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Births

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• I find celebrity status difficult to bear when I am in the company of my mother.

  Phil Donahue

  Topics in Mother

• My mother cared more about how you reasoned than about the conclusions you reached.

  David Frum

  Topics in Mother

• My mother came here to New York. She and my grandmother were domestics, cooking, cleaning for other people.

  David Dinkins

  Topics in Mother

  Tags in Cooking

• Well, I was about six or seven, and my mother and father separated.

  David Dinkins

  Topics in Father, Mother

• I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image.

  David Bowie

  Topics in Mother

  Tags in People, Think

• I remember my mother had this deck of cards that her mother had given her and that she passed on to me. It was a gypsy tarot deck that I used to carry everywhere.

  David Blaine

  Topics in Mother

  Tags in Remember

• My mother encouraged it so much. She was so supportive. Even if as a kid, I would do the dumbest trick, which now that I look back on some things, she would love it, she would say that’s amazing, or if I’d make the ugliest drawing, she would hang it up. She was amazing.

  David Blaine

  Topics in Love, Mother

• My grandmother was born in 1900, and she would regale me with tales I call ‘Little House on the Prairie’ tales, but they were tales of segregated and racist America growing up in Alabama and Mississippi, where she came from.

  David Alan Grier

  Topics in Mother

• But I’ll tell you this, it started with my mother. I have to give her. God bless her and rest her soul. I had a good foundation at home, so when I was able to go off and do these things in baseball there was always support.

  Dave Winfield

  Topics in God, Mother

  Tags in Good

• I used to take my mother to Yosemite. When I turned 14, I got my driver’s license, and that’s where she’d want to go, so I’d go take her there for two weeks.

  Dave Brubeck

  Topics in Mother, Uncategorized

• My mother Elizabeth Ivey Brubeck was a pianist who studied with Dame Myra Hess and Tobias Matthey. As a child in California I used to listen to her play Chopin.

  Dave Brubeck

  Topics in Mother

• I called my mother up and I said, ‘You know, I’ve been to the best doctors in the world and I’ve spent almost half a million dollars and they’re telling me I have symptoms of a P.O.W. and all I did was grow up in your home.’

  Darrell Hammond

  Topics in Mother

  Tags in Best

• My mother would never let me in the kitchen. I always wanted to cook, but I was never allowed to. Her view of the world was, ‘Cooking is my job, and studying is your job.’ I think, in retrospect, she didn’t like the chaos. She was very orderly. It had to be her way.

  Ina Garten

  Topics in Job, Mother

  Tags in Wanted, Studying

• Like I said on my bio on my webpage, I was born at an early age, I was close to my mother.

  Peter Jurasik

  Topics in Mother

• Most of the kids that I meet in the street are serious hardened criminals that I meet in the street, never had a mother and a father to love them, to protect them, to teach them right from wrong and lead them out of crime and gangs and stuff like that.

  Steven Seagal

  Topics in Father, Love, Mother

• It’s in the history books, the Holocaust. It’s just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandmothers or my grandfathers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany.

  Gene Simmons

  Topics in History, Mother, Truth

• My mother had a horrific life. At fourteen, she was in the Nazi concentration camps. Her sense about life now is, every day above ground is a good day.

  Gene Simmons

  Topics in Life, Mother

  Tags in Good

• There is nothing that I would do ever to break my mother’s heart.

  Gene Simmons

  Topics in Mother

  Tags in Heart, Nothing

• Being a mother is the best thing that ever happened to me. Before you have your first baby you are a girl and then you become a mother. There is no transition into being a woman; you literally become a mum and being a mum means you always love someone else more than yourself and it is an unexplainable situation.

  Brigitte Nielsen

  Topics in Love, Mother

  Tags in Best

• My mother keeps things in perspective for me. She makes me realize that the acting I do and love is no more important than what one of my brothers does-he works in a shoe repair shop. If my career ever tapers off, I’ll go to college.

  Dana Hill

  Topics in Love, Mother

  Tags in Important