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| J. Cole | There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn't greedy. It was mine, my girl's, my mom's. I got Benzes for my ladies. But I felt crazy. You have to understand I come from a world where we're very modest. But that's not greedy. That's nice, right? | 101 |
| Fantasia Barrino | 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. | 101 |
| Fred Armisen | My father came from Germany. My mom came from Venezuela. My father's culturally German, but his father was Japanese. I was raised in New York and spent two years in Rio. My parents met at the University of Southern Mississippi, and they had me there, and then we moved to New York. I'm not very familiar with Mississippi. | 101 |
| Gillian Jacobs | I think maybe my mom thought that Katharine Hepburn would be a good role model of, like, a strong, smart, independent woman. Maybe she steered me in that direction. You know, because she was really so ahead of her time. | 101 |
| Honore de Balzac | The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.  | 101 |
| Imtiaz Ali | Dilip Kumar was the only Bollywood hero who could make a girl shiver just by looking at her. If you don't believe it, ask your mom! | 101 |
| J. D. Salinger | Mothers are all slightly insane. | 101 |
| Kelli O'Hara | My mom's side of the family is from Arkansas! | 101 |
| Lauryn Hill | 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. | 101 |
| Magic Johnson | 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. | 101 |
| Max Lucado | I was raised in the greatest of homes... just a really great dad, and I miss him so much... he was a good man, a real simple man... Very faithful, always loved my mom, always provided for the kids, and just a lot of fun. | 101 |
| Melania Trump | A lot of people say I am using all the procedures for my face. I didn't do anything. I live a healthy life; I take care of my skin and my body. I'm against Botox. I'm against injections; I think it's damaging your face, damaging your nerves. It's all me. I will age gracefully, as my mom does. | 101 |
| Miranda Lambert | My mom was always saying: 'Be whatever you want to be, but stick with it. Don't waver. Don't change who you are for anybody.' | 101 |
| Mitt Romney | Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose. | 101 |
| Odette Annable | 'The Exorcist' is absolutely my favorite horror film, and I watched it when I was, like, seven years old with my mother for the first time. I don't know why my mom let me watch that. I couldn't go to the bathroom by myself. I couldn't go upstairs by myself. I couldn't sleep. | 101 |
| Shia LaBeouf | My mom is at my house every day, and she nags me about everything, especially hygiene. | 101 |
| Tim Allen | Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom. | 101 |
| Victoria Clark | My deceased grandmother on my mom's side was a real fairy godmother, who lived to be 102 and who I always feel is looking after me. | 101 |
| Virginia Madsen | I spend a lot of time at my son's school and I really wanted to do a movie that the kids could see. The good thing about being my age and not having to be the ingenue anymore is that I get to be a mom. I get to have kids in my movies. | 101 |
| Zhang Ziyi | 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. | 101 |
| Zoey Deutch | My mom passed on her obsession of all things antique or vintage. I love to go thrift store shopping or explore any sort of garage sale. Treasure hunting is a family passion. | 101 |
| Art Alexakis | Being a child that grew up with a single mom back in the '70s, Father's Day to me was always a very uncomfortable time. At school, we would make Father's Day cards for our dads, and I usually mailed one to my dad, and he hardly ever responded. | 101 |
| Bradley Steven Perry | I think the most fun part about working on 'Good Luck Charlie' is spending time with everyone, honestly, because everybody on set is like my brother and sister and mom and dad. They're so fun to be around, so that's probably the best part about working there. | 101 |
| Chris Christie | 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. | 101 |
| Craig Thompson | My dad was a plumber, and my mom was on and off again, either a stay-at-home mom or working with the disabled as a visiting-nurse assistant. | 101 |
| Emmanuelle Chriqui | 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.' | 101 |
| Eric Stonestreet | My mom has this ugly Santa ornament, and one year, I took it off the tree and clipped it to her pillow. We've been trading it back and forth ever since - 16 years now. I wore it to the Golden Globes and even put it in her bird feeder. As the birds eat, it's slowly revealed. | 101 |
| Fefe Dobson | It's like I've experienced quite a weird and unusual life, you know, being with a mom who's a single parent and struggling with money and things like that. It's really hard. And it brings a lot of other insecurities in life and a lot of other issues in life, in school and a bunch of other things. | 101 |
| Freddy Adu | 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. | 101 |
| Georgina Chapman | 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. | 101 |
| Hilary Rosen | As a mom I know that raising children is the hardest job there is. | 101 |
| Inara George | I have three older brothers, and we all have different combinations of parents. My father was the best man at my mom's first wedding! And my brother's mother - my dad's first wife - is the sister to my mom's first husband's second wife. So my brothers are both stepcousins and stepbrothers. It's very '70s rock. | 101 |
| Jane Elliot | 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. | 101 |
| Jessica Lange | 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. | 101 |
| Rutina Wesley | When I was 7, an old lady was driving too fast in my neighborhood and hit me with her car. I was running out of the house, and when I got halfway into the street, my mom saw the car and yelled for me to run back. As I turned around the car hit me, dragged me five houses down the road, and I fractured my collarbone. | 101 |
| Shailene Woodley | There's been times when I've had heartbreaking moments and I'm like, 'I can't believe you said that,' or 'I can't believe you did that'. And it hurts, it still hurts, and it'll always hurt, but I've never had somebody that I truly cared about just walk out on me, whether it was a boyfriend, or an aunt, mom or dad. | 101 |
| Toby Keith | My mom taught us the Serenity Prayer at a young age. | 101 |
| Annette Funicello | Of all the roles I've played, none has been as fulfilling as being a mother. | 101 |
| Bobby Moynihan | My mom makes something called green pie, which I thought was a delicacy that many people only had at Thanksgiving, but it turns out it was just Jell-O with whipped cream on it. And it's delicious. | 101 |
| Christian Kane | My mom's always been a good cook, so I took a lot of stuff from her, but most of the stuff I took from Emeril or Bobby Flay right off the TV and make it. I just loved to cook, so it just became a thing. It's a release. Even if I'm alone, I'll cook a full meal, maybe even a two-course meal, just because I love to cook. It's my secret love! | 101 |
| Clay Aiken | My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage. | 101 |
| Dan Auerbach | 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. | 101 |
| Erik Hassle | The first seven years of my life, me, my mom and dad and my four older siblings lived in a suburb of Stockholm, and my mom was very active with directing theater. So I basically grew up at the theater on the floors of the shows, so I was really surrounded with music at a young age. | 101 |
| Francis Capra | I think that even though my father wasn't there, in his death and in his memory, he has been a mentor to me in my manhood because my mom couldn't teach me how to be a man. | 101 |
| Haylie Duff | We were never the family that ordered pizza, and my mom never came home with a bucket of fried chicken. My mom always made home-cooked meals. We always sat down at the dinner table as a family. | 101 |
| Jim DeMint | One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad. | 101 |
| Kelly Cutrone | I don't have time to write a mom blog, but I'm not against it. I think it's great when women talk about things. I'm all about female empowerment. There's a lot of lonely, lost moms out there. Moms need to be encouraged to tell the truth. There's a lot of glamour mommy stuff. It's OK to get real. | 101 |
| Kim Raver | We always have dinner together as a family - even when our schedules are totally hectic. I inherited that from my mom, who would come home from her ad agency job to eat with us before going back to work. | 101 |
| Lana Parrilla | 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. | 101 |
| Natasha Calis | I've been acting my whole life. I have this huge imagination! I'm a dancer and my mom's a dance teacher, and I was always performing and entertaining people. I'd go to see live theatre or a movie, and I'd become the main character for a few days afterwards. I loved being somebody new for a temporary amount of time. | 101 |
| Raul Labrador | My mom worked at McDonald's, and she decided she wanted to make more money, so she got into the management program at McDonald's. And that's how you move up the chain. It's not by demanding that minimum wage is raised; it's by actually acquiring the skills. That's the way that people get ahead in life. | 101 |
| Sarah Michelle Gellar | Everything I am is because of my mom. | 101 |
| Anita Baker | Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history. | 101 |
| Anita Sarkeesian | As others have recently suggested, the term 'gamer' is no longer useful as an identity because games are for everyone. These days, even my mom spends an inordinate amount of time gaming on her iPad. So I'll take a cue from my younger self and say I don't care about being a 'gamer,' but I sure do love video games. | 101 |
| Brooke Burns | I love being a single mom. But it's definitely different when you're dating. | 101 |
| Candace Cameron Bure | I'm so happy and thankful I made it a point be a stay-at-home mom. | 101 |
| Emayatzy Corinealdi | One of the roles I hold really close to my heart is a small 'under-five' role I did on 'The Young and the Restless.' I think I did about four episodes and it meant so much to me, simply because it was my mom's all-time favorite soap. | 101 |
| Emilie de Ravin | 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. | 101 |
| Evan Ross | I always loved movies, especially watching some of my mom's films when I was younger, like 'Out of Darkness,' where she played a schizophrenic. | 101 |
| Emily Ratajkowski | I started modeling when I was - not older, but not 12. I have a mom who's a feminist - she's an English professor, an intellectual. She really gave me the equipment to understand that you can celebrate yourself without putting yourself down or needing to apologize for the way you look. I think that attitude is really crucial for a model. | 101 |
| Holly Robinson Peete | As a mom, you worry about protecting your kid. But there are extra added layers of fears when you're talking about a kid with autism or who has some special needs issue. | 101 |
| Kathryn Erbe | Being on a major network television show is like long-distance running: You have to pace yourself and maintain your energy level and your morale. There's the role you're playing on the show, and there's also your behind-the-scenes responsibility to the crew, the guest actors and the fans - not to mention your own life as a mom. | 101 |
| Keith Coogan | I was watching 'Mr. Roger's Neighborhood', 'Sesame Street', 'Electric Company', 'Romper Room', and 'Villa Alegre!' when I said to my self, 'Hey, self! Wouldn't it be fun to be one of those kids on the TV?' My mom thought it was a pretty good idea, too... and she instantly moved us from the Bay Area to Malibu... nice. | 101 |
| Lily-Rose Depp | Chanel has always been this big thing for me - there are baby pictures of me wearing my mom's Chanel pumps. | 101 |
| Mikaela Shiffrin | I do doubles on Monday and Thursday, take Wednesday off or do easy cardio, do doubles on Thursday and Friday, and the weekend I just get outside and get active - jog or bike ride, or play tennis with my mom. | 101 |
| Patricia A. Woertz | Mom worked as a school librarian, and she felt summers were for education. | 101 |
| Richard J. Codey | 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. | 101 |
| Ryan White | 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. | 101 |
| Scott Brooks | I believe this with all my heart: The greatest coach of all time in my eyes is my mom. She's instilled in me a toughness and a perseverance and just a never-quit mentality, and I thank her every day for providing me, for what she sacrificed her life for. | 101 |
| Sean Hayes | When I came out of my mom's womb, I had 'sitcom' stamped on my forehead. | 101 |
| Tracy Austin | My mom and dad met at UCLA when he as a captain in the Air Force and she was in her junior year. | 101 |
| Troy Garity | When I was in the 9th grade, on Halloween night, when you're supposed to go and out and burn your city, my mom made me go to 'Cirque du Soleil.' I was kicking and screaming. This girl came out onstage, and I was instantly mesmerized. I dropped out of school and became obsessed with her. I saw the show, like, 70 times. | 101 |
| Amanda Hocking | 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. | 101 |
| Bailey Chase | I was growing up with a single mom who'd be at work when I came home from school. So I'd just turn on the TV. I grew up watching old Clint Eastwood westerns. I adopted him as one of my male role models. | 101 |
| Chris DeWolfe | When you were growing up, your mom and dad told you to look both ways before crossing the street or not to get into a car with a stranger. It's the same with the Internet. We have a big responsibility and a huge role in bringing all the stakeholders to the table - users, parents, educators, law enforcement, government organisations. | 101 |
| Chrissie Hynde | 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. | 101 |
| Cuba Gooding, Jr. | Don't let people disrespect you. My mom says don't open the door to the devil. Surround yourself with positive people. | 101 |
| Clinton Sparks | A lot of times when people become successful, people don't really understand what they had to do or the sacrifices they made to do that, or they assume that they had money. This is coming from, like, a kid who was broke and lived with roaches and a single mom in Dorchester. | 101 |
| David Lambert | I know Spanish pretty well. I'm half-Puerto Rican - my mom is from Puerto Rico - so I have a lot of family there, and my mom's first language is Spanish. But growing up in the States, and with my dad being from the States, I'm kind of just like this white kid. | 101 |
| Jenna Bush | I'm sure there were times when I wish I had thought, 'Gosh, that might really embarrass mom and dad,' but our parents didn't raise us to think about them. They're very selfless and they wanted us to have as normal of a college life as possible. So really, we didn't think of any repercussions. | 101 |
| Laird Barron | Mom and Dad were bibliophiles. Dad shared his father's love of westerns, Mom favored the likes of Zelazny and Heinlein, Howard and Burroughs. We owned several hundred books stored in trunks that comprised our portable library. | 101 |
| Leslie Banks | In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author... I was just a Mom in a state of panic, trying to enter a short story contest to win the prize money in order to keep the lights on in my home. | 101 |
| Stephanie Szostak | My dad's American, and my mom's French. I lived in France for the first 18 years of my life, then came here to go to school at the College of William and Mary. I studied marketing. I really didn't know what I wanted to do, so I thought that's what I should do - study business - because it would give me the best chance to find work. | 101 |
| Taylor Spreitler | I grew up very differently than a lot of other people in my hometown in Mississippi. But I can't imagine my life any other way. I flew home and surprised my best friend at his graduation, and I remember turning to my mom and saying, 'My graduation was so much cooler than this.' I had Melissa Joan Hart give my commencement speech. | 101 |
| Tichina Arnold | I didn't plan on being a single mom, but you have to deal with the cards you are dealt the best way you can. | 101 |
| Tunde Adebimpe | My mom worked as a pharmacist, but she is one of the best storytellers I know. My sister is a gospel and opera singer and my brother, who passed away, was a writer. | 101 |
| Andy Rourke | I remember, my mom, she's lived in Spain for about thirty years, and we were playing the Royal Albert Hall, and she was with some friends from New York. Morrissey came out with the sign 'The Queen is Dead,' and my mom's friends are like, 'Oh my God.' They took it literally. | 101 |
| David Henrie | When I was young and it was someone's birthday, I didn't have the money to buy nice presents so I would take my mom's camera and make a movie parody for whoever's birthday it was. When I'd show it them, they'd die laughing. That reaction was a high for me, and I loved that feeling. | 101 |
| Diana Lopez | 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. | 101 |
| Rico Rodriguez | My mom taught me how to make grilled chicken, and I bake, too. | 101 |
| Sunil Yapa | I remember so clearly from when I was five years old, my mom and dad arguing over - not over whether it was better, but whether it was proper or whether it was correct to eat with a fork or to eat with your hands, like we do in Sri Lanka. Proper. Like, what is the correct way to eat? | 101 |
| Dan Fogelman | I luckily had a very charming, lovable mom who I think everybody could see bits and pieces of their mom in. | 101 |
| DeAngelo Williams | I take pride in knowing the NFL is pink in October, sparking conversations everywhere about breast cancer and prevention, all in the spirit of my mom. | 101 |
| Mary Steenburgen | 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. | 101 |
| Mike Vogel | When my wife and I met, I couldn't talk to her - and my defense mechanism is sarcasm. I belittle someone with verbal pokes and prods. I did it to her out of complete awe. When friends introduced us, I said 'Hi' - and turned my back. Later, I called my mom and best friend and said, 'I think I just met my wife.' | 101 |
| Allan Ray | My off-the-field heroes, the people who gave me the values to live by and who inspired me with their hard work and unselfish dedication to their family, were my mom, Catherine, and my dad, William. | 101 |
| Amber Cope | I think our dad and our mom have always told us that in racing we're a team, and we work together, and that's how it's always been, and I think that's how it's always going to be. | 101 |
| Doona Bae | My favorite subject was English, and I wanted to study English abroad when I was young, when I was a kid, but my mom said 'No, it's too dangerous to go abroad by yourself.' So I gave up. | 101 |
| Joely Fisher | I'm sure that my mom would have been happy with any path I chose. | 101 |
| Josh Peck | I do work too hard sometimes, but my mom is such an inspiration. She tells me to 'chill out' and not take things so seriously. She will say: 'Go and have a massage.' | 101 |
| Maud Welzen | I was discovered in Paris when I was there on a school trip at the age of 13. After that, my mom came in contact with Elite Amsterdam; then I started modeling. | 101 |
| Missy Franklin | 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. | 101 |
| Rainey Qualley | 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. | 101 |
| Amanda Fuller | As I have gotten older, I am more of an independent woman, and my mom and I have our own lives, but we are still best friends and can be there for each other. | 101 |
| Amy Jo Johnson | My mom taught me to go after my dreams. I have this faith in myself that I must have gotten from her. | 101 |
| Jesse Plemons | I was 3 and a half, and there was an open call for a Coca-Cola commercial. We were living around Dallas, and my mom took me. I think they were calling for 16-year-olds that could ride horses and swing a rope, and for whatever reason, my mom took me up there when I was 3. But I always had a rope, and I was a little cowboy at that age. | 101 |
| Matt Prokop | My mom always liked the idea of us acting - me and my sister - like, one of us trying it. But my dad always thought it was a joke. | 101 |
| Megan Charpentier | When I was two and a half or three, my mom got a call from someone asking if wanted to go on an audition. I ended up getting the job; it was a commercial for Hasbro. It was my first audition and first commercial. I just had to smile and laugh and dance around. | 101 |
