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For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. ...
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SHIV NADAR Dear Beloved woman,
Time… so much time has passed since my love wrote his last words fo...
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II![]()
I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II![]()
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II![]()
The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
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VANESSA KERRY I was a goodie-good kid; my parents both worked for the First Methodist Church in Lubbock. My father...
BOB LIVINGSTON It was difficult for my mother to travel with my father. He was 92 and he'd been sick. He couldn't d...
JAMES MAXEY
I was lucky enough to spend some of my school days in Barbados, where my father was working, and thi... PETER MAYLE
My first memory in the world is my gym teacher ripping my mother's necklace off her neck and thr... MIKE NICHOLS My father became a mythical figure, more force than man. . .he was a force my mother would use as a ...
DAGOBERTO GILB
I love my mother. My mother made sure, her stubbornness - she made sure we was going to eat. She mad... TRACY MORGAN
My mother had an illegal abortion in 1960, which was the year the birth control pill came out, but I... KATHA POLLITT
My own interest in art was because of my mother. My father didn't like contemporary art, so he d... DAVID ROCKEFELLER
I lived in New York until I was eleven years old, when my mother left my two older sisters and my fa... VICTOR MITCHELL I am grateful for the willingness of both Jurgen Klinsmann and Everton manager Roberto Martinez to a...
TIM HOWARD My father dealt in stocks and shares and my mother also had a lot of time on her hands.
HERMIONE GINGOLD My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of m...
STEPHEN GREENBLATT
I was born on October 21, 1956 in Burbank, California. My father, Eddie Fisher, was a famous singer.... CARRIE FISHER
My mother was truly my saving grace, because she would take me to church with her. I would see my mo... TYLER PERRY Father's Day was great, but all the family gatherings brought up my mother's death. Maybe it...
DOUG DAVIDSON I would have been willing to do anything for my father. I would have moved in with my father to look...
BRUCE PALTROW My mother looked back at me while my father drove. Her long auburn hair was shimmering in the flicke...
ZARA STEEN
My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they h... AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
My father was a world-class scientist and my mother was a prolific painter. I could see that my pare... JON KABAT-ZINN
My last trip to New Orleans was for the fifth anniversary of Katrina, and I had the awesome opportun... ANNALYNNE MCCORD
My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my fat... STEVE JOBS My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc....
ELIZABETH GARRETT ANDERSON
But death was her curse and her gift, and death had been her good friend these long, long years. SARAH J. MAAS
I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON
It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON I was six months old at the time that I was taken, with my mother and father, from Sacramento, Calif...
ROBERT MATSUI My father was a member of the Teamsters Union in California, where he helped to organize better heal...
HILDA SOLIS
I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays... and my father used to wait outside. ... BONO
My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amoun... BROOKE SHIELDS It should be said that my parents had married for love. The affection and devotion they had shared w...
OLIVIER A. BLANCHARD My mother died of cystic fibrosis before I knew her. I was two years old, and I don't remember h...
JOHN LLOYD YOUNG My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation.
ARTHUR ROCK Although my mother was her own person during their marriage, she loved and respected our father. The...
BEATRICE E. MORRISON Living for [Iraqis] is more difficult and more dangerous. The driver for Voice of America was shot i...
ELLEN KNICKMEYER I remember in the early days when we played six nights a week for a month and I was doing my long dr...
JOHN BONHAM Long afterward, many would remember those two days in the first week of October with vividness and a...
ARTHUR HAILEY My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc....
ELIZABETH ANDERSON My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc....
ELIZABETH GARRETT ANDERSON
I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the h... DAVID MCCULLOUGH
I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse ... RUPERT MURDOCH My parents came from different backgrounds. My father's was grander than my mother's, so my ...
JULIAN FELLOWES My parents had a wonderful marriage, but it was a very dependent relationship. My mother was entirel...
ERIKA SLEZAK
My father has acted in over 700 films. My mother acted in one film, 'Kismat with Mithun Chakrabo... SHRADDHA KAPOOR I come from a blue-collar family. My father worked at the American Can Company as a mechanic. He bro...
JOSEPH ABBOUD I was born singing. My father tells this story about when I was 3 weeks old, how I would rock in the...
VONDA SHEPARD My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, ...
