Jane Smiley Quotes

My mom was paranoid about my safety.

Jane Smiley

• Mom
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• A few weeks after my mom passed in November of 2013, I came back from an injury and entered the Egg Bowl in the second half against Ole Miss. I'll never forget the feeling when I walked back out on the field. As I walked into the Egg Bowl, the crowd stood up and clapped like they were enveloping me in a giant hug.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Up
  • Feeling
  • Mom

• 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
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Man

• My mom helped me get started when I was younger. I started with singing. An agent saw me singing on stage at the Palm Springs Festival, and recommended I get into acting, so I was like, 'Oh, okay.' I just started from there, singing and acting.

  

  Vanessa Morgan
  • Me
  • Mom
  • Singing

• My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.

  

  Dan Gable
  • Great
  • Dad
  • Mom

• I grew up watching my mom and dad selling rooms in our motels. We had CEOs coming to our house so that my dad could persuade them to have their executives stay in Hyatt hotels.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Up
  • House
  • Dad

• I knew that I was a gay boy fairly early; what was interesting to me was that my mother didn't know. She made me play baseball - I had no desire to do that. I said, 'Mom, I don't like direct sunlight, I don't like bugs, I don't like grass, and I'd rather be in the house playing with your fabric samples.'

  

  Nate Berkus
  • She
  • Mother
  • House

• When we stand up for America, we stand up for what America stands for, which is a safety net for our seniors and really helping our families be able to help themselves.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Up
  • America
  • Help

• I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Life
  • Mom
  • Daughter

• My mom and grandma, growing up, one thing they emphasized was that you need to make sure that anything you put on your skin is also digestible by the body. For example, if something isn't safe for me to eat or consume, it's probably not good for your face. So I do a lot of natural remedies.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Up
  • Good
  • Growing

• I saw things at an early age because my mom was a theater actress. I did a play with her when I was 10 years old.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Age
  • Mom
  • Old

• Yes, I love playing Mom.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Love
  • Mom
  • Playing

• My mom says I either have to go to college or go into the military.

  

  Camren Bicondova
  • College
  • Mom
  • Military

• In Hollywood, you play a mom, and the next thing you know, you're on 'The Golden Girls.' They age you so fast.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Age
  • Play
  • Mom

• My mom lived by herself with two kids. Sacrifice was the name of the game at our house.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Kids
  • Game
  • House

• Everybody always talks about how they can't wait until they turn 18, so they can go out on their own and get their own apartment, and I'm like, 'I want to be with Mom!' I have it good.

  

  Carly Schroeder
  • Good
  • Want
  • Mom

• 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
  • Home
  • Way
  • Mom

• My mom was a single parent.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Single
  • Mom
  • Parent

• My mom, she's a breast cancer survivor and because of that I had started getting mammograms once a year, starting at age 30.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • She
  • Age
  • Mom

• A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Poverty
  • Point
  • Consequences

• One way of reading my life is that I have been in constant search for a father.

  

  Christine Keeler
  • Life
  • Father
  • Reading

• When you use the word 'filibuster,' most of us in America - and I count myself among them - envision it as the ability to hold the floor on rare occasions to speak at length and make your point emphatically and even delay progress by taking hours.

  

  Jeff Merkley
  • America
  • Progress

• Well, I'll tell you, I don't know how aware teenagers are of me. I think it really depends on the teenager and how well-versed in music they are and what kind of music they like.

  

  Joan Jett
  • Music
  • Teenager

• Starting modeling in the '90s, it was quite surreal. They were like, 'You're so different! So weird! So bizarre!' And I'm like, 'I'm so normal. What are you talking about?'

  

  Alek Wek
  • Different
  • Weird

• My mom was paranoid about my safety.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • Mom
  • Safety