Frances O'Roark Dowell
Related The guy who kind of identified as my dad was my dad's brother, who was the second person my mom ... ISAAC BROCK PAT CONROY My mom was a dancer, my dad's a singer and I've always had that kind of music in my life. ELVIS STOJKO Sometimes things feel hopeless. Not always within my own life - but looking outward, it seems like r... JENNY LEWIS One night I heard my dad say to my mom: I can't help but think of the good times we're having now as... MIRIAM TOEWS DAN FOGELBERG My dad being a DJ, I heard all the hits, no matter what. My mom always had on the radio because my d... CHAD CHANNING My dad is a very quick-witted, sarcastic, dry, humorous guy, whereas my mom's very silly, and th... TIM HEIDECKER YANCY BUTLER PETER HELLER JERRY HALL My mom has accepted my style. My dad is a little suspect with all the bright colors and loud stuff. ... CHANDLER PARSONS My deceased grandmother on my mom's side was a real fairy godmother, who lived to be 102 and who... VICTORIA CLARK ROBERT ENGLUND JEB BUSH LAURA DERN ORLANDO BLOOM My mom and dad have been to the birth of my children as well as all my sisters' (children), JENNIFER ANDERSON CAROL LEIFER My dad was a plumber, and my mom was on and off again, either a stay-at-home mom or working with the... CRAIG THOMPSON I have three older brothers, and we all have different combinations of parents. My father was the be... INARA GEORGE CAT CORA APOLO OHNO MONTY PYTHON BETH DITTO BRUNO MARS AYN RAND As a youngster, my mother and father always drilled into my head having something to fall back on. M... SHAQUILLE O'NEAL MERYL STREEP I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funn... CAMPBELL SCOTT Empty spaces,feeling devastated, hard to look at the bright side,not recieving things of my choice,i... PRIYALUCI My first real acting gig was probably playing Mamillius in my mother's 'Winter's Tale.&#... LOGAN MARSHALL-GREEN (Hirsch) probably should have gotten some kind of an award for match-making. My dad always said marr... MARK MORRISON WILLIAM HURT STEPHEN CHBOSKY RACHAEL LEIGH COOK I am the first one to go to university in my family. I am the first writer as well. My dad is a reti... SAMANTHA SHANNON My mother played the piano and my father the violin, I can remember my dad teaching me how to waltz;... QUENTIN BRYCE We're just a big media family. My mom is always sending us articles throughout the day. My husba... ALLISON WILLIAMS My dad claims that he was able to trace us back to the West Virginia Hatfields. When I look at the o... JULIANA HATFIELD Always look on the bright side of life. (Monty Python) MICHAEL PALIN I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, a... CAMPBELL SCOTT CHARLES BRONSON TRACEE ELLIS ROSS TAYLOR SWIFT LORDE SAM ROCKWELL THALIA LISA KLEYPAS My dad was a good man, he had standards, principles, and a code of honor.I always wanted to say the ... GARY F EVANS... ROBERT DE NIRO STEVE HARVEY CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON CHARLES BRONSON EMMA LAZARUS JOSS WHEDON DANIEL RADCLIFFE (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON My dad was a big car guy. If you wanted to spend time with my dad, he was working on the car. ADAM FERRARA Well, yelling real loud, that's an important skill to have, too. You never know when you might walk ... DIANE HAMMOND EVA LONGORIA ALBERT BROOKS My father, Cecil Banks Mullis, and mother, formerly Bernice Alberta Barker, grew up in rural North C... KARY MULLIS EVANGELINE LILLY ROBERT STROMBERG ZADIE SMITH I grew up in such a musical family, and my dad was the first chair in the Johannesburg Symphony Orch... TREVOR RABIN SUSANA MARTINEZ MALUMA My mom and dad are New Yorkers who left the tenement streets of the Bronx and came to Los Angeles wh... TAYLOR NEGRON AERIN LAUDER NATALIE MASSENET RACHAEL RAY BJ THE CHICAGO KID My dad was 16, and Liberace was 17. They were both finalists. My dad was a humble guy, but he was al... BARBARA WAGNER Race, class, childhood experience, the books I found on my mother's bookshelf, the albums I foun... RASHID JOHNSON My mother's a psychologist, my stepfather's a psychologist, my stepmother is a therapist and... ZACH BRAFF My mom's family is Russian Jewish, and my dad's Puerto Rico Catholic, so it's kind of a ... IAN GOMEZ RICHELLE MEAD L.M. MONTGOMERY We busted a