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"My mom is in the navy and my dad works for the army, but I never called them 'sir' or 'ma'am' or anything like that, and we never really moved around a lot because both my parents were stationed in D.C."
"Whether it's a 16-year old girl, or a mom, or a guy, or anybody, as long as they come up and they're excited to meet me 'cause they've had some sort of relationship with something I've created, it's the coolest thing ever. It never gets old. It's awesome."
"Our songs touch people, and take them back to a time when there was no threat of terrorism, when you didn't have to lock your doors and when Mom and Dad took care of everything."
"At first I could not believe what I was reading. I got up from my seat and walked away, talking to myself that I may have found my mom."
"I was born to a single mom and raised by her and my grandparents."
"When you have lost people like I lost my birth mom at a young age and you remember the whole process of losing her, you want to grab on to something that makes you whole."
"On my mom's side I'm Mexican, and my dad is a white dude."
"I was fortunate enough to have my kids early, so being a mom always ended up being a better gig than these other parts that came along. So I always justified not really working a lot because I had a family."
"I love what I do and I think it shows. As my kids get older, they can see me as a mom who loves working."
"Then you've got Georgetown, and I really just like everything about them. When I went down there with my mom, it really opened my eyes to what they were all about. I have to factor in what a school like that can do for me, even away from being a basketball player."
"My mom introduced me to science-fiction."
"Anyone who knows me knows my mom, Dorcina, has to sign off on any decision and that she will play a major part in any decision."
"I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real, natural extension of drawing as a way of telling a story visually."
"We've always loved going to the movies. Our mom and dad are big movie fans. They'd take us on these movie orgys where we'd see sometimes three movies in a day."
"I love getting my nails done. My mom's best friend is a manicurist. When I was little, she'd do little paintings on my nails, like flowers."
"Last time I spoke to my mom she called me from a pay phone, and we didn't have the best talk. Ever since my stepdad passed away three years ago, she has been very depressed and hasn't been herself at all."
"I always was drawn to the performing arts. I started dancing when I was two. I sang, loved to act, and loved going to visit my mom on-set. But she wanted me to have a normal childhood, so I wasn't really allowed to pursue acting till I got older."
"Well, Mom and Dad are both actors, and I've spent a lot of time watching my mom on stage and a lot of time on set with my dad, so it was very much a part of my growing up."
"My mom moved up between Leland and Greenville when I was just a little tot."
"My mom came from such humble beginnings and especially my dad as well. He didn't go to university."
"When I was seven, I asked my mom if I could be on TV, and she said if I really wanted to, I could. I got an agent and booked my first audition."
"So, from a very young age, my mom tells me that I wanted to be Michael J. Fox. I didn't want to be an actor. I just wanted to be Michael J. Fox for awhile. And then, I realized that he was an actor, so I pursued that."
"Because of my unique experience as my mom's child, the beginning of my journey was more about me trying to figure out who I was on my own. My mom is one of the greatest moms and so supportive of all my siblings and of all of us being who we are, and not who she wanted us to be."
"I'm extremely blessed to have the extraordinary mother that I have, and I don't mean Diana Ross, I mean the mother. My mom paved a road that didn't exist, as did Oprah."
"Part of the reason that I moved to Los Angeles is that even though my mom introduced me to all kinds of music, I really wanted to work on having my own identify, on being who I am and doing what I do, and seeing how people responded."
"I usually travel with a lot of people, like my dad, mom and sisters."
"Oh, my mom. She's one of my biggest fans."
"I was born to a Nigerian dad and a Kenyan mom, and coming to the States was really academic."
"My earliest memory is seeing Michael Jackson in Melbourne with my sister when I was about ten. I still have this souvenir stick with a glove that would light up and make a peace sign in a bunch of different colors. I'm so happy my mom didn't throw that out."
"When I was young, I had two older sisters, and since I was the youngest in my family, my mom took me around with her all the time. I was forever with her when she was having coffee in the middle of the afternoon with her three sisters. And they would talk about men. I absorbed a lot of that."
"Growing up I always shopped at Victoria's Secret with my mom and saw Angels like Gisele and Karolina Kurkova in the windows."
"My dad was Jewish. My mom is not. So I was not raised anything."
"Losing my mom at such a young age had a profound effect on my life."
"Everyone in my family is an artist. Both my parents are painters and my mom's an opera singer. I was never shown any other way to process life."
"My Mom is a ballet director, so I had this idea in me that classical training is the best foundation for anything you do, so I wanted to get a classical background and voice."
"I think there's a danger of a being typecast as the all-American mom forever."
"When you become a mom you just learn how to function sleep deprived and you do get used to it. I came back to work when Finley was three months old and the first few months were rough. Then somehow you learn to exist on no sleep and now when he does upon occasion sleep through the night, which is like a full six hours, you're pretty sure he's suffocating. So you don't sleep anyway."
"You eat and sleep it all day long and play on the streets until mom calls you in. My story is no different than anybody else's."
"I had really great parents who always gave me lots of opportunity for choice, but I didn't always realize how rare that was for a girl for them to say, 'You can be a mom or have a career or do both or do something we haven't thought of yet.'"
"My mom and dad put my brother and sister through university and they were very keen for us to have an academic background just to give us a chance."
"Sometimes when my mom finds a fun article and really wants me to read it, I will. But I prefer to just kind of focus on what I want to do and not really what other people are saying, because I don't want that to affect me too much."
"My mom told me to do whatever I wanted to do and don't get too anxious about it."
"My mom was diagnosed with breast cancer when I was 13 and it was something we weren't really aware of as a family."
"My mom is a constant in my life in so many ways."
"My mom and my stepdad are both therapists."
"My first big job was an Abercrombie &Fitch campaign. But my mom wouldn't let me skip school for it, so I missed half of the shoot. When we got there, we realized Bruce Weber was the photographer we knew we had made a mistake!"
"I've been a pretty selfish mom and a very unselfish athlete for about three years now and it's time to put my family first. It's probably time to move on."
"I'm looking forward to being a mom and a wife and a business owner."
"When I'm in the gym, I'm in the gym, and that is my focus. But when I'm not in the gym, I'm enjoying being a mom and taking care of those responsibilities .. They really do provide me with the balance that I need to be a more complete athlete."
"My mom still lives in Denver and some of my brothers are still in the area, so I still have strong ties there."
"I spend so much time with my parents. My mom and I were joined at the hip for five years. There was not one moment when I wasn't with her."
"Cancer has been unfortunately in my life. My mom's best friend is kicking ass in her battle with breast cancer. Both of my grandmas had cancer. I recently lost a friend to cancer."
"An agent saw one of the plays I did at ACT, but my mom was like, No, she's too young. I became so annoying that a year and a half later she just couldn't stand hearing me any more!"
"If I go on dates, my mom is always with me. She's always there making sure I'm all right. Like if I go to see a movie with a boy, she'll go to dinner next door."
"My mom always taught me to be sweet and polite and cross my legs because it's what the guys like. Actually, they like a raunchy girl once in a while."
"I always had an interest in fashion because my mom is a celebrity fashion stylist. I grew up being on set or in showrooms."
"For some students, school is the only place where they get a hot meal and a warm hug. Teachers are sometimes the only ones who tell our children they can go from an Indian reservation to the Ivy League, from the home of a struggling single mom to the White House."
"When I was going on auditions, it was nerve-racking. I'd always say to my mom that it would be awesome if I could get a series. When Modern Family came along, I said, 'You know what, Mom? I believe I'm going to get this role.'"
"For as long as I've been acting, I have been very lucky to be paired with really great actresses playing my mom."
"My mom taught me how to make grilled chicken, and I bake, too."
"I just started watching wrestling in 2008, and I've loved it ever since. I told my mom I wanted to become a wrestler."
"Naturally, people are curious about how my real mom feels about me having a TV mom."
"I'm a just a mom when I walk down the street."
"Well I was eight years old, and I have an older cousin who is three years older than me and she was doing acting, commercials, and modeling at the time and... to see my cousin doing that was really inspiring and I wanted to do it. So I went to my mom and I asked her if I could do it, and for the acting part of it, she made me study for a year."
"My dad is a lawyer and my mom is an artist. So growing up was exactly what it sounds like - strict household but a lot of creativity. They are so psyched that I get to make music for a living. My parents rule."
"I'm not blaming my mom for my life because I am responsible for me, and nobody can change me or ruin me easier than I can."
"My mom and I have always had issues."
"I've been an atheist since I was nine years old. And my mom is really religious, so we have a strange relationship. But if my mother was right, what would be the reason that the gods could let anything bad happen in the world?"
"I know this is kind of corny, but we thought about renewing our vows again because I think my mom would really love it if we did that in Arkansas, where I came from."
"I remember my mom had a big collection of copies of Saturday Evening Post magazines, and that was really my introduction to those great illustrators."
"I think of myself as a fairly attractive girl and always have, thanks to my mom. I was brought into this world thinking I was gorgeous because my mother was extremely devoted to this notion."
"When I was six years old my friend was auditioning for 'Annie, ' and I decided I wanted to audition with her. My mom was worried I would fall flat on my face because I'd never opened my mouth to sing, so she sent me to vocal lessons. I did the audition and fell in love with the entire process of a show."
"My mom is two people to me. She's my mom number one, and then she's this lady most comedians know as being a legendary owner of a nightclub that's responsible for starting a lot of heavy careers."
"My mom and dad are both in stand-up comedy, so that's where I started, that's where I got everything. My roots are holding the mic."
"I think it would be a lot easier if I said, 'I feel like a dude, ' but I was raised by a southern mom, so I know how to put on lipstick and walk in heels and rock that look. It's exactly that juxtaposition that confuses people."
"When I see my mom in the stands, it always pushes me to succeed."
"My mom put me in dance classes when I was 5 years old."
"When I was a child it was very clear what I was allowed to see and what I was not allowed to see and there was no discussion or option or negotiation. Whatever my mom said, that's what went down."
"I love Westerns and I remember as a kid climbing up on the couch and make it into a saddle and shoot guns and fall off. I would lay there after my death and my mom would tell me to eat lunch and I'd say, 'I'm still dead, Mom!' I was Method, even then."
"My mom was a photographer and whenever they needed a baby for a modelling job, she'd stick me in front of the camera. That's how it started."
"My mom, Emilie, always taught me to think hard about marriage."
"It would be great to do another television show that was a multi-camera because the hours are so wonderful and you can be a good mom at the same time. The problem is, there aren't a lot of multi-camera shows that I personally like. My aesthetic is more geared toward single-camera shows."
