Mom Quotes

When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.

These days it's cool to be ethnic and to be different, but when I was a kid, it was not cool - at all. My friends would come over and my mom would make crepes with eggs, stuffed with mozzarella cheese, tomatoes and spinach. And they'd be like, 'What is this?'

Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste.

I don't know that I have any role models now that are fixed. Definitely my mom - she's the coolest. She's worked really hard her whole life and I just think she's got a great attitude. Moms just know so much it's so silly.

My sisters and my mom, those people help me get through every single day.

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.

My mom is in her mid-60s and has more energy and is more youthful than any human being I know. It's pretty incredible.

I love those hockey moms. You know what they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull is? Lipstick.

We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can.

My mom always said that if the Protestants catch a Catholic in their church, they feed them to the Jews.

My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I'm 31-years-old, and I don't want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It's humiliating.

I have lots of records, quite a collection, actually, that I stole from my mom. I have the original 'Thriller' album and I have a really great 'Elton John's Greatest Hits,' and I also have a N.E.R.D. album. Records sound more original. They have more edge.

It was sort of just a family sport. My mom and dad were pretty keen golfers when I was young and so were my grandparents, and I just sort of tagged along with them.

There is nothing like becoming a mom to fill you with fear.

The first time around as a mom, I held on really tight and I was so stressed.

So far I'm not surprised by anything about being a mom. It's all pretty great - but that's what I expected.

I was worried about my mom more than I was worried about the president. And then I was worried about the president, and then I was worried about myself.

I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere.

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

My inspiration was my mom. She's a great cook, and she still cooks, and we still banter back and forth about cooking. Growing up in a mostly Portuguese community, food was important and the family table was extremely important. At a very young age I understood that.

In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard for her to find any place at all for us to live.

Once in high school, I completely over plucked my left eyebrow all the way up to where you're not supposed to. I had no idea what I was doing and it looked terrible! My mom was like "What did you do to yourself?" I was so embarrassed.

I am truly my mother's son.

My mom was always really healthy and cautious about her diet, so I'm not a big sugar guy.

Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working.

My mom's one of 13 siblings, and they all got six kids, and till I was 13 everybody was in Compton.

I think there's a danger of a being typecast as the all-American mom forever.

I want to be a loving 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.

They see me as being this Super Mom on TV who also can more than handle a difficult husband, and they assume I'm going to be just full of wisdom as a mother and wife myself.