something for me, I would thank her, and sh...
ANGELA MOORE I can tell you that my sister never expressed fear to me. I talked to her the Sunday before she died...
LUHANNA CHESLEY
I wasn't actually trained by my mother, she said she never taught me but she was a great singer hers... JOAN SUTHERLAND
I judged my mother much too harshly for her dating life. Being her only child, I wanted her complete... DIANE LANE I have a slight memory of being carried down the stairs by my mother. She held me in her left arm, a...
HERBERT HAMROL I started stem cells when I wanted to find a cure for my mother, who I loved very much, and western ...
PETER NYGARD
My mother had an illegal abortion in 1960, which was the year the birth control pill came out, but I... KATHA POLLITT
Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in ... ANNE LAMOTT
I went to my grandmother, your great-great-grandmother, and asked her to write a letter. She was my ... JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER When my father died, my mother came back from being Mrs. Birkin to being Judy Campbell. She was a st...
JANE BIRKIN Other dragons are bastards. I moved out of my mother's cave after my mother tried to rip my guts out...
ZEN CHO My mother got to read the book in print ... before she died and she was pleased with it.
KARLA REINHARD
My mother was a very, very funny, outrageous, outspoken person, and she never edited me. Her whole t... TIG NOTARO
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
I’ve made her relive, over and over, the last few days,” I say softly, watching Ms. White’s bo... BETH REVIS
My mother is my pastor She teaches me the Bible
I love her as my mentor
She tells me...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR
I've had dialogues with my dead mother over the 40 years since she died. DREW GILPIN FAUST When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his ...
DAVID ANTIN
I adored my mother, and I will always have extraordinary memories about her and remember her, and sh... MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV
My mother would cry about my blindness and the hopelessness of my ever seeing, but I told her I wasn... STEVIE WONDER
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We don't know how fast they are disappearing, but we know they are going fast. 