Evan Bayh Quotes

My mother wrote a book. Unfortunately, it ended up being published posthumously. But I'm glad she did, because it taught me a lot about my family that, otherwise, I probably wouldn't know.

Evan Bayh

• My Family
• My Mother
• Write A Book

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• My family was musical on both sides. My father’s family had a famous flautist and a classical pianist. My mother won a contest to be Shirley Temple’s double — she was the diva of the family. At 8, I learned how to play guitar. I used to play songs from the ‘20s, ‘30s and ‘40s in the kitchen for my grandmother.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Family
  • She
  • Mother

• I wanted to be a jockey. I'm serious. First time I got on a horse, I loved it. That's what I wanted to be, but my dad asked me to start performing with my family.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Time
  • Family
  • Dad

• I'm thinking of a legacy that I can be proud of and wealth that my grandchildren can use to go to college. So world domination - in terms of providing for my family - is absolutely my goal.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Family

• I want to keep going as I have, to travel, read, perform, write, and enjoy my family. I've promised myself only this: no more Laundromats, no more two-shows-a-night, and no more deadlines. I'll work at my own pace.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Family

• Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone's grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Thinking
  • Live
  • Family

• My family are amazing. I had like, the perfect upbringing. It sucks for people like Lindsey [Lohan], but it's not her fault she's so off the rails.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • People
  • Family
  • She

• My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I hear my mother’s voice and smile.

  

  Jennifer Garner
  • Moments
  • Voice
  • Responsible

• I didn't come from a household where my mother dragged me outside and said, "You'd better fight." My mother wouldn't let me fight. I was not an aggressive kid.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Kid
  • My Mother
  • Household

• She can't even chew gum and walk in a straight line, let alone write a book.

  

  Liam Gallagher Oasis
  • Line
  • Gum
  • Write A Book

• My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Written
  • Artistic
  • My Mother

• My mother always tried to keep a little bit of British culture in our family. We'd drink tea all the time!

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Tea
  • My Mother
  • British Culture

• I'm happy that I have my family, and I'm happy that I had Virginia, where I grew up, to retreat to any time I felt overwhelmed. Whenever there were times when I felt like the rug was being pulled out from under me and I was floating in this crazy space, I would stop and go back to that neighborhood and realize nothing's changed, really.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Happy
  • Neighborhood
  • My Family

• Fans aren't just fans... they're part of my family.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Fans
  • My Family

• First my mother was Spanish. Then she became a Jehovahs Witness.

  

  Geri Halliwell Spice Girls
  • First
  • Spanish
  • My Mother

• I don't want to let any of my family down.

  

  Dinah Jane Fifth Harmony
  • My Family
  • Don't Want

• I think "waste of your brain" is something that my mother would say to me occasionally - I think it's usually when I'm telling her something like that I can remember every outfit I've ever worn.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Remember
  • Brain
  • My Mother

• And I am standing in front of my mother, and my whole life I have wanted to make my mother proud. And now I'm going to make my daughter proud.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Proud
  • Daughter
  • My Mother

• We care if people like what we did. If you're just making records for yourself, why put them out and do all these interviews and do touring? I'm a huge music fan, and this is what I do with my artistic time. It's all I really do, except hang out with my family. I value human relationships, and it's a way for me to interact with the world and feel like I'm part of something.

  

  Stephen Malkmus Pavement
  • Music
  • Records
  • Interviews

• If a starving bear ate my family, even though he may have had no wicked intentions, even though he was just being a bear, his nature has made him a menace.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Nature
  • Bear
  • My Family

• I wanted to be a doctor, but, well, we don’t have as much money as my mother pretends. Dad said he could manage if that’s what I really wanted, but my mother said it was too difficult for a woman to get into medical school.

  

  Ellen Raskin
  • Money
  • Doctor
  • My Mother

• The Bible got it wrong when it intimated that the valley contained the shadow of death. Death dwells in the high places.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • High
  • Death
  • Bible

• When I was campaigning, I told the people if nothing happens under my mandate it will still be a positive thing because my mandate will be used as a rupture between the past and the future.

  

  Michel Martelly
  • People
  • Positive
  • Happen

• My mother wrote a book. Unfortunately, it ended up being published posthumously. But I'm glad she did, because it taught me a lot about my family that, otherwise, I probably wouldn't know.

  

  Evan Bayh
  • My Family
  • My Mother
  • Write A Book