Famous Quotes & Sayings

Meg Cabot

My original inspiration was my mom: a few years after the death of my dad, she started dating one my teachers!

Meg Cabot

Looks fade,' Mom would go on. 'But intelligence lasts forever.

Matthew Modine

Fifteen dollar too beaucoup. Five dollars each... Five dollars is all my mom allows me to spend.

Mary Steenburgen

I know this is kind of corny, but we thought about renewing our vows again because I think my mom would really love it if we did that in Arkansas, where I came from.

Mary Tyler Moore

Maybe mom is my alter ego and the woman I'm able to be when I'm working.

Mary Elizabeth Ellis

It's nice to be able to explore both sides of my personality. I definitely relate more to Debbie, my character on The Grinder. But it's really nice because I get to play a character who's down on her luck and kinda slipping off the edge in It's Always Sunny, while at the same time getting to play this character who's a mom and holding it together on The Grinder.

Patricia Heaton

I spend as much time with my kids as any mom who stays home. I only work during the hours they're at school, but there is always the sense of trying to catch up with all their stuff and not only organize my work life but also their school lives

Ledisi

Ledisi means to come here, to bring forth. It’s a Nigerian word and it’s from the Yorubu culture, I believe, and my parents named me, my dad and my mom, and really my dad, and I had no choice in that. That’s my real name and that’s what it means.

Lee Ann Womack

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.

LeBron James

I hear my friends and my mom tell me I'm special, but honestly, I still don't get it.

LeBron James

When I was 5, some financial things happened, and I moved seven times in a year. We moved from apartment to apartment, sometimes living with friends. My mom would always say, 'Don't get comfortable, because we may not be here long.'

LeBron James

Being the only man in the household with my mom definitely helped me grow up fast.

LeBron James

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you'd would wake up times and hope that the next day you'd be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.

I suppose all moms have an idea who they hope their daughters will be. Like a connect-the-dots picture where you think you know what shape it will become. But then it's the daughter who draws the lines, and she might connect the dots you didn't intend, making a whole different picture. So I've gotta trust the dots she's given me, and she's gotta trust me to draw the picture myself.

Laura Linney

I know what people want to hear is the connection with the son, Roger, when you have a child. I would love to tell that there was an epiphany as to what it is to be a mom, but I didn't feel any difference there.

Lance Armstrong

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

Lisa Scottoline

Ellen had long ago stopped being embarrassed by temper tantrums. She flipped it and wore it like a badge of honor. A temper tantrum was a sign that a mom said no when it counted.

Lisa Scottoline

But the fact is, I'm not work-identified. I'm not a lawyer or a writer. I'm a mom, and I'm a woman, and that's the kind of people I want to see in books in the starring role.

Lisa Leslie

I don't think I would have been able to stick with it and been proud of who I am and be feminine out on the court. I think I would have folded to the peer pressure if I didn't have my mom to encourage me to be me and be proud of how tall I am.

Lisa Loeb

I think a good mom is an awake mom. At least for me, I've always been a kinder, better person awake than sleep-deprived!

Lisa McMann

Janie calls Cabel. "Hi, uh, Mom," she says. Cabel snorts. "Hello, dear. Did you make it through the blizzard?" "Yeah. Barely." Janie grins into the phone.

Lisa McMann

Hippie said he couldn't stay. Be back tomorrow -Love,Mom

Johnny Depp

One of the greatest pieces of advice I’ve ever gotten in my life was from my mom. When I was a little kid there was a kid who was bugging me at school and she said “Okay, I’m gonna tell you what to do. If the kid’s bugging you and puts his hands on you; you pick up the nearest rock...

John Travolta

I rode many bikes and motorcycles. My brother was in an accident when he was a kid and my mom forbade us to use motorcycles.

John O'Hara

Never play cards with a man named Doc, and never eat at a place called Mom's.

Mark Teixeira

My dad and all my family were into baseball. His brothers, my mom's brothers, my mom's father. Baseball was just always a part of our family.

Nancy Friday

Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.

Misty May-Treanor

She had a hit for every syllable: 'Don't. You. Ever. Talk. To. Me. Like. That. Ever. Again.' That was the last time I ever talked back to Mom.

Missy Franklin

Sometimes when my mom finds a fun article and really wants me to read it, I will. But I prefer to just kind of focus on what I want to do and not really what other people are saying, because I don't want that to affect me too much.

Pauly Shore

My mom is two people to me. She's my mom number one, and then she's this lady most comedians know as being a legendary owner of a nightclub that's responsible for starting a lot of heavy careers.

Petra Stunt

My mom came from such humble beginnings and especially my dad as well. He didn't go to university.

Penn Jillette

I'm not bothered by the idea of getting old, or I guess you could say by having arrived at old. I was 10 when my mom turned 55. For 1955, she was a very old mom.

Marlee Matlin

There is nothing better than being a parent. It is the most challenging job one could ever ask for. I love being a mom and I love being a friend to my children as well.