"I'm a mom, a full-time mom when I'm not taping. I do the carpool thing, and bake the cookies, and do the homework."
"I'm not a businessperson. I have no sense of money. My mom does everything for me. She makes all my decisions for me, and even buys my clothes. She's very protective."
"My mom was very strict when I was growing up. I could not talk to boys until I was 18. I had to study and work hard."
"When I can 10 or 11, my mom was the one out there catching passes for me. She was my prime receiver."
"I love every second of being a mom."
"It's the best thing ever - I love being a mom. This is my only child. My career was a priority earlier in my life, but now my son is definitely the priority."
"My mom's collard greens. No one else in the world can make them like hers. I'm not just saying that because she's my mom. She's got some Mississippi secret. I could seriously eat them every day."
"I am very proud of my mom and consider her the most courageous woman I know. With perseverance, sacrifice and hard work, she raised a family of Olympic athletes and gave us the tools and the spirit to succeed. That is something that my brothers and I will always be thankful for."
"I think if I could be any superhero, it'd probably be my mom... but I don't think I'd look too good in high heels, so it's not gonna happen."
"My earliest acting memory is making up a play for my mom and dad called The Lonesome Baby. I have no idea what The Lonesome Baby was about. I just remember the title. But I'm sure it was an epic."
"I was serious about ballet for a long time, but my mom got me into tap and jazz and modern and hip-hop, and I was one of those over-lessoned children."
"I probably wouldn't be singing if not for Michael Jackson. When I started singing, I didn't like my tone until my mom put me on to Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder, so listening to the way they used their instrument helped me get more comfortable with my own."
"For the first few years of my life my mom used to cut my hair so there were a lot of bowl-cut hair styles."
"My mom was the picture of the blue-collar mom: Two and three and four jobs to make sure that me and my sister never needed, that was her thing."
"We're definitely a hodgepodge of influences. Mine, most heavily, would be Southern rock - the Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd and stuff like that. Hillary is more from the country side - her mom is Linda Davis, a country singer. Dave, he's a big fan of the Eagles and like that."
"My mom's a concert pianist, so she started teaching me when I was around seven. When I was eight, I started writing my own songs, and kinda started putting piano and singing together. But I'm trained classically, which is a big influence on me, I think."
"It's quite hard to have your mom as a teacher - it's like, she's not necessarily a 'real teacher' for me. But she'd always teach me to really hear the music, and develop my ear, and to try and hear the harmonics of the piano."
"My mom had to beg the guys to let me play. I couldn't even play the drums right - Brian had to show me."
"I'm not sure what I want to do when I grow up, or if I'm sure I ever want to grow up. I'm sure there are people that wish I would, but you know, my mom will get over it."
"I think my first big purchase was actually for my mom. She had one of those '90s TVs in her living room that's like a 10x10 brick, so I purchased her a flatscreen for her living room."
"People close to me called me 'Curry in a Hurry.' I was moving through life at 100 miles an hour trying to further my career and be a great mom and make everyone happy."
"I always tell people, I'm a better swimmer because I'm a mom and a better mom because I'm swimmer."
"My whole life sort of ended when my mom died."
"My mom's passionate and energetic and very funny and enthusiastic."
"She had a hit for every syllable: 'Don't. You. Ever. Talk. To. Me. Like. That. Ever. Again.' That was the last time I ever talked back to Mom."
"Well, my mom taught public school music for almost 40 years. And she's about 5 feet - and very mighty. And she would control her kids a lot by giving them the eye, or the stare."
"I think there's a time to work, and everyone has to kind of adjust. And then there's a time to relax, and be the mom or take the kids on vacation when you need to wind down. So it's a matter of planning, and being able to map out your year or your week or let's start with the day. It is just being multi-tasking and being available."
"I hope that through my work, artists will take some chances, break some rules, and make art that comes from inside of them. I would like to be remembered as a kind person, a great Mom, and a bit unruly - in a good way!"
"My mom is a very warm, typical sort of Jewish-mother type. And my dad has a somewhat, um, different personality."
"Two weeks ago at the U.S. Amateur, my mom caddied, and that is kind of a different feeling, because she's your mom and you have to listen to her. It was really comfortable having my mom there, but it's also really relieving and comfortable to have someone that knows the course off their hat, really."
"I grew up with the classics. My mom and I would sit and watch 'Singin' in the Rain' and 'White Christmas' - those kind of movies."
"When I was little, we lived on 8 acres and my mom had a horse. But when I was 7, my mom kicked my dad out, and then in order to feed us five kids, she got critters cheap or for free and raised them for food. We milked a cow, raised chickens, pigs and beef cattle. We heated our one-story house with wood and stayed cold all winter."
"My mom was a big 'Smurfs' fan, so she would force me to watch every Saturday morning. I had no choice in the matter. I would jump downstairs on Saturday morning, 'Hurray, cartoons!' and she would say, 'Smurfs! That's what you're watching.'"
"I was a big fan of 'The Smurfs' growing up, even though by default - my mom used to force me to watch because she was a 'Smurfs' fan."
"I always think about which blood drive was going on in Georgia that day when that husband or mom or school teacher rolled up their sleeve and actually gave me a second chance at life. It's the ultimate gift of life, and I'm the one who was on the other end."
"The military infrastructure grew me. My faith in God is important, my belief in my country is important, my relationship to my family is important, the things that Mom and Dad tell you growing up are important."
"My mom would have liked it that I patterned myself more after Jimmy Reed."
"I want somebody like my mom. My mom is a very charitable woman. She's the sweetest woman in the world. I'm looking for the second sweetest woman in the world. I'm looking for honesty and a big heart."
"I never let anyone pluck, including myself, unless my mom approves. She guards my eyebrows. She's like the eyebrow police!"
"I really like Calvin Klein for his classic simplicity. I also think Prabal Gurung designs some great pieces that work well for me. My mom has such great style she's my biggest influence."
"My mom had gotten a Super 8 camera to make home movies with, and my brother and me got our hands on it and ran with it."
"That's a big deal for kids, when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee with mom. They react differently on the next day when you say: 'Sit down and shut-up!'"
"When I was 10 years old my mom used to play Tupac while she cleaned the house."
"I took piano for many years. I kicked and screamed through all of my lessons, but my mom really insisted."
"They see me as being this Super Mom on TV who also can more than handle a difficult husband, and they assume I'm going to be just full of wisdom as a mother and wife myself."
"I used to do skits for my mom... and I was always entertaining as a kid."
"My mom was Sicilian, my dad was Sicilian. Mom was a great cook, but all the women were."
"My mom was so people-friendly. She was incredible. She'd go to the mall, and she'd talk to everyone. Give people a kiss on the cheek. I think if I wasn't pushed around a lot, I'd be great with people. Maybe I still can be."
"So much of our lives are defined by habit or what the guy next to us is doing, never wondering and knowing who and what we support with our actions, from the detergent Mom always used, to my favorite dish I make... A lot of my life is unexamined habit."
"Mom worked with autistic children."
"I'm a mom first, a singer second."
"I'm not sure anyone - and I could be wrong in this - grows up thinking, I want to be a single mom."
"I'm from Manchester, Mass., so it was lobster, lobster and more lobster! Also, lots of fish that we caught in the summers, clam chowder and roast beef sandwiches. But my mom was pretty healthy we had a lot of chicken and broccoli and rice as well."
"If you just stay away from junk, and stick with what your mom taught you, you're eating pretty healthy."
"I feel like I'm a stay-at-home mom, which I was for the five years before this. She's absolutely been my focus. That's the choice I made. Desperate Housewives is perfect for me. I get to go back to work and still be able to take my daughter to school and pick her up."
"I remember my mom saying that after you have a baby you get really thin. So you gain all that weight and then you just lose it and keep losing it."
"I don't have to do a lot to my eyebrows. My mom always told me not to pluck them, which is great advice."
"My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself."
"I never thought I was a great mom. I always worked. I fell in love with my children as they got older."
"My mom breastfed me for more than a year, and I can't imagine doing it any other way. It's cheap and much better for the environment, and you don't have to lug all that stuff around."
"They wrapped her up like a baby burrito to show to Mom. Here were a mother and her daughter and I love them both so much. I couldn't wait for Courtney to come to the hospital so I could have all my women together."
"In fact, my mom always told me because I was the daughter of an Army officer born overseas in Paris, France, that under the Constitution she believed that I could never run for president."
"In third grade, I was taking tap-dance lessons, and about six weeks before the recital I wanted to quit. My mom said, 'No, you're going to stay with it.' Well, I did it, and I was bad, too! But my parents never let their kids walk away from something because it was too hard."
"I was really lucky. My gal pal was my mom."
"I still feel like a kid sometimes myself so hard to believe that I'm a mom. Now I'm an adult! It only took 38 years!"
"Now, if you're Al Gore, you can afford $10 a pop for squiggly-pig-tailed fluorescent light bulbs. But if you're mainstream America, two or three kids, mom and dad working outside the home, that's not a very good deal."
"My mom raised us three boys by herself on welfare. It's not worse than anybody else's life."
"When I was 11 my friend's mom made a peanut butter sandwich. I ate the sandwich and was like, 'I'm never eating anything else again.' And I still eat peanut butter every day. I would put peanut butter on a steak."
"You know that I am living proof that the American Dream is real. Growing up, our congressman cut through government bureaucratic red tape to help my mom buy our first house. That's the kind of congressman I'll be."
"But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24."
"I'm named after a horse. My mom's best friend had a horse named Brooke, so my dad suggested 'Brooklyn' as a more formal version, and it just stuck - and now I live in Brooklyn part-time, so go figure."
"My mom is still yelling at me because she needs more autographed pictures."
"I told my agents that I didn't want to go on the audition. But as that was happening I called my mom, who has been watching the show from the beginning, and my mom said, 'It's the coolest show. You have to go.'"
"I'm not a figurehead for anything. I was a single mom with two kids. What else was I going to do? It was either be in a band or be a waitress."
"It was definitely a part of our life. I mean, my mom had both her brothers and her fiancee in Vietnam at the same time, so it wasn't just my dad's story, it was my mom's story too. And we definitely grew up listening to the stories."
"My mom and my dad wanted my brother and I to have a better life, you know, better education, better jobs. It was probably harder, much, much harder, for my parents. When you're a kid, you can learn a language much more easily I learned English in less than a year."
"I'm almost a full-time mom."
"I was two years old when my mom put me in mommy and me classes. I always had a lot of energy so it was the perfect fit!"
"I've always been homeschooled, so doing it on set is kind of the same thing. My mom makes it very interactive - we'll get a book on chocolate and learn how to make it, or she will buy antique items. I love military history, the mechanics and strategy of it."