| Jamie Lynn Spears | I love babies, and I have my nephews that I love. I have a great mom and she has raised three kids, so if I take lessons from her, I think I'll be great. All my friends have little brothers or sisters. | 101 |
| Jasmine Tookes | I always had an interest in fashion because my mom is a celebrity fashion stylist. I grew up being on set or in showrooms. | 101 |
| Jenna Blum | I've been fascinated with severe weather since I was four, when I saw a tornado at night in my mom and grandmother's southeast Minnesota hometown while everyone else was asleep - an experience I encoded in 'The Stormchasers.' | 101 |
| Michael Jackson | My mother's wonderful. To me she's perfection. | 102 |
| Carly Fiorina | My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled. | 102 |
| Elizabeth Warren | Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house. | 102 |
| Gabby Douglas | My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.' | 102 |
| Gracie Gold | Red certainly is the family color. From my mother and my grandmother, I've learned a lot of little tricks - the significance of color and lipstick being one of them. I started skating when I was eight years old, and my mom did my makeup for me back then. | 102 |
| Hanna Rosin | I grew up with a pretty tough mom. She was a self-appointed neighborhood watchdog, and if she saw that any of the local boys were up to no good, she would scold them on the spot. Although she is only 5 feet 2, she was famous in our neighborhood for intimidating men three times her size and getting them to do the right thing. | 102 |
| Hilary Duff | Mom always tells me to celebrate everyone's uniqueness. I like the way that sounds. | 102 |
| Ian McLagan | I loved rock and roll when that came in, Bill Haley, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, all those great records. So I begged my mom and dad for a guitar, which eventually they did get me for Christmas, but it went out of tune very quickly, and it hurt my fingers. | 102 |
| Irene Rosenfeld | Mom was a housewife; Dad was an accountant. They taught me a lot about the value of working hard. | 102 |
| Isabelle Fuhrman | I never let anyone pluck, including myself, unless my mom approves. She guards my eyebrows. She's like the eyebrow police! | 102 |
| Nick Ferguson | When I was in high school, my mom hated football. But then, the more I played, the more it grew on her. This game has done a lot for my family - not just from a financial standpoint, but it also helped bring my family together. | 102 |
| Nikki Sixx | I forgive my mom for being a psycho and my dad for being a loser. | 102 |
| Rachael Ray | I live in, literally, the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I'd have to put back the Charmin. We still don't have a dishwasher. My mom has done all these gardens so now my house looks like the garden shack in the middle of Versailles. | 102 |
| Vanessa Williams | 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. | 102 |
| Wendy Davis | I was living as a young single mom. I was 19 when I was divorced, and my daughter was a year old, and I waited tables here three to four nights a week for several years while I was trying to support myself and my daughter and the day I got that acceptance at Harvard Law School was an unforgettable day. | 102 |
| Xavier Dolan | What I'm interested in is how your career choices can affect your private life, romantically or with your mom, your relatives, your friends, your hometown, and how media manipulates information - not newspapers or blogs, but the magazines that people impulse-buy that tell you what's hot and who's not. | 102 |
| Alison Sweeney | 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. | 102 |
| Cam | I think Alison Krauss is one of the most amazing singers ever. As a songwriter - this is gonna sound cheesy - I love Randy Newman. And my mom passed on a love of Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell. At one point I was so into the Indigo Girls, just like I was so into the Dixie Chicks, those female harmonies. | 102 |
| Cynthia Nixon | Motherhood is the only thing in my life that I've really known for sure is something I wanted to do. | 102 |
| Emma Roberts | 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. | 102 |
| Florence Henderson | I'm a '70s mom, and my daughter is a '90s mom. I know a lot of women my age who are real computer freaks. | 102 |
| Greg Louganis | Mom was the one who taught me unconditional love. With Dad, I'd always felt there was something to live up to - expectations. But in the last year, we had a wonderful relationship. | 102 |
| Iain De Caestecker | My mom was always keen I stayed in school and got good grades, and she was always keen for me to do medicine. I used to go to drama classes when I was younger, and she would always take me. But when I got to an age when I decided it was what I wanted to do, when she accepted it, she had actually been the most supportive person ever. | 102 |
| Kevin Eubanks | I am blessed to have Mom and Dad. | 102 |
| Leighton Meester | I look up to my mom. She's a beautiful woman. | 102 |
| Lisa Edelstein | 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. | 102 |
| Lou Doillon | Luckily, I was raised by a kind of gypsy family, which is why I always get along better with people who worked in circuses than with kids of other actors. My mom was so carefree with us in a beautiful way. We were used to sleeping anywhere. | 102 |
| Mika Brzezinski | 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. | 102 |
| Nelson Algren | 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. | 102 |
| Padmasree Warrior | My mom taught me the power of love. I learned to focus on the long-term big picture from my father. His sense of humor and light-hearted approach always make me smile. My husband is a pivotal anchor in my life. His influence encourages me to be independent and take risks. | 102 |
| Tim Heidecker | My dad is a very quick-witted, sarcastic, dry, humorous guy, whereas my mom's very silly, and that side of the family is very musical. | 102 |
| Tori Spelling | 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. | 102 |
| Wayne Brady | 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. | 102 |
| Allison Tolman | Whenever I've done a sketch in which I'm asked to play a mom, my brain goes to Minnesota. It makes the character seem matronly, warm, the kind of person that takes care of you and brings you Campbell's soup when you're sick. It's a great shortcut. | 102 |
| Allison Williams | My mom has beautiful eyes, and I inherited a lot of her rituals, accentuating eyes. | 102 |
| Amy Lee | 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. | 102 |
| Andy Partridge | My parents, especially my mother, were no influence on me whatsoever. | 102 |
| Bonnie Jo Campbell | 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. | 102 |
| Brian Acton | My mom started an air-freight company; my grandmother built a golf course. I have a certain degree of entrepreneurial risk-taking in my family history. Maybe that eventually rubbed off on me a little bit. | 102 |
| Cathy Guisewite | I wanted Cathy and Irving to actually say 'I do' and be pronounced husband and wife on Feb. 5, which is my mom's birthday. | 102 |
| Gaby Hoffmann | My mom was a single mother, raising my sister and me. My mom has an incredible talent for living in the world without traditional structure, and her friend, who was in advertising, put me in a commercial when I was five. It was just to make money. | 102 |
| Harry Reasoner | Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom's apple pie. | 102 |
| Jeff Lemire | I've been reading comics since I was four. I used to get them when I would go grocery shopping with my mom. I remember getting the digest versions of old DC comics. The one that I remember reading first was Paul Levitz' 'Justice Society of America' stuff that he was doing in the '70s. | 102 |
| Jen Kirkman | Childfree women are actually great assets to the planet. Our carbon footprint is smaller than a mom's! And we have enough money to write checks to organizations that help kids get vaccinations, vitamins, and educations yet have plenty of free time to advise your daughter that one day she will regret piercing her lip. | 102 |
| Lilla Crawford | I've been performing my whole life. My mom signed me up for a theater program when I was five - I was the evil queen in 'Once Upon a Mattress.' | 102 |
| Lindsay Ellingson | Growing up I always shopped at Victoria's Secret with my mom and saw Angels like Gisele and Karolina Kurkova in the windows. | 102 |
| Melissa Bean | 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. | 102 |
| Molly O'Keefe | After church on the Sunday after Thanksgiving, my family would go chop down our Christmas tree. Once it was home and placed in its stand, Mom and I would painstakingly decorate our tree. It took hours to place the tinsel, string the lights, find the perfect spot for my favorite macaroni and felt ornaments from kindergarten. | 102 |
| Nerlens Noel | 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. | 102 |
| Rich Lowry | When my dad was badly weakened by the flu and my mom wanted to call an ambulance to take him to the emergency room, he wouldn't go unless he could shave first and change into a nice shirt and a pair of slacks. | 102 |
| Raul Labrador | I was actually born and raised in Puerto Rico. I was born to a single mom. She was a wonderful woman, and she taught me to believe in myself, to work hard, play by the rules. She wanted me to get a good education, and she just told me that the best thing I could do is just study hard. | 102 |
| Samantha Shannon | I am the first one to go to university in my family. I am the first writer as well. My dad is a retired policeman, and my mom works for a glass-processing company. She is health-and-safety manager, and my stepfather is a plumber. I have four half siblings, one from my mom's marriage and three from my dad's marriage, so we are kind of scattered. | 102 |
| Shemar Moore | I'm raised by a single mom and didn't have pops around for the most part of my life. And she, by any means necessary, gave me the best opportunities that she knew how to give me. | 102 |
| Susie Bright | I'm a Mommy's Girl - the strongest influence in my young life was my mom. | 102 |
| Tyler Hilton | I was a good student. My mom is a teacher, and her side of the family is all teachers. She put a big emphasis on getting good grades. | 102 |
| Brooklyn Decker | 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. | 102 |
| David Archuleta | My mom is just someone who's easy to talk to and hang with. My sister, it's always cool to be able to help her out with things. My brother is fun when we're just joking and messing around. And my dad is someone who's helpful with my music and easy to talk to about that stuff because he understands me in that sense. | 102 |
| Jai Rodriguez | 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. | 102 |
| Jordin Sparks | 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. | 102 |
| Kristy McNichol | My mother always wanted to be an actress. She was an extra in movies and stuff. I have a feeling this is the classic story: The mother wants to be an actress, and the child ends up doing it. But it was never a jealousy thing between us. It was like - well, I was making my mom happy. | 102 |
| Mark Bradford | My mom was a free spirit, and she brought me up to be a free spirit. | 102 |
| Marissa Jaret Winokur | I have no regrets. I had an amazing surrogate who carried my son for me. I am so grateful to her. I can even say I am grateful for having cancer. I was always meant to be a mom, but if I didn't have cancer, I never would have had Zev. I would have had a kid, but not Zev, and I want Zev - tantrums and all. | 102 |
| Monica Denise Brown | The best part of being a mom to me is the unconditional love. I have never felt a love as pure, a love that's as rewarding. | 102 |
| Paula Broadwell | Yes, I wear a number of hats. But my most important title is mom and wife. | 102 |
| Regina King | My mother was a single mom, and most of the women I know are strong. | 102 |
| Ryan Coogler | Coming up in the Bay Area and being African American in a city that has a history of complex issues of violent crime, interaction with the police is always intense. That's something you have to learn. My mom taught me at a young age that if ever a cop stops you, you put your hands up and freeze - don't move. | 102 |
| Sasha Pieterse | My mom used to make my costumes when I was little; she sews a lot. One year, I was a bride and I had a big wedding dress and a bouquet. Another year I was a medieval princess with a long teal dress and a veil. It was a little extravagant, but it was cute! | 102 |
| Scott Adkins | I turned to my mom and said, 'I'm going to be a martial arts movie star.' She didn't believe me, and neither did my dad. They both thought I would grow out of it. That it was a phase. I decided then I was going to do it or die trying. | 102 |
| Booboo Stewart | My mom was a professional fitness competitor, so I go into the gym with her. I train with my dad and mother. It's embarrassing, because she's really strong. | 102 |
| Emory Cohen | Toronto is a special city, and the environment is perfect for the arts; free and alive. I'm a New Yorker, and Toronto reminds me of a much cleaner New York, so it's like coming home after your mom just cleaned your room for you; for me that's a lovely environment. | 102 |
| Lindsay Price | Work used to be the No. 1 important thing to me. Everything revolved around it, and to have a new perspective and have something else, my family, not just being a mom but being a part of an incredible family of my own, it makes me have a different perspective on life that I think is richer. | 102 |
| Martina Hingis | I was always at peace because of the way my mom treated me. | 102 |
| Molly Sims | My mom FedExes a red velvet cake she makes from scratch to me every birthday. | 102 |
| Ruby Wax | Being a mother is hard and it wasn't a subject I ever studied. | 102 |
| Christian Borle | My parents waited to have me and my sister - my dad was 43 when my mother had me, and my mom was 38. They purposefully waited until they had had their adventures in life so that we wouldn't represent the end of their freedom. | 102 |
| Diana Lopez | 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. | 102 |
| Mark Teixeira | My dad and all my family were into baseball. His brothers, my mom's brothers, my mom's father. Baseball was just always a part of our family. | 102 |
| Michelle Trachtenberg | 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. | 102 |
| Rebecca Gayheart | I definitely got my philanthropic genes from my mom and dad. They taught me from a very early age to always lend a helping hand to anyone in need, and I hope to raise my daughter to be a very kind and charitable person. | 102 |
| Rico Rodriguez | For as long as I've been acting, I have been very lucky to be paired with really great actresses playing my mom. | 102 |
| Sarah Mlynowski | In 'Bras & Broomsticks,' Rachel Weinstein gets the shock of her life when she discovers that her mom and her younger sister, Miri, are both... witches! In 'Frogs & French Kisses,' Rachel and her witchy family are back - Miri is busy zapping up ways to save the world, while Mom has gone boy crazy and become a magicaholic. | 102 |
| Sofia Boutella | When I give my jewelry as a present, I feel like I'm giving protection to someone I care about... I've given pieces to my mom, my aunts, my friends. I've even made bracelets for my dad and my uncle. | 102 |
| Amandla Stenberg | Within months after reading the novel 'The Hunger Games,' I went from telling my mom that I could see myself as this character to actually getting the role. My mother reminds me that if I could manifest such an important role just because I wanted it so much, all of my dreams are possible. | 102 |
| Ari Graynor | I was more of the kind of babysitter that liked holding the baby, sort of playing Mom, and then putting the baby to bed and watching TV while eating everything in their kitchen. | 102 |
| Chad Channing | My dad being a DJ, I heard all the hits, no matter what. My mom always had on the radio because my dad was on it. | 102 |
| Charlotte Arnold | I was four when I started modeling. My mom was very much an off-the-stage mom who knew nothing about the business. She married my stepdad when I was about four, and he had been an actor. Because I was a really smiley kid and could read, which is something they're always looking for, she just decided to give it a shot. | 102 |
| Dan Fogelman | I would not drink bottles of water at my mom's house because I never knew how long she'd been refilling them from the sink and putting them back in the refrigerator. | 102 |
| Marla Sokoloff | 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. | 102 |
| Melissa Ordway | Listen to your mom and dad! They are almost always right, especially about boys. | 102 |
| Michael Easton | My mom didn't write, but she loved to read. She liked books 'that made you a little nervous.' Stephen King, Dean Koontz and Peter Straub were the three wise men of our family bookshelf. | 102 |
| Andy Andrews | When I was 19 years old, both of my parents died in the same year; my mom of cancer and my dad in a car accident. Through the next two or three years and a series of bad decisions - all my own, I might add - I ended up literally homeless, before that was even a word. I even slept occasionally under a pier on the Gulf Coast. | 102 |
| Madisen Beaty | Most people, almost everyone knows of a teen mom. Teen pregnancy rates are growing, and we need to bring awareness to that. | 102 |
| Moises Arias | I was really shy when I was younger, so my mom got me into an acting class to see if I would open myself up more in front of an audience. Her plan was for me to just talk more. | 102 |
| Adam Sandler | 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. | 103 |
| Barbara Ehrenreich | 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. | 103 |
| Billie Holiday | Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three. | 103 |
| Carol Burnett | 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. | 103 |
| Charlize Theron | My mom has made it possible for me to be who I am. Our family is everything. Her greatest skill was encouraging me to find my own person and own independence. | 103 |
| Della Reese | My mother was a personal friend of God's. They had ongoing conversations. | 103 |
| Emma Stone | My parents are both very funny but they're also relatively soft-spoken, normal human beings while I'm just a lunatic. I don't know where this loud, ballsy, hammy ridiculousness came from. I'm just glad I followed my goals and my parents did too. It's not like we even had a plan when I dragged my mom to Los Angeles. | 103 |
| Gabby Douglas | My mom says I'm a fighter, a fierce competitor, and I think I am, too. | 103 |
| Hailee Steinfeld | 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. | 103 |
| Ian Harding | 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. | 103 |
| Imogen Heap | Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mom or my dad. I would never tell them that these songs are about them or which specific lyric is about somebody. Often, when I sit down to write a lyric, it is in the heat of the moment, and something has just happened. | 103 |
| Kourtney Kardashian | Being a mom is what life is about. I hope people realize what the priorities in life should be and know not everything has to be perfect. | 103 |
| Loretta Lynn | Mommy smoked but she didn't want us to. She saw smoke coming out of the barn one time, so we got whipped. | 103 |
| Nikki Reed | 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. | 103 |
| Tina Fey | Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy. | 103 |
| Wendy Davis | I hope telling the story of how I went from being a single mom to serving in the Texas State Senate to running for governor will remind others that with the right leadership in government, where you start has nothing to do with how far you go. | 103 |
| Amy Sedaris | My mom used to say that Greek Easter was later because then you get stuff cheaper. | 103 |
| Ann Romney | 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. | 103 |
| Cindy Crawford | I believe that at least 70 percent of parenting goes to the mother. In our house, I'm the one who knows about all the school stuff, helps with the homework, organizes the play dates, and remembers the birthday parties. | 103 |
| Jane Fonda | A mother who is obsessing about being thin and dieting and exercising is not going to be a very good mother. | 103 |
| Kathy Giusti | Every time I go back to the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute to wait for my test results, and I wonder if I've relapsed or if I'm doing okay, I don't think about my company. I'm proud of everything we've done, but at the end of the day, it comes back to family. I'm still a wife, a mom, a sister - all of those things. | 103 |
