Alveda King
Related My mother, whose family was heavily rabbinic, said she wanted me to continue the family tradition in... NORMAN LAMM JOE GIBBS When he saw her, he meant to have her. That was what he always said. He just loved my mother. AUDREY JOHNSON My mother was a dominant force in our family. And I always saw her as the leader. And that was great... DOLORES HUERTA 38. “A wet bird never flies at night.” (My grandfather said that to me when I was a child and wa... JAMES C. DOBSON I come from a family of teasers myself. My grandfather was from Liverpool, and he had a dry sense of... JEFF BRIDGES SALMAN RUSHDIE My mother and my great-aunt told me stories, like how when my grandfather first met my grandmother a... LEON BRIDGES My childhood name that my father gave me, my mother, my grandmother, grandfather, family and friends... T.I. He is a neighbor of the family she is staying with, and when he went online, he saw my notice. He ca... DOROTHY DEMBOSKI RON REAGAN Trent was a complete gentleman and waited patiently for me to speak with him. When he did get his ch... DOUG HOWARD BRAD PITT My mother was a sociologist and an intellectual, and my father was an industrialist with a business ... CARMEN BUSQUETS For five years I didn't think it was possible to be this happy.TERRY MCMILLAN He confronted my wife and she didn't deserve that. When my wife saw him, she asked him to leave and ... HAL TURNER BUCK OWENS You don't know what it's like to grow up with a mother who never said a positive thing in her life, ... JUNOT DíAZ He saw me crying and he was like 'Mommy, why are you crying?' and then he patted my hair and gave me... ISADORA COCCO JENNY HAN When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he ... FRANK GEHRY NEIL GAIMAN My family was very supportive of whatever I wanted because my grandfather was an opera singer. My da... TONY HALE Basically, my parents messed up because it was the Sixties, and they both had affairs, but they had ... SAFFRON ALDRIDGE My high school coach convinced me to go. He said it's basically like a paid vacation and I was like ... JOE DUBUQUE He was a strong family man who loved his wife and son dearly. He believed that family was important.... CLAYTON DOWNING He didn't know how much more time he had. But he wanted everybody to know to tell my mom that he lov... ANN MERIDETH DAVID BAILEY CORETTA SCOTT KING CLARENCE THOMAS I remember having my father stand over me when I had driven over my own foot; one leg was out of the... RANDY BACHMAN It was like a dream. It is a dream that came true. I lived the emotions. I closed my eyes twice to r... CRISTIAN ZORZI KEVIN GATES BRAD PITT SHIRLEY TEMPLE BLACK SHIRLEY TEMPLE I remember my mother had this deck of cards that her mother had given her and that she passed on to ... DAVID BLAINE My mother was actually born in Ohio but raised in West Virginia where her family had a laundry. She ... LAURENCE YEP SIDNEY POITIER Coach Carey saw me play for the first time at the state tournament and someone told my dad that he s... BRITTANY HOLESTINE Before it was decided that I was going to be adopted, my mother was going to abort me. I was born wi... LINDSAY PEARCE STEPHEN WRIGHT I never saw him. I asked coach, 'How did he do that?' My teammates said I was dribbling like crazy, ... LEANDRO BARBOSA I never saw him. I asked coach, 'How did he do that?' My teammates said I was dribbling like crazy a... LEANDRO BARBOSA Luis said to me that as he turned away, he was right on the line, and he said the ball was over the ... RAFAEL BENITEZ My colleague told a family that their mother was very sick, and the son had a heart attack in her of... DAVID MULLER MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. To me, it is just freedom for my race and just overall cultural freedom for everyone and liberty. Ma... JAMES WARD I was raised by my great-great aunt. I was adopted within our family. My mother had me when she was,... ERIC DICKERSON 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 wanted to be around my mother's family. It was really important to me. That was the place where sh... MANDY SMOKER KEVIN KWAN My mother's father was from Brazil - a painter, and not a famous one - and was always broke. But... CLAIRE DENIS When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice. APURVA GAGLANI Bob Novak called me before he went to print with the report and he said a CIA source had told him th... JOE WILSON STEVE MARTIN My first injury ever was a broken toe, and my mother made me run laps around the mat for the rest of... RONDA ROUSEY ANDY GARCIA Martin was really steadfast in who he was, both personally and professionally. That was a source of ... ZACHARY SMITH I wanted to be like my father, who was a cattle man and a rodeo roper. And that was - he was my hero... DAVE BRUBECK He told me he was going to 'give me my church' right then. He read from Genesis and said a prayer. ELAINE THOMAS Evan stopped completely. He was staring at her with those intense eyes. Staring right into her. Just... KATE BRIAN It was difficult. Me and Pierre, a lot of people don't know that me and Pierre were real tight last ... BRIAN JACKSON SHIRLEY TEMPLE IYANLA VANZANT ALEXA CHUNG ROBIN WILLIAMS Dean had just come from seeing his lawyer. That was the first time that I found out that he had cons... FRED F. FIELDING SHIRLEY TEMPLE God was there. He had his hands all over this and he was able to protect -- to protect my family, to... TOM ARDIZONE My mother had a lot of phobias. She's pregnant with me and she was a very phobic person. So I wa... DANE COOK JACK SCHWARTZ JOHN IRVING How many stopped-up men and women does it take to produce one Einstein? Ten? A thousand? A hundred t... RANA DASGUPTA It was not enough for Martin