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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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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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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When I look at female characters, I want to recognize myself in them: my trials, my tribulations as a mother, as a lover, as a daughter.
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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.
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Just being raised in a home where my mother, from as early as I can remember, always taught me to be thinking about other people first, basically that our service was going to be the measure of our success.
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It's a little hard for me to stand behind the walls of the great mansion and play rock and roll star. I feel the need to give back.
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When there is a voice in a piece of music, we tend to focus on the voice. That is probably something from when we were babies and we depended on hearing our mother's voice.
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When it comes to the game of life, I figure I've played the whole course.
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I went through a long period where I was afraid of doing things I wanted to do, and you get your courage back, which is what's important.
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My mother always called me 'sturdy' and said I have big bones. A little fat is what I am.
