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).

  • “My mom was always the support. I can always go out to her and she’ll always find the positive in things.” -Caroline Wozniacki

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  • “My mom is great and I make sure that we pray together before every race. She helps me put everything in perspective and remind me of the real reason I run.” -Allyson Felix

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  • “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.” -Chloe Moretz

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  • “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.” -Frank Ocean

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  • “I’m an actress and mom, and I probably don’t have enough of an active spiritual life. And I don’t know why people run around calling themselves by the names of religions when they don’t actually practise them.” -Uma Thurman

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  • “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.” -Jenna…

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  • “I prefer to imagine that my wife, a few friends, and occasionally my mom are the only ones who read what I do, though I realize that this is somewhat unrealistic.” -Chris Ware

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  • “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.” -Steve Burns

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  • “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…

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  • “My mom would put me in these preppy little suits and slick my hair to the side. I have these baby pictures of me where I’m this little preppy kid with a sweater tied around my neck.” -Alexander Wang

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  • “I was a hyper kid in school and the teacher suggested to my mom she needed to do something with me.” -Devon Sawa

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  • “My mother kept asking me, ‘When are you going to do a gospel album?’ And I’ve always wanted to do a gospel album. Everybody was going on about it, so mom started hounding me more.” -Alan Jackson

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  • “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.” -Kevin J. Anderson

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  • “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.” -Brett Ratner

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  • “My mom is like this hard-core, liberal feminist. She’s a professor in Boston, and she’s been teaching women’s studies for 30 years and international politics.” -Eliza Dushku

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  • “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.” -Idina Menzel

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  • “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.” -Holly Madison

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  • “My mom and dad played this music all the time when I was growing up, so to me songs by Jerry Lee and Fats Domino are the classics, they’re the best songs ever.” -Chris Isaak

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  • “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.” -Dwayne Johnson

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  • “I spend as much time with my kids as any mom who stays home. I only work during the hours they’re at school, but there is always the sense of trying to catch up with all their stuff and not only organize my work life but also their school lives.” -Patricia Heaton

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  • “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.” -Trey Anastasio

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  • “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.” -James Levine

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  • “My mom had started to go to work when I was nine or ten, so I was aware of women trying to find their own identities by working. But I was still influenced by men to such an extreme. I wanted to play their games and wanted to compete in their world and be like…

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  • “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.” -Andrew Bird

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  • “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.” -Kristi Yamaguchi

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  • “I lived in small town out in the desert and my friend used to steal his mom’s car in the middle of the night. He’d drive over to my house, I’d sneak out and we’d go out to the desert and just burn things down.” -Mark Hoppus

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  • “I got a family house for everybody to live in – my mom, my sisters and I. And I made sure that it has a separate apartment downstairs for myself. Family is more important than anything. We don’t come from any money. So once I get them settled in, in a nice house, then I’ll…

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  • “My mom said, ‘Don’t get married. You’re too young. Go out there and experience what life has to offer.’ And I did.” -Emmitt Smith

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  • “I’m somebody who doesn’t work with a stylist. I’ll be honest with you, I’m a mom and it’s just not something I want to put money toward because it’s expensive to have somebody who helps dress you and I feel like I have to pay for preschool and so many things… so I don’t have…

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  • “My relationship with my mom is so amazing. We never got to have that stage that people go through, like when you’re 13 and you think you’re too cool for your parents. When you’re embarrassed by them and stuff. We never went through that because I was constantly working and she constantly had to be…

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  • “My mom’s hot. I mean she’s old, but my mom’s out of control.” -Paul Walker

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  • “Once you’re a mom, always a mom. It’s like riding a bike, you never forget.” -Taraji P. Henson

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  • “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.” -Kenny Loggins

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  • “My mom took me to a Dolly Parton concert when I was 3.” -Kat Dennings

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  • “One time my mom tried to ground me, but that lasted 15 minutes.” -Bam Margera

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  • “OK, so my parents were married in 1955 and my mom knew my dad was gay and my dad knew he was gay and so I was, like, ‘Why in the heck did you get married?’ Like, what was going on? What was that time? It’s like this crazy paradox that my whole life is…

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  • “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.” -Bode Miller

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  • “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.” -Criss Angel

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  • “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.” -Tim Scott

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  • “We didn’t have movies in this little mining town. When I was 12 my mom took me to New York and I saw Bye Bye Birdie, with people singing and dancing, and that was it.” -Margot Kidder

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  • “I gave guitar lessons. I tried to join bands. My mom always said it was obvious that nothing was going to stop me.” -Janis Ian

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  • “Before you’re a mom you don’t know what gear is going to be relevant.” -Emily Procter

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  • “My mom and my dad were married 56 years, and the fact that I reconciled with my dad I think made their marriage a little bit better as well.” -Larry Elder

