mom
Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘mom’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“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.” -Miranda Cosgrove
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“Last time I spoke to my mom she called me from a pay phone, and we didn’t have the best talk. Ever since my stepdad passed away three years ago, she has been very depressed and hasn’t been herself at all.” -Eric West
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“We’ve always loved going to the movies. Our mom and dad are big movie fans. They’d take us on these movie orgys where we’d see sometimes three movies in a day.” -Andy Wachowski
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“I’ve been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real, natural extension of drawing as a way of telling a story visually.” -Jennifer Yuh Nelson
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“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.” -Nerlens Noel
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“My mom introduced me to science-fiction.” -Logan Marshall-Green
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“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.” -Jessica Capshaw
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“I was fortunate enough to have my kids early, so being a mom always ended up being a better gig than these other parts that came along. So I always justified not really working a lot because I had a family.” -Heather Langenkamp
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“On my mom’s side I’m Mexican, and my dad is a white dude.” -Tyler Posey
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“At first I could not believe what I was reading. I got up from my seat and walked away, talking to myself that I may have found my mom.” -Reese Hoffa
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“I was born to a single mom and raised by her and my grandparents.” -Anthony Foxx
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“Our songs touch people, and take them back to a time when there was no threat of terrorism, when you didn’t have to lock your doors and when Mom and Dad took care of everything.” -George Grove
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“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.” -Andy Grammer
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“My mom is in the navy and my dad works for the army, but I never called them ‘sir’ or ‘ma’am’ or anything like that, and we never really moved around a lot because both my parents were stationed in D.C.” -Ian Harding
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“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…
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“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.” -Emilie de Ravin
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“I was born to a Nigerian dad and a Kenyan mom, and coming to the States was really academic.” -Dayo Okeniyi
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“Oh, my mom. She’s one of my biggest fans.” -Patina Miller
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“They very seldom let me lose my cool. They made me like I was Polly Perfect, which was ridiculous so that when I bump into kids on the street they’d say ‘I wish my Mom were like you.’” -Charlotte Rae
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“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.” -Booboo Stewart
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“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.” -Florence Henderson
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“Part of the reason that I moved to Los Angeles is that even though my mom introduced me to all kinds of music, I really wanted to work on having my own identify, on being who I am and doing what I do, and seeing how people responded.” -Schuyler Fisk
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“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…
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“My mom taught me to go after my dreams. I have this faith in myself that I must have gotten from her.” -Amy Jo Johnson
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“When I was seven, I asked my mom if I could be on TV, and she said if I really wanted to, I could. I got an agent and booked my first audition.” -Natasha Calis
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“So, from a very young age, my mom tells me that I wanted to be Michael J. Fox. I didn’t want to be an actor. I just wanted to be Michael J. Fox for awhile. And then, I realized that he was an actor, so I pursued that.” -Patrick J. Adams
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“My mom came from such humble beginnings and especially my dad as well. He didn’t go to university.” -Petra Ecclestone
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“My mom moved up between Leland and Greenville when I was just a little tot.” -Little Milton
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“Well, Mom and Dad are both actors, and I’ve spent a lot of time watching my mom on stage and a lot of time on set with my dad, so it was very much a part of my growing up.” -Eleanor Tomlinson
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“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.” -Rainey Qualley
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“I’ve been a pretty selfish mom and a very unselfish athlete for about three years now and it’s time to put my family first. It’s probably time to move on.” -Melanie Roach
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“My first big job was an Abercrombie &Fitch campaign. But my mom wouldn’t let me skip school for it, so I missed half of the shoot. When we got there, we realized Bruce Weber was the photographer we knew we had made a mistake!” -Lauren Bush
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“My mom and my stepdad are both therapists.” -Jennifer Westfeldt
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“My mom is a constant in my life in so many ways.” -Kerri Walsh
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“My mom was diagnosed with breast cancer when I was 13 and it was something we weren’t really aware of as a family.” -Rima Fakih
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“My mom told me to do whatever I wanted to do and don’t get too anxious about it.” -David Giuntoli
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“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.” -Missy Franklin
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“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.” -Rob James-Collier
