- 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
- Mom was the one who taught me unconditional love. With Dad, I'd always felt there was something to live up to - expectations. But in the last year, we had a wonderful relationship.
- Greg Louganis on Mom
- Mom worked with autistic children.
- Isabel Lucas on Mom
- Mom would kill me if I showed my navel.
- Brandy Norwood on Mom
- 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 on Mom
- 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 on Mom
- 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 on Mom
- 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 on Mom
- 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. Kids lead a very private life. And I was a typical child, I think. I was a liar.
- Maurice Sendak on Mom
- Most young people haven't used their storytelling skills since they were 8 or 9 or 10 and wanted to persuade Mom and Dad to take them to the ball game.
- Peter Guber on Mom
- Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
- Arnold Bennett on Mom
- Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.
- Meryl Streep on Mom
- Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched.
- Paul Harris on Mom
- Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.
- Helen Hunt Jackson on Mom
- Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.
- Rebecca West on Mom
- 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 on Mom
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
- Mothers are the necessity of invention.
- Bill Watterson on Mom
- Mothers don't let your daughters grow up to be models unless you're present.
- Janice Dickinson on Mom
- Mothers send strips to daughters to make a point. Daughters smack strips down on the breakfast table to make a point. My own mom sometimes cuts a strip out and sends it to me to make sure I understand her.
- Cathy Guisewite on Mom
- My beloved Mom and Pop always rated tops with each other, and that's the way it will always be.
- Ethel Merman on Mom
- My biggest project right now is trying to be a really great mom and learning how to balance family and career. I'm just trying to spend as much time with my family as I can.
- Idina Menzel on Mom
- My brother Jim and I spent many wonderful summers working on dairy farms in Wisconsin owned by Mom's cousins, and as members of our local Boy Scout troop.
- Peter Agre on Mom
- My brother Trevor is theatrically trained. I used to watch him when I was younger and I was in love with it. It just seemed really fun to be someone else. So I begged my mom she was hesitant, but she eventually allowed me. And it turned out well, I guess.
- Chloe Moretz on Mom
- 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. on Mom
- My dad and mom divorced when I was around ten, and I didn't live with him after that, though he was close by and we saw each other weekly. I wasn't really aware that he was a writer I didn't start reading his writing until I was about fifteen. It occurred to me then that my dad was kind of special he's still one of my favorite writers.
- Andre Dubus III on Mom
- My dad believes in God, I think. I'm not sure if my mom does. I don't.
- Daniel Radcliffe on Mom
- My dad died when I was three so my mom had to raise four kids on her own, and I think there's a part of me that pulls upon having watched my mom do that our whole lives. She had to make it work.
- Leslie Bibb on Mom
- 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 on Mom
- My dad is a Deadhead, my mom's a Jewish-American princess from Jersey.
- Adam Lambert on Mom
- My dad is a lawyer and my mom is an artist. So growing up was exactly what it sounds like - strict household but a lot of creativity. They are so psyched that I get to make music for a living. My parents rule.
- My dad is a very quick-witted, sarcastic, dry, humorous guy, whereas my mom's very silly, and that side of the family is very musical.
- Tim Heidecker on Mom
- My dad is like a cactus - introverted and tough. I'm a people person, like my mom, but I got my competitiveness from my dad. He came to this country from Belarus with nothing and built a real business. He's my hero for giving me that need to run a business and for having enormous confidence in me.
- Gary Vaynerchuk on Mom
- 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 DeGeneres on Mom
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