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  • “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.” -Elizabeth Olsen

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  • “I had no idea of the size of my bank account as a teen, and I didn’t care to know. That was my mom’s job, I figured that I would just find out when I turned 18. If you can’t trust your mom, then who can you trust?” -Anna Chlumsky

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  • “My mom, she’s still always there for me. Always.” -David Ortiz

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  • “It was my mom and I against the world. We lived in New York in this bohemian lifestyle where an extended group of artists and photographers were like my aunts and uncles.” -Brooke Shields

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  • “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.” -Carrie-Anne Moss

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  • “I had to take my makeup off at work every night. I wasn’t allowed to do it at home because my mom said that when your work day is done, you’re done with work.” -Jodie Foster

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  • “When you think of couponing, you picture a mom cutting coupons out of the back of the newspaper.” -Andrew Mason

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  • “I’m a military kid, both parents in the military – Mom did 12 years, Dad did 21, served in two wars. So discipline is something that was huge.” -Robert Griffin III

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  • “It’s fun to play mom. Last I knew I was playing a 17-year-old who graduated.” -Selma Blair

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  • “I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, ‘No, you just have anxiety.’” -Jessica Chastain

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  • “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.” -Junior Seau

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  • “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.” -Bill Murray

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  • “I was class mom at the preschool one year and I was pretty much asked not to do that again!” -Julie Bowen

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  • “My parents divorced when I was young but I was brought up in two really loving households. I didn’t have a contentious relationship with my mom or dad.” -Matt Damon

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  • “Country was about character. Country’s changed because of monsters like Clear Channel who bought up all the stations and sliced them up into formats. Our demographic is now the soccer mom.” -Gary Allan

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  • “I have lots of records, quite a collection, actually, that I stole from my mom. I have the original ‘Thriller’ album and I have a really great ‘Elton John’s Greatest Hits,’ and I also have a N.E.R.D. album. Records sound more original. They have more edge.” -Elisha Cuthbert

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  • “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.” -Rory McIlroy

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  • “Dad and mom would have preferred that I be a doctor, a lawyer, a scientist, or a great humanitarian.” -Levon Helm

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  • “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!” -Lisa Loeb

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  • “My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life.” -Mandy Patinkin

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  • “No, my mom kind of led me toward acting. She wanted to be an actress when she was younger. That made me interested in it when I was a kid, because she and I are very close.” -Stephen Colbert

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  • “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…

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  • “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.” -Georgina Chapman

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  • “My mom was a professional. My dad and mom met each other in a movie called ‘New Faces of 1937.’ My mom went under the name Thelma Leeds, and she did a few movies, and she was really a great singer, and when she married my dad and started to have a family, she sang…

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  • “I had a non-existent knowledge of Queen Victoria’s early years. Like everyone else, I thought of her as an old lady dressed in black. My mom had told me about her, though, that she had a very loving relationship with Albert, that they had lots of kids, and that he died young.” -Emily Blunt

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  • “I’m so proud to represent the people of South Florida. I was so honored when President Obama asked me to serve as chair of the Democratic Party. But there’s one job I’m even more proud of, and that’s being a mom to my three kids, Rebecca, Jake and Shelby.” -Debbie Wasserman Schultz

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  • “I have great faith that Heaven’s there and I’ll see my brothers and my mom and dad when I get there.” -Ernie Harwell

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  • “My mom was a seamstress, and I wish I’d learned to sew because I’m obsessed with ‘Project Runway!’” -Carmen Electra

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  • “If I have any talent at all it’s from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also.” -Garth Brooks

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  • “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.” -Dave Mustaine

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  • “I want to be a fun mom. Not a gasping for air mom.” -Mariska Hargitay

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  • “Every kid needs to say, ‘I want what my mom and dad have.’” -Josh McDowell

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  • “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.” -Tony Dungy

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  • “My mom obviously had a problem.” -Dave Pelzer

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  • “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.” -Danielle Steel

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  • “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.” -Mike Shinoda

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  • “I grew up in a predominantly Caucasian neighborhood, but my mom is Filipino-Spanish and my dad is Irish.” -Shay Mitchell

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  • “My parents are wonderful, and I’m really lucky – but my mom has always been almost exclusively a right-brained person.” -Brandon Boyd

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  • “Also, my mom and family are very important to me and I know that this is not expected.” -Christina Milian

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  • “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.” -Marissa Mayer

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  • “I slept with my mom until I was 16 years old.” -Jennifer Hudson

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  • “Home is where my mom is.” -Brittany Murphy

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  • “A company that pays attention to the family unit is a successful company. We don’t isolate the family. We don’t make rides that say, ‘Hey mom, dad, you go sit on the bench.’” -Michael Eisner

