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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 At a very young age, my beloved mother passed away from leukemia, forcing my father to become a sing...
KIMBERLY GUILFOYLE For me, my life is a journey.
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PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS My kindergarten teacher encouraged me to learn, as did my school headmaster, who gave me a grant to ...
ADA YONATH I was lucky because my mum was a teacher and showed me how to read and write. But most importantly, ...
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I think that the best way to explain that is that my mother gave me all the color and character and ... JULIE ANDREWS
My father always taught by telling stories about his experiences. His lessons were about morality an... WALTER MOSLEY My earliest memories are of my father explaining to me the American Dream and how he expected me to ...
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My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. JOHN G. POLLARD
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. ABRAHAM LINCOLN My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
WILLIAM ADAMS (EXPLORER)
My father taught me to work, he did not teach me to love it. ABRAHAM LINCOLN
My father was the role model I looked up to. My dad was an entertainer, too. I patterned my life aft... TRACY MORGAN Coach Jones taught me a lot along the way. And of all the things he taught me, the one thing that st...
COREY PARISH My submission is that he should be treated as a first offender. He has good human qualities.
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My father never kissed me, hugged me or told me that he loved me. As my only living parent, he becam... IYANLA VANZANT
My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it. ABRAHAM LINCOLN
A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scien... W. H. AUDEN
My mother taught me a lot about respect for all living things - for plants and animals. I am a veget... DAVID LACHAPELLE
My father has been the real anchor of the family. He's the one who has always encouraged my moth... YVETTE CLARKE
My father is an atheist. My mother is Buddhist. They encouraged my siblings and me to take the best ... WINONA RYDER My father also encouraged my love of nature. He urged me to become a Cub Scout, and later a Boy Scou...
ED BEGLEY, JR.
My father was a certain kind of man - I saw how he treated my mother and his family and how he treat... SIDNEY POITIER
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LAURA BENANTI My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY
Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS
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I am in agreement with everything my father taught me and nothing my mother taught me. FRIDA KAHLO My parents, grandmother and brother were teachers. My mother taught Latin and French and was the sch...
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It's true my father abused me and didn't love and protect me the way he should have, and at ... JOYCE MEYER
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BRIAN AUSTIN GREEN
George Clooney is a super-human, he's just such an amazing human being, he taught me how to be a... SHAILENE WOODLEY
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I know it sounds trite but I wanted to make a difference. Political debates with my father had been ... VINCE CABLE
We arrived the way most emigrant families did. My father came first, and the rest of us - my mother,... CHANG-RAE LEE When I was a child, next to my own mother, no woman that ever lived took as much interest in me, gav...
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James Brown became my father. He would talk to me the way a father talked to a son. He became the fa... AL SHARPTON John Henry Lloyd is the man I gave the credit to for polishing my skills. He taught me how to play t...
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CLAUDE CHABROL
Most boys' first hero is their father. That was definitely true of my dad. He was a proud Irish ... JOHN C. REILLY My mother was a piano teacher, my father an inventor. He invented the reflective paint they still us...
CHUCK CLOSE A Ritual to Read to Each Other
If you don’t know the kind of person I am
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I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for ... EDMUND WHITE
I have never killed anyone, fictional or otherwise. I have no idea what it’s like to kill someone,... JOHN GREEN My father was a veteran and my mother a schoolteacher. They taught me the value of a good job and an...
STEPHEN PAGLIUCA
I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my... BARBRA STREISAND I told Mother of my decision to study medicine. She encouraged me to speak to Father... I began in a...
RITA LEVI-MONTALCINI Early in my life, every time I had to climb the ladder of success because my father never taught me ...
VIKRANT PARSAI There's one piece of advice my dad gave me when he dropped me off at college. He said, "You've got t...
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LEO LATLIP
My father was and is a great father. My father always wanted to do stand-up. He wanted to be an acto... SHERRI SHEPHERD
My father is an intellectual and physical man, which is a rather unusual combination. He's great... CHRISTOPHER REEVE My father...was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and treated them like human beings.
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Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ... NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
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My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my fathe... JOHNNY CASH My mother was a teacher. She was grooming my brother and me to be successful, accomplished people.
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I was a Yankee fan in Brooklyn because my father was a Yankee fan. And my father was required to liv... RUDY GIULIANI
My grandmother spoiled my father rotten, and he grew up expecting women to do whatever he wanted. Wh... JOAN COLLINS
I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United State... HENRY LOUIS GATES
My Father taught me how to be a man and not by instilling in me a sense of machismo or an agenda ... KEVIN SMITH
My father, obviously, and my mother were inspirations. My uncle, Frank Harper, he was an absolute me... HILL HARPER We are born different to make a difference.
LISA R. REYNOLDS My parents always encouraged me and I had a good home life. We were always taught to respect things ...
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ED BRADLEY
My mother is a Bahamian. My father is a Bahamian, as am I, ... And all that I am, I've received from... SIDNEY POITIER I was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano, but I did become fairly proficient as a ...
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My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my fathe... JOHNNY CASH Pun was just a natural-born genius with music, and he basically taught me so many tricks on how to m...
FAT JOE My father always taught me to never be quiet. That's the good thing about a Bengali household.
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My rage had become a living thing inside my chest, an echoing heartbeat that soothed me to sleep and... SARAH J. MAAS
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If here before me stand both- my Guru(teacher) and Govind(the almighty),I'd first prostrate my Guru!... KABIR teacher:"I'm teacher, not because i want to teach children something. I am teacher just because I li...
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