"Just recently I was in Target with my mom shopping, and out of the blue, I see this father and his two daughters and he says, 'Can they get a picture with you?' And I'm thinking to myself, 'Am I the one millionth customer or something?'"
"My mom thought I might be good for voiceover. She thought I had a cute voice, so maybe I could do a cartoon or something. And while we were looking into that, we also thought I should get into theater acting, so I tried it and the first audition I went on, I booked it. And it kind of just snowballed from there."
"As a mom, I understand how important it is to ensure kids start their day right and always make sure my kids have a nutritious breakfast. One in five U.S. children live in homes where food is not always available, which is why I partnered with Kellogg's on their 'Share Your Breakfast' campaign, which provide breakfasts to kids in need."
"Well, I am not really a conventional mom at all. Like, I had my kids really young. I had Danny when I was 18 or 19 and then Liam when I was 23 and Molly, I had when I was a little older."
"My parents were both in show business. My father was an actor, my mom an actress, and both singers, dancers and actors. They met in Los Angeles doing a play together and so I grew up in a show biz family."
"It's impossible to put yourself first when you're a mom."
"My mom was a Democrat and I was scared to death that she was gonna blow it. First I was going to hell with Monroe, and now to Republican hell with Nixon."
"I wasn't always a writer. When I went to college and majored in fine arts, I was a painter. Then I was a stay-at-home mom."
"Sometimes, if you don't have kids yourself, it's assumed you won't understand or know how to play a mom, which is kind of silly if you think about it."
"We've got activists all across the country like the members of the Million Mom March organization, some of their leaders are here tonight. We're phone banking congressional offices and pursuing editorial boards."
"My mom sent me to regular high school because she wanted me to have that experience and not say that I missed out, but I didn't like it at all. I'm more comfortable in the world that I'm in, I grew up in it so when I get around normal kids in regular high school I don't know what to do. I feel more secure in an adult environment."
"My mom died of cancer when I was really young. I'm not someone who tries to work out their own stuff with a role, but I think that happened despite my best efforts to keep myself separate from it."
"I couldn't wait until I grew up. I used to look at my mom's stockings and put them on with her high heels and mess with my hair."
"My mom has a tape from when I was, like, 2 years old, talking with my grandma, telling her a story that's really elaborate about werewolves and wolves."
"My mom and father are extremely proud. They love it when I don't die. I've done so many movies where I've died that their first question when I book a job is, 'So, are you going to die in this?'"
"I never liked apples. In fact, when I was a little girl, my mom wanted to give me apples in my lunch box and I would ask for green peppers. So bizarre... It's funny - I don't have an apple a day, but I can say that I have a few a week."
"At 3 years old, I was imitating and doing fun little commercials for the family. Then at 5, I knew, 'OK, this is something I really like.' At 8, I was crying in front of the mirror and my mom was like, 'Oh boy, here we go. We know what she's going to do.'"
"I think my mom threatened to put me up for adoption a few times."
"My mother was predominately a stay-at-home mom."
"My mother stopped working when she had my brother. She was a full time mom until I started getting heavily into ice skating lessons, and it got to the point where they really needed my mom to earn an income."
"I had ridiculous amounts of energy. Mom's like, you're driving me crazy - do you want to try gymnastics? From the moment I started it, I loved it and it kind of was like storybook from there."
"My mom always made sure I lived my life as a regular kid."
"I wanted to be an astronaut and wanted to go to space camp, but then I found out that I was too short to become an astronaut. My mom really made me believe that if I worked hard enough and if I really wanted to do it, I could do it."
"I heard the Beatles and the Stones, and Mom bought me an electric guitar. I played lead for four years and then switched to bass. One day someone suggested that I should sing, so I sheepishly stepped up to the microphone and the rest is rock history."
"I naturally wanted to be saved, so when I came home I told my mom I wanted to be confirmed. That's the way I related to it, being raised an Episcopalian. I went to Dallas and got confirmed."
"Married and divorced, three beautiful daughters, two in college. The other one is 16, lives with her mom. I'm 46, I've worked for the Post Office for 18 years, seven facilities in three states."
"I've had to adapt my wardrobe to my various roles, both at the office, as a mom, and for television. When I shop for the season I look for pieces that will suit every facet of my daily life, not just one single occasion."
"For example, I loved English and history at school. I would have loved to have done a degree in either. But my Mom said I didn't have time for university."
"I got tackled once in a movie theater. I was with my mom and brother, and then suddenly I got hit from behind and sort of sprawled out on the candy counter."
"There was a point - when I was a kid - where I said I wanted to be like Luke Skywalker, with blond hair and blue eyes. My mom right there told me to never be ashamed of who I am."
"I would borrow my mom's red Borghese lipstick and smear it on like a clown!"
"I'd never really babysat. I feel like I'm Blair, or 'Gossip Girl.' A teenager, basically - and now suddenly I'm a mom?"
"I had so many offers after 'True Blood' for things that were someone in the same vein, but nowhere near Alan Ball's vision. Or something that was over-the-top and fantastical. And I've always wanted to play the regular, working-class mom, and I've never really had the chance to do that."
"I am a mom as well as a senator!"
"I had said to some pastor that I was having thoughts, and the church turned on me. They went to my mom and said, So sorry about your son."
"My mom doesn't get the whole gay thing, but she loves me."
"When Queer Eye hit, the church told my mom they were praying for me. She said, God loves him too. And I support him 100 percent."
"My brother Jim and I spent many wonderful summers working on dairy farms in Wisconsin owned by Mom's cousins, and as members of our local Boy Scout troop."
"I played with dolls until I was 15. My mother encouraged it because my older sister got married when she was 15, so Mom thought that the longer I stayed with dolls, the better."
"When I came out of my mom's womb, I had 'sitcom' stamped on my forehead."
"My father left... but I tell my mom - and I told my mom this when I was a kid - I said, 'You know what, Mom? Good thing he left because you're a strong woman.'"
"But the fact is, I'm not work-identified. I'm not a lawyer or a writer. I'm a mom, and I'm a woman, and that's the kind of people I want to see in books in the starring role."
"For a kid who's lost his mom and all the rage and grief that no one was able to talk out of me, football was a very therapeutic sport. Very."
"I was 3 when I told my mom that I knew what my dharma was and that I wanted to be an actor."
"I was home-schooled, was always very close with my mom and was very straight-laced and square. I was never the rebellious one, and I never threw hissy fits."
"My mom once lost track of me at the zoo and when she found me I was lecturing a man about the difference between dromedary and Bactrian camels. I was about 3 1/2."
"I do believe that there are African Americans who have thick accents. My mom has a thick accent my relatives have thick accents. But sometimes you have to adjust when you go into the world of film, TV, theatre, in order to make it accessible to people."
"My mom would be leaving the house and she'd say, 'Don't you pull out all of the old dresses in the attic and put on a show again!' And the door would close, and that's exactly what I'd do. The show was calling me!"
"I didn't really know what I wanted to do, and then I got this call from a casting director in Los Angeles. She remembered me from something years before, and she called my mom wanting me to audition for this thing."
"I've always wanted to be an actress, ever since I was a little girl. I always played the mom and I played my sister as the daughter. I wanted to be an actress on television and movies instead of just around the house."
"I was watching TV at age 9 or 10, and my mom said that I came from the front room and I told her that I want to act. And she said if you want to do this at 18, then you can. It was a very simple story, yet, I do not even remember the conversation that I had with my mother. Until she reminded me of the story many years later."
"My mom didn't ever think I would take to acting because I was a very shy, very reserved kind of child. But obviously, something changed!"
"For me, being tall was very positive because I thought my mom was the most beautiful person ever."
"I don't think I would have been able to stick with it and been proud of who I am and be feminine out on the court. I think I would have folded to the peer pressure if I didn't have my mom to encourage me to be me and be proud of how tall I am."
"My mom is in her mid-60s and has more energy and is more youthful than any human being I know. It's pretty incredible."
"I suddenly had this really mad desire to have an affair with a woman. I was divorced. I was childless. I figured there's got to be one more way to really tick off my mom."
"My mom has this great skiing event in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, every year for a local charity."
"I've looked at pictures that my mom has of me, from when I was four years old at the turntable. I'm there, reaching up to play the records. I feel like I was bred to do what I do. I've been into music, and listening to music and critiquing it, my whole life."
"I remember my mom saying to me that what your friends do is one thing, but what you do could be on the front page of the paper."
"I would make my mom buy me the toy doctor kit."
"I begged my mom to let me start skating."
"I was into opera as a kid - I'd play 'Carmen' and sing and dance. My mom signed me up for a theater group before preschool, and I never looked back."
"Of course, I would be depressed sometimes, and my Mom would be worried about me because I would just sleep to escape. Cause I was so scared of being a musician or artist, or whatever you want to call it."
"My mom was onstage when she was pregnant with me."
"There are days when I wonder why my mom couldn't be here to see this."
"A Modern Mom to me is not always someone that juggles a career and family. A Modern Mom is a woman who takes care of herself on the inside and the outside."
"I showed my mom the movie then I told her the movie got bought and that it was gonna be shown in theatres and be on video. Everyone was really psyched about it. Everyone in my little town of hounds started to call me movie star."
"I remember my mom dressed like Janis Joplin."
"Before I was a mom I used to think that parents who worried about their kids watching MTV were just clueless. Now that I'm a mom, I see what the fuss was all about!"
"I dyed my hair blonde when I was 14. My mom was not happy. But I love being blonde."
"My mom was definitely very strict with me."
"My mom was a source of strength.She showed me by example that women, regardless of how difficult life may get, can do it all."
"Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste."
"My mom, she's from Ireland, coached tennis in Nigeria when she was a missionary and turned me on to it when I was young."
"I'm talking like 10, 12 years old. Either junior brings Mom and Pop or Mom and Pop bring the kids. I'm talking young here, not a college drinking crowd."
"I'm like any working mom."
"Now that I'm a mom, I'm way more laid back. If you come into my house, don't look for a coaster. Forget it. There is not a piece of furniture in my house now that is too precious."
"My very sassy, older southern sister is very quick to point out that it's a luxury that my daughter gets to come to work with me. She does, and I have lunch with her every single day. My mom says I have 'high class problems.'"
"I think it's a tough road if you're a stay-at-home mom, a working mom, if you have a partner, if you don't. It's the best job in the world, and the toughest job in the world all at the same time."
"When I was a kid and got in trouble, I'd always say, Mom, I'm in trouble. Well, Mom, I'm in trouble."
"The first few weeks of being a mom were profound, not just emotionally but also, physically. All the changes you instinctually go through are miraculous."