| Liya Kebede | The most inspiring piece of advice I've gotten is simply to persevere. My mom taught me to always keep going no matter what from an early age. When it feels too difficult to push forward, I always remind myself, 'This too shall pass,' and then I redouble my efforts. | 103 |
| Rachel Platten | I have always loved music. My mom used to sing with my sister and I when I was younger, and I was in choirs and loved to perform, but when I was in college, I went on a study abroad to Trinidad, and while I was there, I sang backup at my first concert. | 103 |
| Ricki Lake | Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing. | 103 |
| Sara Blakely | 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. | 103 |
| Tatiana Maslany | My mom's a translator, my dad's a woodworker; that's the world I grew up in, that's the world I'm most comfortable in. The whole idea of Hollywood or any of that other stuff that unfortunately goes along with film, that wasn't part of my upbringing, thankfully. | 103 |
| Ashley Greene | 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. | 103 |
| Bill Paxton | It was so weird that I would end up directing 'The Greatest Game Ever Played,' because, y'know, I'm not a big golfer myself. But I grew up around the game. My mom and dad kind of built their dream house off the 11th fairway of Shady Oaks Country Club in Fort Worth. | 103 |
| Cameron Mathison | Christmas was always a big holiday in our family. Every Christmas Eve before we'd go to bed, my mom and dad would read to us two or three stories and they would always be 'The Happy Prince,' 'The Gift of the Magi' and 'Twas the Night Before Christmas,' and I would like to keep that alive. | 103 |
| Carol Leifer | 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. | 103 |
| Cat Cora | My humanitarian work evolved from being with my family. My mom, my dad, they really set a great example for giving back. My mom was a nurse, my dad was a school teacher. But my mom did a lot of things for geriatrics and elderly people. She would do home visits for free. | 103 |
| Charisma Carpenter | 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. | 103 |
| Christina Milian | Also, my mom and family are very important to me and I know that this is not expected. | 103 |
| Connie Stevens | I was a single mom that raised two bright, beautiful, and compassionate girls. | 103 |
| Elle Macpherson | Having children is my greatest achievement. It was my saviour. It switched my focus from the outside to the inside. My children are gifts, they remind me of what's important. | 103 |
| Gayle Lynds | For a decade, I was a stay-at-home mom. I sent my husband to his law office, sat on PTA boards and baked cookies - great cookies. All of a sudden, I had no husband, no job, few prospects, and two small children who had grown accustomed to eating. | 103 |
| Janice Dickinson | Mothers don't let your daughters grow up to be models unless you're present. | 103 |
| Jennifer Garner | 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. | 103 |
| Lance Loud | For the naysayers that claimed 'American Family' revealed us to be vacant, unloving, uncaring morons of the materialistic '70s, this image will be proven wrong when Mom and Dad remarry... Make no mistake. This is not to emphasize the sadness of my demise but rather emphasize the love of my family and friends. | 103 |
| Maddie Ziegler | I've been dancing since the age of two. I don't really remember it, because I was little, but my mom signed me up and would put me in cute costumes. A lot of little girls get into dancing, but I loved it so much that I kept doing it. | 103 |
| Michael Mina | Food feeds both the body and soul - there are clear reasons to eat a balanced diet, but there are also reasons you cling to your mom's secret chicken noodle soup recipe when you're sick. | 103 |
| Nick Cassavetes | My Mom and Dad did it pretty good, so I know it can work. The foremost thing I would say about working with Robin and Sean is that they were devoted to this project and devoted to their characters. You can't ask for any more from talented actors like that. | 103 |
| Nicola Peltz | I have six brothers and one sister, and I was an ice hockey player when I was younger. I think my dad thought I was going to be in the women's league for ice hockey. But, I totally fell in love with drama in grade school, and I asked my mom if I could get involved with it. | 103 |
| S. E. Hinton | When I was young, all the books were about a Mary Jane and the football player and the prom and ending up with the quiet guy and making your mom happy. | 103 |
| Sarah Polley | 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. | 103 |
| Taylor Kinney | I look up to a strong woman; maybe that's why I fell for Gaga. She works incredibly hard and is very strong and inspirational like Mom, with a great work ethic. | 103 |
| Bellamy Young | I started singing when I was about 3 and dancing soon after. Mom just started looking for outlets where I could perform and availed herself of any opportunity she could in the mountains of North Carolina in the '70s. | 103 |
| Brian J. White | I was raised by my mom. My dad was always traveling, but she allowed me and encouraged me to be close to my dad. So I grew up with three parents: my mom, my dad and my stepmom. Ninety percent of the time I was with my mom, and 10 percent was with my dad. | 103 |
| Buck Owens | 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. | 103 |
| Chester Brown | 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. | 103 |
| Daphne Zuniga | 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. | 103 |
| David Geffen | I am truly my mother's son. | 103 |
| Deborah Norville | The biggest surprise, which is also the best, is that I didn't know I would love motherhood as much as I do. | 103 |
| Denise Juneau | 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. | 103 |
| James Belushi | I don't deal with death very well. My brother, John Candy, my dad, my mom, Brandon Tartikoff just a couple of weeks ago. I mean, you lose a lot of people in your life, and that's one thing I am constantly working on - pain management. | 103 |
| Jason Wu | My mom is a really good cook. We used to make dumplings together. | 103 |
| Karyn Parsons | I'm married to a white man, and then my daughter came out looking like the whitest white child with blonde hair and blue eyes. And I'm like, 'Omigosh, now what am I going to do?' She has my mom's features and is lighter than my husband. And my boy is browner than I am. Brown eyes and really tan. | 103 |
| Ksenia Solo | My mom is actually a former prima ballerina, and all the women in my family are associated either with dance or choreography or acting, so I'm very lucky in a way because I grew up in a family of artists. I've been dancing since I was a little kid. | 103 |
| Larisa Oleynik | I don't know that I have any role models now that are fixed. Definitely my mom - she's the coolest. She's worked really hard her whole life and I just think she's got a great attitude. Moms just know so much it's so silly. | 103 |
| Lily Aldridge | I love every second of being a mom. | 103 |
| Ryan White | I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere. | 103 |
| Teri Polo | It's my favorite role - being a mom. | 103 |
| Tom Morello | The real estate agent had to go door-to-door in the apartment building we wanted to rent, asking if it was OK for this interracial family - my mom is white and I was a 1-year-old half-African kid - to live in the apartment building. | 103 |
| Alphonsus Liguori | Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness. | 103 |
| Christina Applegate | I wasn't one to go out and buy a new car and stereo system and expensive clothes. My mom helped keep me grounded. | 103 |
| Lara Pulver | From a very young age, music was very much in my house. I would sit with my mom, with the old LPs, listening to The Beatles and Carly Simon and Lionel Richie. The old LPs used to have the lyrics. From there, I would put on dance and music displays for my family, just to entertain them and make people laugh and smile. | 103 |
| Morena Baccarin | My mom is an actress, but she never really pushed me into it, and it was never something I thought I would be doing. She was very happy I decided to, but she certainly doesn't offer me criticism because she knows I'd tell her to shut up! Nobody wants to hear that from their mum! | 103 |
| Jayma Mays | 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.' | 103 |
| Manish Dayal | My aunt and uncle would come over when my mom was making this, or we would go over there when they were making that. That's what food is. | 103 |
| Alessandra Torresani | I was the child who would leave school and take her clothes off the second I got into the house. I made my mom buy me lingerie when I was 5 years old. I was a sicko. My mother must have been mortified. | 103 |
| Amandla Stenberg | My mom reminds me that all things are possible. | 103 |
| DeAngelo Williams | My mom was the strongest woman I know. | 103 |
| Mindy McCready | 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. | 103 |
| Maddie Hasson | I love being around my mom and my dad. | 103 |
| Martha Quinn | 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! | 103 |
| Julia Voth | There was a modeling agency in my little town where I got my start, but the opportunity came to work in Japan when I was fourteen. My mom went with me until I was seventeen. Her only stipulation was that I had to keep my schoolwork up. My mom was great. She is still my best friend. | 103 |
| Alice Walker | How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names. | 104 |
| Rodney King | 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. | 104 |
| Tim Tebow | 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. | 104 |
| Tommy Franks | 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. | 104 |
| Vanessa Kerry | 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. | 104 |
| Vanna White | 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. | 104 |
| Vince Gill | The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing. | 104 |
| Zack Snyder | My mom always encouraged me, it was never weird. She'd look at 'Heavy Metal' and go 'Woo-hoo!' | 104 |
| Cristela Alonzo | We grew up devout Catholics, so my trips to San Juan always include going to the churches that we used to go to and lighting candles and everything. Everything I do in San Juan is what I used to do with my mom, kind of as a tribute to her. | 104 |
| Dakota Fanning | My mom played tennis for, like, six hours a day and went to college on a tennis scholarship, because that was the way she could go to school. So they instilled in me the idea that you have to work hard for the things you want in life and never complain. | 104 |
| Eva Longoria | I was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, the youngest of four girls, including my oldest sister, Lisa, who has special needs. My mom was a special education teacher, and my dad worked on the Army base. We weren't wealthy, but we were determined to succeed. | 104 |
| Hale Irwin | My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down. | 104 |
| Hannah Storm | I loved the glamour and excitement of the games and, in particular, knowing the names of each and every one of the referees - that's because my mom, a former basketball player, would yell at them from our front-row seats for making bad calls! | 104 |
| Kim Fields | Being a mom is really the greatest role in my life. | 104 |
| Kimberly Elise | I love seeing my mom and my daughter embrace their natural hair. I'm glad I've embraced it, too. | 104 |
| Lucas Grabeel | 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. | 104 |
| M. J. Rose | If your mom is still around, you're so lucky. | 104 |
| Nicole Appleton | Giving birth was easier than having a tattoo. | 104 |
| Patricia Richardson | 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. | 104 |
| Peter Agre | 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. | 104 |
| Tori Spelling | 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. | 104 |
| Trisha Yearwood | I finished high school, moved to Nashville for college, and set out to break into the music business. Every night when I called home with news of my experiences, my mom and dad would encourage me to keep taking those small steps. | 104 |
| Al Lewis | What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center. | 104 |
| Chloe Grace Moretz | 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. | 104 |
| Christie Hefner | My mother thinks I could have even run a larger company. | 104 |
| Devon Sawa | I was a hyper kid in school and the teacher suggested to my mom she needed to do something with me. | 104 |
| Ed Bradley | My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job. | 104 |
| Ed O'Neill | 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!' | 104 |
| Jillian Michaels | I've always believed fitness is an entry point to help you build that happier, healthier life. When your health is strong, you're capable of taking risks. You'll feel more confident to ask for the promotion. You'll have more energy to be a better mom. You'll feel more deserving of love. | 104 |
| LisaRaye McCoy-Misick | As an actress, I have put myself out there as an independent black woman, a single mom, a go-getter, a hustler who isn't afraid to survive. | 104 |
| Miranda Cosgrove | My mom is a really good cook. I didn't get the cooking gene, but she cooks this really amazing dinner every Christmas, and that's always really fun. | 104 |
| Ryan Eggold | I love all my fam. I have quite possibly the best dad, mom, and sister in the world. | 104 |
| Shemar Moore | Although I have a lot of close female friends in my life, my number one is still my mom. Without her, I wouldn't have the values that I have and see the world the way that I do today. She taught me how to appreciate and respect women. She taught me chivalry and how to love a woman and respect their feelings and emotions. | 104 |
| Wendy Liebman | 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. | 104 |
| Alice Hoffman | 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. | 104 |
| Andy Grammer | 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. | 104 |
| Brian J. White | As a little kid, not only is my dad Jo-Jo White, but M. L. Carr is involved in the family, Red Auerbach is my godfather, and my stepmother was an Olympic-caliber sprinter. Athletes were all around. I happened to be a natural athlete. If I wasn't, it might have been hell. But I never got any pressure from my mom and dad to be an athlete. | 104 |
| Danielle Panabaker | When we lived in a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia, my sister and I did a local play. My whole family got involved. My mom did the makeup. My sister and I were being homeschooled, and my parents wanted us to be socialized. We had a lot of fun with the other kids hanging out backstage. | 104 |
| Jane Levy | My mom is the recycling Nazi, and I always bring a bag to the grocery store. | 104 |
| Katherine Center | I felt like I had never really heard of a story that reflected the stuff I was going through as a mom. I came up with an idea for a story about motherhood that I would want to read. | 104 |
| Larisa Oleynik | If my mom reads that I'm grammatically incorrect I'll have hell to pay. | 104 |
| Lucy Alibar | My grandmother had six kids - one died as an infant - and she was dirt-poor, and all her kids got an education. And my mom grew up poor. And they both worked so hard and cultivated so much of their own happiness. I wanted to have that like an amulet. Not like armor, but like a magic feather. Like Dumbo's magic feather. | 104 |
| Tracee Ellis Ross | 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. | 104 |
| Aaron Levie | My dad is a chemical engineer, and my mom was a teacher. They were pretty serious about education, but I always thought about things a little bit differently. | 104 |
| Ana Ortiz | I was really lucky. My gal pal was my mom. | 104 |
| Brenda Song | I'm a huge breast cancer awareness advocate because my mom went through breast cancer recently. It really brought our family closer. | 104 |
| Chazz Palminteri | My mom was Sicilian, my dad was Sicilian. Mom was a great cook, but all the women were. | 104 |
| Danny Pino | Choose wisely, then eat in moderation. When I know I'm going to Mom's for dinner, I throw an extra 20 minutes on the cardio machine so I can be ready to eat. | 104 |
| Rebecca Lobo | 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. | 104 |
| Selenis Leyva | In my household, everything happens in the kitchen. My parents have this pretty big home, and it doesn't matter how big it is, we will all squeeze ourselves in the kitchen and just chat while my mom or dad cooks. | 104 |
| Arthur Godfrey | 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. | 104 |
| Claudette Colbert | Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? The mother. | 104 |
| Jayma Mays | 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. | 104 |
| Junior Seau | I wanted to perform well for my mom and dad, because in high school, I didn't have a job. My brothers, they worked at Pizza Hut or places like that, but sports, that was my way of giving back. | 104 |
| Jean Kerr | The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old. | 104 |
| Jessica Lowndes | My mom is my best friend in the entire world. She is so cool and so inspiring. I've always been able to be open with her and talk to her as a friend. | 104 |
| Maia Mitchell | I'm trying hard to keep my Australian accent. My mom would disown me if I didn't. | 104 |
| Maz Jobrani | When I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, my mom was, like, 'I think I heard you say lawyer.' | 104 |
| Michael Trevino | I was brought up bilingual, but there came a point where my mom went back to work and I got a white babysitter, so sadly I lost it. Now I can understand Spanish and put words together, but I don't speak it fluently. I'm ashamed of that. | 104 |
| Jane Clayson | Like many women, I stay active juggling many aspects of a very full life! I'm a busy mom. I also love to travel, garden, cook and volunteer at my kids school. | 104 |
| Henry Ward Beecher | The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom. | 105 |
| Alicia Keys | My mom is definitely my rock. | 105 |
| Charlie Puth | I started piano when I was four. My mom taught me. And then I went to Manhattan School of Music during high school, like every Saturday. And then I went to Berklee for college, in Boston. | 105 |
| Dane Cook | My mom and dad passed away from cancer. Within nine months, I lost both of my folks. Immediately after that, I had a horrible betrayal where my brother, who worked for me, stole a lot of my money. He's in jail now. | 105 |
| David Rockefeller | I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally. | 105 |
| Miley Cyrus | 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?' | 105 |
| Vinny Guadagnino | 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. | 105 |
| Viola Davis | 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. | 105 |
| Becky G | I love spending time with my family and friends during the holidays, and my favorite holiday tradition would be the pozole that my mom makes almost every Christmas. It's the best! | 105 |
| Busy Philipps | 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. | 105 |
| Chris Christie | 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. | 105 |
| Laura Wasser | I think if you're going to be in a relationship with someone, you need to be able to share the responsibility, the knowledge, the worry. It's not like it was when our parents or their parents were having lives where the mom just baked bread, and the husband worried about it, and the wife didn't know there was any problem. | 105 |
| Laurie Anderson | 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! | 105 |
| LeAnn Rimes | 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. | 105 |
| Leon Bridges | The first time I shared my music and style with my mom, she said, 'Boy, you look like you came right out of the 1950s.' | 105 |
| Mac DeMarco | One thing I hear a lot is, 'Dude, my mom loves your record,' or 'I got it for my dad for Christmas.' I'm essentially doing dad rock. Which is great, because I love Steely Dan, you know? Nothing wrong with dad rock! | 105 |
| Maurice Sendak | Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing. | 105 |
| Rodney Atkins | I was a sickly baby, and after two sets of adoptive parents took me home, they returned me to the orphanage because of a serious respiratory infection. But as they say, the third time's a charm, because my mom and dad adopted me and took me into their home where I was raised in a family full of love. | 105 |
| Teri Hatcher | 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. | 105 |
| Andrew Luck | It's usually my mom who gets on me about my facial hair. I can't grow a good mustache, so I guess it's just a neck beard. I just have trouble growing up there. | 105 |