lot of family secrets with this. But to make a long story short, my parents relationship... KENNY LOGGINS KATY PERRY All three of my parents - I also had a stepmother - were teachers, and my dad taught high school, an... DICK CAVETT I go back five generations in Jamaica. My dad grew up in Port Royal, and my mom grew up in Kingston.... DULE HILL JOAN RIVERS I've always been heavy. As a kid my mother would look for the chubby clothes. SHARON POWELL I think that you are what you speak a lot of times, and there's power in the tongue. I feel sorr... MONICA DENISE BROWN She drove right through the back of the garage. We always used to say my dad was never bored with my... BRIDGET IDTENSOHN RUPERT MURDOCH FRED ROGERS LOIS LOWRY I got to show off in front of my husband, who married me as I was stepping out of the business, so h... KIM WILDE JAMES ELLROY My mom and dad are second-generation Greek-Americans who instilled in our middle-class family the va... JAMES COSTOS They see me as being this Super Mom on TV who also can more than handle a difficult husband, and the... PATRICIA RICHARDSON My biological dad was Armenian. My last name is Lopez, and I have a darker complexion, which throws ... SETH ROLLINS MICHELLE OBAMA I'm the most Failure Model of My parents activities SATHESH KUMAR M SUGAR RAY LEONARD BURGESS OWENS
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FRANCES O'ROARK DOWELL Each day more coalition MPs in seats outside the South East come out against George Osborne's re... FRANCES O'GRADY We also plan on using community coaches and lay coaches as well. DEUCE ROARK The excitement of the students is overwhelming. DEUCE ROARK COLEMAN DOWELL COLEMAN DOWELL COLEMAN DOWELL COLEMAN DOWELL They (Lake Highlands) finished more chances than we did. We had some good opportunities, but we didn... JIMMY DOWELL Guys weren't happy about it. So I think it's definitely a sense of urgency to get our second half of... JAKE DOWELL Alex is one of those guys who always creates havoc for opponents. He's one of my most consistent for... JIMMY DOWELL Now that we're seeing it in a place that straddles Europe and Asia, it's different. It's spread so f... SCOTT DOWELL It feels good to get that first district win. After what we've dealt with the last two matches, this... JIMMY DOWELL You can find flax seed meal. Some people say to use fish oil to get omega 3s, but then you also get ... DENISE DOWELL The latest food guide no longer has four food groups. Whole grains take first place. Raw fruits and ... DENISE DOWELL It's not a question of going to an employer and saying we want better pay parents are paying what th... DENISE DOWELL It's back to the pond hockey days when we played on outdoor rinks when I was little and wore five la... JAKE DOWELL I thought we played well as a team. We have nine sophomores and eight of them played. We're young an... JIMMY DOWELL Wisconsin hasn't won a championship in a long time and the United States had never had a championshi... JAKE DOWELL Even though in our league and in college there's no fighting, when he's a professional, that'll defi... JAKE DOWELL It was to our advantage to see Minnesota lose last night. To see them get upset like that made us be... JAKE DOWELL Everything considered, it's really something that you can't really explain how excited guys are. Eve... JAKE DOWELL It's pretty cool for guys to hear a story like that and work with a guy who kept his focus and kept ... JAKE DOWELL I would like another week or two, if possible. MICHAEL DOWELL We have a sportswriter's award that we'd like you to give to one artist for one piece of art. It doe... MIKE DOWELL When we landed, we were faced with an outbreak on the order of 300 cases SCOTT DOWELL Greece has been very lax on terrorist groups, and for a long time was a jumping off point for a numb... WILLIAM DOWELL I am one and when I am one I am none, and when I am none I have won. JULIEANNE O'CONNOR FLANNERY O'CONNOR I suppose we all have our little hiding-hole if the truth was known, but as small as it is, the whol... FRANK O'CONNOR TIM O'BRIEN We are the music-makers,ARTHUR O'SHAUGHNESSY Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I ... GEORGIA O'KEEFFE PATRICK O'BRIAN JOHN O'DONOHUE FLANNERY O'CONNOR JENNY O'CONNELL SEáN O'CASEY FLANNERY O'CONNOR FLANNERY O'CONNOR FLANNERY