- 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 on Mom
- We all seek approval, and our mother's seal is usually the most important. The nitty gritty is that we have to accept ourselves, even if it is just to be ready for the next cut-down. Mom's blessing or not.
- Beth Ditto on Mom
- We always had 'Vogue' in our house. But, when I was around 12, my Mom finally took me seriously about modeling and put a stack of magazines in front of me, then told me to study all the poses. The ones I loved the most were in 'Vogue.'
- Chanel Iman on Mom
- We busted a lot of family secrets with this. But to make a long story short, my parents relationship was built heavily on security issues for my Mom, and when my Dad couldn't provide security, the relationship unraveled.
- Kenny Loggins on Mom
- We didn't have a TV in the living room and all my friends thought we were kind of weird. When they'd come over, my mom wanted to talk to them about current events.
- Eliza Dushku on Mom
- We didn't have movies in this little mining town. When I was 12 my mom took me to New York and I saw Bye Bye Birdie, with people singing and dancing, and that was it.
- Margot Kidder on Mom
- We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.
- Barack Obama on Mom
- We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can.
- Ethel Waters on Mom
- We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her master's with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.
- Frank Ocean on Mom
- We're definitely a hodgepodge of influences. Mine, most heavily, would be Southern rock - the Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd and stuff like that. Hillary is more from the country side - her mom is Linda Davis, a country singer. Dave, he's a big fan of the Eagles and like that.
- Charles Kelley on Mom
- We've all seen the mom who devotes all her time and attention to her child and is so hungry for adult interaction that as soon as she's around another adult, she's not paying attention anymore.
- Cynthia Nixon on Mom
- We've always loved going to the movies. Our mom and dad are big movie fans. They'd take us on these movie orgys where we'd see sometimes three movies in a day.
- Andy Wachowski on Mom
- We've got activists all across the country like the members of the Million Mom March organization, some of their leaders are here tonight. We're phone banking congressional offices and pursuing editorial boards.
- Michael D. Barnes on Mom
- Well I was eight years old, and I have an older cousin who is three years older than me and she was doing acting, commercials, and modeling at the time and... to see my cousin doing that was really inspiring and I wanted to do it. So I went to my mom and I asked her if I could do it, and for the acting part of it, she made me study for a year.
- Hailee Steinfeld on Mom
- Well, I am not really a conventional mom at all. Like, I had my kids really young. I had Danny when I was 18 or 19 and then Liam when I was 23 and Molly, I had when I was a little older.
- Monica Potter on Mom
- Well, Mom and Dad are both actors, and I've spent a lot of time watching my mom on stage and a lot of time on set with my dad, so it was very much a part of my growing up.
- Eleanor Tomlinson on Mom
- 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 on Mom
- Well, my mom taught public school music for almost 40 years. And she's about 5 feet - and very mighty. And she would control her kids a lot by giving them the eye, or the stare.
- Vanessa Williams on Mom
- Well, when I was a little girl we had 17 cats once. They all lived outside, and they kept having more kittens. My mom made us put little ribbons around each kitten's neck, put them in a wagon, and go door-to-door around the neighborhood to try to give them away.
- Cheryl Hines on Mom
- Well, you know, I was raised by a 1970s feminist. My mom had a consciousness-raising group. I used to sit at the top of the stairs and listen to them.
- Ayelet Waldman on Mom
- What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?
- Louisa May Alcott on Mom
- What does good in bed mean to me? When I'm sick and I stay home from school propped up with lots of pillows watching TV and my mom brings me soup - that's good in bed.
- Brooke Shields on Mom
- What is free time? I'm a single mother. My free moments are filled with loving my little girl.
- Roma Downey on Mom
- 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 on Mom
- What mom cares about most is that I'm happy, healthy and enjoying my life.
- What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center.
- When I came out of my mom's womb, I had 'sitcom' stamped on my forehead.
