“When my wife and I met, I couldn't talk to her - and my defense mechanism is sarcasm. I belittle someone with verbal pokes and prods. I did it to her out of complete awe. When friends introduced us, I said 'Hi' - and turned my back. Later, I called my mom and best friend and said, 'I think I just met my wife.'” ThinkingSaidWifeMomMetsMy MomMy WifeDefenseAweSarcasmMechanismPokeBelittleDefense Mechanisms Author:Mike Vogel
“My daughter Lily's the oldest, and by the time she was six months, we just had books of photos. Poor little Maeve, who's six months old now My mom hasn't met her yet, and last night she said, 'Show me some pictures!' I'm looking through my phone like, 'Well, I got a couple, but they're from two months ago'” WellsLittlesSaidTwoBookShowsLastsNightPoorMomMonthsCoupleMetsSixDaughterPhonesMy MomMy DaughterShow MeSix MonthsLast NightLiliesTwo Months Author:Chris O'Donnell
“I started taking piano lessons when I was 8 and I wrote my first song shortly after. Music was really important in my family. My grandma was a professional violin player and my parents first met when my dad was giving my mom guitar lessons.” GivingFirstsImportantSongParentPlayerMomDadLessonsMetsMy FamilyGuitarMy DadMy MomPianoViolinGrandmaMy GrandmaPiano Lesson Author:Eric Hutchinson
“I was the first person in my family born in the United States. My mom is from Croatia, and my dad is from Iran. They met at music school in Belgium. I grew up as a pianist.” FirstsPersonsStatesSchoolBornUnitedUnited StatesGrewMomDadMetsGrew UpMy FamilyMy DadMy MomIranFirst PersonPianistBelgiumCroatia Author:Ottessa Moshfegh
“It's funny because the most sane women I've ever met are my mom and my grandmothers. I think you have to be incredibly sane and self-aware to function in relatively insane environments.” ThinkingSelfEnvironmentMomMetsFunctionMy MomInsaneGrandmotherSaneMy Grandmother Author:Jenny Lawson
“My parents are really conservative. My dad is Muslim, and my mom is the most conservative woman you've ever met. They're very aristocratic in the most quaint suburban way.” WayParentMomDadMetsMy DadConservativeMy MomQuaintAristocratic Author:SZA
“I met Keith Haring at SVA college where he was having an art show, later we had a group art show at the Mud Club in NYC. Keith owed me $50, so he gave me a large framed canvas with barking dogs that had large dicks. I painted over Keith's painting to paint flowers for my mom's living room.” ArtShowsRoomsGroupsDogCollegePaintingFlowerMomMetsPaintClubsMy MomCanvasMudLiving RoomFramedKeithNycBarking Dogs Author:Steve Kaufman
“My mom and dad met at Anaheim High School. After they got married, all they wanted to do was have four children, and they did.” ChildrenWantedSchoolFourMomDadMetsMarriedHigh SchoolOur ChildrenMy MomMom And Dad Author:Gwen Stefani
“My mom and my sisters were amazing; they always see the good in people. My mom, she doesn't know how to write and read much, but she's one of the most fantastic women I've met in my life.” PeopleKnowsWritingKnow HowMomMetsMy MomFantasticMy Sister Author:Riccardo Tisci
“My Mom played violin and piano when she was growing up and she insisted, and I don't know if you can imagine how uncool it is to play the violin when you're eight and ten years old, but I told my Mom that I would quit every day until I went to high school and I met these other gentlemen who would become Yellowcard, and my friends, and I really fell in love with music and it wasn't just classical music, just submerged in the arts in the school I was in.” IfsKnowsYearsArtPlaySchoolGrowing UpGrowingImagineMomMetsTenHigh SchoolMy FriendsMy MomEightQuittingPianoGentlemanClassical MusicViolinSubmergedUncool Author:Sean Mackin
“Hillary Clinton met with a lot of the mothers in Chicago, she has the endorsement of some of the moms. Bernie Sanders I think has one or two of the family members too. I'm a little uncomfortable with using the families of these dead children this way.” ThinkingWayChildrenLittlesTwoMotherMomMetsMembersClintonUncomfortableChicagoFamily MembersEndorsements Author:Chuck Todd
“I grew up in a very musical household. There was music and dance. My great-grandma was a famous tap dancer in the '40s, my mom was a dancer, she met my dad on the road when he was on tour in the '60s. Music is my heart and soul, it's my love.” HeartSoulGrewMomDadMy HeartMetsGrew UpMusic IsMusicalMy DadMy MomDancerHouseholdHeart And SoulGrandmaMusic And DanceTap DancersGreat Grandma Author:Taryn Manning
“My mom was always someone who if, even now, I say I met a certain famous person, she always says, "She's married to so and so!"” IfsPersonsCertainMomMetsMarriedMy Mom Author:Sarah Silverman
“A lot of the moms of autistic kids I met are so consumed with being their child's advocate that there's no room for anything else - least of all themselves. It's why so many marriages end in divorce, when a child is diagnosed on the spectrum.” ChildrenEndsKidsRoomsMomMetsDivorceConsumedSpectrumAutistic Book:House Rules: A Novel Source: House Rules: A Novel
“When Andrew [Ridgeley] first met my family, he heard my mom calling me "Yorgos." He just abbreviated it to Yog, and unfortunately it stuck. I hated it is a teenager. It was not the most glamorous-sounding name in the world.” WorldFirstsNamesHeardMomCallingMetsMy FamilyMy MomStuckTeenagerHatedGlamorousAndrew Author:George Michael
“One thing I did have under my belt was, my mother lost her mother when she was 11. She mourned her mother her whole life and made my grandmother seem present even though I never met her. I couldn't imagine how my mom could go on but she did, she took care of us, she worked two jobs and had four children. She was such a good example of how to conduct oneself in a time of grief. When I lost my husband, I tried to model myself as much as I could on her.” ChildrenMadeTwoWholeSeemsCareJobsMotherLostGriefFourImagineOne ThingExampleMomGoes OnMetsHusbandModelsOur ChildrenOneselfMy MomWhole LifeGrandmotherMy HusbandMy GrandmotherBeltsGood ExamplesTwo Jobs Author:Patti Smith
“"Baby, you know?" my mother once said to me. "I think you're the greatest woman I've ever met - and I'm not including my mother or Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt in that." She said, "You are very intelligent and you're very kind, and those two qualities do not often go together." Then she went across the street and got in her car, and I went the other way down to the streetcar. I thought, "Suppose she's right. She's intelligent - and she's too mean to lie." You see, a parent has the chance - and maybe the responsibility - to liberate her child. And my mom had liberated me when I was 17.” ThinkingKnowsWayKindMeanChildrenSaidTwoTogetherLyingMotherParentChanceQualityResponsibilityStreetsCarBabyMomMetsIntelligentIncludingMy MomLiberatedEleanor Author:Maya Angelou
“My father moved to Hawaii from Brooklyn and my mother came there as a child from the Philippines. They met at a show where my dad was playing percussion. My mom was a hula dancer.” ChildrenShowsMotherFatherMomDadMetsMovedMy DadMy MomDancerHawaiiBrooklynPhilippinesPercussionHula Author:Bruno Mars