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“I had really great parents who always gave me lots of opportunity for choice, but I didn’t always realize how rare that was for a girl for them to say, ‘You can be a mom or have a career or do both or do something we haven’t thought of yet.’” -Ally Condie
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“You eat and sleep it all day long and play on the streets until mom calls you in. My story is no different than anybody else’s.” -Adam Oates
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“When you become a mom you just learn how to function sleep deprived and you do get used to it. I came back to work when Finley was three months old and the first few months were rough. Then somehow you learn to exist on no sleep and now when he does upon occasion sleep…
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“I think there’s a danger of a being typecast as the all-American mom forever.” -JoBeth Williams
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“My Mom is a ballet director, so I had this idea in me that classical training is the best foundation for anything you do, so I wanted to get a classical background and voice.” -Shuler Hensley
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“Everyone in my family is an artist. Both my parents are painters and my mom’s an opera singer. I was never shown any other way to process life.” -Aleksa Palladino
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“Losing my mom at such a young age had a profound effect on my life.” -Molly Shannon
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“I think I’m going to spend some time learning how to be a first-time mom, and then I’ll go back to work.” -Linda Cardellini
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“My dad was Jewish. My mom is not. So I was not raised anything.” -Matt Lauer
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“Growing up I always shopped at Victoria’s Secret with my mom and saw Angels like Gisele and Karolina Kurkova in the windows.” -Lindsay Ellingson
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“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.” -Mindy McCready
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“My dad is a lawyer and my mom is an artist. So growing up was exactly what it sounds like – strict household but a lot of creativity. They are so psyched that I get to make music for a living. My parents rule.” -Ty Segall
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“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…
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“When I was going on auditions, it was nerve-racking. I’d always say to my mom that it would be awesome if I could get a series. When Modern Family came along, I said, ‘You know what, Mom? I believe I’m going to get this role.’” -Rico Rodriguez
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“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.” -Denise Juneau
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“I always had an interest in fashion because my mom is a celebrity fashion stylist. I grew up being on set or in showrooms.” -Jasmine Tookes
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“My mom always taught me to be sweet and polite and cross my legs because it’s what the guys like. Actually, they like a raunchy girl once in a while.” -Tiffani Amber Thiessen
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“My original inspiration was my mom: a few years after the death of my dad, she started dating one my teachers!” -Meg Cabot
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“If I go on dates, my mom is always with me. She’s always there making sure I’m all right. Like if I go to see a movie with a boy, she’ll go to dinner next door.” -Ariel Winter
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“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.” -Marla Sokoloff
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“I spend so much time with my parents. My mom and I were joined at the hip for five years. There was not one moment when I wasn’t with her.” -Kay Panabaker
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“My mom still lives in Denver and some of my brothers are still in the area, so I still have strong ties there.” -Terrell Davis
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“When I can 10 or 11, my mom was the one out there catching passes for me. She was my prime receiver.” -Joe Theismann
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“I’m not a businessperson. I have no sense of money. My mom does everything for me. She makes all my decisions for me, and even buys my clothes. She’s very protective.” -Coco Lee
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“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.” -Vanna White
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“It would be great to do another television show that was a multi-camera because the hours are so wonderful and you can be a good mom at the same time. The problem is, there aren’t a lot of multi-camera shows that I personally like. My aesthetic is more geared toward single-camera shows.” -Kaitlin Olson
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“My mom was a photographer and whenever they needed a baby for a modelling job, she’d stick me in front of the camera. That’s how it started.” -Alyson Hannigan
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“I love Westerns and I remember as a kid climbing up on the couch and make it into a saddle and shoot guns and fall off. I would lay there after my death and my mom would tell me to eat lunch and I’d say, ‘I’m still dead, Mom!’ I was Method, even then.” -Creed…
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“When I was a child it was very clear what I was allowed to see and what I was not allowed to see and there was no discussion or option or negotiation. Whatever my mom said, that’s what went down.” -Yul Vazquez
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“My mom put me in dance classes when I was 5 years old.” -Danny Pudi
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“When I see my mom in the stands, it always pushes me to succeed.” -Ashton Eaton
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“I think it would be a lot easier if I said, ‘I feel like a dude,’ but I was raised by a southern mom, so I know how to put on lipstick and walk in heels and rock that look. It’s exactly that juxtaposition that confuses people.” -Saskia de Brauw
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“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.” -Pauly Shore