"I deal with postpartum feelings by reaching out to mom friends. I became very close with some of the women in my prenatal yoga class."
"My mom always said that if the Protestants catch a Catholic in their church, they feed them to the Jews."
"Death can't be so bad if mom went through it. It makes it easier for the child to follow."
"The rule with my mom was that the only way that I could be an actress when I was young was that I continued to go to public school and get straight A's in all my classes."
"My mother smokes me out. We'll get these long periods of me thinking I'm too busy to call her up or e-mail her, and she'll send me something. My mom's a real whiner. I love her to death, but she always sends me these 'woe is me' things. I think she might be Jewish. I'm not sure. She's Baptist-Jewish, which is a double whammy."
"When I was 12 I cried to my mom, because I never got my letter to Hogwarts."
"I love playing moms. It's a lot easier than being a mom, I hear."
"My mom's one of 13 siblings, and they all got six kids, and till I was 13 everybody was in Compton."
"My parents and my grandfather on my mom's side would travel the earth. They went to Australia and China, and they went to probably every soccer game I ever played."
"I have a 16 year-old son, so I'm now a soccer mom. I stand on the sidelines and I hear the things parents are saying, so I want them to understand what it is their kids are feeling in any sports environment."
"My mom bought me a white Strat, but that wasn't what I wanted, so I went to a guitar store in Cleveland and - the guy told me it was a really good deal - made an even swap for a blue Teisco Del Ray. I loved that guitar and used it a bunch."
"My mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom, Zarela Martinez, was by far my biggest influence and inspiration - and toughest critic."
"I would forgive my mom, but she's going to have to admit she did some things that were wrong."
"When I get a new script my mom will read them and just be aghast. I think it's hysterical."
"Trying to be Supermom is as futile as trying to be Perfect Mom. Not going to happen."
"There is nothing like becoming a mom to fill you with fear."
"Before becoming a mom, I never knew how good I had it to just spend time at a spa for a few hours. Now, those days are far and between. So when I have an hour, it's all about the mani and pedi."
"My mom was at every single game I played as a kid, rain or shine."
"My mom, she's a breast cancer survivor and because of that I had started getting mammograms once a year, starting at age 30."
"There are lots of different ways for women to be a mom in this culture."
"My mom was always pretty supportive. She saw me do plays and she'd always act out the parts I did. My aunt, who played a big part in my life, was a little bit more reserved, because if they don't see you on TV every week they think you must be starving."
"My mom put me in a Pampers commercial on TV."
"I have a very close relationship with my mom, and I'm able to talk to her about anything."
"I can't remember a time when my mom didn't work. She has forever been on the move: a go-getter. When my brother Adel and I had a paper route as kids, my mom would get up before us at the crack of dawn to drop off the Washington Post at different corners."
"To this day, my mom's unsinkable spirit is an inspiration to me. For nearly thirty years, she's worked at the Library of Congress. Everyone knows Sameha simply as 'Sami.' Along with 500 miles of shelved books, her closest friendships are cataloged in that library. They are as much the value of work to my mom as is the work itself."
"My mom has a good way of engaging me in a conversation about the choices I make, listening, being objective and open-minded, and respecting those choices so long as they don't put me in danger."
"I'm proud of what I look like. I'm proud that I look like my mom."
"My mom died when I was 8."
"I was looking to do something non-fiction because I had done a strip, 'My Mom Was a Schizophrenic.' I really enjoyed the process of doing that strip, despite its subject matter. To do it I'd had to do a lot of research and reading and I figured I'd like to do that again."
"I wanted to get us a place of our own with a little bit more space. The kitchen is just huge, because my mom... lives there, man, and she loves being in the kitchen."
"My mom was always the supplier of soccer balls, and so people were always knocking on my door, and trying to get me out so we could play."
"My mom did costumes for the Pointer Sisters."
"If I made a list of the people I admire, Mom would probably fill up half of it. She could do anything and everything."
"Growing up with three older brothers and being the youngest and the only girl, my mom always made me tough. She's taught me over the years how to be a strong, independent woman, how to carry yourself in a positive way and anything that my brothers can do, I can do."
"I saw things at an early age because my mom was a theater actress. I did a play with her when I was 10 years old."
"Well, when I was a little girl we had 17 cats once. They all lived outside, and they kept having more kittens. My mom made us put little ribbons around each kitten's neck, put them in a wagon, and go door-to-door around the neighborhood to try to give them away."
"My mom is very Southern and she in real life says things like, 'If you've got it, flaunt it.'"
"My mom was a saint. She taught me to be terminally nice."
"When you're a mom and you have three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with."
"My goal is to be a household name, and when I do that, I want to help other girls become models, and maybe even launch a fashion line with my mom, like Beyonce did with her mother. My mom has such a good eye, and it's always been a dream of hers."
"We always had 'Vogue' in our house. But, when I was around 12, my Mom finally took me seriously about modeling and put a stack of magazines in front of me, then told me to study all the poses. The ones I loved the most were in 'Vogue.'"
"I've had Susan Sarandon play my mom, and now Lesley Ann Warren has played my mom, so if I could have Debra Winger play my mom, then I would have the trifecta of my favorite actresses playing my mother."
"The most important thing in my father's life? World peace. Me and my brother. My mom."
"I wanted to have a personal life that I fully inhabited, not because I am such a great mom, but for me."
"My mom is many times responsible for getting us all together, but we trade off at each other's houses. My brother and I are actors and are traveling a lot of our job."
"When you're adopted, no matter what, you've got issues with unconditional love. And you find out you're the product of the worst situation for a young girl to be in and start her life, and I'm so grateful that my birth mom made the decision she made. She came from a rough situation."
"There's a book called 'The Shack' - it had a lot to do with me coming full circle, meeting my birth mother. Awhile back, my birth mom and my adopted mom came to my show together, and it was pretty surreal."
"My mom didn't use face cream, like, nothing at all. She's got great skin and looks very youthful."
"For me, just being how old I am, I know I don't want to be a single mom. I really would rather make it a two-person job. But I've also come to terms with not being a mother at all. I'm actually really good with either direction that my life can take as being a valid experience."
"My mom was a '70s mom. She paved a road that no one had yet walked."
"I've changed my life in a lot of ways. I'm a mom, a wife, and a Christian. Some of the things I expressed in my early 20s aren't what I care to express right now."
"My mom would give me a piece to play, but I wouldn't do any theory because when it came time to do it I would sneak back upstairs and watch TV. So, I had these kind of nonchalant lessons for years, then it just started soaking in."
"But my mom was a pianist, and she taught piano out of her house. I was just so excited, being a little kid and having all these other kids come to my house twice a week. I thought it was a big party."
"President Obama likes to talk about the Buffett Rule. Well, here's a Buffett Rule that all Americans should be able to support: mom and pop businesses should not pay a higher tax rate than Fortune 500 corporations like Warren Buffett's."
"It's hard either way, at home or on the bus, I think the hardest thing probably for me is going one second from being mom to right out on the stage and having to be that person too. It's hard to switch gears."
"As a mom, I always feel I have to protect them. I talk about them because they are the most important things in my life but they are private people. I won't use them for my own press."
"Being a working mom is not easy. You have to be willing to screw up at every level."
"I also think a Hot Mom is someone who can connect with what's current in her kids' world."
"My mom sang in high school choir and so did my father."
"You know, I loved math. My mom was a math teacher."
"My mom always encouraged me, it was never weird. She'd look at 'Heavy Metal' and go 'Woo-hoo!'"
"I've always been a writer because I've always been a student. My mom's a retired professor, so I come from a very academic background. I love writing, you know?"
"I told my mom I would graduate. I owe that much to her and myself."
"What mom cares about most is that I'm happy, healthy and enjoying my life."
"Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids."
"My mom used to tell me stories at night, read books to me - and I read 'em over and over and over again. And you know what I learned from that? I went back and looked at everything - Why do I like reading the same stories over and over and over again? What, was I some kind of nincompoop? No - the narrative gave me connection with my mom."
"I was born in Texas and I lived there 'till I was 8. Then I moved to the Dominican Republic with my mom, lived there for two years and forgot every word of English I knew."
"I would go visit my mom on Sundays, and my brother was working on stuff. I'd go in there and sing a little melody, then we started working with words and the next thing you know it was just born organically without really trying."
"I was a single mom that raised two bright, beautiful, and compassionate girls."
"I'm a full-time mom right now and a part-time actress."
"I have many valentines. My mom and my sister and my directors. I got calls from all of them. And my friends. I respect what Valentine's Day stands for because it is about love."
"My mom loved to sing - and I'll go on record and say she was the worst singer ever. I'd get up and move away from her!"
"I want to go to college to study journalism. I want to speak French fluently, to travel. My mom was a journalist and it's in my blood."
"I like my name. My mom named me after a song by the 1970s group Bread. So, it's meaningful, and I like the song. It's a love song - kind of - but it's kind of depressing and dark."
"Some of the best times I've spent in Colorado have been in the backcountry with my mom and siblings, and more recently, with my own kids. That is why I'm concerned to see today's kids spending more time browsing the Internet than exploring nature."
"My mom used to take me down to the Jersey Shore when I was 7, 8, 9 years old. I can remember being down in that area - Belmar, Seaside Heights, Asbury Park and all those places that I went back and revisited."
"My mom was a model. She had me at 20, so she was a young mother."
"I'm a nice, happily married wife and mom and I live in Connecticut."
"I am excited to rise today to support National Mom and Pop Business Owners Day. This celebration honors the husband and wife business owner teams whose work helps drive the economy and fuel job growth."
"Our parents are obviously proud, but they're still trying to get used to the fact that we're in a band. I have a feeling my mom would actually like One Direction if I wasn't in it!"
"I am a single mom and I'm the breadwinner and I have to work and I have to do these things and that's just the way it is. I don't think my son even knows any different."
"My mom will make me walk the dogs or take out the trash when I go home."
"I think I'd be a great mom, honestly. I don't think I'll have any problem giving them all the love in the world. Discipline will be the hard part."
"I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere."
"My memory of my mom is a wine glass in one hand and a cigarette in the other. She was a runway fashion model, and she was quite a glamorous woman."
"My mom started smoking when she was 11. She went to the hill next door to try her first cigarette. She set the entire hill on fire, but it didn't deter her."
"I grew up in a family of Republicans. And when I was 18 and registering to vote, my mom's only instruction was 'You just go in and pull the big Republican lever.' That's my welcome to adulthood. She's like, 'No, don't even read it. Just pull the Republican lever."