Luther King, Jr. to dream about equality. He had to rise and become the... BLANCHE HUGHES I turned around the corner and saw him starting to scramble. The first time I was coming from behind... ANTWAN PEEK I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES We have to remember that Dr. King was not an idle dreamer. Dr. King was a man of action. If Dr. King... MARC MORIAL No one knew what Rodney King had done beforehand to be stopped. No one realized that he was a parole... DARYL GATES Why did you marry Dad, Mom?" MARGARET MCMULLAN My neighbors came and warned that the situation was not good. They said my son had been arrested and... ALMASA HALILOVIC JOSEF ALBERS ALVEDA KING RUSSELL WILSON From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always ... GAVIN O'CONNOR My father, who was a doctor, died of pancreatic cancer. But he was clear about what he wanted done a... CARLOS GOMEZ KEVIN JOHNSON My mother was working on her college degree throughout my childhood, and being the youngest in the f... VALORIE CURRY Now, I see! He really kept his promise. He continued to love me, until my heart stopped beating. But... MARIANA CORRêA COSTA HOLLY BLACK RUDY GIULIANI I don't remember my mother ever playing with me. And she was a perfectly good mother. But she ha... PATRICIA HEATON My stepfather met my mother when I was seven years old, and he was a guitar player. So he caught me ... GEORGE BENSON AUGUST WILSON It was after he bit me that, and was kind of, the water had calm down a little bit, that I was reall... ELIZABETH DUNN SPIKE MILLIGAN One of the things that has brought me a lot of success the last five years was performing. At my fir... JENNY PHILLIPS DERMOT MULRONEY STEVEN SPIELBERG My mother died of cystic fibrosis before I knew her. I was two years old, and I don't remember h... JOHN LLOYD YOUNG
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TED KING Most people don't understand that being in the public eye is emotionally exhausting. It takes a ... TABITHA KING Places are extremely important when writing a long story because place shapes a character. TABITHA KING In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe... TABITHA KING Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it. TABITHA KING Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, yo... TABITHA KING STEPHEN KING STEPHEN KING STEPHEN KING STEPHEN KING STEPHEN KING STEPHEN KING STEPHEN KING STEPHEN KING I consider myself lucky that Sheila Johnson, the cofounder of Black Entertainment Television, didn&#... GAYLE KING I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is tota... KAKI KING Having been on tour in countries that are extremely eco-friendly, we automatically end up doing the ... KAKI KING I've followed the lives of great musicians and have learned that you don't have to always wr... KAKI KING I write almost every single part of my songs, even the actual drum parts sometimes, whether they be ... KAKI KING I get why people want to come see me play guitar, but I still don't understand why people want t... KAKI KING I don't remember a time that I didn't know how to play the guitar. KAKI KING I have to say, I do love the Ovation guitars. If I had one guitar to play, it would be that one, and... KAKI KING The one thing I've always done, because I like the sound of my guitar from where I sit - meaning... KAKI KING I had to be reminded that the guitar is infinite. It never stops teaching you, it never stops being ... KAKI KING I see people who work on their look and they work on their poster and their website and you know, th... KAKI KING I try not to punish the audience by making them listen to too much acoustic guitar. KAKI KING Opening acts are hard, really hard. 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GAYLE KING If a bullfrog had wings it wouldn't bump his behind every time he hopped. DON KING I've always been really athletic, which really helped, because when I first started doing the tr... JAIME KING In Hollywood, the cameraman lights the star. In Europe, he lights the set. KING VIDOR STEPHEN KING STEPHEN KING My career is one of people involvement. I'm a promoter of the people, by the people, for the peo... DON KING FLORENCE KING FLORENCE KING FLORENCE KING FLORENCE KING FLORENCE KING FLORENCE KING FLORENCE KING FLORENCE KING FLORENCE KING FLORENCE KING We're often blinded by romance; we decide to not see things we don't want to see, and put up... GEORGIA KING Sometimes you have to listen to a CD over and over before you really get it, but as soon as I heard ... GAYLE KING LARRY KING STEPHEN KING Western civilization is the most successful civilization the world has ever seen. And some of the re... STEVE KING STEPHEN KING STEPHEN KING We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not mak... KING HUSSEIN Maman told me that every time you smile, a very tiny bit of the smile stays stuck to your face, so a... CLAIRE KING STEPHEN KING STEPHEN KING STEPHEN KING STEPHEN KING I normally don't love green juices, but Body & Eden makes theirs tasty by blending ingredien... GAYLE KING FLORENCE KING STEPHEN KING STEPHEN KING FLORENCE KING The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you. -B.B. King. B.B. KING STEPHEN KING If life hands you lemons, make lemonade! Words to live by, especially when you kept in mind t... STEPHEN KING A.S. KING STEPHEN KING STEPHEN KING STEPHEN KING STEPHEN KING FLORENCE KING STEPHEN KING STEPHEN KING STEPHEN KING STEPHEN KING STEPHEN KING STEPHEN KING STEPHEN KING STEPHEN KING STEPHEN KING STEPHEN KING STEPHEN KING STEPHEN KING A.S. KING A.S. KING A.S. 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My mother and grandmother had me in church, and I was the kid that played in church. But pastor was ... 