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“When I was six years old my friend was auditioning for ‘Annie,’ and I decided I wanted to audition with her. My mom was worried I would fall flat on my face because I’d never opened my mouth to sing, so she sent me to vocal lessons. I did the audition and fell in love…
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“I think of myself as a fairly attractive girl and always have, thanks to my mom. I was brought into this world thinking I was gorgeous because my mother was extremely devoted to this notion.” -Amy Schumer
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“I remember my mom had a big collection of copies of Saturday Evening Post magazines, and that was really my introduction to those great illustrators.” -Thomas Kincade
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“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.” -Mary Steenburgen
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“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?” -Tarsem Singh
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“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.” -Diana Lopez
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“She had a hit for every syllable: ‘Don’t. You. Ever. Talk. To. Me. Like. That. Ever. Again.’ That was the last time I ever talked back to Mom.” -Misty May-Treanor
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“My mom’s passionate and energetic and very funny and enthusiastic.” -Eric Stonestreet
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“My whole life sort of ended when my mom died.” -Cheryl Strayed
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“I always tell people, I’m a better swimmer because I’m a mom and a better mom because I’m swimmer.” -Amanda Beard
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“People close to me called me ‘Curry in a Hurry.’ I was moving through life at 100 miles an hour trying to further my career and be a great mom and make everyone happy.” -Ann Curry
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“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 10×10 brick, so I purchased her a flatscreen for her living room.” -Dave Franco
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“I’m not sure what I want to do when I grow up, or if I’m sure I ever want to grow up. I’m sure there are people that wish I would, but you know, my mom will get over it.” -Jerry Doyle
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“My mom had to beg the guys to let me play. I couldn’t even play the drums right – Brian had to show me.” -Dennis Wilson
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“My mom’s a concert pianist, so she started teaching me when I was around seven. When I was eight, I started writing my own songs, and kinda started putting piano and singing together. But I’m trained classically, which is a big influence on me, I think.” -Birdy
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“We’re definitely a hodgepodge of influences. Mine, most heavily, would be Southern rock – the Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd and stuff like that. Hillary is more from the country side – her mom is Linda Davis, a country singer. Dave, he’s a big fan of the Eagles and like that.” -Charles Kelley
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“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.” -Ne-Yo
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“I was serious about ballet for a long time, but my mom got me into tap and jazz and modern and hip-hop, and I was one of those over-lessoned children.” -Greta Gerwig
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“My earliest acting memory is making up a play for my mom and dad called The Lonesome Baby. I have no idea what The Lonesome Baby was about. I just remember the title. But I’m sure it was an epic.” -Jane Horrocks
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“I think if I could be any superhero, it’d probably be my mom… but I don’t think I’d look too good in high heels, so it’s not gonna happen.” -Jason Behr
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“My mom’s collard greens. No one else in the world can make them like hers. I’m not just saying that because she’s my mom. She’s got some Mississippi secret. I could seriously eat them every day.” -Santigold
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“It’s the best thing ever – I love being a mom. This is my only child. My career was a priority earlier in my life, but now my son is definitely the priority.” -Stephanie Mills
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“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.” -Hayden Christensen
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“My mom had gotten a Super 8 camera to make home movies with, and my brother and me got our hands on it and ran with it.” -Lev Yilmaz
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“No one was more important than my mom and dad. I know they are watching from a place up in heaven here today to make sure all their kids are doing good.” -Eddie Murray
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“I never let anyone pluck, including myself, unless my mom approves. She guards my eyebrows. She’s like the eyebrow police!” -Isabelle Fuhrman
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“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.” -Jason Derulo
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“My mom would have liked it that I patterned myself more after Jimmy Reed.” -Jimmy Smith
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“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.’” -Candace Cameron Bure
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“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.” -Tommy Franks
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“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.” -Niki Taylor
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“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.’” -Jayma Mays
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“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…
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“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.” -Lucas Grabeel
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“Two weeks ago at the U.S. Amateur, my mom caddied, and that is kind of a different feeling, because she’s your mom and you have to listen to her. It was really comfortable having my mom there, but it’s also really relieving and comfortable to have someone that knows the course off their hat, really.”…