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  • “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.” -Jay-Z

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  • “He was doing – Ray was designing the clothes for my mom’s show from California. And one of the first appearances I ever made on television was on my mother’s show and Ray and Bob did the clothes for that. It has been a long time.” -Liza Minnelli

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  • “Sinatra was just one of Mom’s friends.” -Lorna Luft

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  • “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.” -Victoria Justice

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  • “My mom’s a social worker, and my dad works in non-profit organisations.” -Seth Rogen

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  • “For now I’m just enjoying being a mom. I don’t want to be more famous and more rich. I want to be a good mom.” -Jewel

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  • “My mom was truly an iconic figure, a great journalist and a pioneering woman who died at 54 of cancer without ever having revealed to viewers that she was ill.” -David Frum

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  • “My mom didn’t want me to go to college. She didn’t want me to read – when I read, I may as well have been holding a pineapple.” -Lynda Barry

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  • “Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity, but from their point of view, show business was no way to make a living.” -Ethel Merman

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  • “When I was a new mom, I used to think that life was going to be balanced, and I strived for that. But life is crazy!” -Brooke Burke

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  • “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.” -Wendy Liebman

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  • “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…

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  • “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…

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  • “I listened to the radio, so I was influenced by everyone from Michael Jackson to Milli Vanilli. But thankfully my dad had a collection of Cat Stevens albums while my mom was listening to jazz.” -Jason Mraz

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  • “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.” -Kristen Wiig

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  • “In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard for her to find any place at all for us to live.” -Ethel Waters

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  • “That’s the hardest thing about being a mom. You want to be cool, and you want them to like you all the time, but you can’t always have that. You’re gonna have times where you have to say no, and you won’t be the most popular person in the house.” -Martina McBride

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  • “My mom used to have a lot of European cinema playing in the house, so I’d catch bits and pieces of films.” -Mia Wasikowska

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  • “Being a mom’s so empowering and incredible. I’m one of those people who believes that life brings things to you at a certain time for a certain reason, and if you just go with it, that’s where the best moments come from.” -Ashlee Simpson

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  • “I love my mom and dad.” -Taylor Momsen

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  • “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.” -Richard J. Codey

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  • “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.” -Wayne Brady

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  • “This is the place where anybody – like an African American kid raised by a single mom – can be president.” -Jennifer M. Granholm

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  • “My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.” -Rainn Wilson

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  • “Everything I am is because of my mom.” -Sarah Michelle Gellar

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  • “We’ve all seen the mom who devotes all her time and attention to her child and is so hungry for adult interaction that as soon as she’s around another adult, she’s not paying attention anymore.” -Cynthia Nixon

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  • “My nickname for my mom was ‘The Compass.’” -Dane Cook

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  • “Well, you know, I was raised by a 1970s feminist. My mom had a consciousness-raising group. I used to sit at the top of the stairs and listen to them.” -Ayelet Waldman

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  • “Grades were important in our house. I was reading by two. My mom would sit there and read with me, read with me, read with me. It was wonderful.” -Fergie

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  • “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…

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  • “Dinner ‘conversation’ at the Cohens’ meant my sister, mom, and I relaying in brutal detail the day’s events in a state of amplified hysteria, while my father listened to his own smooth jazz station in his head.” -Andy Cohen

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  • “Ever since I was a little kid, I’ve felt comfortable in a suit. It all started when my mom bought me a three-piece Pierre Cardin suit. I wore that thing everywhere. Eventually I realized I was going to be the kid who got beat up in school, but I kept wearing it.” -Paul Feig

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  • “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.” -Kellan Lutz

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  • “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.” -Jane Seymour

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  • “My mom died when I was 16. I had a rough childhood, you know what I mean, but it made me strong.” -Travis Barker

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  • “I never Tweet about my daughter. Never. I just want to be respectful of her privacy. My job as a mom is to know when to open my mouth and when not to.” -Padma Lakshmi

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  • “Many of my books come from what if questions that I can’t answer, things that I’m worried about as either a woman, a wife, a mom, an American.” -Jodi Picoult

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  • “My dad sold encyclopedias and my mom worked in a factory office.” -Mike Myers

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  • “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.” -Jason Aldean

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  • “I’m a better mother if I’m also doing my work. Some women find a lot more satisfaction from doing the hardest job, which is being a mom. But I like my day job, so I juggle a lot.” -Katey Sagal

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  • “My mom was a teacher – I have the greatest respect for the profession – we need great teachers – not poor or mediocre ones.” -Condoleezza Rice

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  • “Being a mom makes me feel whole and like I understand the meaning of life.” -Rebecca Romijn