O'CONNOR We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams. ARTHUR O'SHAUGHNESSY STEWART O'NAN SEáN O'CASEY MICHELLE O'LEARY MICHELLE O'LEARY I’m not bipolar, I’ve just had a bipolar life foisted upon me. DANIEL O'MALLEY TIM O'BRIEN FLANNERY O'CONNOR JOHN O'DONOHUE They are all innocent until proven guilty. But not me. I am a liar until I am proven honest. LOUISE O'NEILL I found him perhaps the least terrifying man I've ever met in the theater—because at first glance ... PETER O'TOOLE Happiness arises from getting what you want, and this comes and goes. Joy arises from being with wha... MARY O'MALLEY It's not the face, but the expressions on it. It's not the voice but the things you say. It's not th... IAN O'SHEA STEWART O'NAN STEWART O'NAN STEWART O'NAN FLANNERY O'CONNOR FLANNERY O'CONNOR You never loved me, Farin. You never even said you liked me very much. HEATHER O'BRIEN People give you a hard time about being a kid at twelve. They didn't want to give you Halloween cand... HEATHER O'NEILL Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes. P.J. O'ROURKE Don't stand unmoving outside the door of a crying baby whose only desire is to touch you. Go to your... PEGGY O'MARA Marry for love. But also choose to marry a man or woman who you love that treats you with the ultima... JULIEANNE O'CONNOR There will be a time when love is beautiful and passionate and nothing else will exist but you and t... JULIEANNE O'CONNOR FLANNERY O'CONNOR JOHN O'DONOHUE [I suspect] that in the drive toward the liberal universalist notion of human rights that characteri... DARREN O'DONNELL JOHN O'DONOHUE If you are different from the rest of the flock, they bite you VINCENT O'SULLIVAN TIM O'BRIEN JOHN O'DONOHUE To love without ownership, to love with total trust and faith in that very love, to love with the sa... JULIEANNE O'CONNOR My feeling on the subject of sex with a man is - don't give it up unless you're willing to give him ... JULIEANNE O'CONNOR Life is surreal. When you step back and really take a look at it, the irony is absolute. JULIEANNE O'CONNOR Ladies, you have a ton of power if you just understand the fundamental differences between men and w... JULIEANNE O'CONNOR SEáN O'CASEY Well, I'm not sure where this puts me, Sire. I mean, at least with the others I know what's expected... AMIE O'BRIEN You cannot borrow half of who you are from someone else, yet people try to do it all of the time, th... JENNIFER O'NEILL JOHN O'DONOHUE Sometimes, when people speak, I cease listening to their words and zoom in instead on the cadence, a... ROSIE O'DONNELL Moderation, we find, is an extremely difficult thing to get in this country. FLANN O'BRIEN In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things. EDNA O'BRIEN It was a great mistake, my being born a man, I would have been much more successful as a seagull or ... EUGENE O'NEILL JOHN O'DONOHUE JOHN O'DONOHUE JOHN O'DONOHUE JOHN O'DONOHUE JOHN O'DONOHUE JOHN O'DONOHUE JOHN O'DONOHUE JOHN O'DONOHUE JOHN O'DONOHUE JOHN O'DONOHUE JOHN O'DONOHUE JOHN O'DONOHUE JOHN O'DONOHUE JOHN O'DONOHUE JOHN O'DONOHUE JOHN O'DONOHUE JOHN O'DONOHUE JOHN O'DONOHUE JOHN O'DONOHUE JOHN O'DONOHUE JOHN O'DONOHUE JOHN O'DONOHUE JOHN O'DONOHUE JOHN O'DONOHUE TIM O'BRIEN TIM O'BRIEN TIM O'BRIEN TIM O'BRIEN TIM O'BRIEN The wait is long, my dream of you does not end. NUALA O'FAOLAIN JOHN O'DONOHUE I’d begun to think of the Immortality Bus as the Entropy Bus, and of ourselves as trundling across... MARK O'CONNELL It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve. GEORGIA O'KEEFFE Darkness is drawn to light, but light does not know it; light must absorb the darkness and therefore... EDNA O'BRIEN FLANNERY O'CONNOR You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to t... P.J. O'ROURKE PATRICK O'BRIAN FLANNERY O'CONNOR FLANNERY O'CONNOR FLANNERY O'CONNOR My body is not my own any more. They have stamped their names all over it. LOUISE O'NEILL JOHN O'DONOHUE Then Dad started going on about the complex geological formations in this part of the coast until Mu... KERRIE O'CONNOR Having a Coke with YouFRANK O'HARA FLANNERY O'CONNOR STEWART O'NAN I would not hurt you, little man,' he said.FLANN O'BRIEN Fame stole my yellow. Yellow is the color you get when you're real and brutally honest. Yellow is wi... 