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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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“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.” -Leonardo DiCaprio
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“I remember when I was 11, I told my mom, ‘One day I’m going to buy you a house.’ And she said, ‘Boy, don’t you be making promises you can’t keep.’ I was like: ‘No, Ma, it’s not a promise. I’m going to buy you a house one day.’” -will.i.am
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“Every time I think I have something under control, it changes and I don’t have it under control. I think it takes several years to get there. Jade is 19 months old, so right now I’m on alert all the time. And as a mom I think you’re constantly worrying about things.” -Giada De Laurentiis
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“Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three.” -Billie Holiday
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“I must admit, even though I’m the product of two Jewish parents, I think the Irish temper got in there somewhere, so I’m going to check Mom’s genealogy.” -Harvey Weinstein
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“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.” -Dennis Miller
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“With my new venture, Club Mom, we want to empower moms to feel their value and also build their collective power to make their lives better and easier. We want to bring them together as a community to share experiences and information.” -Andrew Shue
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“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.” -Sophia Bush
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“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.” -Britney Spears
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“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.” -Lindsay…
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“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.” -Tom Vilsack
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“My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.” -Adam Carolla
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“I love being a single mom. But it’s definitely different when you’re dating.” -Brooke Burns
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“Yes, I always remember my dad’s, mom’s and my grandma’s perfumes.” -Marc Jacobs
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“Financial hardships were rough on us, even though Mom had a good job at G.M.” -Ryan White
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“It was always a fantasy of mine growing up – my favorite program was always ‘Little House on the Prairie’ – so I always wanted to wear those looks. When I was a child, I wouldn’t let my mom put me in anything but calico dresses and now… whaddaya know, every day I’m in a…
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“My mom always says, ‘If you don’t believe in something, you’ll lose yourself completely.’” -Hilary Duff
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“My mom insisted on multigrain bread and never allowed soda in the house.” -Vin Diesel
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“My mom is very confident and she was always a role model of mine.” -Ashley Tisdale
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“My mom used to say that Greek Easter was later because then you get stuff cheaper.” -Amy Sedaris
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“As far as I’m concerned, there’s no job more important on the planet than being a mom.” -Mark Wahlberg
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“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.” -Kid Rock
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“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.” -Michael Phelps
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“Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom.” -Kevyn Aucoin
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“I was always at peace because of the way my mom treated me.” -Martina Hingis
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“Depending on what day of the week it is and what time of the month it is, I’m a good friend or not a good friend. I’m more or less a good mom or not a good mom, more or less a good mate or not a good mate. That’s just life, whether or not…
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“My mom said the only reason men are alive is for lawn care and vehicle maintenance.” -Tim Allen
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“Washington has got to, across the board, lower taxes for small businesses so that our mom and pops can reinvest and hire people, so that our businesses can thrive.” -Sarah Palin
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“My food is Louisiana, New Orleans-based, well-seasoned, rustic. I think it’s pretty unique because of my background being influenced by my mom, Portuguese and French Canadian. There’s a lot going on there.” -Emeril Lagasse
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“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.” -Mindy Kaling
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“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.” -Amy Lee
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“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.” -Lena Dunham
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“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.” -Magic Johnson
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“My mom always says I cut my teeth on the church pew.” -Miranda Lambert
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“Well, my mom is single and we’ve both been single at the same time over the last ten years, so I really related to the bond between my character and Diane’s.” -Amanda Peet
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“My mom loved rock ‘n roll. My father hated it. We couldn’t play it when he was around.” -Patti Smith
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“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.” -Sylvester Stallone
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“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.” -Elizabeth…
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“I’m really happy to be a mom, and I’m proud of the phase I’m in.” -Liz Phair
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“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.” -Reba McEntire
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“When I was a little girl, rocking my little dolls, I remember thinking I would be the world’s best mom, and so far I’ve done it.” -Jenny McCarthy
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“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.” -Cindy Crawford
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“I could do without ‘cool’ publications calling me ‘mom jazz.’ But I laughed all the way to the bank, baby.” -Norah Jones
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“My dad is a Deadhead, my mom’s a Jewish-American princess from Jersey.” -Adam Lambert
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“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.” -Nelson Algren
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“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.’” -Paula Poundstone
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“My mom was a waitress, and my dad was a plumber who worked for the City of San Clemente fixing mains breaks, so not too glamorous.” -Shaun White
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“I know my mom said as early as she can remember letting me watch TV, my one treat a week when I was like 6 was to stay up and watch ‘Saturday Night Live.’” -Rashida Jones