"When I look up and see a star, I know my mom is there. She's with me all the time. It's a powerful connection."
"My hero is Michelle Williams, who I grew close to when we did 'Meek's Cutoff.' She's an extraordinary actor and mom."
"My mom is a sculptress."
"I've never had my brows done - I tweeze them myself. I used to watch my mom pluck her brows, that's how I learned."
"I'm from Tennessee. My mom lives in Nashville. I'm born and bred country. That's all I listen to."
"I grew up in the '80s, and there was no bigger group than New Edition in R&B. I broke my piggy bank so me and my mom could go to a New Edition concert together."
"I want to make sure I continue to make good music that my mom and everybody around me can be proud of."
"My father still is a lawyer, and my mom was a teacher and then later a career counselor."
"My mom cooked pot roast with noodles and frozen vegetables. Or she'd make spaghetti or hot dogs, or heat up TV dinners. Before I started modeling at age 19, I was 5'8" and weighed 165 pounds."
"When I was a child, I wanted to be an actor, but I had really bad buckteeth. I didn't want to get braces, but my mom said I couldn't be an actor if I didn't get the braces. So, I got the braces."
"I have to keep reminding myself that I am their mother. Sometimes we are sitting at home and I feel like we are waiting for our mom to come home."
"The fact that I'm very close with my past relationships is something I pride myself on. My mom is still close to her first husband. It's nice to be able to enjoy someone in a different form."
"I care so passionately about improving the quality of life for women and girls, not just here in the United States, but internationally as well. I am a single mom and I raised a daughter who is now a young adult."
"No matter what, like, I couldn't - I could break a world record, get an Olympic gold medal, and my mom would be, like, you could have done better. But you looked pretty. That's what she says all the time."
"My mom is great and I make sure that we pray together before every race. She helps me put everything in perspective and remind me of the real reason I run."
"My mom was always the support. I can always go out to her and she'll always find the positive in things."
"I'm a competitive person and it is in my nature to try hard in every match I play. The only time I'm not competitive is when I'm playing against my mom."
"I was actually the one who decided to move to LA. Mom and I were driving on Sunset Boulevard during one of our trips back to see her family, and I said, 'Can we just stay?' So we did."
"I love kids and children, and I love being a mom."
"My mom really instilled in me that I'm beautiful and I can do anything, and I echo that now with my own girls."
"Once my mom passed away, I have nobody to answer to. It's great."
"I want to make my music and be a happy woman, a good wife, a good mom and one day hopefully have a child of my own."
"Sure, my childhood was unusual. All these eccentric, wild people frequented our home: rock stars, drag queens, models, bikers, freaks. But I was not this little rich girl. My mom and I lived in an apartment."
"Growing up, my mom was very strict about how I dressed and how I behaved, and I said to myself that I wasn't going to be like that. But now I know I'm going to be exactly like my mom. I'm going to be worse!"
"My mom was dying for me to write a book, she was my biggest advocate."
"My mom used to tell me: 'It's not what you weigh it's what you look like.'"
"Over the years my mom has become a self-taught Biblical scholar."
"Mom thinks I live in this dream world where everybody's Ivana Trump."
"My mom calls me an older soul because, growing up, she taught me stuff real early. Now I spend most of my time chasing wisdom, chasing understanding."
"I had such a great mom and I know that I'd never be that mom. I wouldn't want to bring a child into this world unless I could be."
"I know that I'm getting the real deal with my mom. I know that she's telling it like it is. She's proud of me when I've earned it and she's disappointed in me when I've earn that. She's really my spectrum on where I am as a person."
"My mother kept asking me, 'When are you going to do a gospel album?' And I've always wanted to do a gospel album. Everybody was going on about it, so mom started hounding me more."
"I was a hyper kid in school and the teacher suggested to my mom she needed to do something with me."
"My mom would put me in these preppy little suits and slick my hair to the side. I have these baby pictures of me where I'm this little preppy kid with a sweater tied around my neck."
"My mom would take me to restaurants, and the first thing I'd ask for would be a pen and a napkin, and I'd sketch shoes and shoes and shoes."
"When I was a kid, my mom used to run the vacuum cleaner, and the noise would bother me so much that I would run into the woods to calm down. I feel like that vacuum cleaner has been on since I moved to New York City."
"I prefer to imagine that my wife, a few friends, and occasionally my mom are the only ones who read what I do, though I realize that this is somewhat unrealistic."
"My mom's a secret Rastafarian."
"I had always loved to write and my mom was my editor for my school papers."
"I think I've become more like my mom just because of what we're both interested in, children and teaching and writing."
"My mother was a single mom, and most of the women I know are strong."
"I'm an actress and mom, and I probably don't have enough of an active spiritual life. And I don't know why people run around calling themselves by the names of religions when they don't actually practise them."
"I've learned that every working mom is a superwoman."
"We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her master's with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure."
"The problem with me is, anything that's easy I will just overdo it. Especially with clothes. But I'm 14 - my mom is super-strict about that."
"My mom gives me an allowance. She keeps me pretty tight-reined."
"My brother Trevor is theatrically trained. I used to watch him when I was younger and I was in love with it. It just seemed really fun to be someone else. So I begged my mom she was hesitant, but she eventually allowed me. And it turned out well, I guess."
"My mom won't let anyone treat me like a little princess."
"The one thing my mom will let me get is a nice shoe sometimes."
"I just got my phone back yesterday. My mom had it for two days. I was supposed to read a book and I really wanted to play Call Of Duty."
"My mom has always said that if I get a big head, she'll take me out of this business as quickly as I got into it."
"My mom's the one I look up to for everything. I feel like I'm a lump of clay and she's moulding me into a woman."
"I spend as much time with my kids as any mom who stays home. I only work during the hours they're at school, but there is always the sense of trying to catch up with all their stuff and not only organize my work life but also their school lives."
"I was brought up as an only child, and we were very close. But when I was 14, we got evicted. We came home to a padlock, and I looked up at my mom and she was crying, and there was nothing to do."
"I want my daughter to be proud of me and look up to me. I think early on in my pregnancy I realized that to be the mom I want to be, I had to change my life, and that's what I'm doing."
"I've always wanted to be a mom."
"I'm a mom - I'm lucky if I get to shower in the morning. Luckily, nail polish stays on my toes. I've been so bad on the upkeep, though."
"My mom is like this hard-core, liberal feminist. She's a professor in Boston, and she's been teaching women's studies for 30 years and international politics."
"I was raised in Boston by three older brothers and a very strong and empowering single mom."
"My mom is this liberal, feminist, Mormon powerhouse. I just love her to death."
"We didn't have a TV in the living room and all my friends thought we were kind of weird. When they'd come over, my mom wanted to talk to them about current events."
"Miami Beach - that's where I grew up, in a middle-class Jewish family led by my maternal grandfather. Me, my great-grandmother - a Holocaust survivor, who was my roommate - my grandparents, my mom and her brother all shared a four-bedroom house."
"My mom had me when she was 16, and I was an only child, which is probably why I received a lot of love and didn't miss that my father wasn't around."
"I love my mom. I totally look up to her, and she just doesn't let anybody take advantage of me. People might call that a stage mom."
"My mom taught me not to talk about money."
"Mom always tells me to celebrate everyone's uniqueness. I like the way that sounds."
"I'm somebody who doesn't work with a stylist. I'll be honest with you, I'm a mom and it's just not something I want to put money toward because it's expensive to have somebody who helps dress you and I feel like I have to pay for preschool and so many things... so I don't have a stylist."
"I'm kind of lucky that we've finished shooting 'Cougar Town, ' so I'm able to kind of just enjoy my pregnancy and be a stay-at-home mom and go to prenatal Pilates and do all that fun stuff that, if I were working, would be almost impossible to do."
"My mom said, 'Don't get married. You're too young. Go out there and experience what life has to offer.' And I did."
"I got a family house for everybody to live in - my mom, my sisters and I. And I made sure that it has a separate apartment downstairs for myself. Family is more important than anything. We don't come from any money. So once I get them settled in, in a nice house, then I'll branch out and see if I can get something else."
"My house has always been like everyone's house. You walk in, you're a part of the family, no matter who you are, what celebrity status you are, everyone is treated the same - with love from my mom."
"My mom's gonna be the biggest star - mark my words right now!"
"I've realized how precious life is. When I was younger, I was more adventurous. I felt invincible. I was game for everything. As a mom, I don't want to get injured because then I can't take care of my kids."
"I burnt myself out of skating. I was ready to focus on being a mom."
"My mom had started to go to work when I was nine or ten, so I was aware of women trying to find their own identities by working. But I was still influenced by men to such an extreme. I wanted to play their games and wanted to compete in their world and be like them."
"When I was growing up in New Jersey, my mom would regularly take my sister and I into the city to see shows. I have many fond memories of standing in the half-price ticket line in Times Square and going to matinees."
"My mom, she's still always there for me. Always."
"I had no idea of the size of my bank account as a teen, and I didn't care to know. That was my mom's job, I figured that I would just find out when I turned 18. If you can't trust your mom, then who can you trust?"
"From the very start of all of this, my mom has read the scripts first. And if she liked something, she let me read it. She told our agent what kinds of parts that we would want."
"I was embarrassed that I even wanted to become an actress because coming from L.A., with two older sisters in the business and a mom who had been a ballet dancer, it was such a cliche."
"Before you're a mom you don't know what gear is going to be relevant."
"I gave guitar lessons. I tried to join bands. My mom always said it was obvious that nothing was going to stop me."
"We didn't have movies in this little mining town. When I was 12 my mom took me to New York and I saw Bye Bye Birdie, with people singing and dancing, and that was it."
"When you're sick, nobody takes care of you like your mom."
"My mom played the recorder. But not having electricity, we had minimal exposure to music. As I got a little older, we had Walkmans and things that were battery-powered, but it would have been nice to be growing up in the iPod era. A tape only has six songs on a side."
"My daughter's name is Neesyn Dacey but everyone calls her Dacey. Her mom chose Neesyn and I chose Dacey after she was born. The mother is a good friend of mine who I was seeing a while ago. We are no longer together."
"One time my mom tried to ground me, but that lasted 15 minutes."
"My mom took me to a Dolly Parton concert when I was 3."
"My mom's hot. I mean she's old, but my mom's out of control."
"Once you're a mom, always a mom. It's like riding a bike, you never forget."
"One of my most sentimental items is my grandmother's engagement ring that my mom gave me a few years ago. It's a Victorian-style setting that's closed in the back, so it doesn't sparkle the way diamonds do now. I wear it as a pendant."
