Peter Beard Quotes
I did have a very advanced grandmother, my mother's mother, who wanted to buy me a camera. My parents wouldn't let her. Eventually she won, and I got a camera in about 1948, a Voigtlander.
Peter Beard
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I was about 11 or 12 when I began to pick up my mother's books.
Rabih Alameddine
A woman's experience is different from a man's in virtually every respect, including how she is treated by the media.
Carly Fiorina
My mother was pragmatic, focused and extremely, exceedingly practical, and she was the ultimate self-determining person.
Ursula Burns
My 80-year-old mother will not buy her heart medicine because it cost more than she can pay with social security. She is America.
Jack Bowman
My family lived in Thousand Oaks. In 2002, when I was 17, I begged my parents to let me move out. I had money, a real job, and wanted to get my own place.
Kaley Cuoco
Oh, mercy, I think we're all storytellers, you know. You think of the excuses you told your parents for why you got home late. I just never gave it up.
Utah Phillips
I always say, one way to connect with a working mother is to ask her what she has done before work that day!
Raney Aronson-Rath
Though I made my share of mistakes, as all parents do, I was devoted to my kids. I walked them to school every morning and walked back to pick them up at 3.
Sally Mann
My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
Quentin Tarantino
I don't think that my parents even imagined that I would be exposed to drugs. In those days, for some reason, it was not talked about, just like sex was not talked about.
Natalie Cole
My older brother, Jake, and I had a bohemian childhood. My parents are deeply unconventional people from the beatnik generation. They weren't married, and I thought that was normal. We called them by their first names.
Rachel Kushner
I married a man whose Hindu father grew up in the rural north of India and whose Jewish mother grew up in the Bronx.
Laura Moser
But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere.
Garrett Hardin
You need to mesh the voices of people with expertise and meritocracy.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Things change. I used to have a real resistance to it and hold on to things, but let things happen and go with it, and you will actually go through it, and it's a lot less stressful.
Mike D
The Beastie Boys
For which he wex a litel red for shame, Whan he the peple upon him herde cryen, That to beholde it was a noble game, How sobreliche he caste doun his yen. Criseyda gan al his chere aspyen, And let so softe it in her herte sinke That to herself she seyde, 'Who yaf me drinke?'
Geoffrey Chaucer
The attitude of giving a full commitment to the partnership will usually result in getting the same commitment in return.
Denise Morrison
I did have a very advanced grandmother, my mother's mother, who wanted to buy me a camera. My parents wouldn't let her. Eventually she won, and I got a camera in about 1948, a Voigtlander.
Peter Beard