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“I have so much respect for my mom and all the women across the world.” -Jessica Simpson
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“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?’” -Natalie Portman
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“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.” -Elizabeth Warren
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“My mom and I used to listen to records, read, and take train rides across the country in the summer. It was a very chill life. She didn’t expose me to anything that was ahead of my development, but she expected me to adjust to her world – she did not expect to adjust to…
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“I’m a sappy mom now. I didn’t think I would be. I thought I’d be a cool mom who keeps everything in perspective.” -Katherine Heigl
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“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.” -Chris Brown
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“I’m a mom, so I have to be comfortable. Jeans are a staple – I have way too many in my closet! It’s warm in Florida, so I wear jeans and a tank top every day. I love my True Religions, my Rich and Skinny, and Citizens of Humanity. But I also love getting dressed…
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“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.” -Miley Cyrus
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“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…
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“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.” -Julia…
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“My mom being a psychotherapist, I’ve been brought up with that whole psychoanalytical terrain.” -Helena Bonham Carter
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“I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do.” -David Duchovny
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“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.” -Lenny Kravitz
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“My mom knows when something is real and something is not.” -Christina Ricci
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“I’ve never had a very closely connected family. My parents split up when I was young and I was living with my mom for a little while, then I was kind of just on my own really young. It wasn’t some kind of global tragedy, it was just never really a very close-knit family. So…
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“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.” -Diablo Cody
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“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.” -Mia Hamm
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“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.” -Maurice Sendak
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“My dad and mom believed that you do what you have to do in private and don’t make a big deal out of it. Just try to help people as much as you can.” -Harry Connick, Jr.
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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. She goes completely on her feelings of things, on her intuition, and so she instilled that in my brothers and I.” -Brandon Boyd
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“My mom and I have always been there for each other. We had some tough times, but she was always there for me.” -LeBron James
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“Fortunately, when you’re a mom, the responsibility of caring for your child can keep you going.” -Shania Twain
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“I forgive my mom for being a psycho and my dad for being a loser.” -Nikki Sixx
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“It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from ‘Dear Abby’ instead of going to Mom and Dad.” -Abigail Van Buren
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“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.” -Avril Lavigne
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“As a mom I know that raising children is the hardest job there is.” -Hilary Rosen
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“I consider my mom and all my sisters my friends.” -Alexa Vega
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“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.” -Larry David
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“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.” -Henry Louis Gates
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“My father wasn’t really involved and my mom is the light in my life.” -Marion Jones
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“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.” -Tom Morello
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“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.” -Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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“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.” -Tim Tebow
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“My mom is at my house every day, and she nags me about everything, especially hygiene.” -Shia LaBeouf
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“When I was little, my mom tells me, I used to say things like, ‘Mom do you hear the string section? Do you hear the string section?’ And she would look at me and say, ‘No honey, I don’t know what you’re talking about.’” -Tori Amos
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“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.” -Marco…
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“I remember watching the Grammys and looking at the performances and crying to my mom, saying how much I wanted to be there.” -Christina Aguilera
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“I’m a lioness. I have four cubs. I’m a mom. I want to take care of my kids and protect them.” -Heidi Klum
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“My dad believes in God, I think. I’m not sure if my mom does. I don’t.” -Daniel Radcliffe
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“The person who has inspired me my whole life is my Mom, because she taught me commitment. She sacrificed.” -Mike Krzyzewski
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“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.” -Taylor Swift
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“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…
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“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.” -Paris Hilton
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“Looking back, I think I was always musical. My dad was very musical, and I think my mom was musical.” -Paul McCartney
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“I could get away with not taking care of myself as a bachelorette but as a mom I can’t.” -Alanis Morissette
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“A Romney-Ryan administration will protect and strengthen Medicare, for my Mom’s generation, for my generation, and for my kids and yours.” -Paul Ryan
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“Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them.” -John Boehner
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“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.” -Amy Winehouse
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“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.” -Ellen…
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“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.” -Stevie Nicks
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“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.” -Jim DeMint
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“Don’t let people disrespect you. My mom says don’t open the door to the devil. Surround yourself with positive people.” -Cuba Gooding, Jr.
