All Quotes

My mom was an amazing singer and music was a big part of my life, so I grew up listening to Nat King Cole, Johnny Mathis, Henry Mancini; I used to watch 'The Andy Williams Show' on TV. I was very musical, so I was watching stuff that most kids my age wouldn't be interested in.
‐‐ Gloria Estefan

My mom was an environmental activist in Australia in the late '60s and '70s, and I guess I've inherited that awareness from her.
‐‐ Robin McLeavy

My mom was an opera singer, and she gave up her career to raise a family. But she also taught my sisters how to sing.
‐‐ Tika Sumpter

My mom was an orphan, and there was never anybody to tell her what she could or couldn't do. At the core, she's probably an artist - an artist and a feminist.
‐‐ Mark Bradford

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

My mom was born in Korea - Seoul, Korea, during the '50s, '51. She was abandoned; her and my uncle were abandoned. My grandfather was a Seabee and adopted my mom and my uncle, and brought them to Compton in the '50s. That's where she was raised.
‐‐ Anderson Paak

My mom was born in San Diego, around Vista. So we've always been California people.
‐‐ Gracie Gold

My mom was born poor, raised poor, and was going to die poor.
‐‐ Kenny Troutt

My mom was concerned that us four little black girls have a really well-balanced life. She wanted us to be around people like us, but we also went to private school and traveled all the time. Now I fit in most places because I've been most places.
‐‐ Kelis

My mom was definitely very strict with me.
‐‐ Gloria Estefan

My mom was diagnosed with breast cancer when I was 13 and it was something we weren't really aware of as a family.
‐‐ Rima Fakih

My mom was dying for me to write a book, she was my biggest advocate.
‐‐ Victor Cruz

My mom was essentially a single mother raising three boys. If anyone could have had any reason to give up, it was her. But she didn't, and neither did we.
‐‐ Chuck Norris

My mom was in a band for over 30 years, and my brother, sister, and I start taking classical piano lessons when we were three. She's really the reason why I'm still playing piano - she made me practice every day before school and made it a priority even when we didn't necessarily want it to be.
‐‐ Tess Henley

My mom was in a punk rock band called The Trash Women, and they toured and all of that. She had me when she was 17.
‐‐ Kreayshawn

My mom was in education, and I remember reading in one of her books about multiple intelligences - this whole theory about how there are all these different ways you can be intelligent, like eight or 10 of them or something. And one of them is emotional.
‐‐ Lynn Shelton

My mom was incredibly supportive when she found out that I wanted to be an actress, and that certainly made things easier and more fun.
‐‐ Morena Baccarin

My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.
‐‐ Nathan Lane

My mom was married to a Mexican guy - a surfer - and so we'd kind of camp out on the beach the swell season.
‐‐ Cary Fukunaga

My mom was my main influence growing up, and Phylicia Rashad reminded me a lot of my mother, just the way she handled certain things, she was... not soft-spoken but smooth-spoken. Just very calm, cool, collected about things.
‐‐ Queen Latifah

My mom was my muse - she would buy me Italian 'Vogue.' I was this little fashion boy.
‐‐ Nicola Formichetti

My mom was on a soap opera for 40 years, so I know about love and romance.
‐‐ Corbin Bernsen

My mom was on the United Way group that decides how to allocate the money and looks at all the different charities and makes the very hard decisions about where that pool of funds is going to go.
‐‐ Bill Gates

My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.
‐‐ Adam Carolla

My mom was one of the original designers for Coach in the eighties, and she designed some classics, including the City Bag. It's the only bag I use!
‐‐ Jane Levy

My mom was onstage when she was pregnant with me.
‐‐ Zosia Mamet

My mom was paranoid about my safety.
‐‐ Jane Smiley

My mom was really cool. She's the one that gave me the mentality about believing in myself and trusting it, that I was always gonna be okay, and that I could do things in a special way. She just pumped me up, you know?
‐‐ Pete Carroll

My mom was really of the belief that, as long as you were reading anything, it was okay. Just read.
‐‐ Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

My mom was really vigorous about making sure that we saw things and that we questioned things. Education was so important to both of my parents.
‐‐ Jennifer Garner

My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays.
‐‐ Daphne Zuniga

My mom was scared of the old Times Square so I was never allowed to go. Now I'm scared of the new Times Square, so I still never go.
‐‐ Padma Lakshmi

My mom was Sicilian, my dad was Sicilian. Mom was a great cook, but all the women were.
‐‐ Chazz Palminteri

My mom was so people-friendly. She was incredible. She'd go to the mall, and she'd talk to everyone. Give people a kiss on the cheek. I think if I wasn't pushed around a lot, I'd be great with people. Maybe I still can be.
‐‐ Fred Couples

My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.
‐‐ Lance Armstrong

My mom was the center of my support system, that place I always went to talk things through, whether I was feeling joy or fear. She was always there with a huge, open heart and the best advice.
‐‐ Corbin Bernsen

My mom was the picture of the blue-collar mom: Two and three and four jobs to make sure that me and my sister never needed, that was her thing.
‐‐ Ne-Yo

My mom was the strongest woman I know.
‐‐ DeAngelo Williams

My mom was tough.
‐‐ Tiger Woods

My mom was truly an iconic figure, a great journalist and a pioneering woman who died at 54 of cancer without ever having revealed to viewers that she was ill.
‐‐ David Frum

My mom was very affectionate but also very loud. My whole house was very loud. My father screamed, my mother screamed - everybody screamed.
‐‐ Michael De Luca

My mom was very religious. She might have let me buy records, but I assumed that she wouldn't.
‐‐ Leon Bridges

My mom was very strict. She didn't let me watch anything rated R or anything with cussing.
‐‐ Kevin Hart

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.
‐‐ Coco Lee

My mom wasn't a fan of public school systems. She was scared of letting me go. So, she home-schooled my siblings and I, and she was desperately trying to find something for me to do for an extracurricular. She was trying to socialize me, so she put me in community theater, and I was instantly taken by it.
‐‐ Britt Robertson

My mom wasn't a movie star.
‐‐ Jeff Bridges

My mom wasn't so much such a great cook. But I don't know, I think I have a very strong mother, and it's funny, because both of my sisters - I have two sisters, and I'm the baby, but they all work hard. I'm not sure where I get it from, and I'm not sure where they get it from, but they must get it from somewhere... I like to work.
‐‐ April Bloomfield

My mom, who's been in the restaurant business for 40 years, is the number-one influence in my life. But I look up to a lot of people in the industry. Tops on my list is Mario Batali. My mom and Mario taught me the same lesson: Food is love.
‐‐ Rachael Ray

My mom will make me walk the dogs or take out the trash when I go home.
‐‐ Queen Latifah