"For many women, going back to work a few months after having a baby is overwhelming and unmanageable. As strange as it may seem, things get even more difficult for a working mom after the second and third baby arrive. By that time, the romance of being a modern 'superwoman' wears off and reality sets in."
"No, my mom kind of led me toward acting. She wanted to be an actress when she was younger. That made me interested in it when I was a kid, because she and I are very close."
"My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life."
"I think a good mom is an awake mom. At least for me, I've always been a kinder, better person awake than sleep-deprived!"
"I have lots of records, quite a collection, actually, that I stole from my mom. I have the original 'Thriller' album and I have a really great 'Elton John's Greatest Hits, ' and I also have a N.E.R.D. album. Records sound more original. They have more edge."
"Country was about character. Country's changed because of monsters like Clear Channel who bought up all the stations and sliced them up into formats. Our demographic is now the soccer mom."
"It was my mom and I against the world. We lived in New York in this bohemian lifestyle where an extended group of artists and photographers were like my aunts and uncles."
"I was class mom at the preschool one year and I was pretty much asked not to do that again!"
"All of us kids ended up 'doing Mom.' There are four of us who've tried show business. Five if you insist on counting my sister the nun, who does liturgical dance."
"I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, 'No, you just have anxiety.'"
"It's fun to play mom. Last I knew I was playing a 17-year-old who graduated."
"When you think of couponing, you picture a mom cutting coupons out of the back of the newspaper."
"I had to take my makeup off at work every night. I wasn't allowed to do it at home because my mom said that when your work day is done, you're done with work."
"I shoplifted. I was about five years old, and I took a candy from a store. We paid for three of them, but I took four, and I went home and cried. My mom took me back, and I paid for the missing piece."
"My parents are wonderful, and I'm really lucky - but my mom has always been almost exclusively a right-brained person."
"AIDS can destroy a family if you let it, but luckily for my sister and me, Mom taught us to keep going. Don't give up, be proud of who you are, and never feel sorry for yourself."
"I look at my father. He is one of my heroes. He is such an incredible, classy man. He was such a great father and such a great husband in so many ways, and we lived through some pretty tough times losing my mom. When I see all that he did, I think, 'Wow, that's a really wonderful man.'"
"I've never had siblings, I didn't grow up in a big family it was just me and my single mom. And hectic family dysfunction was actually something that I craved."
"I grew up painting and playing piano so when I was a little kid I thought I was going to be an artist or a painter but my mom had me taking piano lessons for about 10-12 years as a young kid."
"It's been very hard, after being mostly a mom, to develop an adult life of my own. And not being married anymore, I have to come up with challenges."
"My mom obviously had a problem."
"I could never have pictured myself writing a book when I was 25 years old. My mom was an English teacher but I wasn't that way growing up."
"I want to be a fun mom. Not a gasping for air mom."
"If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also."
"My mom was a seamstress, and I wish I'd learned to sew because I'm obsessed with 'Project Runway!'"
"I'm so proud to represent the people of South Florida. I was so honored when President Obama asked me to serve as chair of the Democratic Party. But there's one job I'm even more proud of, and that's being a mom to my three kids, Rebecca, Jake and Shelby."
"Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity, but from their point of view, show business was no way to make a living."
"Mom claimed that I could carry a tune at 2 or 3 years of age. Maybe she was a little prejudiced."
"My beloved Mom and Pop always rated tops with each other, and that's the way it will always be."
"My mom didn't want me to go to college. She didn't want me to read - when I read, I may as well have been holding a pineapple."
"My mom was truly an iconic figure, a great journalist and a pioneering woman who died at 54 of cancer without ever having revealed to viewers that she was ill."
"I'd say that if you had a strained relationship with your mom, for whatever reason, the best thing to do is be open with each other, talk it over, try and work it out somehow as opposed to just putting a wall up and pushing them away."
"I was almost 8 years old when I was watching a kid on a TV commercial, and I told my mom that I wanted to do the same thing. She said that I would need to get an agent and that she would research it."
"My mom is not trying to live vicariously through me."
"Sinatra was just one of Mom's friends."
"He was doing - Ray was designing the clothes for my mom's show from California. And one of the first appearances I ever made on television was on my mother's show and Ray and Bob did the clothes for that. It has been a long time."
"I grew up in Marcy Projects in Brooklyn, and my mom and pop had an extensive record collection, so Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder and all of those sounds and souls of Motown filled the house."
"I always wanted to be a young mom, but generations of women have worked so hard so we can have a career and wait to have children. So I say carpe diem - take advantage of that."
"It's always been my mom and I against the world."
"If I could be a third of the woman that my mom is and have a third of the strength that she has, then I will have done good by this life."
"I slept with my mom until I was 16 years old."
"You can be good at technology and like fashion and art. You can be good at technology and be a jock. You can be good at technology and be a mom. You can do it your way, on your terms."
"This is the place where anybody - like an African American kid raised by a single mom - can be president."
"My mom didn't let me play video games growing up, so now I do. Gaming gives me a chance to just let go, blow somebody up and fight somebody from another dimension. It's all escapism."
"Postpartum depression is a very real and very serious problem for many mothers. It can happen to a first time mom or a veteran mother. It can occur a few days... or a few months after childbirth."
"I think my mom put it best. She said, 'Little girls soften their daddy's hearts.'"
"Being a mom's so empowering and incredible. I'm one of those people who believes that life brings things to you at a certain time for a certain reason, and if you just go with it, that's where the best moments come from."
"My mom used to have a lot of European cinema playing in the house, so I'd catch bits and pieces of films."
"In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard for her to find any place at all for us to live."
"Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me."
"Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me."
"We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can."
"I like to write and draw and paint, and my mom's an artist, so I think I get caught up in thinking, 'I'm afraid it's gonna be bad, ' and it's hard for me to start sometimes."
"I don't spend a lot of time online. My mother's really good at picking out if she sees a really great review, and she'll forward it to me. She's like my little Internet filter. It's always nice to see something going up if I want to find something on Nathan Fillion, I do know where to look, but I've got a nice little delivery system in my mom."
"My mom passed away at 41 from diabetes. And I'm 42, thank you. I didn't want to do that to my son. So any time I was at the gym, that thing that helped me do that last squat was my son calling some other woman mommy. And that would just give me that extra oomph to do that last squat. I want to be around for him."
"My mom was a ventriloquist and she always was throwing her voice. For ten years I thought the dog was telling me to kill my father."
"When I was a new mom, I used to think that life was going to be balanced, and I strived for that. But life is crazy!"
"I think I'm a really hands-on mom."
"I never Tweet about my daughter. Never. I just want to be respectful of her privacy. My job as a mom is to know when to open my mouth and when not to."
"I'm an immigrant kid who came to America from India when I was very young and grew up in New York City with a single mom and really was influenced by all of those immigrant cultures bumping up against each other."
"My mom was scared of the old Times Square so I was never allowed to go. Now I'm scared of the new Times Square, so I still never go."
"My mom died when I was 16. I had a rough childhood, you know what I mean, but it made me strong."
"My mom listened to the Beatles and Elvis, a lot of different types of music."
"My mom passed away a day before high school started, and her dream was for me to be a full rock and roll guy, and play drums in a band."
"What does good in bed mean to me? When I'm sick and I stay home from school propped up with lots of pillows watching TV and my mom brings me soup - that's good in bed."
"I spend my afternoons painting and working on my Open Hearts jewelry line for Kay Jewelers. I designed an image of a heart that isn't completely closed. My mom always told me to live with an open heart - when life gets tough, you should go out and help someone else."
"Ever since I was a little kid, I've felt comfortable in a suit. It all started when my mom bought me a three-piece Pierre Cardin suit. I wore that thing everywhere. Eventually I realized I was going to be the kid who got beat up in school, but I kept wearing it."
"Dinner 'conversation' at the Cohens' meant my sister, mom, and I relaying in brutal detail the day's events in a state of amplified hysteria, while my father listened to his own smooth jazz station in his head."
"Grades were important in our house. I was reading by two. My mom would sit there and read with me, read with me, read with me. It was wonderful."
"Well, you know, I was raised by a 1970s feminist. My mom had a consciousness-raising group. I used to sit at the top of the stairs and listen to them."
"My nickname for my mom was 'The Compass.'"
"We've all seen the mom who devotes all her time and attention to her child and is so hungry for adult interaction that as soon as she's around another adult, she's not paying attention anymore."
"Everything I am is because of my mom."
"My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays."
"My mom always said, 'Don't date a guy who thinks he's prettier than you.'"
"My mom is definitely my rock."
"I lived with my mom in a really small apartment. My bedroom was like in the living room. That's why I still love to sleep on couches now."
"I work too much to be an appropriate parent. I feel like a bad mom to my dog some days because I'm just not here enough. I just feel like I would do a bad job if I took the time to literally give birth to a kid right now and try and juggle everything I'm doing."
"You don't realize how hard it is to live on your own. But there's no mom to do your laundry, and make you dinner and to do things for you, and you don't think about little things like buying paper towels and salt."
"I grew up with just my mom. She and I were like best friends. She's a very independent woman and I admire that about her. In my life, I've tried to be like that. To be okay with being on my own and being independent."
"My friends and I would get up early and take our horses through the national forest. My mom was very free. It was always 'Out of the house!' There was no watching television on weekends."
"There is nothing better than being a parent. It is the most challenging job one could ever ask for. I love being a mom and I love being a friend to my children as well."
"Being a mom makes me feel whole and like I understand the meaning of life."
"My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor or mediocre ones."
"I'm a better mother if I'm also doing my work. Some women find a lot more satisfaction from doing the hardest job, which is being a mom. But I like my day job, so I juggle a lot."
"My mom was a single mom, and she had enough on her plate. I knew when I was doing something I wasn't supposed to, and I tried to keep her from finding out about it. I did a pretty good job of that."
"Many of my books come from what if questions that I can't answer, things that I'm worried about as either a woman, a wife, a mom, an American."
"I'm a soccer mom. I'm T-ball, soccer, karate, homework, keeping them on their schedules. I love being the snack mom, when I get to bring the cut oranges. I have one of those coolers with wheels. I'm at every game, every practice, sitting on my blanket. I love it."
"My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays."
"I think because I became a mom later in life, everything in life means more."
"I got my first tattoo when I was 16 years old and I went with my mom to get it done - she has a bunch too so we're tattoo buddies now."
"There are days when I struggle with wanting to be a full-time, stay-at-home mom, and feeling guilty about that because I work."
"I am proud of my kids, but I also want to make my mom proud of me. I'm still a momma's girl at the heart of the situation."
"I want to be a mom who listens."
