Famous Quotes
- 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 on Mom
- 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 Lobo on Mom
- Isn't it so weird the day you wake up and you're just going with the flow? And you just suddenly are a mom.
- Katherine Heigl on Mom
- 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 on Mom
- It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
- Erma Bombeck on Mom
- It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion it is a joy of every moment.
- Honore De Balzac on Mom
- 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 calico dress, basically, so it's kind of funny.
- Chloe Sevigny on Mom
- 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 on Mom
- 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 on Mom
- 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 on Mom
- It was sort of just a family sport. My mom and dad were pretty keen golfers when I was young and so were my grandparents, and I just sort of tagged along with them.
- Karrie Webb on Mom
- 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 peace and quiet for a change.
- Michelle Obama on Mom
- 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 on Mom
- It's about getting the kids up and fed, getting one to school, getting the other down for a nap, going to the grocery store, picking one up from school, getting the other one down for another nap, cooking dinner... I live my life at these two extremes. I'm either a full-time stay-at-home mom or a full-time actress.
- Jennifer Garner on Mom
- It's always been a dream of mine to get somewhere and to have my mom and dad with me up there.
- Haley Reinhart on Mom
- It's always been my mom and I against the world.
- Brittany Murphy on Mom
- 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 on Mom
- It's fun to play mom. Last I knew I was playing a 17-year-old who graduated.
- Selma Blair on Mom
- It's hard either way, at home or on the bus, I think the hardest thing probably for me is going one second from being mom to right out on the stage and having to be that person too. It's hard to switch gears.
- Lee Ann Womack on Mom
- It's her first grandchild, so she's really, really, really excited. I guess my mom is a little more stressed out than me.
- Brandy Norwood on Mom
- It's impossible to put yourself first when you're a mom.
- Jillian Michaels on Mom
- It's not common for a woman on television, especially if she's the mom of the family, to be funny. She's usually a straight man or foil.
- Martha Plimpton on Mom
- It's quite hard to have your mom as a teacher - it's like, she's not necessarily a 'real teacher' for me. But she'd always teach me to really hear the music, and develop my ear, and to try and hear the harmonics of the piano.
- 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 on Mom
- It's superfun being a mom, but it's hard too.
- Gwen Stefani on Mom
- 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 on Mom
- 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 Romney on Mom
- 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 on Mom
- Just recently I was in Target with my mom shopping, and out of the blue, I see this father and his two daughters and he says, 'Can they get a picture with you?' And I'm thinking to myself, 'Am I the one millionth customer or something?'
- Atticus Shaffer on Mom
- 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.
- 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 on Mom
- Looking back, I think I was always musical. My dad was very musical, and I think my mom was musical.
- Paul McCartney on Mom
- Losing my mom at such a young age had a profound effect on my life.
- Molly Shannon on Mom
- 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 on Mom
- 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 on Mom
- Men are what their mothers made them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson on Mom
- 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 on Mom
- Mom always tells me to celebrate everyone's uniqueness. I like the way that sounds.
- Hilary Duff on Mom
- Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose.
- Mitt Romney on Mom
- Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church.
- Lynn Johnston on Mom
- 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 on Mom
- 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 on Mom
- Mom claimed that I could carry a tune at 2 or 3 years of age. Maybe she was a little prejudiced.
- Ethel Merman on Mom
- Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me.
- Ethel Waters on Mom
- Mom ran the house, so we grew up Portuguese.
- Emeril Lagasse on Mom
- 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 son.
- Chris Christie on Mom
- Mom thinks I live in this dream world where everybody's Ivana Trump.
- Kathie Lee Gifford on Mom
- Mom was 50 when my Dad died. She got on a bus every weekday for years, and rode 40 miles each morning to Madison. She earned a new degree and learned new skills to start her small business. It wasn't just a new livelihood. It was a new life.
- 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 on Mom
- Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.
- Ethel Waters on Mom
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