| Dorothy Fields | The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother. | 105 |
| Earl Campbell | When I was a kid and got in trouble, I'd always say, Mom, I'm in trouble. Well, Mom, I'm in trouble. | 105 |
| Kim Raver | I have an incredible role model in my mom. She was a single mother raising two kids in New York. | 105 |
| Penn Badgley | When you come to L.A. as a kid with your mom, you're lured into doing things that you think are cool and fun and a good idea, but they're cheesy and awful. And recording a pop single was one of them. | 105 |
| Ricky Skaggs | I always had a standard of, back when I was doing the country music I always told people I would never record a song that I wouldn't sit down and sing in front of my mom and dad. | 105 |
| Angela Bassett | 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. | 105 |
| Bridget Moynahan | I'm not sure anyone - and I could be wrong in this - grows up thinking, I want to be a single mom. | 105 |
| Elle Varner | I took lessons for about everything you could imagine - gymnastics to karate to flute and piano. My mom always definitely kept me in some kind of class or program, but for guitar, I kinda gave up on then kinda just taught myself. Same thing with piano. I've never been good with following lessons. | 105 |
| James Levine | More and more couples are having this negotiation or discussion, but I'm still amazed at the number who aren't and where the cultural norm sort of kicks in and they just assume that mom's got to be the one who stays home, not dad. | 105 |
| Joel Madden | My mom always said that there would be haters. Not everyone can love ya. | 105 |
| Rob James-Collier | 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. | 105 |
| Alicia Sacramone | 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. | 105 |
| Michael Bergin | I wanted to marry a girl just like my mom. | 105 |
| Aaron Sanchez | 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. | 105 |
| Milo Ventimiglia | My sisters and mom raised me to respect women and open doors for them. | 105 |
| Jon Hamm | 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. | 105 |
| Jason Derulo | 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. | 105 |
| Jennie Finch | Dad was the pitching coach, while Mom was the emotional supporter. Her unconditional love was great, and she wanted what was best for me. | 106 |
| LeBron James | My mom and I have always been there for each other. We had some tough times, but she was always there for me. | 106 |
| Aerin Lauder | My mom has always been kind of my backbone. She keeps me strong. She is a mother, a friend. She is really everything to me. | 106 |
| Diane Kruger | I don't want to let my life as a woman pass me by. There's a time to work, there's a time to be young and crazy, and there should be a time to enjoy motherhood. I'm actually looking forward to that. | 106 |
| Diego Maradona | My mother thinks I am the best. And I was raised to always believe what my mother tells me. | 106 |
| Elayne Boosler | The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born. | 106 |
| Homaro Cantu | Most of us have fond memories of food from our childhood. Whether it was our mom's homemade lasagna or a memorable chocolate birthday cake, food has a way of transporting us back to the past. | 106 |
| Isabelle Huppert | My mom's a Catholic, and my dad's a Jew, and they didn't want anything to do with anything. | 106 |
| Kristi Yamaguchi | 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. | 106 |
| Lindsey Stirling | If your mom asks you to do the dishes, do not pull out your pirate attitude. But if someone tells you you're not good enough, says your dreams are too lofty, or claims there is no room in showbiz for a dancing violinist - well then, by all means, pull out your eye patch, my friend, and take to the high seas. | 106 |
| Marissa Mayer | 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. | 106 |
| Mike Krzyzewski | The person who has inspired me my whole life is my Mom, because she taught me commitment. She sacrificed. | 106 |
| Paul Dano | My first paying job might have been doing a play, actually. My mom paid me to dress up as a flounder at my sister's 'Little Mermaid' - themed birthday party when I was little. | 106 |
| Trevor Noah | My mom, through my dad, rented the apartment next door to his... he had the lease on both places. But then, she would dress up and act like his maid... a practical maid. No fantasies. | 106 |
| Washington Irving | A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all. | 106 |
| Arianna Huffington | 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. | 106 |
| Chelsea Clinton | My dad had always been a big decaf coffee drinker. But my mom had always been more of a tea drinker. So I grew up around a lot of tea. And I also really love tea. But I'm not one of those people who has ever felt the need to choose between coffee and tea. I think that is a completely false dichotomy. | 106 |
| Debi Mazar | My mom did not have money. She was a single mom, on and off in periods between marriages. My husband, however, grew up on a wonderful farm in Tuscany, in Florence, and his family was so entertaining in terms of growing their own food and using the fruit of their land. We have very, very different experiences. | 106 |
| Derrick Rose | On Halloween, don't you know back when you were little, your mom tells you don't eat any candy until she checks it? I used to be so tempted to eat my candy on the way to other people's houses. That used to be such a tease. | 106 |
| Ellen Pompeo | My daily schedule is quite hectic, but I have to put my health first in order to be the best mom and wife I can be. | 106 |
| Kevin J. Anderson | My dad is a bank president and my mom was an accountant and they didn't think that seeking the life of a freelance writer was very practical, you see. Of course, I was just as determined to do it. | 106 |
| Maurice Sendak | Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad. Kids lead a very private life. And I was a typical child, I think. I was a liar. | 106 |
| Niki Taylor | 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. | 106 |
| Patsy Cline | If I made a list of the people I admire, Mom would probably fill up half of it. She could do anything and everything. | 106 |
| Roma Downey | What is free time? I'm a single mother. My free moments are filled with loving my little girl. | 106 |
| Roy Blunt | I was raised - my mom and dad were dairy farmers. Once you've made a decision to plant a crop for that year, you can't go back and undo that decision. | 106 |
| Sherri Shepherd | 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. | 106 |
| Trey Anastasio | 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. | 106 |
| Ann Oakley | Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive. | 106 |
| Doug Harvey | My mom beat us until she started breaking clothes hangers. Wooden clothes hangers! Once we started laughing back at her, then your spankings were through. That's the way I was raised. So, I got to be about 13 years of age when finally she quit spanking on me. But I think that it was great way to be raised. | 106 |
| Emmy Rossum | 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. | 106 |
| Maxim Gorky | Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children. | 106 |
| Sarah MacLean | There is perhaps no more rewarding romance heroine than she who is not expected to find love. The archetype comes in many disguises - the wallflower, the spinster, the governess, the single mom - but always with one sad claim: Love is not in her cards. | 106 |
| Soulja Boy | When I was 10 years old my mom used to play Tupac while she cleaned the house. | 106 |
| Bailee Madison | My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back. | 106 |
| Jaime Pressly | Southern people are raised with a work ethic. My son is 5 years old and does chores. My mom was a dance teacher, and the training and discipline it takes to be a dancer I've carried with me in Hollywood. | 106 |
| Jessica Chastain | I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, 'No, you just have anxiety.' | 106 |
| Kandyse McClure | I lived in South Africa until I was 11 when we first immigrated. My mom had sent me back there when I was 14 for summer vacation. I wasn't doing very well in school, my grades were slipping. I called my mom one day and told her that I wasn't coming back. I ended up staying there until I was 17 before coming back to North America. | 106 |
| Luis von Ahn | My first computer was a Commodore 64. I got it as a present from my mom when I was eight years old, and all I wanted to do with that computer was play games. | 106 |
| Steve Burns | 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. | 106 |
| Skylar Grey | My mom was a folk singer and Celtic harpist. My dad was in a barbershop quartet and my great grandma was an opera singer. As I grew up, I discovered pop music and Top 40 radio, but it was in the '90s, so music was very different then - it was really lyrical. | 106 |
| Tarsem Singh | 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? | 106 |
| Ashley Scott | Everyone checks out my mom. My mom's hot. | 106 |
| Atticus Shaffer | 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?' | 106 |
| Leslie Morgan Steiner | My mom is one of my role models in a complicated way. I learned from her how to be a good mom. She was one of those natural moms who really took to it. Her chosen profession was teaching. She loves kids. But she was extremely frustrated and unhappy because for much of my life she was a stay-at-home mom. | 106 |
| Jami Gertz | Being a working mom is not easy. You have to be willing to screw up at every level. | 106 |
| Joely Fisher | My mom has this great skiing event in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, every year for a local charity. | 106 |
| Erma Bombeck | When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway. | 107 |
| Steve Harvey | My mother was a Sunday school teacher. So I am a byproduct of prayer. My mom just kept on praying for her son. | 107 |
| Erich Fromm | The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent. | 107 |
| Ethel Waters | 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. | 107 |
| Gerard Butler | I've had broken bones and cuts and dashes and tears from movies, but when I was five, my mom put the biscuits up high so we wouldn't be helping ourselves. So, one day I asked to stand up on a chair to get a biscuit, and it fell, and the corner of the chair went right into the side of my eye, and it made a big hole in there. | 107 |
| Gerry Cooney | I either had to concentrate on fighting, or I had to help my family. I chose my family. I love my mom; I love my family. | 107 |
| Gigi Hadid | My mom was a model, so she's been really good about giving me tips on how to navigate behind the scenes - like the importance of being nice to everyone on set and remembering people's names, to how to be a positive part of the photo shoot and stuff like that. | 107 |
| Hailee Steinfeld | My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared. | 107 |
| Helen Hunt Jackson | Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand. | 107 |
| Isabel Lucas | When I was 7, I went to school in Switzerland because everyone on my mom's side of the family lives there. Then we were back in Australia, in Queensland. That's where we had the chance to have lots of different animals. I spent a lot of time living in nature and building cubby houses in big old trees by the ocean. | 107 |
| Kate Upton | I was at a photo shoot, and I was wearing a cross necklace that my mom bought me, and somebody made a joke like, 'Why are you wearing a cross? Like you would be religious.' And then they took it away. I was really affected by that. The whole thing made me realize that I do want a cross with me at all times. | 107 |
| Leah LaBelle | I want to be on stage and perform and win Grammys and help out my family in Bulgaria, because they are struggling, and my mom and dad, too. | 107 |
| Lenny Kravitz | 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. | 107 |
| Linda Evans | 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. | 107 |
| Mike Krzyzewski | Throughout my life, my mom has been the person that I've always looked up to. | 107 |
| Pearl S. Buck | Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together. | 107 |
| Ruby Rose | My mom has really great skin; my dad has really good skin. I don't feel like I have to do a lot of work in regards to that. | 107 |
| Trevor Noah | My mom used to get arrested for being with my dad. She would get fined. She would spend weekends in jail. | 107 |
| Willie Geist | Like a lot of kids, I had a Superman cake or different theme cakes, but then I hit the age where I think my mom thought I was ready for the German chocolate cake that she makes for my dad. Just the sight of that, the taste of that frosting, just reminds me of being at home with my mom and my dad and my sister and my friends. | 107 |
| Avril Lavigne | 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. | 107 |
| Bob Beauprez | I can't help but recall my dad and mom. Depression era kids, 8th and 9th grade educations, clawed and scratched to make a living as dairy farmers their whole life. At least two drought cycles nearly took it all away. They just worked harder, longer... and they made it. | 107 |
| Brooke Shields | I was always with a single mom, and we never had schedules or anything. We were just Bohemian, us against the world, which was kind of great, but it certainly didn't breed security. I've gotten hyper-sensitive to schedules and bath time and eating at the dinner table. We don't just 'Bohemian' go out at nine o'clock and go get Chinese food. | 107 |
| Christine Pelosi | My earliest memories of my mom were of her multi-tasking - preparing dinner while checking on homework and housework; clearing the dinner plates while setting out bowls for breakfast; making sure we ate our breakfast while lining up bread, lunch meats, apples, and snacks assembly-line style so we could make our lunches. | 107 |
| Dakota Fanning | I was always into fashion because my mom has always been interested in fashion. She majored in fashion merchandising in college, and it's always been something we have in common. | 107 |
| Emma Bonino | A woman must combine the role of mother, wife and politician. | 107 |
| Emma Roberts | 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. | 107 |
| Kate Bosworth | 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. | 107 |
| Kerri Walsh Jennings | My mom is a constant in my life in so many ways. | 107 |
| Mahendra Singh Dhoni | You may earn whatever money you earn as a cricketer, but you want to play for your country. At the end of the day, you want to do something special. There are plenty of people who earn 50 crores or 100 crores as businessmen or big professionals or who are really doing well in business. But what gives pleasure to your mom and dad is the fame. | 107 |
| Rachel Platten | My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt 'very understood.' | 107 |
| Aasif Mandvi | That's the Indian in me - you must put spices on everything. As a kid, whenever we got sick, my mom would take milk and put turmeric in it. That was our medicine. That was the cure-all. Some people turn to Robitussin. | 107 |
| Alexa Vega | I guess if you are making more money than your mom and dad, you can set your own boundaries. | 107 |
| Angela Kinsey | 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. | 107 |
| Brody Jenner | My mother is the most incredible woman on this entire Earth, and she's so giving and loving and sweet and she always raised me how to forgive and forget and move on. She's the catalyst behind it all, my mom is. And I'm 100% a momma's boy! | 107 |
| Gary Clark, Jr. | My mom always told me I should have a Plan B. I said that if I'm not going to play guitar I'm going to play drums. And if I'm not going to play drums, I'm going to play bass. I always just wanted to play music. I was completely obsessed. | 107 |
| Lisa Leslie | 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. | 107 |
| Lea Salonga | When I was about 6, my cousin was very active in a Filipino repertory company, doing musicals and plays. Her aunt was one of the founders of the company, and she told my mom that there were these auditions for 'The King and I,' and that they needed kids. I auditioned, got in and the love affair started from there and just kept going. | 107 |
| Margaret Sanger | 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. | 107 |
| Raekwon | You know the things I went through as a youngster, coming into the business, all the good, the bad and the ugly that came. I'd had a rough life. I grew up single parent. My mom, she was like a father to me. | 107 |
| Taissa Farmiga | I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in 'The Bling Ring.' I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden. | 107 |
| Toni Braxton | I'd lose my mind if I heard my kid call the nanny Mommy. | 107 |
| Alyssa Milano | 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. | 107 |
| Bridget Moynahan | If you go from a structure where you have the support and that partner and that construction of a family and that's broken apart, I think that's probably a lot harder than always being a single mom and having the father being a support in another area. | 107 |
| Regina King | I learned a lot from my Mom. My favorite lesson: remember there is no such thing as a certain way to parent and to remember that you are learning along with your child - it's ok to make mistakes. | 107 |
| Tyler Posey | On my mom's side I'm Mexican, and my dad is a white dude. | 107 |
| Cameron Monaghan | I grew up watching movies and television, and one day when I was really young I told my mom I wanted to become an actor, and she was really supportive and got me involved in local theater and commercials. From there I moved up to auditioning for movies and television. | 107 |
| Chandler Parsons | My mom has accepted my style. My dad is a little suspect with all the bright colors and loud stuff. He's a khakis and polo kind of guy. He's OK with it, but the loud stuff, he says I'm his little daughter. | 107 |
| Frank Ocean | 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. | 108 |
| Benjamin Spock | There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age. | 108 |
| Bobby Bowden | I was always going to church with my mom, dad and sister. I was literally raised under the godly influence both at home and church. There was no alcohol and no smoking at our house. That was the way a Bowden was supposed to live. My dad always told me to represent the Bowden name in a respectful manner. | 108 |
| Brie Larson | I was 3 when I told my mom that I knew what my dharma was and that I wanted to be an actor. | 108 |
| Charles Stanley | Motherhood is a great honor and privilege, yet it is also synonymous with servanthood. Every day women are called upon to selflessly meet the needs of their families. Whether they are awake at night nursing a baby, spending their time and money on less-than-grateful teenagers, or preparing meals, moms continuously put others before themselves. | 108 |
| Charlize Theron | You know, I don't think any mother aims to be a single mom. I didn't wish for that, but it happened. | 108 |
| Faith Hill | The hardest thing for me is planning ahead. My mom was brilliant at it. | 108 |
| Giada De Laurentiis | These days it's cool to be ethnic and to be different, but when I was a kid, it was not cool - at all. My friends would come over and my mom would make crepes with eggs, stuffed with mozzarella cheese, tomatoes and spinach. And they'd be like, 'What is this?' | 108 |
| Ginni Rometty | I think 'Actions speak louder than words' is one thing, I think, I always took from my mom. And to this day, I think about that in everything I do. | 108 |
| Heidi Klum | When I was younger, I had a perm, and it was really big. My mom was a hairdresser, so even my dad had a perm! I looked like a poodle, but it was cool at the time. | 108 |
| Idina Menzel | 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. | 108 |
| Isla Fisher | In Hollywood, you feel a responsibility to look less disheveled than you are. But I'm a mom, and I'm not good at putting time into prepping. | 108 |
| Kevin Durant | My mom just wants to make sure that my heart is always in whatever I do and I'm in things for the right reasons. | 108 |
| Lara Stone | My mom didn't use face cream, like, nothing at all. She's got great skin and looks very youthful. | 108 |
| Pamela Anderson | 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. | 108 |
| Dorothy Hamill | I always had short hair, and I hated my short hair. I was always mistaken for a boy, but my mom wouldn't let me change my hair because she was always chasing me around with a hairbrush, and it was always tangled, so she just would cut it off, and she's right: short hair did suit me. | 108 |
