Famous Quotes & Sayings

Travis Barker

My mom listened to the Beatles and Elvis, a lot of different types of music.

Sara Blakely

When I was 7, I came up with the idea of 'charm socks.' My mom would take me to buy bags of plastic charms, we would sew them on frilly white socks, and I sold them at school.

Uma Thurman

I've learned that every working mom is a superwoman.

Uma Thurman

Motherhood definitely took the focus off of my work. And I didn't mind. I had a few panics when I thought that if I wanted to work I couldn't get a job anymore and then I would get one once in a while and it would make me feel better.

Rodney King

I'm a religious person. I remember my mom told me: 'Vengeance belongs to God. It's up to him to wreak vengeance.' It's hard for me to get to that point, but that's the work of God.

Sarah Steelman

I'm a working mom. I've been working since I was 14 years old.

Sarah Wayne Callies

Every working mom I know is constantly walking some kind of a tightrope of guilt.

Sarah Mlynowski

A guy who treats his mom well, treats his wife well.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

I got to see the first step, hear the first word. Most people - and certainly working moms - are not able to do that. I wanted to appreciate the fact that I had worked so hard all my life to be able to have those moments

Sarah Michelle Gellar

Everything I am is because of my mom.

Virginia Woolf

For we think back through our mothers if we are women.

Whitney Houston

My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don't fight it.

Vinny Guadagnino

My mom's gonna be the biggest star - mark my words right now!

Tracee Ellis Ross

Because of my unique experience as my mom's child, the beginning of my journey was more about me trying to figure out who I was on my own. My mom is one of the greatest moms and so supportive of all my siblings and of all of us being who we are, and not who she wanted us to be.

Sandra Bullock

I go to bed wearing a very baggy one-piece cheetah suit, just because it makes my son laugh. My sexy lingerie has been locked in a drawer for a while.

Roseanne Barr

When I was three, I fell and I got Bell's palsy in my face. My mom said the first day she called the rabbi, and he said a prayer for me but nothing happened. The second day she called the Mormons, and they said a prayer for me and my face was healed, so my whole life was going around as a Jew who was giving talks in Mormon churches about being healed by the Mormons.

Roseanne Barr

A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom did to him. And then you gotta get rid of all that macho crap that they pick up from beer commercials. And then there's my personal favorite, the male ego.

Robin McLeavy

My mom was an environmental activist in Australia in the late 60s and 70s, and I guess Ive inherited that awareness from her.

Willem Dafoe

My dad was a surgeon, my mom a nurse, and they were always out working. I had five sisters and a brother. They didn't care what I got up to.

Whoopi Goldberg

I believe that parts of people like John Garfield and Moms Mabley, the parts of them that I needed to be able to do what I'm doing, came into me. There's a very nice feeling that there are many, many spirits inside of me looking after me . . .

Whoopi Goldberg

My mother's great. She has the major looks. She could stop you from doing anything, through a closed door even, with a single look. Without saying a word, she has that power to rip out your tonsils.

Warren Farrell

It is important for a father who feels pushed away [by the mom] to say, in effect, When you do that, I feel unwanted as a father, or I feel my rough-housing is not bad parenting; it's my contribution to helping our child take risks. Women cannot hear what men do not say.

Said Sayrafiezadeh

I don't feel any ethical dilemma when I write. In my memoir, I was able to write with candor about the two most difficult people in the world to write with candor about - mom and dad. Everything else is downhill from there.

Wim Wenders

I remember that even my first impression of Italian cinema was pictures by paparazzi because my mom was reading all of these trash magazines with paparazzo pictures.

Rick Riordan

We walked on the beach, fed blue corn ships to the seagulls, and munched on blue jelly beans, blue saltwater taffy and all the other free samples my mom brought home from work. I guess I should explain the blue food. See, Gabe had once told my mom there was no such thing. They had this fight, which seemed like a really small thing at the time. But ever since, my mom went out of her way to eat blue. She baked blue birthday cakes. She mixed blueberry smoothies. She bought blue-corn tortilla chips and brought home blue candy from the shop.

Rick Riordan

Must’ve been hard on your mom,” Frank said. “I guess we’ll do anything for someone we love.” Hazel squeezed his hand appreciatively. Nico stared at the cobblestones. “Yeah,” he said bitterly. “I guess we will.

Troian Bellisario

My dad is a successful television producer, director and writer and my mom's a director and writer.

Trisha Yearwood

I finished high school, moved to Nashville for college, and set out to break into the music business. Every night when I called home with news of my experiences, my mom and dad would encourage me to keep taking those small steps.

Trisha Yearwood

It's funny, the whole cooking thing came out of just a random thought of writing a cookbook with my mom and my sister for fun...

Trisha Yearwood

When you're sick, nobody takes care of you like your mom.

Tracy Austin

My mom and dad met at UCLA when he as a captain in the Air Force and she was in her junior year.

Tracy Anderson

I really wanted to make it as a ballet dancer to make my mom proud. But it didnt happen.

Tori Spelling

Sometimes I do envision just being a stay at home mom but not working isn't an option for me currently.