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O'BRIEN The robot successfully dismounted the car, proceeding at a slight crouch, and with exaggerated cauti... MARK O'CONNELL To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage. GEORGIA O'KEEFFE Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the i... GEORGIA O'KEEFFE I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way... things I had n... GEORGIA O'KEEFFE I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I've never let it keep me from doing a si... GEORGIA O'KEEFFE Don’t tell me my writing is misogynistic or anti-feminist just because I or my heroines like to be... R.B. O'BRIEN FLANNERY O'CONNOR TIM O'BRIEN The rocking of the boat by the waves was soothing but unknown. The men on the shore were asleep. Not... JOSEPH O'NEILL JOHN O'DONOHUE TIM O'BRIEN Relationships take up energy; letting go of them, psychiatrists theorize, entails mental work. When ... MEGHAN O'ROURKE STEWART O'NAN TIM O'BRIEN TIM O'BRIEN Experience has taught me that what you love, you should love all the harder because someday it will ... RONAN O'BRIEN A hat should be taken off when greeting a lady, and left off the rest of your life. Nothing looks mo... P.J. O'ROURKE Rising up into the air, they took to the sky and flew. From west and beyond west, into the wind and ... PAT O'SHEA You're the fire burning inside of me. KELVIN O'RALPH I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony. I do not crave security. I wis... PETER O'TOOLE JENNY O'CONNELL If you work really hard, and you're kind, amazing things will happen. CONAN O'BRIEN Lasting healing comes from being curious rather than controlling, from mercy rather than manipulatio... MARY O'MALLEY What the hell is that?" he asked.HEATHER O'NEILL I've always been a pretty good researcher," said Bronwyn modestly.Oh, so that we sha... DANIEL O'MALLEY STEWART O'NAN The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When ... P.J. O'ROURKE The Universe and Spirit do not understand limitations...PEOPLE invented limitations! JENNIFER O'NEILL Not only have we not done the good things that God really wants us to do, but in fact, we’ve done ... ERIN O'RIORDAN FLANNERY O'CONNOR FLANNERY O'CONNOR By subsidiarity is meant the principle that responsibilities should be devolved to the lowest viable... DENIS O'BRIEN FLANNERY O'CONNOR FLANNERY O'CONNOR FLANNERY O'CONNOR FLANNERY O'CONNOR FLANNERY O'CONNOR FLANNERY O'CONNOR Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them. P.J. O'ROURKE I have been told by the third grade teacher that my daughter Poppet is reading at middle school leve... P.J. O'ROURKE My father...was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and treated them like human beings. FLANN O'BRIEN When all else fails, there's always delusion. CONAN O'BRIEN You would not want to be responsible for someone else’s happiness, so please do not hold someone e... JENNIFER O'NEILL The yellow commuter train ran through canal-crossed fields as dull as graph paper. Always one saw ev... JOSEPH O'NEILL I was always the girl growing up who just wasn’t quite like the rest of them. I liked working hard... R.B. O'BRIEN TIM O'BRIEN TIM O'BRIEN TIM O'BRIEN TIM O'BRIEN TIM O'BRIEN not dead. But when I am, it's like...I don't know, I guess it's like bein... TIM O'BRIEN
I think that my mother, Frances Dorothy Peck, modeled her whole life on that of Scarlett O'Hara. 
My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitima... 
My mother's side of the family was in the production side of theatre. My grandfather, Jose Vega,... 
My dad was a copywriter on Madison Avenue at the same time as the TV show 'Mad Men' is set. ... 
I'm one of five sisters. I'm the younger of twins, and we're the youngest of five girls,... 
My dad worked as an executive at Lockheed Aircraft and worked on the U-2 and things like that. My mo... 
Look, I am in the establishment because my dad, the greatest man alive was president of the United S... 
My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She'... 
My mother's husband died when I was 4, and I thought he was my dad until I was 15 and found out that... 
My father was the kind of guy who'd always say 'Throw out any subject and I got a joke on it... 
My humanitarian work evolved from being with my family. My mom, my dad, they really set a great exam... 