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  • “There is nothing better than being a parent. It is the most challenging job one could ever ask for. I love being a mom and I love being a friend to my children as well.” -Marlee Matlin

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  • “My friends and I would get up early and take our horses through the national forest. My mom was very free. It was always ‘Out of the house!’ There was no watching television on weekends.” -Anna Torv

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  • “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.” -Emma Roberts

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  • “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…

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  • “I came from a broken home, so my mom was a major influence in my life.” -Julius Erving

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  • “My mom is definitely my rock.” -Alicia Keys

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  • “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.” -Tori Spelling

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  • “The relationship between Cathy and Mom in the strip is the one relationship drawn from real life that I have proudly never even tried to disguise.” -Cathy Guisewite

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  • “Every single thing I learned about marketing and building my business, I learned from my mom, and she had never been in the workforce. She just had great practical sense.” -Barbara Corcoran

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  • “My guess is my brother would call his mom and his dad pretty regularly, a lot more than I probably did.” -Jeb Bush

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  • “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…

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  • “My mom lived by herself with two kids. Sacrifice was the name of the game at our house.” -Victor Cruz

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  • “My mom and dad just loved the fact that I fooled around. They just embraced it. They’d always kind of enjoy it, and they liked it when I made them laugh.” -Dominic Monaghan

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  • “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.” -Dakota Fanning

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  • “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.” -Josh Hutcherson

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  • “I think because I became a mom later in life, everything in life means more.” -Mariska Hargitay

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  • “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.” -Daphne Zuniga

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  • “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.” -Pamela Anderson

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  • “Mom would kill me if I showed my navel.” -Brandy Norwood

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  • “I’ve actually suffered from allergies my entire life. My mom had allergies, so I was aware of what an issue they can be. Many people allow their allergies to affect their lives. As a mom with two kids and two jobs, I just can’t let allergies slow me down. It’s a day to day thing…

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  • “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.” -Jane Smiley

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  • “My mom drives me crazy sometimes, but I have a good relationship with her.” -Seth Rogen

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  • “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.” -Thomas Friedman

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  • “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.” -Gary Vaynerchuk

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  • “My mom was really vigorous about making sure that we saw things and that we questioned things. Education was so important to both of my parents.” -Jennifer Garner

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  • “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!” -Josh Hartnett

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  • “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.” -Leslie Banks

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  • “When I was a kid I didn’t feel like I fit in because – this is really silly and I probably shouldn’t say it, but, I didn’t think anything was funny. So I used to go home and literally cry to my mom and my step-dad at the time and I didn’t think anything was…

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  • “I really want to adopt a child… I want to be called ‘Mom.’ It really is the most beautiful word in the English language.” -Patti Stanger

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  • “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.” -Ben Affleck

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  • “So far I’m not surprised by anything about being a mom. It’s all pretty great – but that’s what I expected.” -Charlize Theron

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  • “I was worried about my mom more than I was worried about the president. And then I was worried about the president, and then I was worried about myself.” -Monica Lewinsky

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  • “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…

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  • “If my Dad doesn’t like you, you will know. My Mom is just too innocent to ever lie. She doesn’t even cuss.” -Channing Tatum

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  • “Something my mom taught me when I was little is that everything happens for a reason.” -Shawn Johnson

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  • “There is nothing I love more than my role as a mom.” -Jennifer Hudson

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  • “I look up to my mom. She’s a beautiful woman.” -Leighton Meester

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  • “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.” -David Ortiz

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  • “I feel like I’ve lived quite a sheltered life, like my mom and dad were quite protective of me.” -Leona Lewis

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  • “I bought a house for my mom, I bought a house for my dad, I bought a house for my sister.” -Trey Parker

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  • “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.” -Rodney King

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  • “My mom and dad met at Anaheim High School. After they got married, all they wanted to do was have four children, and they did.” -Gwen Stefani

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  • “My Mom always cooked healthy. Greek food lends itself to cooking healthy.” -Cat Cora

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  • “I wish I had an extra day with my mom sometimes. Or another hour in the day with my family, husband and children.” -Mary J. Blige

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  • “The golden child may be the oldest one, unless it’s the youngest. It may be the toughest one, unless it’s the most sensitive. It’s not even necessary that Mom and Dad have the same favorite – and typically they don’t.” -Jeffrey Kluger

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  • “My mom is painfully sweet she’s from Nebraska.” -Gabrielle Union

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  • “My mom was a diabetic. Her sister was a diabetic, so I was already a candidate.” -Angie Stone

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  • “When my dad divorced my mom it was kind of like him leaving me also.” -Nicole Richie

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  • “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.” -Caroline Kennedy

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  • “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.” -Eddie Vedder

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  • “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.” -Jordin Sparks

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  • “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.” -Sara Blakely

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