"I want to be a loving mom."
"My mom, she is the most unbelievable mom that you could ever have in your entire life and she's always with me on everything. The most I've ever been away from her is two days. I love her more than anybody could ever know."
"The relationship between Cathy and Mom in the strip is the one relationship drawn from real life that I have proudly never even tried to disguise."
"Mothers send strips to daughters to make a point. Daughters smack strips down on the breakfast table to make a point. My own mom sometimes cuts a strip out and sends it to me to make sure I understand her."
"Imagine my surprise when, after a lifetime of teaching me to keep personal things to myself, Mom insisted my drawings were the start of a comic strip for millions of people to enjoy."
"My mom lived by herself with two kids. Sacrifice was the name of the game at our house."
"I remember getting this scrapbook that this girl made, that I actually gave to my mom to hold onto because she has a 'Twilight' shrine in their house in Florida. It was just this scrapbook of me, starting with 'Twilight, ' and the whole progression of me and my career throughout that, and other stuff that I had done in between."
"Growing up my whole life, my mom was telling me how incredible and special I was and that I was going to change the world. I think it's important for girls to know that they can change the world, that they do have an impact."
"When I was 15, I worked at a dry cleaner because I wanted Abercrombie & Fitch jeans. My mom told me I could have $20 jeans, not $70 jeans, unless I was willing to work for them. So I did!"
"Every single thing I learned about marketing and building my business, I learned from my mom, and she had never been in the workforce. She just had great practical sense."
"I wanted to be a 150% entrepreneur and a 150% mom, and I found that I was having a very hard time doing both. I was about 75% and 75% - still better than 100%, but not what I was accustomed to at work."
"I really want to adopt a child... I want to be called 'Mom.' It really is the most beautiful word in the English language."
"Mom would kill me if I showed my navel."
"It's her first grandchild, so she's really, really, really excited. I guess my mom is a little more stressed out than me."
"I've always wanted to be a mom at 23, 24ish, ever since I was a little girl. I'm right on schedule."
"My mom has always said that the one thing she wishes she had done differently is have a job. She felt like the single-mindedness made her a little nuts sometimes, and she could have used an outlet for herself when we were little."
"I remember, my mom didn't have any help, so if she needed to be somewhere after school, we'd just go down to the neighbors' and she'd give us a snack and make sure we did our homework. There weren't any latchkey kids."
"It's about getting the kids up and fed, getting one to school, getting the other down for a nap, going to the grocery store, picking one up from school, getting the other one down for another nap, cooking dinner... I live my life at these two extremes. I'm either a full-time stay-at-home mom or a full-time actress."
"My mom drives me crazy sometimes, but I have a good relationship with her."
"Mom was a smoker. My grandfather was a smoker. My aunts were smokers. My uncles were smokers. I don't know any smokers now, not even my mom."
"My mom was paranoid about my safety."
"I've actually suffered from allergies my entire life. My mom had allergies, so I was aware of what an issue they can be. Many people allow their allergies to affect their lives. As a mom with two kids and two jobs, I just can't let allergies slow me down. It's a day to day thing that can really be remedied by finding the right medication."
"Sunscreen is my number 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 tip. I'm a fanatic, partially because I live in L.A. and have fair skin and freckles, and partially because of my kids. My mom always made me wear sunscreen and I'm trying to be that mom for them."
"I'm a religious person. I remember my mom told me: 'Vengeance belongs to God. It's up to him to wreak vengeance.' It's hard for me to get to that point, but that's the work of God."
"A friend of my mom's was a casting director so, really as kind of a lark, I had a couple of acting jobs that had just enough exposure to give me the option to continue if I wanted to. I followed through with it."
"There is nothing worse that a thirteen-year-old boy. You're embarrassed by your parents, and you're trying to find your independance because, deep inside, you are so dependent on your mom."
"My mom, she wasn't like a baseball mother who knew everything about the game. She just wanted me to be happy with what I was doing."
"I look up to my mom. She's a beautiful woman."
"There is nothing I love more than my role as a mom."
"Something my mom taught me when I was little is that everything happens for a reason."
"I have a chaperone everywhere I go - my mom."
"I was brought up by a single mom in a poor town in Arkansas and while some aspects of small-town life were really positive - like the fact that everyone there is really sweet and hospitable - there is also this close-minded mentality, and that naturally made me want to rebel."
"We all seek approval, and our mother's seal is usually the most important. The nitty gritty is that we have to accept ourselves, even if it is just to be ready for the next cut-down. Mom's blessing or not."
"I was given baby doll toys myself, and they proved a stark reminder that my life was expected to revolve around childbearing - just as my mom's had before me, and her mom's had before her."
"When I moved out of my mom's house at 18 I was almost as sad to leave her sewing machine behind as anything else."
"Aretha Franklin was a teenage mom, a musician who came from an incredibly Christian background, but there was a lot of love, which is really inspiring in a feminist way."
"I was worried about my mom more than I was worried about the president. And then I was worried about the president, and then I was worried about myself."
"So far I'm not surprised by anything about being a mom. It's all pretty great - but that's what I expected."
"When I was 7, I came up with the idea of 'charm socks.' My mom would take me to buy bags of plastic charms, we would sew them on frilly white socks, and I sold them at school."
"When I turned 18, my mom, my nana and I all went and had tattoos of our favorite Bible verses put on the inside of our wrists. Mine is 1st Timothy, 4:12."
"After my mom died, there was so much written about her fashion and her style and all that, and I felt that one of the most important parts of her was missing, her real intellectual curiosity."
"My mom was a diabetic. Her sister was a diabetic, so I was already a candidate."
"My mom is painfully sweet she's from Nebraska."
"In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis."
"I was thinking that when I have children, that I should always dress as a character for them, so they think their mom is Alice in Wonderland or Cinderella. It would be totally messed up!"
"Being a mom is hard, I think a lot of working moms feel that way."
"It's superfun being a mom, but it's hard too."
"I was thinking that when I have children, that I should always dress as a character for them, so they think their mom is Alice in Wonderland or Cinderella."
"My mom always says, 'If you don't believe in something, you'll lose yourself completely.'"
"Financial hardships were rough on us, even though Mom had a good job at G.M."
"President Obama's fight for rural America is personal. He was raised by a single mom and grandparents from Kansas. He hails from a farming state, Illinois."
"I'm more straightforward, and I speak up more than I did before. When I was younger, I wouldn't speak up as much, but now that I'm a mom, things have changed."
"With my new venture, Club Mom, we want to empower moms to feel their value and also build their collective power to make their lives better and easier. We want to bring them together as a community to share experiences and information."
"I must admit, even though I'm the product of two Jewish parents, I think the Irish temper got in there somewhere, so I'm going to check Mom's genealogy."
"Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three."
"Every time I think I have something under control, it changes and I don't have it under control. I think it takes several years to get there. Jade is 19 months old, so right now I'm on alert all the time. And as a mom I think you're constantly worrying about things."
"I remember when I was 11, I told my mom, 'One day I'm going to buy you a house.' And she said, 'Boy, don't you be making promises you can't keep.' I was like: 'No, Ma, it's not a promise. I'm going to buy you a house one day.'"
"When I got into junior high school, that's when my mom let me dress how I wanted to dress. Up to that point I wore suits to school all the time."
"If you would ask my mom what books I liked growing up, I liked Dr. Seuss."
"My mom's never been married. I've never even seen my mom kiss a dude."
"My mom's discipline worked out perfectly. I wouldn't change a thing."
"Depending on what day of the week it is and what time of the month it is, I'm a good friend or not a good friend. I'm more or less a good mom or not a good mom, more or less a good mate or not a good mate. That's just life, whether or not you're public."
"I was always at peace because of the way my mom treated me."
"My mom insisted on multigrain bread and never allowed soda in the house."
"Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom."
"Even in high school, I'd tell my mom I was sick of swimming and wanted to try to play golf. She wasn't too happy. She'd say, 'Think about this.' And I'd always end up getting back in the pool."
"My mom put me and my sisters in the water to feel comfortable, to have water safety."
"My mom is very confident and she was always a role model of mine."
"The 'believe' tattoo is because my mom always told me to believe."
"Once in high school, I completely over plucked my left eyebrow all the way up to where you're not supposed to. I had no idea what I was doing and it looked terrible! My mom was like 'What did you do to yourself?' I was so embarrassed."
"As far as I'm concerned, there's no job more important on the planet than being a mom."
"My mom used to say that Greek Easter was later because then you get stuff cheaper."
"Being a singer is all about me. About ego. Being a mom is all about being selfless - two different worlds."
"I know how to do anything, I'm a mom."
"Mom ran the house, so we grew up Portuguese."
"I'm really happy to be a mom, and I'm proud of the phase I'm in."
"Washington has got to, across the board, lower taxes for small businesses so that our mom and pops can reinvest and hire people, so that our businesses can thrive."
"I made some truly awful movies. 'Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot' was the worst. If you ever want someone to confess to murder just make him or her sit through that film. They will confess to anything after 15 minutes."
"My mom loved rock 'n roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around."
"Not to be weird, but I still have an ongoing relationship with my mom, even though she passed away, and I've been surprised at how much I've been able to convey to her. Now I sound like a total weirdo, but that's true."
"I always knew I wanted kids, but when my mom passed away I was like, 'I want a bunch of kids. I want three kids or four kids, and I want to have that relationship again.' I can't bring my mom back, but I can have children."
"Well, my mom is single and we've both been single at the same time over the last ten years, so I really related to the bond between my character and Diane's."
"My mom always says I cut my teeth on the church pew."
"God blessed me with two unbelievable parents, and I am just like both of them. I have the smile and charisma of my mother and the big heart of my mom, because she wants to save the world and help the world, so I am just like her."
"I'm ridiculous in my oversharing my mom and sister are very open but a little more judicious than me... and my father is a decidedly private person."
"My mom knows pretty well how I see her."
"I was always a drama queen. I remember playing in the kitchen, trying to get my mom to think I was dead and call the police. When she didn't, I would cry. I was always theatrical. I don't think any of my relatives are surprised."
"Isn't it so weird the day you wake up and you're just going with the flow? And you just suddenly are a mom."
"My mom and I used to listen to records, read, and take train rides across the country in the summer. It was a very chill life. She didn't expose me to anything that was ahead of my development, but she expected me to adjust to her world - she did not expect to adjust to mine."
"When I was a little girl, rocking my little dolls, I remember thinking I would be the world's best mom, and so far I've done it."
"I have so much respect for my mom and all the women across the world."
"I want to be as healthy as I can because I'm a mom now."
