Mom Quotes

What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center.

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.

My mom sent me to regular high school because she wanted me to have that experience and not say that I missed out, but I didn't like it at all. I'm more comfortable in the world that I'm in, I grew up in it so when I get around normal kids in regular high school I don't know what to do. I feel more secure in an adult environment.

The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born.

From the very start of all of this, my mom has read the scripts first. And if she liked something, she let me read it. She told our agent what kinds of parts that we would want.

My mom was at every single game I played as a kid, rain or shine.

I'm almost a full-time mom.

I am proud of my kids, but I also want to make my mom proud of me. I'm still a momma's girl at the heart of the situation.

I was raised in Boston by three older brothers and a very strong and empowering single mom.

I want somebody like my mom. My mom is a very charitable woman. She's the sweetest woman in the world. I'm looking for the second sweetest woman in the world. I'm looking for honesty and a big heart.

When I was little, my mom tells me, I used to say things like, 'Mom do you hear the string section? Do you hear the string section?' And she would look at me and say, 'No honey, I don't know what you're talking about.'

I had such a great mom and I know that I'd never be that mom. I wouldn't want to bring a child into this world unless I could be.

I'm not sure anyone - and I could be wrong in this - grows up thinking, I want to be a single mom.

I auditioned on my own. I tried to make a mark for myself without anybody's help, not even Mom's.

I had a non-existent knowledge of Queen Victoria's early years. Like everyone else, I thought of her as an old lady dressed in black. My mom had told me about her, though, that she had a very loving relationship with Albert, that they had lots of kids, and that he died young.

My daughter's name is Neesyn Dacey but everyone calls her Dacey. Her mom chose Neesyn and I chose Dacey after she was born. The mother is a good friend of mine who I was seeing a while ago. We are no longer together.

I'm talking like 10, 12 years old. Either junior brings Mom and Pop or Mom and Pop bring the kids. I'm talking young here, not a college drinking crowd.

My mom decorated with lots of antiques. I never liked it when I was a little girl - I wanted to live in a modern house. But now I love it.

As a mom, I always feel I have to protect them. I talk about them because they are the most important things in my life but they are private people. I won't use them for my own press.

My mom had to beg the guys to let me play. I couldn't even play the drums right - Brian had to show me.

My mom has made it possible for me to be who I am. Our family is everything. Her greatest skill was encouraging me to find my own person and own independence.

This is the place where anybody - like an African American kid raised by a single mom - can be president.

I'm so happy and thankful I made it a point be a stay-at-home mom.

I remember watching the Grammys and looking at the performances and crying to my mom, saying how much I wanted to be there.

My mom took me to a Dolly Parton concert when I was 3.

My mom doesn't get the whole gay thing, but she loves me.

My mom listened to the Beatles and Elvis, a lot of different types of music.

I've never had a very closely connected family. My parents split up when I was young and I was living with my mom for a little while, then I was kind of just on my own really young. It wasn't some kind of global tragedy, it was just never really a very close-knit family. So there was support in the sense that they didn't stand in my way.

I'm proud of what I look like. I'm proud that I look like my mom.

In Fargo, they say, well, that's a job. How well do you get paid? For example, for this book I was written about in Entertainment Weekly, and it was kind of cool because my mom asked me if Entertainment Weekly was a magazine or a newspaper.