Mom Quotes

• My mom and dad got divorced, so it was one of those things where Sundays I'd go to Dad's apartment, and this was, say, 1970-whatever, and it had a pool table on the top floor in a very traditional kind of divorced-dad apartment building.

  

  Chris Eigeman
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Pool

• My mom and dad are both in stand-up comedy, so that's where I started, that's where I got everything. My roots are holding the mic.

  

  Pauly Shore
  • Up
  • Dad
  • Comedy

• Being a mom is hard, I think a lot of working moms feel that way.

  

  Gwen Stefani No Doubt
  • Mom

• For a long time, I thought of singing as my mom's thing. I loved it, but I thought of dance as my thing.

  

  Jillian Hervey
  • Time
  • Long
  • Singing

• I grew up in a working class family. People thought I might go work at a mill. My mom wanted me to learn how to lay carpet because she was concerned about my future. Nobody had high hopes for me. But I was a hustler.

  

  Mark Cuban
  • People
  • Work
  • Family

• My mom is one of those people that you feel honored to meet. And no matter who you are, you fall in love with her because she is spiritual, she's inspiring, she's strong, she's funny, she's creative, she's talented... she's everything that I want to be.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • People
  • She
  • Mother

• Imagine a 15-year-old kid saying, 'I have two moms - it's cool.' I don't fear that at all.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Kids
  • Years
  • Imagine

• I only do private room karaoke where it's just me and one of my closest girlfriends. My mom always said I could really belt songs out, and the Dixie Chicks feed that encouragement.

  

  Chelsea Peretti
  • Mom

• I remember my mom saying that when I was little, I had this light that shined really big, and that she'd watched my light become very dark.

  

  Jodie Sweetin
  • She
  • Remember
  • Light

• I grew up watching movies and television, and one day when I was really young I told my mom I wanted to become an actor, and she was really supportive and got me involved in local theater and commercials. From there I moved up to auditioning for movies and television.

  

  Cameron Monaghan
  • Movies
  • Actor
  • Television

• I was taught to think outside the box. Before my grandfather was one of the original Mad Men, he and a group of other Air Force Intelligence officers formalized brainstorming as a problem solving technique. He taught the concept that creativity can be taught at Buffalo University. My dad invented toys. My mom was a photographer.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Men
  • Dad
  • Air

• My sister and I had a tough childhood, but my mom always said that travelling is the most beautiful thing you can do in your life. She always showed us the globe and gifted me an atlas.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Life
  • She
  • Beautiful

• I come from good stock. Both of my parents are big - my dad is a big guy; my mom is a big lady.

  

  Frank Thomas
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Parents

• One of the roles I hold really close to my heart is a small 'under-five' role I did on 'The Young and the Restless.' I think I did about four episodes and it meant so much to me, simply because it was my mom's all-time favorite soap.

  

  Emayatzy Corinealdi
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Small

• I had what you could call a chaotic childhood. My parents divorced when I was 2; I went back and forth between my mom's and dad's houses for years.

  

  Crystal Bowersox
  • Parents
  • Dad
  • Childhood

• When I was 9, I asked my mom if I could be on TV. She was like, 'Well, okay. You can try.'

  

  Liana Liberato
  • She
  • Mom

• I remember someone saying to my mom that it must be so glamorous to have a child acting in movies. They had no idea how hard it was for her.

  

  Douglas Booth
  • Remember
  • Mom

• The first time I didn't get called back at an audition, I cried. My mom told me, 'We're doing this for fun, and if it's not fun anymore, we're not going to do it. So if you ever cry again, we're going to stop.' I never cried from then on, and I kept that lesson for the rest of my life.

  

  Lindsay Mendez
  • Life
  • Time
  • Fun

• My dad died when I was young; my mom remarried with more haste than sense to a fellow... he wasn't evil or anything, but he was worthless.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Dad
  • Evil
  • Young

• I played with dolls until I was 15. My mother encouraged it because my older sister got married when she was 15, so Mom thought that the longer I stayed with dolls, the better.

  

  Linda Evans
  • She
  • Mother
  • Sister

• When I got married and when my sister got married, my mom made us both individual cooking books with all of our family recipes and pictures and kind of the history with our Sicilian family, so that was really special.

  

  Jessie James Decker
  • Family
  • History
  • Sister

• I remember, when I was 7, my dad found a pregnant dog on the railroad track one day and brought her home. So my mom explained about how this dog was married but that her husband had passed away - she didn't want me to even think that a dog could have babies without being married.

  

  Bonnie Hunt
  • Home
  • She
  • Remember

• My mom told us never to reveal that we were Shia in school. You would find out that some other kid was Shiite, and you would whisper, 'Hey,' or you would see someone at the mosque, and you'd be like, 'Hey, that kid's Shiite!' There was a lot of tension, a lot of violence in Karachi between Shiites and Sunnis.

  

  Kumail Nanjiani
  • School
  • Mom
  • Violence

• My mom used to say that I became a fighter and a scrapper and a tough guy to protect who I am at my core.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Tough
  • Fighter
  • Scrapper

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