I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I... 
He had written my mother once that he wanted her to be the first thing he saw every morning and the ... 
I phoned my grandparents and my grandfather said 'we saw your movie'. 'Which one?' I said. He shoute... 
My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously throu... 
He started to say something, maybe an apology and maybe not, and then he stopped, he leaned over and... 
I asked him if it were a mirage, and he said yes. I said it was a dream, and he agreed, But said it ... 
He told me basically that he was pretty sure, real sure that he had the guy that kidnapped my daught... 
Before I was married to Martin and became a King, I was a proud Scott, shaped by my mother's dis... 
My grandfather, as I said, was industrious. He'd had a variety of jobs and decided sometime in t... 
I used to really love Fiend, but he stopped. He just stopped. Every time he had a project, every pro... 
I phoned my grandparents and my grandfather said 'We saw your movie.' 'Which one?' I... 
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store a... 
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store a... 
My father was a certain kind of man - I saw how he treated my mother and his family and how he treat... 
When I was little, my grandfather used to make me stand in a closet for five minutes without moving.... 
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We... 
I remembered that my grandfather had spent his teenage years in Shanghai and that he went back after... 
...My father muttered something to me, and I responded with a mumbled "What". He shouted, "You heard... 
My grandfather was a very elegant individual. My father also. He was a lawyer and farmer in Cuba. In... 
I stopped believing in santa clause when at age six my mother took me to a department store to see h... 
My father never kissed me, hugged me or told me that he loved me. As my only living parent, he becam... 
My dad cut my hair once - I wanted a bob and he gave me a bowl cut. That was a tough few years. 
I basically started performing for my mother, going, 'Love me!' What drives you to perform i... 
Martin Luther King Jr., recognized bias when he saw it, knew what he was talking about. 
Mother's intentions were always sound, never muddy; I don't imagine that she troubled herself to fee... 
It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terribl... 
My daddy, Rev. A. D. King, my granddaddy, Martin Luther King, Senior - we are a family of faith, hop... 
I had a dream that my dad passed away and that Jesus came into the room and he was basically knockin... 
My role model was my grandfather. He instilled in me the feeling that no matter how successful you a... 
She suddenly understood why she had let him kiss her in the diner, why she had wanted him at all.
I was a Yankee fan in Brooklyn because my father was a Yankee fan. And my father was required to liv... 
I had always been fascinated with Napoleon because he was a self-made emperor; Victor Hugo said, ... 
My father was a soldier, which meant that he was a warrior, which meant that he was important. My mo... 
After [my father had] seen me in five or six things, he said, 'Son, your mother and I really enjoyed... 
My dad took me out to see a meteor shower when I was a little kid, and it was scary for me because h... 
The violent rioting that is sometimes now being called protesting - it makes the emotions so high th... 
It is absolutely ludicrous that abortion supporters would accuse a blood relative of Dr. King of hij... 
I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whethe... 
Fiction is the truth inside the lie. 
As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend. 
Each life makes its own immitation of immortality. 
Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it ... 
My father died when I was nine and a half. We were on relief for two years. They call it welfare now... 
People would pay money to work at CNN. 
I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a pos... 
Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at s... 
Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism wit... 
Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalme... 
Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in. 
Today I am in control because I want to be. I have my fingers on the switch, but have lived a lifeti... 
As I drive home, I picture other signs- one for everyone who has a secret. Bill Corso's would say, I... 
As I load my shirt into the washer for the night, I daydream about making a sign and hanging it arou... 
Please, we can get along here. 
Go at it boldly, and you'll find unexpected forces closing round you and coming to your aid.