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WENDI DENG MURDOCH![]()
I don't believe in regretting - one should try to move on. My mum was good at that. She was deep...
ROBERT WINSTON![]()
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I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shat...
JOAN LINGARD My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
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JANE BIRKIN After my mother died, I found, a little book of hers which recorded everything I had ever done, how ...
CONRAD VEIDT I met Gemma, my wife, when she was 12. She had a schoolgirl crush on me and her dad had arranged for...
GARY NUMAN![]()
I first heard it on a demo right before my aunt died. And then she died, and it was the hardest thin...
BRAD PAISLEY![]()
I've had dialogues with my dead mother over the 40 years since she died.
DREW GILPIN FAUST I expected her to be pleased and excited. Sadly, she was no such thing. When it arrived my mother bu...
GREG DYKE![]()
When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned ...
RALPH FIENNES That was taken the day before she died.
CONNIE GUTHRIE![]()
She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation pro...
VERONICA ROTH I tried to get my mother to move in with me, but she wanted to stay in her own home. When my mother ...
CAROL REBELLO I tried to get my mother to move in with me, but she wanted to stay in her own home. When my mother ...
CAROL S. REBELLO![]()
My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.
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My Aunt Helen was my favorite person in the whole world. She was my mom’s sister. She got straight...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY My mother always read the papers and knew what was going on. She always kept her finger in the polit...
JOAN MCGEE Before Grandma died, she talked about family history in a way she had never done before, ... She was...
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Lucy Mercedes Martinez, my mother, was probably my first mentor. She really tried to take care of me...
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My mother saw in 'Gone With the Wind' the text of liberating herself, ... She took 'Gone With the Wi...
PAT CONROY My mother was a great believer in reincarnation — she believed she and my father had been married ...
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When my mother passed away several years ago—well, wait a minute. Actually, she didn’t ‘pass a...
STEVE ALLEN My father was placid and easygoing. He owned a small shoe store where I helped out on Saturdays. I t...
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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 Elizabeth is 6 and has been involved since before she was born. Her mother was a walker while she wa...
BARBARA ATCHISON 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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My mother was very ill with terminal cancer she was given a few weeks to live, but she started speak...
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My mother had lived in London since I was little, so she never got to see my school plays and stuff.
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JEAN RAGS My Great Grandmother Morrison fixed a book-rest to her spinning wheel so that she could read while s...
MARY LAWSON![]()
I read the 'Twilight' books before the movie and the whole craze happened. And then I loved ...
NINA DOBREV![]()
[But she was closer to her mother.] I adored my mother. She was very formal and proper, but she was ...
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A little muzhik was working on the railroad, mumbling in his beard.
And the candle by which sh...
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KARYN PARSONS I can tell you that my sister never expressed fear to me. I talked to her the Sunday before she died...
LUHANNA CHESLEY Someone gave it to Aunt Mabel, who died in 1918, and then Grandma got it. She was about 13 years old...
ALENE GENTRY'S Anna: Ash, I don't have anything planned with my Mother... She's dead.
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You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time ...
PAUL MCCARTNEY My mother desperately wanted children. She had a child that was stillborn - something I learned when...
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...I discovered a small kitten in the garden, which apparently had been abandoned by its mother. I p...
DALAI LAMA XIV![]()
My mother does not own my hands, though she works hard to train them.
My mother does not own m...
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JOHN H. JOHNSON I read of the Kalamazoo girl who killed herself after reading the book. I am not at all surprised. S...
MARY MACLANE Her mother said she was abducted a few days before in Houston, Tex., and that Scout basically got aw...
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When everything was laid out before her, she felt safe, loved even. She was always trying to be more...
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Eighteen months before I was born, my mother was in Auschwitz. She weighed 49 pounds. She always tol...
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I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you k...
ORNETTE COLEMAN In the teahouses one could hear the most absurd stories, such as how a in a certain place a huge spi...
LAO SHE During my childhood I didn't need to hear stories about evil ogres eating children and so forth; the...
LAO SHE My mother, Delle Hunter, was a physically small woman, yet she was the biggest person I’ve ever kn...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD My mother had a heart attack when she was about 50. My uncle died of a heart attack at 58. Both of m...
JOY BEHAR Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small n...
JIM JARMUSCH![]()
My mother didn't want me to be in fashion. She was in the fashion business, so was my brother, a...
DONATELLA VERSACE![]()
She read and read and read, but she was stuffing herself with the letters on the page like an unhapp...