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“My mom is a very warm, typical sort of Jewish-mother type. And my dad has a somewhat, um, different personality.” -Peter Orszag
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“I hope that through my work, artists will take some chances, break some rules, and make art that comes from inside of them. I would like to be remembered as a kind person, a great Mom, and a bit unruly – in a good way!” -Angela Cartwright
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“Well, my mom taught public school music for almost 40 years. And she’s about 5 feet – and very mighty. And she would control her kids a lot by giving them the eye, or the stare.” -Vanessa Williams
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“I’m not sure anyone – and I could be wrong in this – grows up thinking, I want to be a single mom.” -Bridget Moynahan
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“My mom breastfed me for more than a year, and I can’t imagine doing it any other way. It’s cheap and much better for the environment, and you don’t have to lug all that stuff around.” -Emily Deschanel
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“I never thought I was a great mom. I always worked. I fell in love with my children as they got older.” -Marla Gibbs
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“My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.” -Balthazar Getty
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“I remember my mom saying that after you have a baby you get really thin. So you gain all that weight and then you just lose it and keep losing it.” -Arizona Muse
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“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.” -Teri Hatcher
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“I’m from Manchester, Mass., so it was lobster, lobster and more lobster! Also, lots of fish that we caught in the summers, clam chowder and roast beef sandwiches. But my mom was pretty healthy we had a lot of chicken and broccoli and rice as well.” -Sprague Grayden
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“So much of our lives are defined by habit or what the guy next to us is doing, never wondering and knowing who and what we support with our actions, from the detergent Mom always used, to my favorite dish I make… A lot of my life is unexamined habit.” -Kristin Bauer van Straten
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“My mom was so people-friendly. She was incredible. She’d go to the mall, and she’d talk to everyone. Give people a kiss on the cheek. I think if I wasn’t pushed around a lot, I’d be great with people. Maybe I still can be.” -Fred Couples
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“My mom was Sicilian, my dad was Sicilian. Mom was a great cook, but all the women were.” -Chazz Palminteri
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“I used to do skits for my mom… and I was always entertaining as a kid.” -Leah Remini
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“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.” -Patricia Richardson
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“I took piano for many years. I kicked and screamed through all of my lessons, but my mom really insisted.” -Kristin Kreuk
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“When I was 10 years old my mom used to play Tupac while she cleaned the house.” -Soulja Boy
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“My dad died when I was three so my mom had to raise four kids on her own, and I think there’s a part of me that pulls upon having watched my mom do that our whole lives. She had to make it work.” -Leslie Bibb
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“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!’” -Ed O’Neill
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“I’ve always been homeschooled, so doing it on set is kind of the same thing. My mom makes it very interactive – we’ll get a book on chocolate and learn how to make it, or she will buy antique items. I love military history, the mechanics and strategy of it.” -Atticus Shaffer
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“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!” -Aly Raisman
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“My mom and my dad wanted my brother and I to have a better life, you know, better education, better jobs. It was probably harder, much, much harder, for my parents. When you’re a kid, you can learn a language much more easily I learned English in less than a year.” -Mila Kunis
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“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.” -Vanessa Kerry
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“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.” -Chrissie Hynde
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“I told my agents that I didn’t want to go on the audition. But as that was happening I called my mom, who has been watching the show from the beginning, and my mom said, ‘It’s the coolest show. You have to go.’” -Mary Lynn Rajskub
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“My mom is still yelling at me because she needs more autographed pictures.” -Ashton Kutcher
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“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.” -Brooklyn Decker
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“But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24.” -Rachael Leigh Cook
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“You know that I am living proof that the American Dream is real. Growing up, our congressman cut through government bureaucratic red tape to help my mom buy our first house. That’s the kind of congressman I’ll be.” -Geoff Davis
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“When I was 11 my friend’s mom made a peanut butter sandwich. I ate the sandwich and was like, ‘I’m never eating anything else again.’ And I still eat peanut butter every day. I would put peanut butter on a steak.” -Aasif Mandvi
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“My mom raised us three boys by herself on welfare. It’s not worse than anybody else’s life.” -Jeffrey Donovan
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“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.” -Rebecca…
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“I love to fly. I always wanted to fly. It’s been one of my dreams since I was 3 years old. I remember saying to my mom, 3 years old, every day, ‘I can fly!’ Living on the ninth floor, it was dangerous.” -Elena Anaya