| Hayden Christensen | I love my mother Ali so much. I'm a momma's boy. I just have a very cool mom. It's not as though I had any say in the matter. I'm just really fortunate. She's the most kind, loving, giving woman. | 108 |
| James Patterson | I always figured there would be a kid audience and an adult audience, and there is. That's true for 'Hunger Games' and 'Twilight' and 'Harry Potter.' And 'Maximum Ride,' for sure. In particular what happens is a lot of parents share the books with their kids, and the mom has read it, and the kids, and they talk about it. | 108 |
| Keri Russell | I know not every mom is a secret KGB spy, but every mom has this whole other life. Every dad and every person has this whole other life. | 108 |
| Ne-Yo | 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. | 108 |
| Pixie Lott | I'm a really bad liar. My mom finds out every time, especially now that she's got Facebook. | 108 |
| Stephen Baldwin | I've always competed in those shows. Like, I won 'Fear Factor', I did 'I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here', I did 'The Mole', 'Celebrity Apprentice' with Donald Trump. I've done a lot of those shows, all in the hope of being a blessing to my mom's organization. | 108 |
| Alexa Vega | I consider my mom and all my sisters my friends. | 108 |
| Angela Kinsey | My mom, the fabulous Bertie Kinsey, is an amazing seamstress. She quilts and sews and is so crafty. We call her the Southern Martha Stewart! | 108 |
| Aubrey Plaza | 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. | 108 |
| Brett Ratner | 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. | 108 |
| Candice Bergen | 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. | 108 |
| Carol Alt | 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. | 108 |
| Jennie Garth | I love kids and children, and I love being a mom. | 108 |
| Lee Ann Womack | 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. | 108 |
| Lauren London | I do remember being teased by my cousins on my mom's side for not being black enough. And then I'd spend the summer with my dad and be sent to all white summer camps where I was 'that black girl.' | 108 |
| Saina Nehwal | Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport. | 108 |
| Sarah Kay | If I should have a daughter, instead of 'Mom,' she's gonna call me 'Point B,' because that way she knows that no matter what happens, at least she can always find her way to me. And I'm going to paint solar systems on the backs of her hands so she has to learn the entire universe before she can say, 'Oh, I know that like the back of my hand.' | 108 |
| Shahid Kapoor | I don't have a regular happy family like most people. My parents are separated; my dad married someone else and so did my mom. All my siblings are from my parents' other marriages. So yes, it is complicated, and I don't like talking about it or explaining this to everybody. But all this doesn't stop us from being close to each other. | 108 |
| Candace Cameron Bure | My mom and dad - they were always there. They were always on the set. They focused on our family life. The entertainment business wasn't the end-all. They weren't out to get the next big paycheck or the next big movie. It was about 'What can we do as a family.' | 108 |
| Chaske Spencer | 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. | 108 |
| Dustin Lynch | Mom and sister played piano growing up; my grandma still plays piano in church. They always beat me over the head trying to get me to play piano, but I was more interested in riding dirt bikes and playing in the mud. | 108 |
| Malaika Arora Khan | For me, the spirit of Christmas means being happy and giving freely. It's a tradition for all the kids in the family to help mom decorate the tree. Christmas is all about family, eating, drinking and making merry. | 108 |
| Ali Larter | But to sustain a marriage for 50 years, you have to get real a little bit and find someone who is understanding and who you can grow with. My mom always says, 'Marry the man who loves you a millimeter more.' | 108 |
| Sheena Iyengar | Being a Sikh meant having to do what Mom and Dad said, and going to temple, and Mom and Dad choosing who I would marry. But going to an American school taught me that I was the one who's supposed to make those choices. | 108 |
| Joe Barton | 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. | 108 |
| Marion Jones | My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life. | 108 |
| Ellen DeGeneres | 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. | 109 |
| Alicia Keys | My mom always said, 'Don't date a guy who thinks he's prettier than you.' | 109 |
| Charlize Theron | I can only hope to be 10 percent of the mom mine was to me. She encouraged me to be confident and enjoy life. That's what I want for my son. | 109 |
| David Duchovny | I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do. | 109 |
| Leah LaBelle | I just love food, especially my mom's Bulgarian cooking. Taco Bell is my favorite fast food restaurant. I also love Italian food. | 109 |
| Meryl Streep | Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. | 109 |
| Pauly Shore | 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. | 109 |
| Pete Carroll | My mom was really cool. She's the one that gave me the mentality about believing in myself and trusting it, that I was always gonna be okay, and that I could do things in a special way. She just pumped me up, you know? | 109 |
| Priyanka Chopra | I believe destiny and hard work go hand in hand. I was studying to be an engineer when my mom and my brother sent my pictures for the Miss India contest. I didn't even know about it. If that isn't destiny, what is? | 109 |
| Rachael Ray | Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother's, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to do the same. | 109 |
| Ruby Rose | My mom is a painter and an artist. She would play music, and she always had very good taste in music, fashion, and art. She was also a young single mom, so I think she had really good style; she was really free... just really inspiring in her own way and allowed me to find the direction I wanted to take in my life. | 109 |
| Sandra Bullock | I basically became a cheerleader because I had a very strict mom. That was my way of being a bad girl. | 109 |
| Taraji P. Henson | Once you're a mom, always a mom. It's like riding a bike, you never forget. | 109 |
| Tim Allen | My mom said the only reason men are alive is for lawn care and vehicle maintenance. | 109 |
| Victor Cruz | My mom and my father's birthday are on the same day. | 109 |
| Cindy Crawford | I always knew I wanted to have children. When I met my husband, Rande, I thought, 'This is the guy.' 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. | 109 |
| Derrick Rose | I want to thank my mom, Brenda Rose. My heart, the reason I play the way I play, just everything. Just knowing the days I don't feel right, going to practice, having a hard time, I think about her when she had to wake me up, go to work and make sure I was all right. Those were hard days. | 109 |
| Elle Fanning | For a long time, I refused to wear jeans. I liked high-waisted pants, but jeans made me feel like I wasn't being unique. Even now, I won't wear the skinny-jeans style, because most people wear those - they have to be baggier, boyfriend-looking, or sort of like a mom jean. I'm real funny that way. | 109 |
| Landon Donovan | I got to say 'Hi' to Dolly Parton, which my mom thought was kind of cool. | 109 |
| Andrew Bird | My mom had this romantic notion of her children playing classical music. The idea is you learn it when you're still learning language. It's using the same part of the brain. | 109 |
| Chloe Grace Moretz | My mom gives me an allowance. She keeps me pretty tight-reined. | 109 |
| Kara Lindsay | I thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up to Melissa and said, 'It's such an honor playing your daughter,' and she smiled and said, 'Oh, shut up.' I thought, 'Great, a normal person.' | 109 |
| Aly Raisman | 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! | 109 |
| Carrie-Anne Moss | 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. | 109 |
| Jimmy Connors | Tennis was always there for me, which was lucky. I would go play baseball, basketball, football, hang with my brother, do whatever, and at the end of the day I'd come back and say, 'Hey, Mom, would you hit 15 minutes worth of balls with me?' | 109 |
| Madhuri Dixit | My children are unaffected by me being an actress because that's the way I like to keep it. I love the fact that they are so innocent about my star status. Sometimes, they come running to me and say, 'Mom, you are on TV.' | 109 |
| Sean Lennon | The most important thing in my father's life? World peace. Me and my brother. My mom. | 109 |
| Arnold Bennett | Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like. | 109 |
| John Paul DeJoria | I remember once in junior high school, on a Friday, my mom came home from work and said to my brother and I, 'You know, between us, we have only 27 cents, but we have food in the refrigerator, we have our little garden out back, and we're happy, so we are rich.' | 109 |
| Bill Burr | I gotta be honest with you. I'm kind of jealous of the way my dad gets to talk to my mom sometimes. Where are all those old-school women you can just take your day out on? When did they stop making those angels? | 110 |
| Chris Brown | My mother taught me to treat a lady respectfully. | 110 |
| Conor Oberst | I think in a lot of ways unconditional love is a myth. My mom's the only reason I know it's a real thing. | 110 |
| Faith Hill | When you're a mom to three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with. | 110 |
| Gerard Way | Did Superman really want to save the world, or did he just feel like he had to? Would he much rather be a farmer? Maybe. Would he much rather be hanging out with his dad and his mom and his dog? Probably. | 110 |
| Kate Hudson | I auditioned on my own. I tried to make a mark for myself without anybody's help, not even Mom's. | 110 |
| Mark Cuban | If you think back to the first sporting event you went to, you don't remember the score, you don't remember a home run, you don't remember a dunk. You remember who you were with. Were you with your mom, your dad, your brother, on a date? | 110 |
| Mitt Romney | My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all - the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be, and much less about what we would do. | 110 |
| Paula Poundstone | 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.' | 110 |
| Q'orianka Kilcher | I know that might sound silly coming from someone my age, but I remember on my 14th birthday having a crisis like my mom should be having. I kept thinking that I was getting older, and I haven't really accomplished anything. I remember thinking that I better accomplish something real soon. | 110 |
| Reese Witherspoon | I have to admit I was dismayed when I found out 'type A' refers to a category of risk for heart disease - I thought it was just a nickname my mom gave me! | 110 |
| Stevie Nicks | It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people. | 110 |
| Vince Vaughn | My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing. | 110 |
| Alex Gibney | When I was a kid, I played sports a lot. My mom and dad were divorced, but I hung out in the neighborhood a lot, and it was all about sports. I would be out all day on the sand lot or on the hockey rink. My dad would take me to baseball games, but he worked so hard, and he would always fall asleep. | 110 |
| John Boehner | Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them. | 110 |
| Keshia Knight Pulliam | My mom didn't believe in putting chemicals in hair. But when I got to college, we didn't have A/C in our dorms freshman year. So after several days of waking up looking like a Chia Pet, I was like 'OK, I'm gonna get a perm.' And then my hair revolted and fell out. I was over that quick, fast and in a hurry. | 110 |
| Meghan Daum | It may take a village to raise a child, but not every villager needs to be a mom or dad. Some of us just need to be who we are. | 110 |
| Ne-Yo | 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. | 110 |
| Richard LaGravenese | 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. | 110 |
| Ryne Sandberg | My mom was at every single game I played as a kid, rain or shine. | 110 |
| Sundar Pichai | My dad and mom did what a lot of parents did at the time. They sacrificed a lot of their life and used a lot of their disposable income to make sure their children were educated. | 110 |
| Suzy Menkes | Minimalism? It is something I appreciate as an art form but leave to others - unless you count a collection of warhorse-workwear Yves Saint Laurent trouser suits. Maybe my penchant for hippie-deluxe eccentricity came from an escapist dream of a different world. It was tough being a working mom in the 1970s. | 110 |
| Trisha Yearwood | When you're sick, nobody takes care of you like your mom. | 110 |
| Angela Kinsey | As a busy working mom I'm always pressed for time, so a quick and easy beauty routine is key! | 110 |
| Christian Kane | I grew up with the Highwaymen, which was Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson. Mom and Dad rode rodeo, so country music was always in the house and the car. They threw in some Dolly Parton, too. | 110 |
| Dikembe Mutombo | My heroes always are mostly my parents - my father especially, and my mom, who's passed on already. My dad is a very strong man, and by him being educated, and a principal and school superintendent over 37 years, he plays such a big role in my life. | 110 |
| Jenny Lewis | I felt like hip-hop was my music, it was like my outsider music... but then my mom started answering our phone, 'Yo, what's up.' She was hearing me talk to my friends. I was like, 'No, mom, don't cop the hip-hop talk.' | 110 |
| Lea Salonga | I was 28, and my mom was living with me. I had to decide. You have to claim it; you can't ask permission. After a gig in Singapore, she went home, I went to New York on my own, I packed her stuff in boxes and sent it home. I don't think she liked me for a while for doing that. It was something I needed to do to carve out my own space. | 110 |
| Lisa Leslie | For me, being tall was very positive because I thought my mom was the most beautiful person ever. | 110 |
| Richard Carmona | My mom used to tell me that the most valuable thing she owned was her library card. We were poor, but that's not what she was talking about. My mom knew that education opened doors and opened minds. | 110 |
| Shemar Moore | I always speak so highly of my mom because she's my partner in crime, and none of this would be possible without her love and support. Always have to make time for Mom. | 110 |
| Jennifer Love Hewitt | I've always wanted to be a mom because I want to give a kid all of the magical gifts my mom gave to me, such as love and friendship. She and I had this incredible connection that was so unbelievable. | 110 |
| Jessica Capshaw | 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. | 110 |
| J. R. Martinez | 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.' | 110 |
| Mark Twain | My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. | 111 |
| Goldie Hawn | I am compelled to continuously see the bright side. It is in my DNA. My kids look at me and say: 'Mom, you're so happy!' And I do feel happy. I feel joyful inside. I can't explain it. | 111 |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother. | 111 |
| Al Sharpton | I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values. | 111 |
| Ambrose Bierce | Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly. | 111 |
| America Ferrera | You'll never see me at the launch of the new PlayStation or some club. For me, the fun stuff is being able to get my mom tickets to 'Dancing With the Stars' - she loves Mario Lopez. | 111 |
| Amy Winehouse | I know I'm talented, but I wasn't put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it's not where it begins and ends. | 111 |
| Beth Ditto | My mother told me Homer Ditto was not my father. Nope. Mom had had a fling with some other guy who was my dad. Some dude who didn't stick around too long who Mom was happy to get rid of. She chose Homer, and Homer chose me, so he lent me his name even though I didn't have his blood. | 111 |
| Blake Shelton | The way my family always did Christmas was on Christmas Eve, it wasn't really centered around a dinner on Christmas Eve. It was more about keeping the kids calm. Sometime after dark is when we were going to open all the presents underneath the tree from Mom, Dad and the kids and everything - just the family presents was every Christmas Eve. | 111 |
| Bryce Harper | It's not like I'm out eating McDonald's and Del Taco every night. I eat good: my mom fixes dinner every single night - baked chicken, fish - she cooks a great meal every single night. | 111 |
| Chris Brown | 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. | 111 |
| Chris Farley | I remember one time when all the nuns in my Catholic grade school got around in a semicircle, me and Mom in the middle, and they said, 'Mrs. Farley, the children at school are laughing at Christopher, not with him.' I thought, 'Who cares? As long as they're laughing.' | 111 |
| Denzel Washington | My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque. | 111 |
| Emma Stone | I had massive anxiety as a child. I was in therapy. From 8 to 10, I was borderline agora-phobic. I could not leave my mom's side. I don't really have panic attacks anymore, but I had really bad anxiety. | 111 |
| Ethel Waters | We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can. | 111 |
| Kourtney Kardashian | There's no one else I would rather have as my manager than my mom because I know that she has our best interests at heart. Sometimes, it's hard to separate manager mode from mom mode. I think as our manager, my mom will get more emotional about situations than she would if she was just our manager. | 111 |
| Marlo Thomas | When I was growing up, my mother was always a friend to my siblings and me (in addition to being all the other things a mom is), and I was always grateful for that because I knew she was someone I could talk to and joke with, and argue with and that nothing would ever harm that friendship. | 111 |
| Queen Rania of Jordan | I'd rather be dealt with as a person than a persona. With my children, I'm just 'Mom.' At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important. | 111 |
| Seth Rogen | My mom drives me crazy sometimes, but I have a good relationship with her. | 111 |
| Willie Geist | I can't say for sure where I was headed the first time my mom put a blue blazer on me. Church, probably. West Side Presbyterian in Ridgewood, New Jersey, specifically, where my blazer was paired with a clip-on tie and a pair of khakis for a Sunday morning with my fellow congregants. | 111 |
| Anthony Foxx | I was born to a single mom and raised by her and my grandparents. | 111 |
| Bam Margera | One time my mom tried to ground me, but that lasted 15 minutes. | 111 |
| Chelsea Clinton | My earliest memory is my mom picking me up after I had fallen down, giving me a big hug and reading me 'Goodnight Moon.' From that moment, to this one, every single memory I have of my mom is that regardless of what was happening in her life, she was always, always there for me. | 111 |
| Cindy Crawford | 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. | 111 |
| Derrick Rose | It's tough growing up where I grew up. My family is very small and really tight. Just being around the neighborhood, my brothers were always around. I didn't want to be in any trouble because I knew my mom or brothers would find out. I didn't want to hurt their feelings. I just tried to do everything right. | 111 |
| Eugene Cernan | Mom was always doing something for somebody. She came from a Czech background, one that made her a devout Catholic and gave her a strong belief in the family. | 111 |
| Lynda Resnick | Learn to expect less from life and more from yourself. Accept the changes that life throws at you. Remember, your destiny is pretty much in your hands. So, as your mom may have told you, keep them clean. | 111 |
| Patrick Rothfuss | 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. | 111 |
| Rory McIlroy | My mom and dad worked very hard to give me the best chance in - not just in golf but in life. You know, I was an only child, you know, my dad worked three jobs at one stage. My mom worked night shifts in a factory. | 111 |
| Ashley Greene | 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. | 111 |
| Candice Olson | We're a very active family, and I like everything in its place. I'm all about designing every little space. It will help me in the business of being a mom. Every single day is so crazy with my work that I just need to be able to come home and do that business as efficiently as I try to do my professional work. | 111 |