- Sean Hayes on Mom
- When I can 10 or 11, my mom was the one out there catching passes for me. She was my prime receiver.
- Joe Theismann on Mom
- When I get a new script my mom will read them and just be aghast. I think it's hysterical.
- Alia Shawkat on Mom
- When I got into junior high school, that's when my mom let me dress how I wanted to dress. Up to that point I wore suits to school all the time.
- When I look up and see a star, I know my mom is there. She's with me all the time. It's a powerful connection.
- Emmanuelle Chriqui on Mom
- When I moved out of my mom's house at 18 I was almost as sad to leave her sewing machine behind as anything else.
- Beth Ditto on Mom
- When I see my mom in the stands, it always pushes me to succeed.
- Ashton Eaton on Mom
- When I turned 18, my mom, my nana and I all went and had tattoos of our favorite Bible verses put on the inside of our wrists. Mine is 1st Timothy, 4:12.
- Jordin Sparks on Mom
- When I was 10 years old my mom used to play Tupac while she cleaned the house.
- Soulja Boy on Mom
- When I was 11 my friend's mom made a peanut butter sandwich. I ate the sandwich and was like, 'I'm never eating anything else again.' And I still eat peanut butter every day. I would put peanut butter on a steak.
- Aasif Mandvi on Mom
- When I was 12 I cried to my mom, because I never got my letter to Hogwarts.
- Sara Paxton on Mom
- When I was 15, I worked at a dry cleaner because I wanted Abercrombie & Fitch jeans. My mom told me I could have $20 jeans, not $70 jeans, unless I was willing to work for them. So I did!
- Ashley Greene on Mom
- When I was 5, some financial things happened, and I moved seven times in a year. We moved from apartment to apartment, sometimes living with friends. My mom would always say, 'Don't get comfortable, because we may not be here long.'
- LeBron James on Mom
- When I was 7, I came up with the idea of 'charm socks.' My mom would take me to buy bags of plastic charms, we would sew them on frilly white socks, and I sold them at school.
- Sara Blakely on Mom
- When I was a child it was very clear what I was allowed to see and what I was not allowed to see and there was no discussion or option or negotiation. Whatever my mom said, that's what went down.
- Yul Vazquez on Mom
- When I was a child, I wanted to be an actor, but I had really bad buckteeth. I didn't want to get braces, but my mom said I couldn't be an actor if I didn't get the braces. So, I got the braces.
- James Franco on Mom
- When I was a kid and got in trouble, I'd always say, Mom, I'm in trouble. Well, Mom, I'm in trouble.
- Earl Campbell on Mom
- When I was a kid I didn't feel like I fit in because - this is really silly and I probably shouldn't say it, but, I didn't think anything was funny. So I used to go home and literally cry to my mom and my step-dad at the time and I didn't think anything was funny. I couldn't laugh.
- Courteney Cox on Mom
- When I was a kid, my mom used to run the vacuum cleaner, and the noise would bother me so much that I would run into the woods to calm down. I feel like that vacuum cleaner has been on since I moved to New York City.
- Steve Burns on Mom
- 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 on Mom
- When I was a new mom, I used to think that life was going to be balanced, and I strived for that. But life is crazy!
- Brooke Burke on Mom
- When I was going on auditions, it was nerve-racking. I'd always say to my mom that it would be awesome if I could get a series. When Modern Family came along, I said, 'You know what, Mom? I believe I'm going to get this role.'
- Rico Rodriguez on Mom
- When I was growing up in New Jersey, my mom would regularly take my sister and I into the city to see shows. I have many fond memories of standing in the half-price ticket line in Times Square and going to matinees.
- Trey Anastasio on Mom
- When I was growing up, my mother was always a friend to my siblings and me (in addition to being all the other things a mom is), and I was always grateful for that because I knew she was someone I could talk to and joke with, and argue with and that nothing would ever harm that friendship.
- Marlo Thomas on Mom
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