CORNELIA FUNKE My mother could do absolutely anything. She was like Martha Stewart before such a thing existed.
CHERYL LADD![]()
My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension i...
NATALIE MERCHANT My parents were dishonest people. If it was my birthday, I knew my mother took me to the K-Mart and ...
VINCENT GALLO My mother was in vaudeville, but after she had her children, she quit working.
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My mother had been an English teacher in India before she came to the U.K., and she taught me to rea...
SANJEEV BHASKAR![]()
My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I w...
B. B. KING My father was one of 11. He was an attorney. My mother worked for the Syracuse newspaper as a column...
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My mother was madly adventurous. My father was an actor - he worked with Gielgud - and my mother cam...
FRANCESCA ANNIS My mother was a high-strung perfectionist. She would check my homework for the slightest imperfectio...
ROBERT LEFKOWITZ She told us she was in suspense (while writing the book) too, as if she was reading it.
CAROLINE LELAND My mother arrived in Brussels in 1938 from a small town near Krakow. But strangely enough, in 1942 o...
CHANTAL AKERMAN![]()
I remember when I watched 'Hellraiser' with my mother. She cried when she saw my name in the...
CLIVE BARKER 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 I don't remember my mother ever playing with me. And she was a perfectly good mother. But she ha...
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My mother married my father in 1956. She was twenty-eight, and he was thirty-one. She loved him with...
JILL LEPORE She was a genius, my mother.
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My parents were practicing Jews. My mother grew up in an orthodox synagogue, and after my grandfathe...
JUDITH BUTLER The play was destroyed when Erica lost control of the ball, and she had to pitch it back. I was actu...
JAY SPARKS If I could have one wish, it would be to put the clock back and for everything to be like it was bef...
PAUL BURRELL![]()
When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies. It was her way of getting out, a...
AL PACINO There are some good teachers out there, but the only one who is a genius at diagnosing my swing is m...
BOO WEEKLEY The clock didn't exist for my mother. She wanted her students to attain a higher level immediately, ...
JOEL ROSENBERG When I was eight, my mum found me humming to myself and scribbling on a scrap of paper. When she ask...
NEIL JACKSON When we sort of got close to production, her name kept coming up. She came in and read and she naile...
JONATHAN LITTMAN![]()
My mother told me I was dancing before I was born. She could feel my toes tapping wildly inside her ...
GINGER ROGERS![]()
She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sou...
DAVID MITCHELL She was like a second mom to my oldest. When I told him she died, his face, it just shattered into p...
BEATRIZ LOPEZ The doctors told us it would be a matter of hours (before she died). But it wasn't. It was another w...
BECKY HOLLAND![]()
I'm destiny's child. I wasn't meant to be born: my mother bled for four months when she ...
SHILPA SHETTY My mother flew out to see us on April 9. She had never flown before, and that snowstorm stretched fr...
ANNETTE BROWN![]()
My mother was the dearest, sweetest angel. She didn't talk; she sang. She was a tower of strengt...
JAYNE MEADOWS I originally feared she might be dead, which felt like a sealed book that I would never be able to r...
JANET LOUISE STEPHENSON![]()
I always appreciated the magnitude of my mother's imagination. She always saw beauty in what was...
BLAKE LIVELY![]()
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BILL MURRAY![]()
My mother was the nicest person in the world. I still have people coming to me to say how she was so...
ARJUN KAPOOR I know in my mind that she went right up to heaven. I know she forgave her mother. She knows her mot...
JENNIFER CZAJKA![]()
I heard stories from my mother's mother who was an American Indian. She was spiritual, although ...
TINA TURNER She had a lot of one putts for par. That's a solid round for her, and she was pleased with it.
JOANIE EWING I asked my mother, 'Who are those people?' She said she didn't know. She was happy because the husba...
ELIZABETH NSELE
PAUL GIAMATTI My mother was a dramatic and egocentric person, and she died before my father, who died of Alzheimer...
SUE MILLER My mother died young. A lot of people wanted us to be adopted out, but before she died, my mother as...
EMMA BIEL My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never kn...
WENDI DENG MURDOCH
I don't believe in regretting - one should try to move on. My mum was good at that. She was deep... ROBERT WINSTON
I grew up in one of the most socially conservative neighborhoods in Ohio, and my parents were tradit... GAIL COLLINS
I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shat... JOAN LINGARD My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
BEVERLY CLEARY When my father died, my mother came back from being Mrs. Birkin to being Judy Campbell. She was a st...