| Dave Franco | 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. | 111 |
| Brandi Chastain | 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. | 111 |
| Jami Gertz | Being a Hot Mom means being respected as a mom and a woman. And, the key to being a Hot Mom is having a sense of humor about yourself and all the crazy situations that arise. | 111 |
| Jay-Z | 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. | 112 |
| Jim Valvano | People think I have courage. The courage in my family are my wife Pam, my three daughters, here, Nicole, Jamie, LeeAnn, my mom, who's right here too. | 112 |
| Alanis Morissette | I was so ready to become a mom. Actually, I was ready secondarily to become a mom. I was so ready to have the intimacy and commitment of marriage. | 112 |
| Anne Hathaway | I'll wear my mom jeans in public that haven't been tailored 'just so' yet, just because they feel good. | 112 |
| Dr. Dre | 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. | 112 |
| Hayley Williams | My mom was a huge Adam and the Ants fan. My granddad listened to a lot of Motown and Elvis and Johnny Cash. So I was kind of well-rounded. | 112 |
| Iggy Pop | I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free. | 112 |
| Jessica Simpson | Motherhood is a dream. It really is absolutely amazing. | 112 |
| Leonardo DiCaprio | My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World War II. | 112 |
| Sophia Bush | Because sorry to say, women run the house. They run the family. They hold things up. I mean, it's like you don't ever see your mom get sick because she handles everything. And it's kind of amazing I think to show people just how strong women are. | 112 |
| Sylvester Stallone | 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. | 112 |
| Anderson Cooper | Obviously I was well aware that I had what people consider a privileged upbringing. My mom was never a bake-cookies sort of mom. I really had no reins whatsoever. | 112 |
| Cheryl Hines | 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. | 112 |
| Esha Gupta | You need a strong family because at the end, they will love you and support you unconditionally. Luckily, I have my dad, mom and sister. | 112 |
| Freddy Adu | 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. | 112 |
| Gabrielle Union | My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska. | 112 |
| Karisma Kapoor | My daughter is the most normal towards me. For her, I am just her mom. I am just a regular mom, and the actor comes after that. If she likes something that I am wearing, she tells me, and if she doesn't, she still makes it a point to let me know. | 112 |
| Kenny Loggins | We busted a lot of family secrets with this. But to make a long story short, my parents relationship was built heavily on security issues for my Mom, and when my Dad couldn't provide security, the relationship unraveled. | 112 |
| Lisa Loeb | 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! | 112 |
| Lynn Johnston | Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church. | 112 |
| Randeep Hooda | My mom often tells me to get married, but she gets it now that I don't want to. Like any other mom, she is worried, but she also understands the demands of my profession. I am blessed to have a family like this. | 112 |
| Rodney Atkins | 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. | 112 |
| Summer Sanders | I lead by example. My kids know what sweat is. They've seen me come home from so many runs and asked, 'What's on your skin? How did you get it?' And I tell them, 'It's from exercise!' So now my son will come home from a bike ride, take off his helmet and say, 'Look, Mom. I'm sweating! I just worked out!' | 112 |
| Cathy Guisewite | 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. | 112 |
| Miranda Cosgrove | 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. | 112 |
| Rebecca Romijn | Being a mom makes me feel whole and like I understand the meaning of life. | 112 |
| Joseph Gordon-Levitt | My dad never blew anything up, but he probably had friends who did. He and my mom have always preached that the pen is mightier than a Molotov cocktail. | 112 |
| Jon Scieszka | I like to tell kids that I started thinking about stories when I first started reading stuff like Dr. Seuss and 'Go, Dog. Go!,' thinking, 'Oh yeah, that's funny. I'd like to do that.' And then writing throughout school, but at the same time I was studying pre-med stuff, because my mom told me I should be a doctor. | 112 |
| Donna Karan | My mother was a working woman, and I was alone a lot. So I wanted to be a stay-at-home mom. | 113 |
| Emma Goldman | 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? | 113 |
| Harry Reid | I was born and raised in the high desert of Nevada in a tiny town called Searchlight. My dad was a hard rock miner. My mom took in wash. I grew up around people of strong values - even if they rarely talked about them. | 113 |
| Hilary Duff | I just think that there's so much judgment in the world, whether it's coming from women in general or from men onto women - it's a lot. And when it comes to being a mom, I wish everyone could band together and realize that everyone has different beliefs, different styles, and different things that work for them and their family. | 113 |
| Kerry Washington | 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? | 113 |
| Rose Kennedy | What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter? | 113 |
| Steve Carell | Sending a handwritten letter is becoming such an anomaly. It's disappearing. My mom is the only one who still writes me letters. And there's something visceral about opening a letter - I see her on the page. I see her in her handwriting. | 113 |
| Thalia | Having children is a huge responsibility, and I just don't want to hand them off to a nanny or my mom to take care of them. | 113 |
| Tony Dungy | People have to understand how important it is for kids to be nurtured by their mom and dad and get the great role modeling when they are young. | 113 |
| Arianna Huffington | Trying to be Supermom is as futile as trying to be Perfect Mom. Not going to happen. | 113 |
| Chaz Bono | Deep down, my mom had long suspected I was gay... Much of her anger and hurt came from her sense of betrayal that she was the last to be told. | 113 |
| Dakota Fanning | 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. | 113 |
| M.I.A. | I have no ties to my dad. I had no communications with him; it didn't shape who I am or anything like that. I'm actually a product of my mom. | 113 |
| Ryan Holmes | Every day I'd come home after school, pop the hood of my mom's car, put alligator clips on the battery, and wire into the house and go play on my computer. If I used it for too long, I'd wear down the car battery, and my mom would be all mad at me the next day. | 113 |
| Cathy Guisewite | I'm lucky that my real-life Mom has both a great sense of humor about herself and an amazing ability to slip into complete denial if the subject matter gets a little too close to home. | 113 |
| Jennifer Garner | 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. | 113 |
| Julianne Moore | My mom came to the U.S. very young, and then she married very young. But she was never American. She was always Scottish and would make sure that I knew that I was, too. | 113 |
| Jane Seymour | 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. | 113 |
| Jesse McCartney | I have a hard time waking up. No alarm clock works! It sounds childish, but I seriously have my manager, my mom or a buddy of mine wake me up if I have to be somewhere. It's a serious issue! I've been very late for some serious gigs because of it! | 113 |
| Josh Hartnett | My hat was pulled down and this girl said 'Are you really him?' I whispered 'Yeah, I'm really him.' She screamed, 'Mom! Dad! It's Heath Ledger! | 113 |
| Mark Hoppus | Mom's dad was in the army, stormed the beach at Normandy, fought through the French hedgerows, the Battle of the Ardennes, the Battle of the Bulge, and liberated concentration camps at the end of the war. | 113 |
| Shaun Alexander | You know when everyone's watching, your mom and dad, your friends in high school who thought they were better than you. You get your chance to get in the spotlight and shine. | 113 |
| Ashton Kutcher | My parents couldn't give me a whole lot of financial support, but they gave me good genes. My dad is a handsome son-of-a-gun, and my mom is beautiful. And I've definitely been the lucky recipient. So, thank you, Mom and Dad. | 114 |
| Celine Dion | I want to be more successful as a mother than I am in show business. | 114 |
| Channing Tatum | Soccer was the first sport that my parents put me in, and ultimately, all the parents kind of came over to my mom and were, 'We think Channing would be better at football.... We love him, he's really great, but he's kind of hurting our children.' I was just a little wild. | 114 |
| Dick Gregory | When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps. | 114 |
| Ethel Waters | You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of a family. Just do your job right and your kids will love you. | 114 |
| Halsey | My mom is awesome. She's really young. My mom is 40, and she raised me listening to Nirvana and Courtney Love and Coldplay, Gin Blossoms, The Cranberries, and stuff. Like, my early, early memories are of being a little kid running around in floral skirts and Doc Martens when I was, like, three. | 114 |
| Lena Dunham | 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. | 114 |
| Louisa May Alcott | What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles? | 114 |
| Padma Lakshmi | 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. | 114 |
| Tyra Banks | One thing my mom used to tell me was to look to the other side, and know that my present is not going to be everything. So if I'm having a bad day, she goes, 'Just imagine tomorrow. This is going to be over. This is going to be done with.' | 114 |
| Vanilla Ice | My mom raised me to be clean, so it's in my nature. I have two little girls, and I'm married, but we've got a nanny and a maid. | 114 |
| Will Durant | Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory. | 114 |
| Yelawolf | My grandmother, grandfather, my mom - we've always been driven by laughter. It's what held us together. Thanksgivings, any kind of family get-together, we usually end up in tears. | 114 |
| Arianna Huffington | I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids! | 114 |
| Brittany Snow | My mom is big on moisturizer and water. She always reminds me to drink a lot of water and wear sunglasses because I always forget them when I go out, even though they are one of my favorite accessories. She always reminds me about wrinkles, and always did, so it's kind of been ingrained into me. | 114 |
| Florence Griffith Joyner | 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. | 114 |
| Kimora Lee Simmons | Like every mom, you try to juggle, but I also want people to know that you don't have to be a superhero. I'm not a superhero; I have a team of people who help me. I have a great family support system. | 114 |
| Maria Bamford | My mom is very structured. She gets up, she does her prayers, and she eats her oatmeal with blueberries and Greek yogurt, and she has her prayer list, and she doesn't worry too much about things. | 114 |
| Chloe Grace Moretz | 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. | 114 |
| Jennifer Garner | My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education. | 114 |
| Tavi Gevinson | I think it was my mom's attitude about art and being part of the narcissistic digital generation or whatever that made me think anyone would care what I had to say about anything! | 114 |
| Brandi Chastain | 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. | 114 |
| Sara Paxton | When I was 12 I cried to my mom, because I never got my letter to Hogwarts. | 114 |
| Raven-Symone | I have a responsibility to not look crazy in public. I don't want to be the person where later in life when I have kids, to say, 'Don't do this' and my kids go, 'But Mom, you did it.' | 114 |
| Kendrick Lamar | My mom's one of 13 siblings, and they all got six kids, and till I was 13 everybody was in Compton. | 115 |
| Caroline Kennedy | 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. | 115 |
| David Ortiz | 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. | 115 |
| Shania Twain | Fortunately, when you're a mom, the responsibility of caring for your child can keep you going. | 115 |
| Victoria Justice | 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. | 115 |
| Alexander Wang | 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. | 115 |
| Apolo Ohno | My life has always been with my dad. Since I can remember, I was raised by my father my entire life. So he's kind of been that mom and father figure - always. | 115 |
| Becky G | People may not know this about me, but I've always loved cooking. My favorite thing to cook is my mom's spicy spaghetti. | 115 |
| Brittany Murphy | 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. | 115 |
| Kim Alexis | The biggest change for me as a mom was realizing I needed to put someone else before me. Now the hardest part about the empty nest is learning to put myself first. | 115 |
| Angela Kinsey | 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.' | 115 |
| Dean Karnazes | Yes, my dad's a marathoner. He used to do sprint distances and then started marathoning. My mom is an endurance animal. She does three-day events like the Susan G. Komen three-day walk. | 115 |
| Amanda Palmer | I have used Twitter for so many things, from places to stay, places to go, things to do, things I need, medical advice, you name it. Especially when I'm on tour, it really feels like I'm being taken care of by half a million people. It is like having a mom. | 115 |
| Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu | My mom had very low expectations for me, and she really had a point. I was a big problem at seventeen. If I had a kid like me, I would have those same expectations. | 116 |
| Barbara Bush | I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time. | 116 |
| Bill Watterson | Mothers are the necessity of invention. | 116 |
| David Ortiz | My mom, she's still always there for me. Always. | 116 |
| E. M. Forster | I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars. | 116 |
| Hilary Duff | My mom always says, 'If you don't believe in something, you'll lose yourself completely.' | 116 |
| Taylor Momsen | I love my mom and dad. | 116 |
| Tyler, The Creator | I just live life. I grew up in a Christian family, but, you know, the way Mom brought me up is to, you know, do you, to always be yourself. | 116 |
| Bill Rancic | My wife was born and raised in Italy until she was about 9, and then she came to America, and her mom was a great cook, and they have great recipes, and whenever her mom would come into town, we would have all these friends just randomly showing up at our house, and eventually we figured out why. They wanted Mama's cooking. | 116 |
| Brooke Shields | 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. | 116 |
| Chaz Bono | What mom cares about most is that I'm happy, healthy and enjoying my life. | 116 |
| Hoda Kotb | 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. | 116 |
| Kim Alexis | I daily disconnect and read a good book or listen to a good sermon or call a friend or my mom and talk on the phone with my feet up. I also take baths with bath salts that I make myself. | 116 |
| Mary Roach | Saliva has antibacterial properties. It also has things called nerve growth factor, skin growth factor, histatins which help with wound closure. So when you see an animal licking a wound or even a mom kissing a child's boo-boo, there's some, there's some good science behind why one might do this. | 116 |
| Bode Miller | 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. | 116 |
| Lana Parrilla | 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.' | 116 |
| Phoebe Tonkin | Chanel No. 5 is my perfume when I'm feeling like a lady. It's old-school and warm - and it reminds me of my mom. | 116 |
| Marla Gibbs | I never thought I was a great mom. I always worked. I fell in love with my children as they got older. | 116 |
| Dan Gable | My wrestling and family go together. It's always been that way, from day one with my mom and dad, my sister, my wife, four daughters, grandsons, son-in-laws. | 117 |
| Halsey | My mom has every issue of 'Billboard' I've ever been in. | 117 |
| Henry Louis Gates | 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. | 117 |
| Kourtney Kardashian | My mom bought me this amazing baby-food maker, the Beaba. I steam and puree fruits and vegetables, and they last for, like, four days. | 117 |
| Mindy Kaling | My relationship with my mom is really the single most profound relationship that I've ever had in my life. | 117 |
| Queen Latifah | There are a lot of people who helped make Queen Latifah who she is today. I don't forget, but a lot of people do and get big heads. My mom will make me walk the dogs or take out the trash when I go home. I'm not allowed to get a big head; I've still got to do the simple things in life. | 117 |
| Ronda Rousey | I was always pushed to do that much more, and in the long run that made me more of an MMA fighter. My mom always told me that if I let it go to the judges, I'd lost. There was no way I was going to win a decision, so I had to find ways to finish the fight fast. | 117 |
| Carmelo Anthony | I told my mom I would graduate. I owe that much to her and myself. | 117 |
| Debi Mazar | Food brings back memories. I had a mom that wasn't a good cook, so I would eat my grandma's food. It was amazing because it brings back a time almost in Technicolor. I see her house, I see her stove; I think about what it felt like when I was sick, and it felt like love. | 117 |
| Eliza Dushku | I was raised in Boston by three older brothers and a very strong and empowering single mom. | 117 |
| Kimora Lee Simmons | Being a working mom, you want to make a difference in our schools, which is making a difference in our children and ultimately it's making a difference in our community. | 117 |
| Si Robertson | I'm always just carrying a Tupperware cup, ever since my mom went to a Tupperware party and got 'em. I've left them strewn all over the U.S. and Europe. I drink iced tea out of them. | 117 |
| Tori Spelling | I want to be a cool mom. | 117 |
| Mark Udall | 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. | 117 |
| Michael Chang | 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. | 117 |
| Erma Bombeck | Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother. | 118 |
| Joe Biden | When my first semester grades came out, my mom and dad told me I wouldn't be playing football. | 118 |
| Big Sean | My mom keeps me going, man. She deserves such a good life. I just wanna give it to her. My dad, too. My family, my friends, they keep me motivated. Just knowing my personal legend, just knowing what I'm supposed to do, that keeps me going. | 118 |
| Britney Spears | As a mom, you have all these situations you go through, and you're like, 'What is going on? Is this normal? Is this a phase? Or what is this?' and then you feel silly for asking questions because you think, 'I'm a mom - I'm supposed to know these things,' but you don't. | 118 |
| Condoleezza Rice | My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor or mediocre ones. | 118 |
| Gabby Douglas | You need your mom and dad to protect you. It means they love you so much. | 118 |
| Holly Madison | 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. | 118 |
| Michael Phelps | 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. | 118 |
| Queen Latifah | My mother wouldn't allow me to speak slang when I was growing up. But when I got outside, around my friends, it was 'Yo' and 'That's the joint' and 'Yo, what's up?' So I had my game for my friends and my game for my mom. | 118 |
| Tim Howard | My mom broke the mold. She put my brother and I first, always, and worked her fingers to the bone trying to provide for us. She taught us right from wrong and gave us very strong morals and values and belief in family, things that have stayed with me. | 118 |
| Chris Tucker | My mom raised me to never have anything control me. | 118 |
| Danielle Steel | 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. | 118 |
| Derrick Rose | My whole life has been nothing but trying to find a way to take care of my mom and take care of my family as quickly as possible. | 118 |
| Keri Russell | Anything that opens you up emotionally is going to impact your acting. Parenthood, becoming a mom, certainly does that. | 118 |
| Mary-Kate Olsen | When I was younger, on weekends, my mom would make us pancakes with our initials on them and then a tiny cup of coffee. I remember at 10 sneaking my own coffee and pouring a ton of sugar in and going up to the playroom and drinking it. | 118 |