"I know my mom said as early as she can remember letting me watch TV, my one treat a week when I was like 6 was to stay up and watch 'Saturday Night Live.'"
"I don't drink, and I don't smoke. It's a personal preference. My mom has never drunk or smoked. I look up to my mom."
"I like to work. The self-esteem and satisfaction that I get from working makes me a better person, which makes me a better mom. I feel lucky because I have the luxury of working only one or two days a week."
"My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said, 'Mom, they weren't trying to teach you how to swim.'"
"Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own."
"My parents are wonderful, and I'm really lucky - but my mom has always been almost exclusively a right-brained person. She goes completely on her feelings of things, on her intuition, and so she instilled that in my brothers and I."
"My relationship with my mom is really the single most profound relationship that I've ever had in my life."
"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."
"I make a lot of mistakes, too, and I'm constantly re-evaluating how I'm doing things and trying to be better every day, whether it's as a mom or taking care of myself."
"I just go about my life. I'm a mom, I drive an SUV, I go to the grocery store every day. I'm definitely not a celebrity. I always say that I'm a celebrity-adjacent."
"My mom knows when something is real and something is not."
"My mom used to say that I became a fighter and a scrapper and a tough guy to protect who I am at my core."
"People always accuse me of being motivational in a way, like it was a bad thing, but that's just how I was raised. My mom raised me in a positive environment, with lots of love in my heart, and that reflects in my music."
"I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do."
"My mom being a psychotherapist, I've been brought up with that whole psychoanalytical terrain."
"I didn't understand that I could sing until I was like 11 or 12. My mom heard me singing around the house and she said, What are you doing? You really can sing! So then I started going to school and singing to the girls."
"Mom spent the time that she was supposed to be a kid actully raising children, her younger brother and younger sister. She was tough as nails and did not suffer fools at all. And the truth was she could not afford to. She spoke the truth, bluntly, directly, and without much varnish. I am her son."
"I'm a mom, so I have to be comfortable. Jeans are a staple - I have way too many in my closet! It's warm in Florida, so I wear jeans and a tank top every day. I love my True Religions, my Rich and Skinny, and Citizens of Humanity. But I also love getting dressed up!"
"My mom used to make everything. She had a great garden and composted and made everything from scratch - peanut butter, bread, jelly, everything. I don't know how she did it because all those things take time and love and labour. I only do half the stuff she does - but there's still time."
"I grabbed my mom and I went to the couch and I said, 'Mom I want to ask Jesus to come into my heart.' And I got on my knee and I asked Jesus to come into my heart, forgive me of my sins, and make me a child of God."
"My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life."
"Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy."
"And the greatest lesson that mom ever taught me though was this one. She told me there would be times in your life when you have to choose between being loved and being respected. Now she said to always pick being respected."
"I feel like a good mom. I'm a strong woman now... Don't look down on me. Pray for me because I'm trying."
"My mom, God rest her soul - she liked nicknames. In the womb she named me Skip. There was another black guy in Piedmont, W.Va., and his name was Skip. They called him Big Skip, and I was Little Skip."
"My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World War II."
"The best situation is being a single parent. The best part about is that you get time off, too, because the kids are with their mom, so it's the best of both worlds. There's a lot to be said for it."
"As a mom I know that raising children is the hardest job there is."
"I don't want to have kids for like 10 years. I still have a lot to do. I don't even know if I could handle a dog right now. I'm so not ready. Someday I'll be a mom but not until I'm in my 30s."
"My mom and I have always been there for each other. We had some tough times, but she was always there for me."
"I hear my friends and my mom tell me I'm special, but honestly, I still don't get it."
"Fortunately, when you're a mom, the responsibility of caring for your child can keep you going."
"If I could get any animal it would be a dolphin. I want one so bad. Me and my mom went swimming with dolphins and I was like, 'How do we get one of those?' and she was like, 'You can't get a dolphin. What are you gonna do, like, put it in your pool?'"
"Being the only man in the household with my mom definitely helped me grow up fast."
"When I was little, my mom tells me, I used to say things like, 'Mom do you hear the string section? Do you hear the string section?' And she would look at me and say, 'No honey, I don't know what you're talking about.'"
"My mom is at my house every day, and she nags me about everything, especially hygiene."
"I'm a lioness. I have four cubs. I'm a mom. I want to take care of my kids and protect them."
"I always wanted to be a mom."
"I remember watching the Grammys and looking at the performances and crying to my mom, saying how much I wanted to be there."
"Thankfully, I have my mom and a small group of close friends who are there for me 24/7 and whom I can trust and depend on."
"My mom brought me up to believe that my talent is a gift and a blessing."
"My mom and I have always been very close. She is my best friend. She had to make a lot of sacrifices early on in my life to make sure I got to do what I wanted to do."
"I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me."
"My mom wasn't a movie star."
"I think my love of journalizing my life comes from my mom."
"When I was really young, my mom enrolled me in dance classes."
"I started cooking when I was about 10. I have memories like when I was 6 or 7 with my mom, and when I was 12 I started getting real serious about cooking."
"What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of 'CSI' and 'Grey's Anatomy' episodes with pints of ice cream."
"A Romney-Ryan administration will protect and strengthen Medicare, for my Mom's generation, for my generation, and for my kids and yours."
"And to this day, my Mom is my role model."
"I could get away with not taking care of myself as a bachelorette but as a mom I can't."
"My mom and I are very close."
"My mom is always telling me it takes a long time to get to the top, but a short time to get to the bottom."
"The person who has inspired me my whole life is my Mom, because she taught me commitment. She sacrificed."
"My mom decorated with lots of antiques. I never liked it when I was a little girl - I wanted to live in a modern house. But now I love it."
"You know, I don't think any mother aims to be a single mom. I didn't wish for that, but it happened."
"When I was 5, some financial things happened, and I moved seven times in a year. We moved from apartment to apartment, sometimes living with friends. My mom would always say, 'Don't get comfortable, because we may not be here long.'"
"My mom never taught me to be waiting for some prince on a white horse to swipe me off my feet."
"I love my mom. My mom loves me. We don't have an easy relationship. I don't think we ever will, but I'd rather have a complicated, misunderstood relationship than have no relationship at all."
"When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi, Mom!"
"I told my mom, 'I'm not buying another magazine until I can get past this thought of looking like the girl on the cover'. She said, "Miley, you are the girl on the cover,' and I was, like, 'I know, but I don't feel like that girl every day.' You can't always feel perfect."
"My sisters and my mom, those people help me get through every single day."
"When you are getting ready to become a mom, being in love with someone just isn't enough. You need to think about whether he would be a good parent and raise your children with similar beliefs."
"My mom and I had the same vision, and we want the same things. We would always make a goal list every year."
"Having a child makes you realize the importance of life - narcissism goes out the window. Heaven on earth is looking at my little boy. The minute he was born, I knew if I never did anything other than being a mom, I'd be fine."
"Don't let people disrespect you. My mom says don't open the door to the devil. Surround yourself with positive people."
"I love those hockey moms. You know what they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull is? Lipstick."
"For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values."
"My mom and I have always been really close. She's always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn't have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always."
"My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough."
"A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom did to him. And then you gotta get rid of all that macho crap that they pick up from beer commercials. And then there's my personal favorite, the male ego."
"We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges."
"I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked."
"If you ever become a mother, can I have one of the puppies?"
"If my mom reads that I'm grammatically incorrect I'll have hell to pay."
"Giving birth was easier than having a tattoo."
"I auditioned on my own. I tried to make a mark for myself without anybody's help, not even Mom's."
"I'm sure that my mom would have been happy with any path I chose."
"The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother."
"What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center."
"My mom taught us the Serenity Prayer at a young age."
"My mother thinks I could have even run a larger company."
"I stand fearlessly for small dogs, the American Flag, motherhood and the Bible. That's why people love me."
"The man in our society is the breadwinner the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother."
"Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?"
"Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched."
"My parents, especially my mother, were no influence on me whatsoever."
"My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting' to do all the things that she would have wanted to have done."
"I'd lose my mind if I heard my kid call the nanny Mommy."
"I'm so happy and thankful I made it a point be a stay-at-home mom."
"I think my mother is my biggest influence. There are so many things I hate about her but at the same time I'm thankful for her. All I know is that when I'm a parent I want to be just like my mom. I can talk to my mom more than any of my friends could talk to their parents."
"Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name."
"I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread."
"My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job."
"I want to be more successful as a mother than I am in show business."
"Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? The mother."
"Everyone checks out my mom. My mom's hot."
"Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like."
"I wanted to escape so badly. But of course I knew I couldn't just give up and leave school. It was only when I heard my mom's voice that I came out of my hiding place."
"My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I'm 31-years-old, and I don't want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It's humiliating."
"My sisters and mom raised me to respect women and open doors for them."
"I am truly my mother's son."
"What is free time? I'm a single mother. My free moments are filled with loving my little girl."
"I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!"
"I loved raising my kids. I loved the process, the dirt of it, the tears of it, the frustration of it, Christmas, Easter, birthdays, growth charts, pediatrician appointments. I loved all of it."
"Mommy smoked but she didn't want us to. She saw smoke coming out of the barn one time, so we got whipped."
"Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse."
"I basically became a cheerleader because I had a very strict mom. That was my way of being a bad girl."
"I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me."
"A woman must combine the role of mother, wife and politician."
"Mothers don't let your daughters grow up to be models unless you're present."
"Of all the roles I've played, none has been as fulfilling as being a mother."
"I am no mother, and I won't be one."
"My mother was a personal friend of God's. They had ongoing conversations."
"I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing 'Maria' from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring, I hang up."
"It's the moms of this nation - single, married, widowed - who really hold this country together. We're the mothers, we're the wives, we're the grandmothers, we're the big sisters, we're the little sisters, we're the daughters. You know it's true, don't you? You're the ones who always have to do a little more."
"The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born."
"I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time."
"My mom always said that there would be haters. Not everyone can love ya."
"Mothers are the necessity of invention."
"I was a brownie for a day. My mom made me stop. She didn't want me to conform."
"Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent."
"What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?"
"Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials."
"When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race."
"Throughout my life, my mom has been the person that I've always looked up to."
"The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection."
"Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up."
"How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names."
"Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working."
"I'm a Mommy's Girl - the strongest influence in my young life was my mom."
"It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion it is a joy of every moment."
"Being a mother is hard and it wasn't a subject I ever studied."
"My mother taught me to treat a lady respectfully."
"The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom."
"Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother."
"Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly."
"Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me."
"I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars."
"I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her."
"It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding."
"That strong mother doesn't tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in."
"Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own."
"My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso."
"The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children."
