Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jacqueline Emerson

When I was six years old my friend was auditioning for 'Annie,' and I decided I wanted to audition with her. My mom was worried I would fall flat on my face because I'd never opened my mouth to sing, so she sent me to vocal lessons. I did the audition and fell in love with the entire process of a show.

Gary Vaynerchuk

Unless you are building a new company from the ground up and can install caring as your businesses' cornerstone, you have to be willing to embark on a completely cultural overhaul so that, like a local mom and pop shop, every employee is comfortable engaging in customer service, and does it authentically.

Gary Vaynerchuk

My dad is like a cactus - introverted and tough. I'm a people person, like my mom, but I got my competitiveness from my dad. He came to this country from Belarus with nothing and built a real business. He's my hero for giving me that need to run a business and for having enormous confidence in me.

Gary Vaynerchuk

What's the ROI of your Mom?

Jason Mraz

I listened to the radio, so I was influenced by everyone from Michael Jackson to Milli Vanilli. But thankfully my dad had a collection of Cat Stevens albums while my mom was listening to jazz.

Hines Ward

Everything I do is for my mom. Every time I step out there and try to get better, it's for her.

Hines Ward

Tom Osborne, Lou Holtz, Bobby Bowden were in our living room. My mom didn't know who they were!

Hines Ward

My mom used to tell me, 'I live every day of my life for you.' I understand that now. The older I get, the more I understand.

Hilary Rosen

As a mom I know that raising children is the hardest job there is.

Hilary Rosen

Working moms, stay at home moms, they're both extremely hard jobs.

Hillary Clinton

This is a moment in history where it is almost hard to catch your breath.

Hillary Clinton

I'm still amazed at how my mother emerged from her lonely early life as such an affectionate and levelheaded woman.

Eva Mendes

[Affordable prices] are important to me. My mother lets me know [if something is too expensive]. With a few dresses, she's, like, "That's too much." "But Mom, it's $59.99." "It's too much." And then I go back and we talk about price points. My family keeps my grounded.

Eva Longoria

I've always eaten egg whites because when I was little, I didn't like the color yellow, so my mom would trick me into eating eggs by taking out the yolk.

Eva Longoria

My mom had four kids, one with special needs. She had a full-time job, and she still came home and made dinner for us every night, from scratch. It was amazing.

Esha Gupta

You need a strong family because at the end, they will love you and support you unconditionally. Luckily, I have my dad, mom and sister.

Ernie Isley

There was a lot of music in our home. Mom played piano in church and gave piano lessons.

Ernie Harwell

I have great faith that Heaven's there and I'll see my brothers and my mom and dad when I get there.

Ethel Merman

Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity, but from their point of view, show business was no way to make a living.

Ethel Merman

My beloved Mom and Pop always rated tops with each other, and that's the way it will always be

Ethel Merman

Mom claimed that I could carry a tune at 2 or 3 years of age. Maybe she was a little prejudiced.

Ethel Waters

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

Ethel Waters

Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.

Ethel Waters

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.

Ethel Waters

Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me.

Ethel Waters

What broke Mom's heart was realizing that her children knew nothing and cared nothing about the better side of life.

Erma Bombeck

It's the three pairs of eyes that mothers have to have...One pair that see through closed doors. Another in the back of her head...and, of course, the ones in front that can look at a child when he goofs up and reflect 'I understand and I love you' without so much as uttering a word.

Erma Bombeck

Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.

Erma Bombeck

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.

Erma Bombeck

Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it's still snowing.

Florence Henderson

I'm a '70s mom, and my daughter is a '90s mom. I know a lot of women my age who are real computer freaks.

Florence Griffith Joyner

I couldn't wait until I grew up. I used to look at my mom's stockings and put them on with her high heels and mess with my hair.

Fefe Dobson

It's like I've experienced quite a weird and unusual life, you know, being with a mom who's a single parent and struggling with money and things like that. It's really hard. And it brings a lot of other insecurities in life and a lot of other issues in life, in school and a bunch of other things.