| Patti Stanger | I really want to adopt a child... I want to be called 'Mom.' It really is the most beautiful word in the English language. | 118 |
| Al Roker | 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. | 118 |
| Candice Bergen | I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread. | 118 |
| Shemar Moore | I want a partner in crime and a Bonnie to my Clyde. I've just been so focused on my career. Women don't like being number two, so I've been glad to keep my distance so I could focus on me, get my life together and take care of my mom without disappointing the woman I love. | 118 |
| Carrie Underwood | I would say that my role model, as far as just somebody leading by example, which to me is what a great youth counselor does - they are there to talk to and lead by example - would be my mom, but she wasn't a youth counselor. She was a teacher, and she is a good person and definitely one of the biggest influences in my life. | 119 |
| Eddie Vedder | No matter how good you are, at some point your kids are gonna have to create their own independence and think that Mom and Dad aren't cool, just to establish themselves. That's what adolescence is about. They're gonna go through that no matter what. | 119 |
| Elizabeth Olsen | 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. | 119 |
| Queen Latifah | I know a lot of people who really aren't beautiful because their attitudes are very nasty... Whether I make the 50 most beautiful list or not, I'm always going to feel like I'm number one most beautiful to myself... I get that from my mom, and my daddy and my friends who raised me. | 119 |
| Vin Diesel | 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. | 119 |
| Cindy Crawford | 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. | 119 |
| Derrick Rose | My mom is real passionate and a family-first woman. She always told me that just because I can shoot a basketball better than someone else, I shouldn't think that I'm better than them. I know if I change, my friends and family would lay me down. She just wants to see her kids do right. | 119 |
| Dylan Lauren | My mom is a painter and photographer and my grandfather was an artist, so I've always been surrounded by creative people. | 119 |
| Gwen Stefani | Being a singer is all about me. About ego. Being a mom is all about being selfless - two different worlds. | 119 |
| Julian Casablancas | My parents separated when I was eight. I grew up with my mom alone. | 119 |
| Karan Johar | Whether or not we communicate it, I definitely seek my mom's acceptance and approval for everything. She has a strong commercial sense of movies and is a quintessential audience. When she doesn't like something, I know there is reason to worry. When she loves something, there is reason to celebrate. | 119 |
| Mike Myers | Dad was in the British Army and my mom was in the Royal Air Force, so both of my parents believed in discipline. | 119 |
| Summer Sanders | My healthiest habit is eating a healthy breakfast every morning. I never miss breakfast. As a busy mom, there will be days when I'm cruisin' along and I'll look at the clock and I haven't eaten lunch. And I'll run downstairs, and I'll start shovelin' stuff down the pie hole, and I'll think, 'That was no lunch at all.' | 119 |
| Tim Scott | As a small business owner for the last 15 years, when I think of what truly changed my life, it was my faith, a strong family, my mom did a really, really good job of encouraging me in very clear and discernible ways. | 119 |
| Tori Spelling | 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. | 119 |
| Travis Barker | 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. | 119 |
| Meg Cabot | My family, they're story tellers. My mom is Irish, and my dad is Italian. In my family, we weren't allowed to watch TV while we ate - we had to sit around the table and tell stories about our day. | 119 |
| Ivanka Trump | When I was little, I'd pick flowers wherever I traveled with my mom, then dry them, cover them with resin, and turn them into paperweights. | 120 |
| Bernie Mac | It was rough being dark. I got heat from my own people more than anyone else. I remember going to my mom and saying, 'Why am I so black?' And she said, 'Because I'm black. You just gotta always work harder than the average bear.' | 120 |
| Beth Ditto | 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. | 120 |
| Dan Gable | My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet. | 120 |
| Paris Hilton | 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. | 120 |
| Paul Harris | Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched. | 120 |
| Robin Wright | My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised. | 120 |
| Mandy Moore | My mom has always been my support system. She taught me to never give up and to keep pursuing my passions no matter what. | 120 |
| Patrick Stump | For some people, home is family and their mom's house or their girl or whatever, and I have those experiences as well, but the biggest thing for me is Chicago. | 120 |
| Travis Barker | My mom listened to the Beatles and Elvis, a lot of different types of music. | 120 |
| Josh Hutcherson | 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. | 120 |
| Saina Nehwal | At nine, my mom used to tell me she saw an Olympic medalist in me. I used to take it as a joke, but she was very serious. | 120 |
| Estelle | I always say, 'There's a difference between cooked food and McDonald's.' Your mom's homemade dinner - you enjoy this more than you enjoy the fast food that comes along and goes, and I strive to make homemade dinner every time I put out an album. | 121 |
| Honore de Balzac | The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute. | 121 |
| Jodie Foster | My mom was always late. It drove me crazy as a child. So I'm always on time - or early. | 121 |
| Kellan Lutz | I was blessed, because I come from a family where they knock you down before you float away. I have a lot of brothers who just make sure we have our feet on the ground, and my mom is a rock star. She is an amazing mother. | 121 |
| Nathan Fillion | 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. | 121 |
| Olga Kurylenko | My mom Marina and I were poor and hungry. We could sometimes not afford to eat - seriously. We lived together in a small town, called Berdyansk, in Ukraine. I was an only child. I don't think we would have survived if there had been more kids. | 121 |
| Ray Lewis | 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. | 121 |
| Sophia Loren | When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. | 121 |
| will.i.am | If you would ask my mom what books I liked growing up, I liked Dr. Seuss. | 121 |
| Will Ferrell | Oftentimes, even as a little kid, I would get up before anyone else. My brother would still be sleeping, my mom would still be sleeping, so I would literally play 'Monopoly' by myself. I would play board games; I would do things by myself. | 121 |
| Zayn Malik | 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! | 121 |
| Joe Torre | I felt there was a lot of love in my house. And my mom was, you know, the basis of all that. | 121 |
| Rainn Wilson | My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays. | 121 |
| Rebecca West | Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse. | 121 |
| Jason Aldean | 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. | 121 |
| Melissa Etheridge | It was tough being a single mom. It was tough being in a divorce with children. Very, very hard. | 121 |
| Jennifer Love Hewitt | I've always wanted to be a mom. I had a great relationship with mine. I'm ready to pass on to my child all the great love that my mom had for me. | 121 |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Men are what their mothers made them. | 122 |
| Demi Lovato | My sisters and my mom, those people help me get through every single day. | 122 |
| Faith Hill | I'm able to shift gears from mom to performer to mom pretty quickly. | 122 |
| Lance Armstrong | My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough. | 122 |
| Margot Robbie | It's not about being rich, but everyone back home has a pool. And I was a total water baby. My mom couldn't get me out - she'd put my dinner plate at the end of the pool, and I'd eat my meals in the water. | 122 |
| Paul Ryan | Mom was 50 when my Dad died. She got on a bus every weekday for years, and rode 40 miles each morning to Madison. She earned a new degree and learned new skills to start her small business. It wasn't just a new livelihood. It was a new life. | 122 |
| Ashley Tisdale | I did find some time to go to a record store and check out 'Headstrong' actually in the racks. It was pretty cool; I never thought I'd see my own CD sitting there with everyone else's. I made my Mom take lots of pics! | 122 |
| Johnny Weir | No mother wants to hear her son say he's gay. Those two words rip the picture of a daughter-in-law and grandchildren into pieces. I felt sorry for my mom and wanted her to know everything was going to be all right. But then she said, 'I don't really care, Johnny, as long as I know that you are going to be happy.' | 122 |
| Angelina Jolie | I've never lived my life in the opinion of others. I believe I'm a good person. I believe I'm a good mom. But that's for my kids to decide, not for the world. | 123 |
| Gabby Douglas | Oprah has definitely caught my eye. My mom and I used to watch her shows. We just love her. | 123 |
| Heather Brooke | When I was 26 or 27, I gave up journalism. I came to England after my mom died, to let serendipity take its course. And I just found myself back in journalism again. | 123 |
| Kristen Wiig | 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. | 123 |
| Lindsay Lohan | My mom is going to kill me for talking about sleeping with people. But I don't want to put myself in the position where I'm in a monogamous relationship right now. I'm not dating just one person. 'Sex and the City' changed everything for me because those girls would sleep with so many people. | 123 |
| Mia Hamm | 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. | 123 |
| Paul Walker | I think my mom put it best. She said, 'Little girls soften their daddy's hearts.' | 123 |
| Ricky Martin | Every family is different. I am mom and I am dad and I'm going to do my best. You should be proud, walk through life saying I have the coolest family. I am part of a modern family. | 123 |
| Zayn Malik | I've got three sisters, five aunties, and my mom. It must have had an influence on me growing up. | 123 |
| Cindy Crawford | 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. | 123 |
| Tom Vilsack | 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. | 123 |
| Kid Cudi | I'm very close with my family, so my mom is part of my entourage. | 124 |
| Gisele Bundchen | Sometimes when you are a great mom, you're not so great at your job. And then when you're good at your job, you're not so great of a mom or a good wife. It's a dance that never stops. But it's beautiful. | 124 |
| Harriet Ann Jacobs | Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name. | 124 |
| Kendall Jenner | I would literally sit at home and have my friends take pictures of me on my little Canon camera that my mom gave me for Christmas. | 124 |
| Lily Collins | 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. | 124 |
| Miley Cyrus | 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. | 124 |
| Christine Pelosi | Having seen my mom in community volunteer work my whole life and in Congress for 25 years, it is true as she often says that she sees her service as an extension of her role as a mother and a grandmother. | 124 |
| Chloe Grace Moretz | 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. | 124 |
| Billy Graham | Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children. | 125 |
| Erma Bombeck | It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding. | 125 |
| E. W. Howe | If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers. | 125 |
| Norah Jones | 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. | 125 |
| Amy Chua | When I'm not the Tiger Mom, I'm a professor at Yale Law School, and if one thing is clear to me from years of teaching, it's that there are many ways to produce fabulous kids. I have amazing students; some of them have strict parents, others have lenient parents, and many come from family situations that defy easy description. | 125 |
| Brittany Murphy | It's always been my mom and I against the world. | 125 |
| Criss Angel | It's so funny looking back, but my so-called overnight success actually took 15 years. I remember when I didn't have any money, and my only car was mom's Hyundai. | 125 |
| Dave Mustaine | My mom and dad got divorced when I was very young, and growing up in a family where the head of the household wasn't a man made a big difference. | 125 |
| Mike Shinoda | 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. | 125 |
| Rudyard Kipling | An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. | 126 |
| Alice Walker | Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me. | 126 |
| Ben Affleck | 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. | 126 |
| Chris Brown | My mom told me as a youngster I was always intellectual, like as far as being able to adapt fast and quick. But I had a fun childhood, went to regular school. | 126 |
| Michael Phelps | My mom put me and my sisters in the water to feel comfortable, to have water safety. | 126 |
| Nikki Reed | My mom can't defend herself to the world. She is such an amazing woman, with such an open heart. It's a real hard line, and I crossed it. I took everyone's life story and assumed it would be a great thing to put on screen. I was being selfish and I feel so horrible about it. I feel so guilty. | 126 |
| Zooey Deschanel | I wanted to be a child actor so bad that every day I'd beg my parents if I could audition, but my mom said, 'Not until you can drive yourself to auditions.' | 126 |
| Josh McDowell | Every kid needs to say, 'I want what my mom and dad have.' | 126 |
| Maria Bamford | My mom always does this thing where, the closer I get to home, the more she calls. 'Hey, listen, how's your plane? Did you land? Are you landing? Sweetie. Listen. We want to... ' The anxiety amps up exponentially as I get closer, and then I can't get out fast enough. | 126 |
| Chloe Grace Moretz | 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. | 126 |
| Jane Smiley | 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. | 126 |
| Big Sean | My mom graduated from the University of Michigan, which is a great school. Then she got her Master's from NYU. She wanted to be an actress, so when she graduated, she had a dream, and she started following it. She moved to New York and took acting classes with people like Denzel Washington. | 201 |
| Curtis Jackson | Puffy's contribution to hip-hop culture was the remix. He offered us the music that his mom played in front of him, with newer drums and younger artists. That worked, and will consistently be there. The remix comes right after the original record, that's something Puffy did to influence the culture. | 201 |
| Miley Cyrus | I never had, like, a nanny that took care of me. My mom always fed me breakfast, lunch, and dinner. | 201 |
| Peter Dinklage | I think my mom drove by a nuclear power plant when she was pregnant. But I wouldn't be in 'The Station Agent' if she hadn't. | 201 |
| Ryan Lochte | 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. | 201 |
| Amy Chua | The Chinese mom is not the helicopter mom. I would never do their homework for them. It's all about: Take responsibility, don't blame others. Be self-reliant. Never blame the teacher. | 201 |
| Gwen Stefani | 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! | 201 |
| Maria Bamford | My mom doesn't post on Facebook, but she'll tell anyone within about the first five minutes of meeting them about my sister and I, in whatever way she can. | 201 |
| LeBron James | 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.' | 202 |
| Big Sean | It was probably in third grade - I had a super-fake gold herringbone chain. Yeah man, it was, like, super fake. I don't remember if it was my mom's or how I got it, but ever since then, I've loved chains. The first real chain I got was from Kanye. It was a Jacob the Jeweler Kanye West Jesus piece. | 202 |
| Conor Oberst | I used to work at a school as a teacher's assistant, and my mom is a principal at an elementary school. I don't know, I think that's a pretty good life, teaching kids. | 202 |
| DMX | My mom put me away at 7. I enjoyed it... Being in institutions, I got three meals a day, clothes. | 202 |
| Drew Barrymore | I'm a real stay-at-home mom. I'm really hands-on. Everything else became secondary. | 202 |
| Mindy Kaling | 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. | 202 |
| Nicole Scherzinger | 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! | 202 |
| Ashley Tisdale | The family on my mom's side, their whole business is inventing and pitching stuff. My grandfather is in infomercials. He's a pitchman, so if you're ever watching TV late at night, you'll probably see him pitching knives. My great-grandfather also invented the plastic cheese grater. | 202 |
| Brandon Boyd | My parents are wonderful, and I'm really lucky - but my mom has always been almost exclusively a right-brained person. | 202 |
| Amy Grant | Come Christmas Eve, we usually go to my mom and dad's. Everybody brings one gift and then we play that game when we all steal it from each other. Some are really cool, others are useful and some are a bit out there. | 203 |
| Bruno Mars | My father moved to Hawaii from Brooklyn and my mother came there as a child from the Philippines. They met at a show where my dad was playing percussion. My mom was a hula dancer. | 203 |
| Channing Tatum | My mother taught me how to love. My mom is the most loving person I know. | 203 |
| Chris Pine | We come from fallible parents who were kids once, who decided to have kids and who had to learn how to be parents. Faults are made and damage is done, whether it's conscious or not. Everyone's got their own 'stuff,' their own issues, and their own anger at Mom and Dad. That is what family is. Family is almost naturally dysfunctional. | 203 |
| Natalie Portman | When I was in nursery school, the teachers asked me, y'know, 'What does your dad do for a living?' So I said 'He helps women get pregnant!' They called my mom and they were like, 'What exactly does your husband do?' | 203 |
| Priyanka Chopra | Financial independence is paramount. My mom always says that when a woman is financially independent, she has the ability to live life on her own terms. I think that was the soundest advice that I ever got. No matter where you go in life or who you get married to, you have to be financially independent - whether you use it or not. | 203 |
| Gloria Estefan | My mom was an amazing singer and music was a big part of my life, so I grew up listening to Nat King Cole, Johnny Mathis, Henry Mancini; I used to watch 'The Andy Williams Show' on TV. I was very musical, so I was watching stuff that most kids my age wouldn't be interested in. | 203 |
| Travis Barker | My mom died when I was 16. I had a rough childhood, you know what I mean, but it made me strong. | 203 |
| Michelle Obama | As a mom, I know it is my responsibility, and no one else's, to raise my kids. But we have to ask ourselves, what does it mean when so many parents are finding their best efforts undermined by an avalanche of advertisements aimed at our kids. | 204 |
| Big Sean | The thing was, at a young age, my mom and my grandma always tried to keep me out of the streets as much as they could, so they put me in a private school when I was super young. | 204 |
| Jill Scott | Being a mom, it feels like I did something so powerful and amazing. It's such a gigantic blessing, and a confirmation that the Creator exists. And all of that has made me feel sexier and stronger. I call it 'lava in my spine.' | 204 |
| Miley Cyrus | I probably have an earlier curfew than anyone. My mom wants to keep me really safe and my dad's not overly protective, but he's a dad no matter what. | 204 |
| Padma Lakshmi | 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. | 204 |
| Pink | My mom took all of my behavior personally. Everything I did, she thought it was an act of rebellion against her. But it was just me being me. | 204 |
| Queen Latifah | I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back. | 204 |
| Reba McEntire | My family, you know, are all still, you know, very close. We're all still very close. Mom and Daddy are still alive. So, what more can you ask for? Your kids are healthy. | 204 |
| Serena Williams | My mom taught me how to sew when I was 2 or 3, so I've been sewing for as long as I can remember. | 204 |
| Vin Diesel | My mom insisted on multigrain bread and never allowed soda in the house. | 204 |
| Jenny McCarthy | 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. | 204 |
