Always Quote by Annie Dillard

My parents were not musical, and they were not effervescent people; everything was very quiet. The music that I played was loud; it used…

— Don McLean

I was a loud child, and if my mother sang to me, I would be quiet.

— Maya Rudolph

My family was dubbed the loud family, but that was mostly because of my mother.

— Constance Marie

My mother became mentally unwell with schizophrenia when I was in my teens... We couldn't watch television because she thought the people on TV…

— Cornelia Parker

I remember I always felt much more safe standing up on a chair and singing in front of my mother than I was in…

— Ryan Murphy

My grandfather felt at home with his lunatics.

— Thomas Ligotti

I had one family that used a lot of yelling and screaming, and that was very normal. Another side of my family, nobody would…

— Lily King

My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried about what people thought. They weren't monsters,…

— Paula Danziger

The one thing I'll say is I was a quiet kid. Much more of an observer than a performer.

— Bennett Miller

My mother had aspirations to become a concert singer. Her Methodist Minister father didn't approve of young girls leaving home until they married, so…

— John Coltrane

I remember being two, maybe, and hearing my mum's typewriter in the other room and sticking my hands under the door and screaming, 'Mum!…

— Zoe Kazan

I remember my mother taking me as a very little kid to the roof of our home in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to look at…

— Tammy Duckworth