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“In fact, my mom always told me because I was the daughter of an Army officer born overseas in Paris, France, that under the Constitution she believed that I could never run for president.” -Karen Hughes
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“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.” -Al Roker
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“It’s impossible to put yourself first when you’re a mom.” -Jillian Michaels
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“My mom was a dancer, my dad’s a singer and I’ve always had that kind of music in my life.” -Elvis Stojko
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“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.” -Sarah Polley
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“My mom sent me to regular high school because she wanted me to have that experience and not say that I missed out, but I didn’t like it at all. I’m more comfortable in the world that I’m in, I grew up in it so when I get around normal kids in regular high school…
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“My dad and mom divorced when I was around ten, and I didn’t live with him after that, though he was close by and we saw each other weekly. I wasn’t really aware that he was a writer I didn’t start reading his writing until I was about fifteen. It occurred to me then that…
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“Sometimes, if you don’t have kids yourself, it’s assumed you won’t understand or know how to play a mom, which is kind of silly if you think about it.” -Tricia Helfer
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“I wasn’t always a writer. When I went to college and majored in fine arts, I was a painter. Then I was a stay-at-home mom.” -Janet Evanovich
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“It’s always been a dream of mine to get somewhere and to have my mom and dad with me up there.” -Haley Reinhart
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“Dad worked his entire career as an aviation technician. Mom was a legal secretary who became a teacher. We lived a simple American life.” -Brian Sandoval
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“My mom was a Democrat and I was scared to death that she was gonna blow it. First I was going to hell with Monroe, and now to Republican hell with Nixon.” -Tommy Rettig
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“My parents were both in show business. My father was an actor, my mom an actress, and both singers, dancers and actors. They met in Los Angeles doing a play together and so I grew up in a show biz family.” -Micky Dolenz
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“My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.” -Hale Irwin
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“Usually a family is led through the mom or the dad and their career and for the family to be led by my career, even though God has led it, could be a lot of pressure.” -Stacie Orrico
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“I wasn’t one to go out and buy a new car and stereo system and expensive clothes. My mom helped keep me grounded.” -Christina Applegate
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“My dad’s an architect and my mom owned a French bakery for twelve years.” -Alison Lohman
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“As a mom, I understand how important it is to ensure kids start their day right and always make sure my kids have a nutritious breakfast. One in five U.S. children live in homes where food is not always available, which is why I partnered with Kellogg’s on their ‘Share Your Breakfast’ campaign, which provide…
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“I got tackled once in a movie theater. I was with my mom and brother, and then suddenly I got hit from behind and sort of sprawled out on the candy counter.” -Scott Wolf
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“For example, I loved English and history at school. I would have loved to have done a degree in either. But my Mom said I didn’t have time for university.” -Vanessa Mae
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“I’ve had to adapt my wardrobe to my various roles, both at the office, as a mom, and for television. When I shop for the season I look for pieces that will suit every facet of my daily life, not just one single occasion.” -Nina Garcia
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“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.” -Arthur Godfrey
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“I naturally wanted to be saved, so when I came home I told my mom I wanted to be confirmed. That’s the way I related to it, being raised an Episcopalian. I went to Dallas and got confirmed.” -T-Bone Burnett
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“I heard the Beatles and the Stones, and Mom bought me an electric guitar. I played lead for four years and then switched to bass. One day someone suggested that I should sing, so I sheepishly stepped up to the microphone and the rest is rock history.” -Glenn Hughes
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“My mom always made sure I lived my life as a regular kid.” -Soleil Moon Frye
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“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.” -Alicia Sacramone
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“My mother stopped working when she had my brother. She was a full time mom until I started getting heavily into ice skating lessons, and it got to the point where they really needed my mom to earn an income.” -Dorothy Hamill
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“I didn’t really get into golf until I was about 14. My mom and dad were taking lessons from a pro an hour and a half from our farm in Cohuna, Australia. When they got home, I’d ask my mom to explain everything they learned – drills and all.” -Stuart Appleby
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“My mother was predominately a stay-at-home mom.” -Andrew Rannells
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“No, like I said, my dad was never really part of the tennis. His involvement around what I did with the tennis and with my mom and my grandparents was really not a part of my life.” -Jimmy Connors
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“I think my mom threatened to put me up for adoption a few times.” -Ivanka Trump
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“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.” -Lana Parrilla
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