JANE BIRKIN After my mother died, I found, a little book of hers which recorded everything I had ever done, how ...
CONRAD VEIDT I met Gemma, my wife, when she was 12. She had a schoolgirl crush on me and her dad had arranged for...
GARY NUMAN
I first heard it on a demo right before my aunt died. And then she died, and it was the hardest thin... BRAD PAISLEY
I've had dialogues with my dead mother over the 40 years since she died. DREW GILPIN FAUST I expected her to be pleased and excited. Sadly, she was no such thing. When it arrived my mother bu...
GREG DYKE
When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned ... RALPH FIENNES That was taken the day before she died.
CONNIE GUTHRIE
She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation pro... VERONICA ROTH I tried to get my mother to move in with me, but she wanted to stay in her own home. When my mother ...
CAROL REBELLO I tried to get my mother to move in with me, but she wanted to stay in her own home. When my mother ...
CAROL S. REBELLO
My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art. J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER
My Aunt Helen was my favorite person in the whole world. She was my mom’s sister. She got straight... STEPHEN CHBOSKY My mother always read the papers and knew what was going on. She always kept her finger in the polit...
JOAN MCGEE Before Grandma died, she talked about family history in a way she had never done before, ... She was...
JACQUELINE WOODSON
Lucy Mercedes Martinez, my mother, was probably my first mentor. She really tried to take care of me... RICHARD CARMONA
My mother saw in 'Gone With the Wind' the text of liberating herself, ... She took 'Gone With the Wi... PAT CONROY My mother was a great believer in reincarnation — she believed she and my father had been married ...
CATHERINE BARRETT ANDREWS My mother was a great believer in reincarnation she believed she and my father had been married m...
CATHERINE BARRETT ANDREWS
When my mother passed away several years ago—well, wait a minute. Actually, she didn’t ‘pass a... STEVE ALLEN My father was placid and easygoing. He owned a small shoe store where I helped out on Saturdays. I t...
ALAN W. LIVINGSTON
My father died when I was young, and my mother, Ruth, went to work in an office selling theater and ... ALAN FURST Elizabeth is 6 and has been involved since before she was born. Her mother was a walker while she wa...
BARBARA ATCHISON I lived with my mother all my life until she died, and I don't really think I knew her, because ...
HARRIET WALTER
My mother was very ill with terminal cancer she was given a few weeks to live, but she started speak... JOEL OSTEEN
Mama said it's probably because of Suzanne, and that you are never the same after a child dies. That... NANCY E. TURNER
My mother had lived in London since I was little, so she never got to see my school plays and stuff. LAUREN GRAHAM A lady called me the other day and said she was able to save $15 on her mother's prescription. She t...
JEAN RAGS My Great Grandmother Morrison fixed a book-rest to her spinning wheel so that she could read while s...
MARY LAWSON
I read the 'Twilight' books before the movie and the whole craze happened. And then I loved ... NINA DOBREV
[But she was closer to her mother.] I adored my mother. She was very formal and proper, but she was ... JOAN RIVERS
A little muzhik was working on the railroad, mumbling in his beard. And the candle by which sh...
LEO TOLSTOY My mother was a librarian, and she worked at the Black Resource Center in South Central Los Angeles ...
KARYN PARSONS I can tell you that my sister never expressed fear to me. I talked to her the Sunday before she died...
LUHANNA CHESLEY Someone gave it to Aunt Mabel, who died in 1918, and then Grandma got it. She was about 13 years old...
ALENE GENTRY'S Anna: Ash, I don't have anything planned with my Mother... She's dead.
Ashley: What?
JESSI KIRBY
You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time ... PAUL MCCARTNEY My mother desperately wanted children. She had a child that was stillborn - something I learned when...
STANLEY HAUERWAS
...I discovered a small kitten in the garden, which apparently had been abandoned by its mother. I p... DALAI LAMA XIV
My mother does not own my hands, though she works hard to train them. My mother does not own m...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH
My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong; she had great faith in the ultimate triumph ... JOHN H. JOHNSON I read of the Kalamazoo girl who killed herself after reading the book. I am not at all surprised. S...
MARY MACLANE Her mother said she was abducted a few days before in Houston, Tex., and that Scout basically got aw...
MANON CARRIE
When everything was laid out before her, she felt safe, loved even. She was always trying to be more... VICTORIA KAHLER
Eighteen months before I was born, my mother was in Auschwitz. She weighed 49 pounds. She always tol... DIANE VON FURSTENBERG
I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you k... ORNETTE COLEMAN In the teahouses one could hear the most absurd stories, such as how a in a certain place a huge spi...
