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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

Mother, Father, Fighting

"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

Mother, Sister, Brother, Europe

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

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Mother, Love, Beauty

"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

Mother, Action, Daughters, Habits

"No one is going to try to fill my mother's shoes, what she did was fantastic. It's about making your own future and your own destiny and Kate will do a very good job of that."

Prince William, British Royalty

Mother, Destiny, Future, Job

"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

Mother, Hurt, Luck, Play

"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

Mother, Control, Vision, Animals

"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

Mother, Loss, Prayer, Crime

"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

Mother, Sister, Brother, School

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

Shirley Knight, American Actress

Mother, Father, Children, Talk

Explore more quotes by Roger von Oech

"Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up and do them."

Life

"Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach."

Work

"If you make an error, use it as a stepping stone to a new idea you might not have otherwise discovered."

Idea

"It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date."

Ideas

"Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process."

Success

"Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be."

Ambiguity

"If you don't execute your ideas, they die."

Ideas

"Everyone has a 'risk muscle.' You keep it in shape by trying new things. If you don't, it atrophies. Make a point of using it at least once a day."

Day

"Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father."

Mother