Famous Quotes & Sayings

Drew Barrymore

I used to have a blankie, and when my mom had to wash it, I would sit outside the dryer and watch it go round and round, and cry.

Drew Barrymore

I'm a real stay-at-home mom. I'm really hands-on. Everything else became secondary.

Drew Barrymore

My favorite thing about being a mom is just what a better person it makes you on a daily basis,

Dorothy McGuire

I had such extraordinary breaks from the moment I entered the theater.

Dylan Lauren

My mom is a painter and photographer and my grandfather was an artist, so I've always been surrounded by creative people.

Douglas Booth

I remember someone saying to my mom that it must be so glamorous to have a child acting in movies. They had no idea how hard it was for her.

Doug Stanhope

Love is such an arbitrary thing. I love my mom. I love pancakes.

Dwight L. Moody

The impression that a praying mother leaves upon her children is life-long. Perhaps when you are dead and gone your prayer will be answered.

Dr. Dre

I've looked at pictures that my mom has of me, from when I was four years old at the turntable. I'm there, reaching up to play the records. I feel like I was bred to do what I do. I've been into music, and listening to music and critiquing it, my whole life.

Dr. Seuss

Cat, you ruined mom's dress!" "Honey, it was ruined when she bought it.

Dorothy Hamill

My mother stopped working when she had my brother. She was a full time mom until I started getting heavily into ice skating lessons, and it got to the point where they really needed my mom to earn an income.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

A mom isn't an individual to lean on, but a person to generate leaning needless.

Dweezil Zappa

I started touring in 2006, and there was an agreement made for merchandise between my mom and myself.

Dwayne Johnson

I'm a long way from being evicted [at the age of 14], but I'll never forget it. I'll never forget the feeling. I'll never forget my mom crying and I'll never forget the thought I had: 'Well the only thing I can do is just go build my body,' because the men who were successful that I knew of - Stallone, Arnold, Bruce Willis - they were men of action.

Dwayne Johnson

I was brought up as an only child, and we were very close. But when I was 14, we got evicted. We came home to a padlock, and I looked up at my mom and she was crying, and there was nothing to do.

Dinaw Mengestu

When I was growing up, Forest Park was full of integrated families. It was amazing. One my best friends was Vietnamese. Another one was half-Mexican, half-black. Another one was from Colombia. Another one was born in the U.S., but his mom was from Germany and spoke with a German accent. So we all had multiple identities.

Dick Gregory

When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.

Desmond Tutu

If you recall the happiest moments in your life, they are all from when you were doing something for somebody else.

Derek Luke

I was watching TV at age 9 or 10, and my mom said that I came from the front room and I told her that I want to act. And she said if you want to do this at 18, then you can. It was a very simple story, yet, I do not even remember the conversation that I had with my mother. Until she reminded me of the story many years later.

Della Reese

My mother was a personal friend of God's. They had ongoing conversations.

Deepak Chopra

Now is the moment that never ends.

Deepak Chopra

If you are fully aware in the moment, there is only love.

Amandla Stenberg

My mom reminds me that all things are possible.

Amber Rose

My mom, who gave me my confidence growing up. She's the one that always told me that I could be great and to never stop. And myself. Because I came such a long way.

Amber Tamblyn

My parents are artists, so I grew up with my mom having bonfires, seven guitars, and talented musicians and artists around like Jack Hirschman.

Anthony Marra

Happiness came in moments of unpredictable loveliness.

Chuck Palahniuk

Picture the moment when your mom and dad first saw you as something other than a pretty, tiny version of them. You as them, but improved. Better educated. Innocent. Then picture when you stopped being their dream.

Chuck Palahniuk

Sorry, mom. Sorry, God.

Chuck Palahniuk

Her mom and dad are both doctors and want her to follow her dream, not turn out the way they have, no matter how much it costs them.

Chuck Palahniuk

The truth is, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married. I don't know, but until your mom dies it seems like all the other women in your life can never be more than just your mistress.

Chuck Klosterman

What my mom failed to understand was that I didn't even want long hair -- I needed long hair. And my desire for protracted, flowing locks had virtually nothing to do with fashion, nor was it a form of protest against the constructions of mainstream society. My motivation was far more philosophical. I wanted to rock.

Christopher Paolini

To know who you are without any delusions or sympathy is a moment of revelation that no one experiences unscathed.

Christopher Myers

Mom-and-pop businesses have the same issues as the Fortune 500. The difference is that big companies spend millions on consultants to fix them.