John D. Voelker Quotes

I listened to a lot of stories when I was a kid. My mother told me stories, and I loved them.

John D. Voelker

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• My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • World
  • Mother
  • Father

• Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my grandparents' passion for music, especially from my grandfather Tommy, who was a great drummer. It's no coincidence that I play the drums best, but I am also good with the guitar and the piano.

  

  Caleb Landry Jones
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Mother

• My mother adores singing and plays piano. My uncle was a phenomenal pianist. My brother John is a double bassist. I used to play the piano, badly, and cello. My brother Peter played violin.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Mother
  • Singing
  • Brother

• 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
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Theatre

• My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot - a good Irish name - until she died; I was just known as 'wee one.'

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Brother

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

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Books

• 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
  • Work
  • Mother
  • Connect

• When I was really small, my mother had difficulty keeping me dressed, as I liked to be naked! I definitely had very strong ideas on what I wanted to wear. My favourite look was always Action Man and Spiderman. Now though, I really like beautiful clothes.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Mother
  • Beautiful
  • Strong

• 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
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Law

• My father and my mother separated when I was two.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Two

• 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
  • Country
  • Family
  • Mother

• They see me as being this Super Mom on TV who also can more than handle a difficult husband, and they assume I'm going to be just full of wisdom as a mother and wife myself.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Mother
  • Mom
  • Wife

• My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Man

• My mother was an activist; so was my father. They came from a generation of young Somalis who were actively involved in getting independence for Somalia in 1960.

  

  Iman
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Independence

• My mother's husband Harry Bloom was a writer, a novelist, a reporter, and an anti-apartheid activist.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Mother
  • Husband
  • Bloom

• You can't understand Twenties England until you appreciate it was under a cloud of mourning. Nearly everyone was grieving.

  

  Ian Hislop
  • Appreciate
  • Everyone
  • Cloud

• I was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they're older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an only child, but I was very much loved.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Me

• I was raised Unitarian, and my mother said she took us to church so that we wouldn't get religious later in life.

  

  Andrew Sean Greer
  • Life
  • She
  • Mother

• Well, my main instrument is violin, but I think of myself as a songwriter who happens to play violin.

  

  Andrew Bird

• Whatever needed to be done, I need to know how to do it just as well as my wife. You know, for us to be able to really balance the parenting. It was very humbling, and it was also, um - terrifying. Because, you know, giving a baby a bath for the first time is one of the scariest things you can do on this whole earth.

  

  Jason Isbell
  • Time
  • Done
  • Earth

• Heaven’s Sovereign saves all beings but himselfThat hideous sight,-a naked human heart.

  

  Edward Young
  • Heart
  • Heaven

• The little that we doIs but half-nobly true;With our laborious hivingWhat men call treasure, and the gods call dross,Life seems a jest of Fate's contriving,Only secure in every one's conniving,A long account of nothings paid with loss.

  

  James Russell Lowell
  • Life
  • Men
  • Long

• I listened to a lot of stories when I was a kid. My mother told me stories, and I loved them.

  

  John D. Voelker
  • Mother