Alternatives Quote by Anne Waldman

Mother's interest in contemporary American artists emerged during the 1920s.

— David Rockefeller

I came from an intellectual Parisian family. My father was a watchmaker; my mother was a housewife. We discussed politics, art, sculpture - never…

— Sonia Rykiel

My father, Anthony, was a textile agent who sold fabric in the West End and was away a lot. He was very glamorous. When…

— Lisa Jewell

Both of my parents were first-generation Americans, the children of Jews who left Eastern Europe around the turn of the century.

— H. Robert Horvitz

When I talk about my artist parents, people imagine a bohemian environment and think, 'Aha, so that's where he gets it from!' But we…

— David Mitchell

My mother's people, the people who captured my imagination when I was growing up, were of the Deep South - emotional, changeable, touched with…

— Willie Morris

My mother was a Bloomsbury figure: a great friend of TS Eliot, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell. My grandmother, Mary Hutchinson, gave her life to…

— Jacob Rothschild

My parents came to America in the late 1960s because my father studied for a Ph.D. in Indiana. My mother joined him later. We…

— Celeste Ng

My mother teaches high school English, and she's an artist and a poet and a sculptor, she's published twelve poetry books. I grew up…

— Jason Silva

I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have…

— Jacob Epstein

I had bohemian parents in Seattle in the last '60s living in a houseboat. My dad wrote science fiction novels and painted big murals…

— Rainn Wilson

My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.

— Philip Levine