LAO SHE During my childhood I didn't need to hear stories about evil ogres eating children and so forth; the...
LAO SHE My mother, Delle Hunter, was a physically small woman, yet she was the biggest person I’ve ever kn...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD My mother had a heart attack when she was about 50. My uncle died of a heart attack at 58. Both of m...
JOY BEHAR Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small n...
JIM JARMUSCH
My mother didn't want me to be in fashion. She was in the fashion business, so was my brother, a... DONATELLA VERSACE
She read and read and read, but she was stuffing herself with the letters on the page like an unhapp... CORNELIA FUNKE My mother could do absolutely anything. She was like Martha Stewart before such a thing existed.
CHERYL LADD
My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension i... NATALIE MERCHANT My parents were dishonest people. If it was my birthday, I knew my mother took me to the K-Mart and ...
VINCENT GALLO My mother was in vaudeville, but after she had her children, she quit working.
DEAN STOCKWELL
My mother had been an English teacher in India before she came to the U.K., and she taught me to rea... SANJEEV BHASKAR
My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I w... B. B. KING My father was one of 11. He was an attorney. My mother worked for the Syracuse newspaper as a column...
SIOBHAN FALLON HOGAN
My mother was madly adventurous. My father was an actor - he worked with Gielgud - and my mother cam... FRANCESCA ANNIS My mother was a high-strung perfectionist. She would check my homework for the slightest imperfectio...
ROBERT LEFKOWITZ She told us she was in suspense (while writing the book) too, as if she was reading it.
CAROLINE LELAND My mother arrived in Brussels in 1938 from a small town near Krakow. But strangely enough, in 1942 o...
CHANTAL AKERMAN
I remember when I watched 'Hellraiser' with my mother. She cried when she saw my name in the... CLIVE BARKER 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 I don't remember my mother ever playing with me. And she was a perfectly good mother. But she ha...
PATRICIA HEATON
My mother married my father in 1956. She was twenty-eight, and he was thirty-one. She loved him with... JILL LEPORE She was a genius, my mother.
SALLY KIRKLAND
My parents were practicing Jews. My mother grew up in an orthodox synagogue, and after my grandfathe... JUDITH BUTLER The play was destroyed when Erica lost control of the ball, and she had to pitch it back. I was actu...
JAY SPARKS If I could have one wish, it would be to put the clock back and for everything to be like it was bef...
PAUL BURRELL
When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies. It was her way of getting out, a... AL PACINO There are some good teachers out there, but the only one who is a genius at diagnosing my swing is m...
BOO WEEKLEY The clock didn't exist for my mother. She wanted her students to attain a higher level immediately, ...
JOEL ROSENBERG When I was eight, my mum found me humming to myself and scribbling on a scrap of paper. When she ask...
NEIL JACKSON When we sort of got close to production, her name kept coming up. She came in and read and she naile...
JONATHAN LITTMAN
My mother told me I was dancing before I was born. She could feel my toes tapping wildly inside her ... GINGER ROGERS
She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sou... DAVID MITCHELL She was like a second mom to my oldest. When I told him she died, his face, it just shattered into p...
BEATRIZ LOPEZ The doctors told us it would be a matter of hours (before she died). But it wasn't. It was another w...
BECKY HOLLAND
I'm destiny's child. I wasn't meant to be born: my mother bled for four months when she ... SHILPA SHETTY My mother flew out to see us on April 9. She had never flown before, and that snowstorm stretched fr...
ANNETTE BROWN
My mother was the dearest, sweetest angel. She didn't talk; she sang. She was a tower of strengt... JAYNE MEADOWS I originally feared she might be dead, which felt like a sealed book that I would never be able to r...
JANET LOUISE STEPHENSON
I always appreciated the magnitude of my mother's imagination. She always saw beauty in what was... BLAKE LIVELY
While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucil... BILL MURRAY
My mother was the nicest person in the world. I still have people coming to me to say how she was so... ARJUN KAPOOR I know in my mind that she went right up to heaven. I know she forgave her mother. She knows her mot...
JENNIFER CZAJKA
I heard stories from my mother's mother who was an American Indian. She was spiritual, although ... TINA TURNER She had a lot of one putts for par. That's a solid round for her, and she was pleased with it.
JOANIE EWING I asked my mother, 'Who are those people?' She said she didn't know. She was happy because the husba...
ELIZABETH NSELE