My life has always been with my dad. Since I can remember, I was raised by my father my entire life.... 
Always look on the bright side of life. 
My mother told me Homer Ditto was not my father. Nope. Mom had had a fling with some other guy who w... 
My father moved to Hawaii from Brooklyn and my mother came there as a child from the Philippines. Th... 
Im waiting, for what, my kind of people, what kind is that, i can tell my kind of people by their fa... 
I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life. 
My first cousin, by the way, on my father's mother side was John Marshall Harlan, who was a Supr... 
The fact that one of these ladies was my mom made me particularly sad because my mom is beautiful. A... 
But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24. 
I don't look like someone who leans on a mantelpiece with a cocktail in my hand, you know. 
My mom had beautiful clothes. My mom is elegant; my mom is glamorous. But my mom is also really real... 
My mom and I have always been really close. She's always been the friend that was always there. ... 
My dad is a civil engineer, and my mom is a stay-at-home mom. The fact that my parents weren't r... 
My parents were both actors; my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she... 
My husband is American but Italian. Then I have the Mexicano side. I see both in my kids. My daughte... 
He was my confidant, the person who was always on my side even when he wasn't taking my side. 
My mother worked for a woman, Maria Ley-Piscator, who with her husband founded the Dramatic Workshop... 
My mother was a Sunday school teacher. So I am a byproduct of prayer. My mom just kept on praying fo... 
My mind is killing me”
I look like the kind of guy who has a bottle of beer in my hand. 
Give me your tired, your poor, 
My mom and dad were divorced, and although they got along very well, my mom thought American televis... 
I'm not a religious person. My mom was of Jewish blood and my dad was Protestant. 
I was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, the youngest of four girls, including my oldest sister, Lisa, w... 
My mom was a professional. My dad and mom met each other in a movie called 'New Faces of 1937.&#... 
The people on my mum's side of the family are atheist intellectuals who are ueber-proper. My dad... 
My dad was a low budget film director. I grew up as a kid making movies, based on the love of seeing... 
My life is black and white and mixed. My mother's a Rastafarian, my dad was a short white guy - ... 
My dad was a golden gloves boxer in the Marine Corps, then a deputy sheriff. My mom worked as an off... 
Maluma comes from my mom, my dad and my sister's names. The first letters of my mom's name a... 
My mom has always been kind of my backbone. She keeps me strong. She is a mother, a friend. She is r... 
My dad taught me never to be afraid of what's on the other side of the mountain. 
My mom, who's been in the restaurant business for 40 years, is the number-one influence in my li... 
My mom and my dad was the best example of unconditional love I could see as a kid. I've known it... 
For a moment, I was captivated as I studied them side by side. My mother: the perfect picture of gua... 
Don't be very frightened, Marilla. I was walking the ridge-pole and I fell off. I suspect I have spr... 
My mother is very emotional as well, but my dad is more of the guts of the family. He was the main p... 
I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman u... 
I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse ... 
When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, 'Look for ... 
Its a little like looking at yourself looking in a mirror looking at yourself looking in a mirror. 
My dad was always snoozing on the couch, like Dagwood Bumstead. He was a lazy motherfucker. God bles... 
And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago - by a father who was a blue-coll... 
I never met a person as determined as my mother. From working hard for six kids to just trying to ke... 
We understood, growing up - 'cause it was taught in our family home, my mom and dad - to respect... 
A friend is someone whose face you can see in the dark. 
Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other va... 
You drive, walk, eat, look at television, read, and all the while, beyond you and the cozy circle cr... 
There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive a... 
They did not submit to the obvious alternative, which was simply to close the eyes and fall. So easy... 
Virtue should always be colmingled with humor. 
One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively to the hidden silenc... 
[H]iding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn't make you nice, it just makes ... 
Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - t... 
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. 
You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You... 
Gabrielle chuckled, her dark eyes twinkling. “So he’s been after you, has he? Poor Etta, pursued... 
She paused and saw him tense in expectation. He wouldn’t like to hear this, but better from her th... 
Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better. 
Each of us is an artist of our days; the greater our integrity and awareness, the more original and ... 
They should."
The happiest she'd ever been was with him, and the saddest. Was that the true test of love? 
All the possibilities of your human destiny are asleep in your soul. You are here to realize and hon... 
It’s a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn’t felt it, but the presence of death and dange... 
But this too is true: stories can save us.