Mom Quotes

Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.

I had no idea of the size of my bank account as a teen, and I didn't care to know. That was my mom's job, I figured that I would just find out when I turned 18. If you can't trust your mom, then who can you trust?

If I lived alone, Mom'd never sleep because she wouldn't know I was okay.

Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom's apple pie.

Sometimes I do envision just being a stay at home mom but not working isn't an option for me currently.

My mom is like this hard-core, liberal feminist. She's a professor in Boston, and she's been teaching women's studies for 30 years and international politics.

When I get a new script my mom will read them and just be aghast. I think it's hysterical.

My mom was tough.

I'm a competitive person and it is in my nature to try hard in every match I play. The only time I'm not competitive is when I'm playing against my mom.

If you go from a structure where you have the support and that partner and that construction of a family and that's broken apart, I think that's probably a lot harder than always being a single mom and having the father being a support in another area.

My mom taught us the Serenity Prayer at a young age.

My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life.

My mother was a single mom, and most of the women I know are strong.

My mom's a Catholic, and my dad's a Jew, and they didn't want anything to do with anything.

You know that I am living proof that the American Dream is real. Growing up, our congressman cut through government bureaucratic red tape to help my mom buy our first house. That's the kind of congressman I'll be.

Mom would kill me if I showed my navel.

I was a hyper kid in school and the teacher suggested to my mom she needed to do something with me.

The first few weeks of being a mom were profound, not just emotionally but also, physically. All the changes you instinctually go through are miraculous.

Two weeks ago at the U.S. Amateur, my mom caddied, and that is kind of a different feeling, because she's your mom and you have to listen to her. It was really comfortable having my mom there, but it's also really relieving and comfortable to have someone that knows the course off their hat, really.

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.

I was always at peace because of the way my mom treated me.

My mom would have liked it that I patterned myself more after Jimmy Reed.

There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age.

You do need parental guidance and I was in a great position with both my mum and dad. They split when I was a baby but even though I stayed with my mom they were both very much involved in my upbringing.

I suddenly had this really mad desire to have an affair with a woman. I was divorced. I was childless. I figured there's got to be one more way to really tick off my mom.

A friend of my mom's was a casting director so, really as kind of a lark, I had a couple of acting jobs that had just enough exposure to give me the option to continue if I wanted to. I followed through with it.

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.

My mom was very strict when I was growing up. I could not talk to boys until I was 18. I had to study and work hard.

I'm a lioness. I have four cubs. I'm a mom. I want to take care of my kids and protect them.

What mom cares about most is that I'm happy, healthy and enjoying my life.