"My mother taught me to read."

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"My father and mother - I figured if I could make them laugh, they'd stop fighting. I stole all their material."

Jerry Stiller, American Comedian

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"What a different world it was when I first sailed for Europe in 1930, with my mother, sister, and brother to spend six months abroad."

Gene Tierney, American Actress

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"A mother's love is more beautiful than any fresh flower."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous."

Jeremy Taylor, British Clergyman

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"But I got drafted out of high school, and my mother wasn't having it. She was like, you're not about to think that you can just play ball, because if you get hurt, you're going to be out of luck."

Shemar Moore, American Actor

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"I was so sad from losing two of my dogs and my mother. I had this vision of all these animals sitting behind bars. They had no control and were scared. That's why I got into fostering and adopting animals out."

Linda Blair, American Actress

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"People who lost their mother should be careful about committing crime, because probably no one else is praying to save you."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

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"Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco."

Eric Allin Cornell, American Physicist

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"There are things that you cannot talk to your mother and father about, there are things that you cannot talk to your children about."

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"When I was four years old, my mother owned some tenements in the Bronx."

Cy Coleman, American Composer

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"My father and mother - I figured if I could make them laugh, they'd stop fighting. I stole all their material."

"What a different world it was when I first sailed for Europe in 1930, with my mother, sister, and brother to spend six months abroad."

"A mother's love is more beautiful than any fresh flower."

"Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous."

"But I got drafted out of high school, and my mother wasn't having it. She was like, you're not about to think that you can just play ball, because if you get hurt, you're going to be out of luck."

"I was so sad from losing two of my dogs and my mother. I had this vision of all these animals sitting behind bars. They had no control and were scared. That's why I got into fostering and adopting animals out."

"People who lost their mother should be careful about committing crime, because probably no one else is praying to save you."

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"There are things that you cannot talk to your mother and father about, there are things that you cannot talk to your children about."

"When I was four years old, my mother owned some tenements in the Bronx."

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"This whole tribal loyalty seems to have gone."

"I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them."

"There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true."

"I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born."

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