Andy Rooney Quotes
My mother always called me 'sturdy' and said I have big bones. A little fat is what I am.
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When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.
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At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A young mother and a dutiful father with their baby were joined by poor shepherds and visitors from afar. They came with their gifts to worship the Christ child.
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Sorry, there's nothing like a screaming baby to make a mother twitch.
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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.
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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.'
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Having a baby had always seemed the easiest and most natural thing to do, and I had never felt - even in my most furtive days of coming out - that being gay would mean I could not become a mother.
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When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, 'Congratulations, you have an actor!'
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When I was a little girl, I used to walk around with a towel on my head, pretending I was a nun. And then one day my mother said, 'Why don't you just become an actress, and then you can pretend you're a nun.'
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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.
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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?
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My father and my mother separated when I was two.
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I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.
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For the record, my mother is an astonishing and loving grandmother.
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My mother taught me that to maximize your philanthropic potential, you need to constantly challenge your capabilities and put yourself in situations that are not always comfortable. Through her example, I discovered that there is no more beautiful way to live a life than to live a life of service.
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There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
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I guess the most seminal moment going early way back was my father died when I was 3 years old. I was raised by my grandparents, and my mother went back and got a degree.
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My mother was American, and my father was from the Caribbean, and there was a big open door into the world of humanity and music.
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I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet.
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Mothers have a habit of proving right except you don't find that out until you're the age your mother was when she gave you the advice.
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Kids are afraid that if they race too fast they will get tired. Way too much fear and way too little COURAGE.
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On our studio album 'Fly From Here' in 2011, we spent a year and a half promoting that around the world.
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Another glorious Sierra day in which one seems to be dissolved and absorbed and sent pulsing onward we know not where. Life seems neither long nor short, and we take no more heed to save time or make haste than do the trees and stars. This is true freedom, a good practical sort of immortality.
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I thought that we all were afraid of death, but I've talked to my wife and other people, and they're not afraid of death the way I am. I find that really confusing. I don't like the idea of nothingness - that's terrifying to me.
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My mother always called me 'sturdy' and said I have big bones. A little fat is what I am.