| Justin Timberlake | My earliest memories as a kid was I would always try to make my mom and my stepdad laugh at dinner. Or make my friends laugh in class. And, I don't know, it's something I just really enjoy doing. | 204 |
| Chloe Grace Moretz | My mom won't let me buy high-fashion stuff unless it's TK Maxx or a birthday occasion. | 204 |
| Jennie Finch | Dad was the pitching coach, while Mom was the emotional supporter. Her unconditional love was great, and she wanted what was best for me. It was more about what she did than what she said, and she made sure I was the best I could be. | 205 |
| LeBron James | I hear my friends and my mom tell me I'm special, but honestly, I still don't get it. | 205 |
| Charlize Theron | From the moment this baby came into our home, those two dogs have never been more in love. It's the most beautiful thing I've ever witnessed. People keep saying, 'Oh, you're a single mom.' I'm like, 'Actually, I'm not. I've got two boys helping.' | 205 |
| Evangeline Lilly | People were fed up with reality shows about midgets getting married and weird Jerry Springer talk shows. There had been a real dry spell of intelligent family-oriented viewing: the type of program that Mom, Dad and the kids can all watch together. With 'Lost,' there are just so many characters for people to invest in. | 205 |
| Amy Adams | When I was younger, my sister thought it was funny to pretend to punch me in the face because my mom was concerned about my teeth falling out. They were loose for a long time, and she knocked out my teeth. | 205 |
| Rashida Jones | Mom is the most unconditionally loving person I will ever know, and she has always supported me on every level. | 205 |
| Chloe Grace Moretz | The one thing my mom will let me get is a nice shoe sometimes. | 205 |
| Dwayne Johnson | 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. | 206 |
| Carrie Underwood | My mom had a job, and she also took care of us, and she also took care of Dad - I always saw her pulling triple duty, doing more than I ever felt like she needed to. I made a promise to myself that it would be more of a team effort in my family someday. And because of that, I became more independent. | 206 |
| James Franco | 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. | 206 |
| Kirsten Dunst | A lot of moms give their kids line reads. My mom wasn't put in that position because I always had an acting teacher helping with the feelings rather than how to say something. | 206 |
| Mark Wahlberg | As far as I'm concerned, there's no job more important on the planet than being a mom. | 206 |
| Pink | My mom has always wished me a daughter just like me. | 206 |
| Tony Dungy | 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. | 206 |
| Madeleine M. Kunin | The health benefits of paid sick days policies are obvious. They prevent the spread of disease. But the impact is wider. If a working mom or dad loses a job because of sickness, the family may slip into poverty. | 206 |
| Chloe Grace Moretz | My mom won't let anyone treat me like a little princess. | 206 |
| Dennis Miller | I didn't know my Dad - he moved out early. And my mom's politics were kind of hardscrabble. She didn't think about Democrats or Republicans. She thought about who made sense. I've been both in my life. | 207 |
| Naveen Jain | Call it the Tiger Mom effect: In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. | 207 |
| J. Cole | My real dream is to have a whole, like, buy a whole piece of land. Imagine, like, a long driveway. Like, a cul de sac-type street, with maybe, like, seven houses. Me be right here. Have my mom be able to be right here. My brother over here. My girl's grandmother and family right here. Friends over there. That's my real dream. | 208 |
| Miley Cyrus | I don't want to be perfect, but I do want to be a role model. My mom always tells me that imperfections equal beauty. All of us are imperfect. | 208 |
| Paul Walker | My mom's hot. I mean she's old, but my mom's out of control. | 208 |
| Sugar Ray Leonard | Boxing is individual, although there's a team concept because you need a great corner, you need a great trainer, you need a great prep man, you need all of these things, but it's more of a Mano a Mano; it's more you versus me. I miss that time in training camp and Dad and Mom cooking meals. It was one big family. | 208 |
| Kendrick Lamar | My pops and my mom started playing Marvin Gaye and the Isley Brothers and all these people, but at the same time, they always had Snoop on right behind it in the same mix. | 209 |
| Ben Affleck | 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. | 209 |
| Beth Ditto | 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. | 209 |
| Bill Murray | 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. | 209 |
| Camille Paglia | Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up. | 209 |
| Honore de Balzac | 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. | 209 |
| Sarah Palin | I love those hockey moms. You know what they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull is? Lipstick. | 209 |
| Amy Chua | I'm a proud strict mom and, you know, I'm really proud of the two daughters I've raised. And I'm especially proud of my relationship with them. We're very close. I think we're good friends. | 209 |
| LeBron James | For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you'd would wake up times and hope that the next day you'd be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home. | 210 |
| Julia Roberts | 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. | 210 |
| Kim Kardashian | My mom and I had the same vision, and we want the same things. We would always make a goal list every year. | 211 |
| Marco Rubio | My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock clerk at K-Mart. They never made it big. They were never rich. And yet they were successful. Because just a few decades removed from hopelessness, they made possible for us all the things that had been impossible for them. | 211 |
| Diablo Cody | Fact: The new '90210' is cooler than the old '90210.' It's the lithe, streamlined Skipper to the elder series' venerable Barbie. Gone are the traditional parents - they've been replaced by a hipster mom n' pop who get busted necking in the car. | 211 |
| Blake Lively | My mom is a huge woman of worth for me because she's been my idol my whole life. My mom was someone who juggled everything. She had her own career, she raised five kids, she was Superwoman... and she was never satisfied doing just one thing because... she probably just had too much energy. | 212 |
| Christina Aguilera | I remember watching the Grammys and looking at the performances and crying to my mom, saying how much I wanted to be there. | 212 |
| Claire Danes | I think I would make a lousy stay-at-home mom. It just wouldn't suit me. | 212 |
| Norman Reedus | I went camping one time when I was twelve, to the Great Lakes. My friend stepped in really deep muddy water and started screaming and sinking. My mom ran up, and I was just standing there a foot away and wouldn't stick out my hand to pull him up. So I'm probably not the best person to take on a camping trip. | 212 |
| Priyanka Chopra | When I was 13, I would come visit my aunt and uncle in New York. I decided I wanted to live with them after seeing my cousin's school. Honestly, I just wanted to go to a school where I didn't have to wear uniforms, and my mom said okay. | 212 |
| Roseanne Barr | 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. | 212 |
| Kristen Stewart | My brother's a grip. My mom's a scriptwriter. My dad's a director. So it's like, at heart, I'm a below-the-line girl. | 213 |
| Sandra Bullock | Every single second of every single day... I don't know if I feel like a bad mom, but at the end of the day I'm always plagued with, 'Did I do enough? Should I go in a different direction?' | 213 |
| Ashley Tisdale | 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. | 213 |
| Michelle Obama | It wasn't so long ago that I was a working mom myself. And I know that sometimes, much as we all hate to admit it, it's just easier to park the kids in front of the TV for a few hours, so we can pay the bills or do the laundry or just have some peace and quiet for a change. | 214 |
| Beth Ditto | 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. | 214 |
| Jeremy Lin | My dad was the one who really loved basketball, and he was the one that put the basketball in my hands, and my mom was 'Team Mom' of all my teams. I used to play for three or four teams at once and she would just spend her entire afternoon driving me from practice to practice to practice. | 214 |
| Roseanne Barr | TV family sitcoms have always been about fathers who know best and mothers who are so enchanted with everything they do. I wanted to be the first mom to be a mom on TV. I wanted to sent out a message about how us women really feel. | 214 |
| Elizabeth Gilbert | I used to say, 'Man, I think I'd be a really good dad. I'll be a great provider. I'm funny; I'll go on trips with them - I'll do all sorts of stuff.' But the momming? I'm not made for that. I have a really good mom; I know what she put into it. | 215 |
| Paul Walker | My mom was always really healthy and cautious about her diet, so I'm not a big sugar guy. | 215 |
| Zooey Deschanel | My nursery school did a production of 'The Three Little Pigs.' I played the third pig. When the wolf knocked on my door, I refused to get up and answer it because, to me, he was knocking the wrong way. I just lay there, snoring away on stage, fully immersed in my character. My dad turned to my mom and said: 'Dustin Hoffman.' | 215 |
| Aristotle | Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. | 216 |
| Erma Bombeck | Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, 'A house guest,' you're wrong because I have just described my kids. | 216 |
| Kid Rock | I didn't come from a trailer park. I grew up middle class and my dad had money and my mom made my lunch. I got a car when I was sixteen. I'm proud of that. | 216 |
| Tina Fey | 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. | 216 |
| Ashley Tisdale | The 'believe' tattoo is because my mom always told me to believe. | 216 |
| Pablo Picasso | 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. | 217 |
| Steven Spielberg | My problem is that my imagination won't turn off. I wake up so excited I can't eat breakfast. I've never run out of energy. It's not like OPEC oil; I don't worry about a premium going on my energy. It's just always been there. I got it from my mom. | 217 |
| Miley Cyrus | 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. | 217 |
| Queen Latifah | There was always music in our home. My mom and my dad loved music. I remember when we were kids we would have these great parties at the house with congas and bongos and African drums, and it was amazing. It wasn't until years later that I found out that they were actually Black Panther meetings. | 217 |
| Quentin Tarantino | My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid. | 217 |
| Robert Downey, Jr. | Dad's Jewish and Irish, Mom's German and Scotch. I couldn't say I was anything. My last name isn't even Downey. My dad changed his name when he wanted to get into the Army and was underage. My real name is Robert Elias. I feel like I'm still looking for a home in some way. | 217 |
| Jennifer Granholm | This is the place where anybody - like an African American kid raised by a single mom - can be president. | 217 |
| Taylor Swift | 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. | 218 |
| Daniel Radcliffe | I don't know where my romanticism comes from. My mom and dad would read to me a lot. 'Treasure Island,' 'Robinson Crusoe,' tales of chivalry and knights, things like that. Those are the stories I loved growing up. | 218 |
| Paul McCartney | Looking back, I think I was always musical. My dad was very musical, and I think my mom was musical. | 218 |
| Ashley Tisdale | My mom is very confident and she was always a role model of mine. | 218 |
| Gary Vaynerchuk | People who build family businesses are not classically trained. They have to deal with an enormous amount of politics. You think corporate politics are tough? Go work for your dad or your mom. | 219 |
| Ariana Grande | Every day, my mom and I would watch a different Judy Garland VHS. I love how she tells a story when she sings. It was just about her voice and the words she was singing - no strings attached or silly hair or costumes, just a woman singing her heart out. I feel like that doesn't happen that much anymore. | 219 |
| Beth Ditto | 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. | 219 |
| Tim Tebow | I've been blessed to have an amazing mom and two amazing sisters - so they set a very high standard. | 219 |
| Vanessa Hudgens | That's actually how my parents met. They were pen pals. My mom was in the Philippines and my father was in the States, and they wrote to each other. He went out to meet her, and they wed not too long after. | 220 |
| Tina Fey | I remember failing my Princeton interview. My mom wanted me to apply because ever since I was a kid she had this dream that I would apply to Princeton, but it was just not happening. | 221 |
| will.i.am | My mom's discipline worked out perfectly. I wouldn't change a thing. | 221 |
| Gary Vaynerchuk | My dad is like a cactus - introverted and tough. I'm a people person, like my mom, but I got my competitiveness from my dad. He came to this country from Belarus with nothing and built a real business. He's my hero for giving me that need to run a business and for having enormous confidence in me. | 222 |
| Channing Tatum | If my Dad doesn't like you, you will know. My Mom is just too innocent to ever lie. She doesn't even cuss. | 222 |
| Larry David | 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. | 222 |
| Michio Kaku | One day I went up to my mom and I said, 'Mom, can I have permission to build a 2.3-million electron-volt atom smasher - a betatron - in the garage?' And my mom stared at me, and she said, 'Sure. Why not? And don't forget to take out the garbage.' | 222 |
| Britney Spears | 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. | 224 |
| Marco Rubio | My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid and a cashier and a stock clerk at WalMart. We were not people of financial means in terms of significant financial means. I always told them, 'I didn't always have what I wanted. I always had what I needed.' My parents always provided that. | 224 |
| Jose Andres | I remember that at the beginning of the month, the kind of menus my mom and father would prepare for us would have fish, chicken. But at the end of the month - because my father would be waiting for paycheck - the refrigerator would get empty. I remember that without a lot of food left, some of the best meals happened right there. | 225 |
| Ellen DeGeneres | My dad is still Christian Scientist. My mom's not, and I'm not. But I believe in God, and that there's a higher power and an intelligence that's bigger than us and that we can rely on. It's not just us, thinking we are the ones in control of everything. That idea gives me support. | 226 |
| Brigitte Bardot | I am no mother, and I won't be one. | 226 |
| Thomas Friedman | My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to the loan she got through the GI Bill. | 226 |
| Carrie Underwood | The only reason I felt like I could sing a song like 'Blown Away' is because I have definitely lived through my fair share of trips to the cellar in the spring. We were no stranger to that. I still ask my mom, 'Is the cellar cleaned out now? Is everything OK?' Even in my new house, I had something built in it that's like a storm shelter. | 301 |
| Seth Shostak | Everything you see is filtered through your visual system (imperfect) and your brain (also imperfect, despite what your mom told you). Witness testimony is the worst kind of evidence in science. | 301 |
| Mitt Romney | I love my dad. It's fair to say that I probably would not have thought of politics had I not seen my mom and dad involved in politics. | 302 |
| Jesse Ventura | Okay, fluoride in the water to help our teeth. Well, shouldn't that be the job of your mom and dad? To teach you how to brush your teeth and use mouth wash? What do we need the government to do it for? Clearly, what a scam. Fluoride in the water. | 304 |
| Pink | My mom never wanted to be a grandmom. She never wanted to be a mom, really. | 305 |
| Marc Jacobs | Yes, I always remember my dad's, mom's and my grandma's perfumes. | 306 |
| Kim Kardashian | I always wanted what Mom and Dad had. | 309 |
| LeBron James | Being the only man in the household with my mom definitely helped me grow up fast. | 309 |
| Al Franken | My dad didn't graduate from high school, ended up being a printing salesman, probably never made more than $8,000 a year. My mom sold real estate and did it part time. | 309 |
| Patti Smith | I'm a human being, I'm a friend, I'm a mom, I'm a writer, and I'm an artist. I do play electric guitar and all of that, but in the end, I'm just a person. | 309 |
| Priyanka Chopra | I like bad boys, and I like to take them home to my mom. | 309 |
| Christina Aguilera | 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. | 311 |
| Queen Latifah | My mom has always been my champion. She was very smart and grounded. She said, 'Save your money. Pay your taxes. Don't put everything in one basket,' but she let me explore and be creative. | 311 |
| Tori Amos | I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom's family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car - it was the late sixties - and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols. | 311 |
| Leonardo DiCaprio | You do need parental guidance and I was in a great position with both my mum and dad. They split when I was a baby but even though I stayed with my mom they were both very much involved in my upbringing. | 312 |
| Daniel Radcliffe | My dad believes in God, I think. I'm not sure if my mom does. I don't. | 314 |
| Ashton Kutcher | My mom's whole side of the family, they're all Packers fans. My mom's a Bears fan. My stepdad is a Vikings guy. So that gets ugly. My mom sits upstairs watching the Bears game; he sits in the basement. They can't watch it together. Football's a violent anger in our family dynamic. | 316 |
| Tyra Banks | My mom never taught me to be waiting for some prince on a white horse to swipe me off my feet. | 316 |
| Anthony Bourdain | My mom had Julia Child and 'The Fannie Farmer Cookbook' on top of the refrigerator, and she had a small repertoire of French dishes. | 317 |
| Brad Pitt | One of the greatest, smartest things I ever did was give my kids Angie as their mom. She is such a great mom. Oh, man, I'm so happy to have her. | 319 |
| Shia LaBeouf | My mom is the backbone not just of my family but of many families. | 324 |
| Sandra Bullock | I'm simply the mom who makes the lunch, drives to school, finds where the toys are, washes the clothes, and I'm here to play. And that's all I should be. | 326 |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep. | 412 |
| Eminem | I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked. | 420 |
| Taylor Swift | 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. | 420 |
| Lady Gaga | My mom and I are very close. | 425 |
| Mitt Romney | When my mom ran for the Senate, my dad was there for her every step of the way. I can still hear her saying in her beautiful voice, 'Why should women have any less say than men, about the great decisions facing our nation?' | 505 |
| Robert Kiyosaki | When I was a kid, there were no credit cards. Instead, retailers offered layaway plans. My mom would go to a store, such as a furniture outlet, choose the sofa she wanted, and put it on layaway. That meant she put a little money down to hold the sofa, and every payday she'd pay a little toward the purchase. | 511 |
| Marilyn Manson | When I turned about 14, I developed a friendship with this guy whose mom was the secretary to Ernest Angley, the faith healer, who's very popular in the Midwest. He had a television show, and he was sort of like Liberace mixed with Jerry Falwell - very glitzy, very high-tech. | 513 |
| Sandra Bullock | I was a brownie for a day. My mom made me stop. She didn't want me to conform. | 522 |
| Taylor Swift | When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts. | 601 |
| Barack Obama | 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. | 613 |
| Taylor Swift | 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. | 716 |
| Maya Angelou | Whenever something went wrong when I was young - if I had a pimple or if my hair broke - my mom would say, 'Sister mine, I'm going to make you some soup.' And I really thought the soup would make my pimple go away or my hair stronger. | 725 |
| Barack Obama | America isn't Congress. America isn't Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger. | 815 |
| Taylor Swift | I've been my mom's kitchen helper since I was a little kid. | 1004 |
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