#mother

I always sang when I was little and my father, who was a great influence on me, also had a wonderful voice. He and my mother really encouraged me to sing and play the piano. They were always very supportive. ↗

— Judy Collins

#always #encouraged #father #great #had

My dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years. And when he opened his campaign headquarters back in the early '70s, when I was 5 years old, my mother wanted me to play the national anthem. And they got an upright piano on the back of a flatbed truck and I played it. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#anthem #attorney #back #campaign #dad

My mom and I were super tight. I think she really wanted me to be an artist, you know? She used to like to tell people she wanted to be Beethoven's mother. That was her thing. She wanted to be the mother of this person. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#beethoven #her #i #i think #know

I was so ugly my mother used to feed me with a sling shot. ↗

— Rodney Dangerfield

#i #me #mother #shot #ugly

My father went into the armed service and I never saw my mother - I don't know what happened to her. ↗

— Gregory Corso

#father #happened #her #i #into

When I was in second grade, my mother moved from Miami to this evangelical conservative environment in western North Carolina, two miles down the road from Billy Graham and his wife, Ruth. ↗

— Patricia Cornwell

#billy graham #carolina #conservative #down #down the road

You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#country #crawl #drop #fall #fire

To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession. ↗

— William Standish Knowles

#calling #father #highest #medicine #mother

I want to thank my mother and my father for teaching me to have a dream. You are seeing my dream come true. ↗

— Louise Fletcher

#dream #father #i #me #mother

I think it's important to recall... what you remember your grandmother making, where you're from and the foods you enjoyed as a child yourself, and pass that information off to your kids. ↗

— Tyler Florence

#enjoyed #foods #grandmother #i #i think