Roma Downey Quotes

I lost my mother when I was very young, and my father when I was in college.

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• When you're young, you're stupid. You do silly things.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Stupid
  • Young
  • Silly

• My parents were divorced and I would spend weekends with my father.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Father
  • Parents
  • Spend

• I owe my career to Latina women. I was surrounded by the amazing group: my mother, my aunts, my extended family. They didn't necessarily have access to high fashion, but they had great style and looked stunning naturally at every age.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Great
  • Women
  • Family

• I've participated in many demonstrations since I was a child. When I was at medical college, I was fighting King Farouk, then British colonization, against Nasser, against Sadat who pushed me into prison, Mubarak who pushed me into exile. I never stopped.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • College
  • Fighting
  • Child

• I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Know

• We can't accept that it's O.K. if only some kids get to go to college.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Kids
  • College
  • Accept

• I'm in fact Australian but my mother's English so I've got no problem playing a domineering English woman.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Mother
  • Problem
  • Woman

• In Jenny Offill's remarkable first novel, 'Last Things,' 7-year-old Grace Davitt watches her mother, Anna, descend into madness and tries to make sense of the claustrophobic world that Anna has created for her.

  

  Nancy Willard
  • World
  • Mother
  • Grace

• Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Men
  • Father

• I have to be very careful, however, because I have no intention of providing an excuse for this behavior. It's an attempt to explain how so many women come from backgrounds where the pressure to be a good mother is so severe that if they can't do it, something really snaps.

  

  Caleb Carr
  • Good
  • Women
  • Mother

• I'd grown up with a lot of women. My mother was a famous lesbian in the '20s and '30s, and I grew up with only women, so I was used to getting on with them.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Up
  • Women
  • Mother

• When I was young, I made all of my own clothes.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Young
  • Clothes
  • Own

• My mother is chairman of a bank called the Indo-Zambia Bank. It's a joint venture between Zambia and India. My father runs Integrity Foundation, an anticorruption organization.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Organization

• In my mother's belly, I remember not liking the tempi my father played the Beethoven Sonatas in.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Remember
  • Mother
  • Father

• When I was young, my brother David and I were farmed off to foster homes, and I spent time in orphanages. My father abandoned us. Here's the most important person in my life, and I never met him.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• I was the first in my family to graduate college.

  

  Duke Johnson
  • Family
  • College

• Sleep is Mother Nature's best effort yet to counter death.

  

  Matthew Walker
  • Mother
  • Nature
  • Death

• In high school, a teacher's friend in the police department asked me to go into a bar and flash a fake ID saying I was 21 even though I wasn't. They were assuming the bar wasn't carding people. Anyway, she forgot to ask for it back. I used it all freshman year in college.

  

  Betsy Brandt
  • People
  • School
  • She

• I was raised in a spirit of the importance of service to your fellow man. My mom is a senator back home in South Africa. My father is a very caring and generous individual.

  

  Adhir Kalyan
  • Home
  • Father
  • Mom

• I'm lucky that it's about fashion and perfume and cosmetics. If my father had owned a tire company, I don't know what I would have done.

  

  Delphine Arnault
  • Done
  • Father
  • Fashion

• When you model, there's no way you can't notice yourself. Do you know what I mean? Because you're constantly surrounded by people saying, 'Oh, she's too short, she's too skinny, she's this, she's whatever.' And you're right there. They're talking about you, and you're right there.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • People
  • She
  • Model

• It is not just family that must transmit values, but school also.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Family
  • School
  • Values

• It's all about having fun. Play hard and fair, don't hurt anybody. Feel good about what you're doing and how you're doing it.

  

  Eli Manning
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Play

• I lost my mother when I was very young, and my father when I was in college.

  

  Roma Downey
  • Mother
  • Father
  • College