Derek Walcott Quotes

My mother taught Shakespeare and used to act.

Derek Walcott

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• My mother's side of the family was in the production side of theatre. My grandfather, Jose Vega, was a general manager for Neil Simon shows on Broadway.

  

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• I was about 11 or 12 when I began to pick up my mother's books.

  

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• The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.

  

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• She teaches me to be kind, punctual... and to stand up for myself. And when I think about it, aren't these things every mother should teach their daughter?

  

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• I cook mostly vegetarian vegetable and bean stews. Quinoa salads. I make my mother-in-law's recipe for chicken and barley stew all the time.

  

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• If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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• My mother used to push 'Wuthering Heights' on me as a boy, and I sensed from her breathy description of the story that it would make me laugh. I have no plans to find out if this is true.

  

  Walter Kirn
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• I think that every Saturday, we ought to say, 'My father's a Jew, my mother was a Jew, and I'm a Jew,' with great pride.

  

  Ed Koch
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• I was about 11 when my mother brought me this karaoke machine and I was really into it back then, but about 4 or 5 years ago is when I started printing up my own music, going to the studio and doing my own thing.

  

  Obie Trice
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• My family was very unorthodox. My mother was very eccentric and amazing. She always treated us like adults.

  

  Laura Prepon
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• I am truly multi-racial. I never knew my biological father. I've always had less information than I would have liked to have had. All I know from my mother is that I have connections to many different cultures.

  

  Vin Diesel
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• My mother has an incredible rigidity, which is very Catholic.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
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• My father was a dark-skinned brother, but my mother was a very fair-skinned lady. From what I understand, she was Creole; we think her people originally came from New Orleans. She looked almost like a white woman, which meant she could pass - as folks used to say back then. Her hair was jet-black. She was slim and very attractive.

  

  Ice T
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• My mother is not educated but keeps in touch with world events through news on TV.

  

  Narendra Modi
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• You know, I put my little brother in the movies and he's still in the pictures. My mother makes me put him in the pictures.

  

  Sam Raimi
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• Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.

  

  Karl Kraus
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• A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.

  

  Walter Bagehot
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• I've played a mother before, but it's always been a very young child, which is closer to what I can imagine my own life looking like.

  

  Andrea Riseborough
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• Yes, so it is that knowledge itself must die in order to blossom forth again in death as will; the freedom of thought, belief, and conscience, these wonderful flowers of three centuries will sink back into the lap of mother earth so that a new freedom, the freedom will, will be nourished with its most noble juices.

  

  Max Stirner
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• I remember watching steak being cooked on TV and wanting to try it. As a special treat, my mother cooked it for me, and I thought this would be the time I would eat with a knife and fork. Alas, I ate it with chopsticks!

  

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• One becomes a grandfather and one sees the world a little differently. Certainly the world becomes a more vulnerable place when one has a grandchild, or now I have two. And I think that possibly there's some tenderness that came out of just time and age and being a parent and grandparent.

  

  C. K. Williams
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• Some of the most exciting moments in 'Star Wars' are when you're cutting between stories and you're building this momentum.

  

  Alan Yang
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• My mother taught Shakespeare and used to act.

  

  Derek Walcott
  • Mother