Derek Walcott Quotes
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When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
Patricia Kaas -
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.
Yancy Butler -
I was about 11 or 12 when I began to pick up my mother's books.
Rabih Alameddine -
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.
Nancy Friday -
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?
Kaia Gerber -
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.
Gail Simmons
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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 -
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 -
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 -
My family was very unorthodox. My mother was very eccentric and amazing. She always treated us like adults.
Laura Prepon -
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 -
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 -
My mother is not educated but keeps in touch with world events through news on TV.
Narendra Modi -
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 -
Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
Karl Kraus -
A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.
Walter Bagehot -
My mother was a reporter, and though she quit when they had kids, she still loved it. She told me about the people at the paper and the articles she wrote. She had the best memory of anyone I know, and she could really tell a tale.
Candace Camp
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I find it very difficult to be two different characters at the same time - actress and mother.
Kristin Scott Thomas -
The rise or fall of Shanghai means the birth or death of the whole nation.
Chiang Kai-shek -
I didn't marry a man that wanted to be in the business. But that's why we're a perfect fit.
Niecy Nash -
Brownfields cleanups have been treated like capital investments in the tax laws, and they really are repairs and should be taxed as such.
Elizabeth Esty -
Yeah, I am in love. I'm definitely in love. She picked me up in a bar, actually. She walked by and just looked at me and smiled and I went 'Hey' and she goes, 'Hey'. I was just like, 'Oh my God', she took my breath away.
Darren McMullen -
My mother taught Shakespeare and used to act.
Derek Walcott