MACKENZIE PHILLIPS
We were all miners in our family. My father was a miner. My mother is a miner. These are miner's... ALAN BENNETT
When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my moth... MR. T He was her first. She loved him, and she honestly thought that they would spend the rest of their li...
VALENCIYA LYONS My mother was funnier than anybody I ever worked for. My father was as funny as this coat. Not a lau...
GARRY MARSHALL My mother had her own horse. Her father drove a horse and carriage and his horses were the best.
LARRY MORRISSEY
My father passed away a few days before my election. This man, an African American born to a poor si... CORY BOOKER
I don't know why Alzheimer's was allowed to steal so much of my father before releasing him ... PATTI DAVIS
When I was eight, I would look at the cover of the 'Ghost Rider' comic book in my little hom... NICOLAS CAGE I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.
BILL GRIFFITH
My mother would cry about my blindness and the hopelessness of my ever seeing, but I told her I wasn... STEVIE WONDER I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. ... WERNHER VON BRAUN For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. ...
WERNER VON BRAUN
I was just as in love with her in our eleventh year as I was in the first. Every anniversary was a v... JAMIE MCGUIRE Then my mother had several strokes and my father, who was 85, couldn't handle it, so Donna came ...
SALLY QUINN
My mother was Catholic, my father was Protestant. There was always a debate going on at home - I thi... DAVID BOWIE
That's what my mother did. And my father was the first person she'd met who treated her kind... LYNN JOHNSTON
My mother would organize huge parties for my elementary school classmates. To prepare, she would go ... CHRISTINE QUINN Yes, my mother was a singer, and my father played piano and keyboards. They were in a band together,...
CAROLINE CORR
You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but i... LYNN JOHNSTON
I am the grandson of immigrants from Japan who went to America, boldly going to a strange new world,... GEORGE TAKEI My father was Catholic, my mother was Protestant, and because of that I got Christened in both churc...
MICKEY SPILLANE
My father was very energetic; my mother was very energetic. He lived to a very old age, and so did m... DONALD TRUMP I was there at the birth of my son and had the extraordinary feeling when I first saw him of thinkin...
ROBERT POWELL
When I came home for the summer after my first year of college, I told my mother that my best friend... JANE SMILEY I have had a fascination with death, I think, that might be considered genetic for a long time. My f...
SALLY MANN I was very inspired by my mother. She was a vocal teacher and sang in a band, and my first memories ...
DARYL HALL I wanted to be Brooke Shields, and my mother was an aspiring photographer, so I was, of course, the ...
STEPHANIE SEYMOUR I had just been promoted to the first rugby team. It was a perfect, wonderful coming of age. My brot...
ANTHONY BROWNE
This familiarity with a respected physician and my appreciation of his work, or the tragedy I experi... ALBERT CLAUDE
When I was 14, my mother died. My father, who had always had ulcers, came apart. He had a series of ... BONNIE BEDELIA The family of my mother had a lot of money; the family of my father, nothing.
CHARO I'm female, thank God, because if I was male this really would be difficult. And, of course, I don't...
LISA MARIE PRESLEY
The fact of leaving one's country, one's family, one's roots, can be painful. My father ... NAJAT VALLAUD-BELKACEM The little queen’s mother and father had said that she would live on, for a long time, and that he...
MEIA GEDDES
I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to ... WYNTON MARSALIS
I was the seventh child in a family of eight siblings. We lost our father very young, and my mother ... SHIV NADAR Dear Beloved woman,
Time… so much time has passed since my love wrote his last words fo...
TALON P.S.
For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran bo... WERNHER VON BRAUN My parents are the last of the middle class. My father worked for the government designing sea mines...
LEWIS BLACK
When my first daughter was born, my husband held her in his hands and said, 'My God, she's s... AYELET WALDMAN My most defining moment was the death of my mother.
KIMBERLY GUILFOYLE
It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and... QUEEN ELIZABETH II
My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II
It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime. QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I have to be seen to be believed. QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou... QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast. QUEEN ELIZABETH II
The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be. QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t... QUEEN ELIZABETH II
To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th... QUEEN ELIZABETH II
We can only win by giving everything and being ready to defeat the adversary with fiery aggression. 
Personally, I need a high level of physical fitness in order to feel at ease. 
I do swear a lot, but the advantage is that having played abroad, I can choose a different language ... 