Mom Quotes

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.

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.

My mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom, Zarela Martinez, was by far my biggest influence and inspiration - and toughest critic.

I always knew I wanted kids, but when my mom passed away I was like, 'I want a bunch of kids. I want three kids or four kids, and I want to have that relationship again.' I can't bring my mom back, but I can have children.

My mom loved to sing - and I'll go on record and say she was the worst singer ever. I'd get up and move away from her!

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.

My mom and I had the same vision, and we want the same things. We would always make a goal list every year.

The one thing my mom will let me get is a nice shoe sometimes.

I naturally wanted to be saved, so when I came home I told my mom I wanted to be confirmed. That's the way I related to it, being raised an Episcopalian. I went to Dallas and got confirmed.

Throughout my life, my mom has been the person that I've always looked up to.

I had said to some pastor that I was having thoughts, and the church turned on me. They went to my mom and said, So sorry about your son.

My mom put me and my sisters in the water to feel comfortable, to have water safety.

My mom, she is the most unbelievable mom that you could ever have in your entire life and she's always with me on everything. The most I've ever been away from her is two days. I love her more than anybody could ever know.

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.

Mom ran the house, so we grew up Portuguese.

I would go visit my mom on Sundays, and my brother was working on stuff. I'd go in there and sing a little melody, then we started working with words and the next thing you know it was just born organically without really trying.

I gave guitar lessons. I tried to join bands. My mom always said it was obvious that nothing was going to stop me.

Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched.

The problem with me is, anything that's easy I will just overdo it. Especially with clothes. But I'm 14 - my mom is super-strict about that.

I wanted to be an astronaut and wanted to go to space camp, but then I found out that I was too short to become an astronaut. My mom really made me believe that if I worked hard enough and if I really wanted to do it, I could do it.

Of all the roles I've played, none has been as fulfilling as being a mother.