Antonia Fraser Quotes
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
Quentin Crisp -
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 -
Sorry, there's nothing like a screaming baby to make a mother twitch.
Sam Taylor-Wood -
On a personal level, there are many people who have meant a great deal to me. My father and mother were certainly of vital importance, not only in themselves but because they created a world for me to revolt against.
Ingmar Bergman -
We started by playing girls who only married at the end of the picture. We didn't play wives. That came later. But the most dreadful thing was when a star had to play a mother. That was the beginning of her professional end.
Lana Turner -
Are people like Tom Cruise in touch with their public? I doubt it. Footballers are more like the rock stars of yester-year: they are box office.
Gary Lineker
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I hate violence, yes I do. It's kind of a dilemma, huh?.
Jackie Chan -
A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.
Barack Obama -
The Saints are the elect children of the spouse of Christ, the precious fruit of her body; they are her crown of glory. And when these dear children quit her to reap their eternal reward, the mother retains precious memorials of them and holds up their example to her other children to encourage them to follow their glorious traces.
Sabine Baring-Gould -
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 -
People will ask, 'Are you famous?' And I always answer, 'My mother thinks so.'
Yo-Yo Ma -
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
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My father and my mother separated when I was two.
Carla Gugino -
My mother's husband Harry Bloom was a writer, a novelist, a reporter, and an anti-apartheid activist.
Orlando Bloom -
My mother was a Democrat - southern Democrat, y'all.
Nancy Reagan -
I am truly multi-racial. I never knew my biological father. I've always had less information than I would have liked to have had. All I know from my mother is that I have connections to many different cultures.
Vin Diesel -
For the purposes of the play, it was perfect to be able to use that and the stresses and strains that there were. At the end of the play, the mother realizes the terrible things she had done.
Fay Wray -
Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization.
Orson F. Whitney
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The first drum beat we all heard was our mother.
John Densmore The Doors -
My time in the World Rally Championship has been a useful stage in my career, but I can't deny the fact that my hunger for F1 has recently become overwhelming.
Kimi Raikkonen -
I don't have my pilot's licence anymore, but I'm still very political.
Mathias Rust -
I think we are just so far away from the political elite. Whether you are on one side or the other, you're still part of that group.
Donald Trump, Jr. -
Sometimes you do get tired in the business from all the traveling. No one outside of the business realizes what we go through. ... Sometimes you don't mean to be unkind, but sometimes you're tired and do things you don't mean. I know the real fans understand.
Tammy Wynette -
My mother was a politician in my formative years.
Antonia Fraser