- Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
- Morality and its victim, the mother – what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?
Emma Goldman
- The biggest surprise, which is also the best, is that I didn’t know I would love motherhood as much as I do.
Deborah Norville
- I was a brownie for a day. My mom made me stop. She didn’t want me to conform.
Sandra Bullock
- I wanted to escape so badly. But of course I knew I couldn’t just give up and leave school. It was only when I heard my mom’s voice that I came out of my hiding place.
Zhang Ziyi
- My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
Ed Bradley
- I want to be a cool mom.
Tori Spelling
- 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.
Alice Hoffman
- I’m sure that my mom would have been happy with any path I chose.
Joely Fisher
- My mother thinks I could have even run a larger company.
Christie Hefner
- My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.
Clay Aiken
- Mothers don’t let your daughters grow up to be models unless you’re present.
Janice Dickinson
- I am no mother, and I won’t be one.
Brigitte Bardot
- I’d lose my mind if I heard my kid call the nanny Mommy.
Toni Braxton
- Giving birth was easier than having a tattoo.
Nicole Appleton
- Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? The mother.
Claudette Colbert
- One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad.
Jim DeMint
- I am proud to be their child. It is very inspiring for me. I am inspired by my mom and dad.
Prateik Babbar
- Don’t let people disrespect you. My mom says don’t open the door to the devil. Surround yourself with positive people.
Cuba Gooding, Jr.
- I am blessed to have Mom and Dad.
Kevin Eubanks
- With my mom and dad around, I became a child yet again.
Manisha Koirala
- My mom, Latha Sriram, is my first guru.
Sid Sriram
- My mom and dad did something special when they made me.
Terrell Suggs
- I think I can always look back and say my mom and dad would have done this or suggested that in a particular situation. I just really feel blessed to have had them as parents.
Tony Dungy
- I watched my mom and dad build everything that matters – a family, a home and a good name.
Mike Pence
- First and foremost, it’s my mom and dad who gave me the foundation, the belief in me that I could do anything.
Michael Kelly
- To be honest my mentor was my mom and dad. I was very blessed and fortunate to have parents like I had.
Robert Parish
- It’s always been a dream of mine to get somewhere and to have my mom and dad with me up there.
Haley Reinhart
- I have great genes. Thank you to my mom and dad for that one.
Gloria Estefan
- My mom has always been my support system. She taught me to never give up and to keep pursuing my passions no matter what.
Mandy Moore
- I don’t want to have kids for like 10 years. I still have a lot to do. I don’t even know if I could handle a dog right now. I’m so not ready. Someday I’ll be a mom but not until I’m in my 30s.
Avril Lavigne
- I think my mom put it best. She said, ‘Little girls soften their daddy’s hearts.’
Paul Walker
- My mom has always been kind of my backbone. She keeps me strong. She is a mother, a friend. She is really everything to me.
Aerin Lauder
- My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all – the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who wewould be, and much less about what we would do.
Mitt Romney
- Listen to your mom and dad! They are almost always right, especially about boys.
Melissa Ordway
- When my first semester grades came out, my mom and dad told me I wouldn’t be playing football.
Joe Biden
- My mom always says, ‘If you don’t believe in something, you’ll lose yourself completely.’
Hilary Duff
- When you’re a mom, you need sparkle to compensate for the light inside of you that has died.
Ali Wong
- My mom said the only reason men are alive is for lawn care and vehicle maintenance.
Tim Allen
- Both my mom and dad were models.
Lauren Wasser
- You need your mom and dad to protect you. It means they love you so much.
Gabby Douglas
- I always wanted what Mom and Dad had.
Kim Kardashian
- Mom and Dad were the best. I never clashed with them.
Frank Vogel
- I forgive my mom for being a psycho and my dad for being a loser.
Nikki Sixx
- Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom’s. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.
Nelson Algren
- I’m half Telugu. My mom is Telugu and dad, a Maharashtrian. I was brought up in Gwalior. I was exposed to English, Hindi, and Marathi. I heard my mom speak to her family in Telugu, so I got the hang of it.
Harshvardhan Rane
- I’m proud of what I look like. I’m proud that I look like my mom.
Lisa Guerrero
- Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy.
Tina Fey
- I was an only child, and my mom threw me into some modeling classes to get me out of my shell.
Tamara Taylor
- It was my 16th birthday – my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do – write songs and sing them to people.
Stevie Nicks
- My first language is both English and Spanish. My mom was raised in Los Angeles, so with her we spoke English, but my father was born in Cuba, so with him we spoke Spanish.
Jencarlos Canela
- A mom can’t afford to be sick.
Tamra Davis
- My mom is definitely my rock.
Alicia Keys
- I’m Ifa. I grew up practicing Ifa, my mom is Ifa, my whole family is Ifa.
21 Savage
- My mom and my father’s birthday are on the same day.
Victor Cruz
- 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.
Roseanne Barr