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“My sisters and my mom, those people help me get through every single day.” -Demi Lovato
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“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!” -Laurie Anderson
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“My mom never taught me to be waiting for some prince on a white horse to swipe me off my feet.” -Tyra Banks
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“My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.” -Quentin Tarantino
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“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.” -Jim Valvano
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“My mother thinks I could have even run a larger company.” -Christie Hefner
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“My mom taught us the Serenity Prayer at a young age.” -Toby Keith
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“What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center.” -Al Lewis
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“The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.” -Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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“I’m sure that my mom would have been happy with any path I chose.” -Joely Fisher
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“I auditioned on my own. I tried to make a mark for myself without anybody’s help, not even Mom’s.” -Kate Hudson
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“Giving birth was easier than having a tattoo.” -Nicole Appleton
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“If my mom reads that I’m grammatically incorrect I’ll have hell to pay.” -Larisa Oleynik
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“If you ever become a mother, can I have one of the puppies?” -Charles Pierce
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“I’d go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.” -Eminem
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“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?’” -Mitt Romney
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“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.” -Jami Gertz
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“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.” -Scott Brooks
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“My mom was such a strong character. I don’t want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.” -Lance Armstrong
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“My sisters and mom raised me to respect women and open doors for them.” -Milo Ventimiglia
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“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.” -Zhang Ziyi
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“Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.” -Arnold Bennett
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“Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? The mother.” -Claudette Colbert
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“I want to be more successful as a mother than I am in show business.” -Celine Dion
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“My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.” -Ed Bradley
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“I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.” -Candice Bergen
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“Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.” -Harriet Ann Jacobs
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“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…
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“I’d lose my mind if I heard my kid call the nanny Mommy.” -Toni Braxton
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“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.” -Buck Owens
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“My parents, especially my mother, were no influence on me whatsoever.” -Andy Partridge
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“Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched.” -Paul Harris
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“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?” -Emma Goldman
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“The man in our society is the breadwinner the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.” -Dorothy Fields
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“I stand fearlessly for small dogs, the American Flag, motherhood and the Bible. That’s why people love me.” -Art Linkletter
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“I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!” -Arianna Huffington
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“I basically became a cheerleader because I had a very strict mom. That was my way of being a bad girl.” -Sandra Bullock
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“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.” -Alphonsus Liguori
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“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.” -Ann…
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“If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.” -E. W. Howe
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“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.” -Adam Sandler
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“My mother was a personal friend of God’s. They had ongoing conversations.” -Della Reese
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“Of all the roles I’ve played, none has been as fulfilling as being a mother.” -Annette Funicello
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“Mothers don’t let your daughters grow up to be models unless you’re present.” -Janice Dickinson
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“I owe much to mother. She had an expert’s understanding, but also approached art emotionally.” -David Rockefeller
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“A woman must combine the role of mother, wife and politician.” -Emma Bonino
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“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.” -Carol Burnett
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“My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.” -Clay Aiken
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“There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and its mother’s age.” -Benjamin Spock
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“Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one’s own Trojan horse.” -Rebecca West
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“Mommy smoked but she didn’t want us to. She saw smoke coming out of the barn one time, so we got whipped.” -Loretta Lynn
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“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.” -Jane Elliot
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“What is free time? I’m a single mother. My free moments are filled with loving my little girl.” -Roma Downey
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“How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.” -Alice Walker
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“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.” -Alice Hoffman
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“Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.” -Camille Paglia
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“My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don’t need another plaque.” -Denzel Washington
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“Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.” -Helen Hunt Jackson
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“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.” -Margaret Sanger
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“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.” -Anita Baker
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“Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.” -Meryl Streep
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“What do girls do who haven’t any mothers to help them through their troubles?” -Louisa May Alcott
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“Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.” -Maxim Gorky
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“Mothers are the necessity of invention.” -Bill Watterson
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“Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.” -Amos Bronson Alcott
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“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…
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“My mom always said that there would be haters. Not everyone can love ya.” -Joel Madden
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