Branches Quote by Joe Frazier

My mom allowed me to take an old burlap bag and fill it with moss, corn stalks and rocks, then hang it from a…

— Joe Frazier

I once asked my father for a dollar for the school picnic. He told me how he once killed a grizzly bear with his…

— Bill Cosby

Smoked a bong, killed a cat, had my nuts attacked by rats. Dad got nude, I wore a thong, for a hobby I make…

— Blink 182

Scream at the mangled leather carcass lying at the foot of the stairs, and my parents would roar with laughter. "That's what you get…

— David Sedaris

One fine day as my mother was putting the bread in the oven, I went up to her and taking her by her flour-smeared…

— Marc Chagall

Mum would hit us with anything. You'd see her looking for something to hit you with, and you'd think, please let it be something…

— Lenny Henry

When my dad needed a shirt ironed, he would yell downstairs to my mother, who would drop everything and iron his shirt.

— Hope Davis

One night, my father woke me up because he'd come home with a horse. Two days later, I asked my mother where it was,…

— Roisin Murphy

We were playing a fair, and a few people were handing me stuffed animals and flowers, but one person handed me a paper sack.…

— Blake Shelton

I found my grandmother dead. It shook me up. I got up to make her breakfast, and I knew it was strange that she…

— Gil Scott-Heron

My mom dressed me in silk to go to elementary school. In kindergarten, they sent me home because I couldn't do finger painting in…

— Allegra Versace

When I was 10 years old, we'd pick out a cow and boom! They'd hit it in the head with a hammer, lift it…

— Wilmer Valderrama