“When you're not a mom, you can get up in the middle of the night, paint, sleep all morning... you can't do that when you have two children!” ChildrenTwoNightSleepMorningMiddleMomPaintGet UpMiddle Of The Night Author:Julie Mehretu
“When I was young, I had two older sisters, and since I was the youngest in my family, my mom took me around with her all the time. I was forever with her when she was having coffee in the middle of the afternoon with her three sisters. And they would talk about men. I absorbed a lot of that.” MenTwoYoungThreeForeverMiddleMomMy FamilyMy MomCoffeeAfternoonOlder SisterThree Sisters Author:Richard LaGravenese
“My mom was a pretty hard worker. She worked her ass off, but I'd say we were middle class. I had a car in high school, so I loved the idea that I could mimic this lifestyle.” IdeasHardSchoolClassMiddleCarHard WorkMomHigh SchoolWorkersMy MomLifestyleAssMiddle ClassHard Worker Author:Reggie Watts
“My mom wouldn't let me buy clothes she didn't like, so I dressed like a middle-aged woman in high school.” SchoolMiddleMomClothesHigh SchoolLet MeMy MomMiddle Aged Author:Gillian Jacobs
“I was helping my mom grind meat at our butcher shop, and it just hypnotized me. I don't remember sticking my hand in, but it sheared off the three middle fingers and left me with a pinkie and a thumb.” HelpingHandsRememberThreeLeftMiddleMomFingersMy MomMeatShopsThumbsGrindButchersMiddle Finger Author:Jon Tester
“My favorite advice that I always go to is ever since I was in middle school is from my mom. Every day before I left the house, she would say "Remember who you are." Every day. So when I started getting into music, every day she sends me a text saying, "Remember who you are and remember why you're doing this."” SchoolRememberHouseLeftMiddleAdviceMomWho You AreMy FavoriteMy MomMiddle SchoolRemember Who You Are Author:Kelsea Ballerini
“I've been acting since I was young because I wanted to, not because my parents wanted me to. My dad is a principal and mom is a middle school counselor, so acting was like, "Eh, whatever. As long as you get good grades." It's really fun, and nothing more.” LongWantedSchoolYoungFunParentActingMiddleMomDadMy DadGradesPrincipalMiddle SchoolCounselorGood Grades Author:Shailene Woodley
“Miami Beach - that's where I grew up, in a middle-class Jewish family led by my maternal grandfather. Me, my great-grandmother - a Holocaust survivor, who was my roommate - my grandparents, my mom and her brother all shared a four-bedroom house.” HouseClassFourMiddleBrotherGrewMomGrew UpMy MomBeachMiddle ClassGrandmotherSurvivorHolocaustGrandfatherBedroomGrandparentMiamiRoommateGreat GrandmotherHolocaust SurvivorJewish FamilyMiami BeachBedroom House Author:Brett Ratner
“There's one in every family. When the police calls in the middle of the night and says "We've got a family members of yours under arrest" and you know directly who it is. In my family we have seven of those... And they are all my *Mom*!” KnowsNightMiddleMomMembersMy FamilyPoliceSevenMy MomFamily MembersMiddle Of The Night Author:Christopher Titus
“Mom did not want me to have anything to do with playing music. Being from a middle-class Black family in that particular era, everybody wanted you to have a profession -- a doctor, a lawyer, and so forth. So she sent me to school to study medicine.” WantWantedSchoolBlackClassGrowing UpStudyMiddleParticularMomMusic IsDoctorsMedicineProfessionLawyerErasMiddle ClassWant MePlaying MusicBlack Family Author:Don Alias
“I learned as a really young kid, when my dad was telling me one story and my mom was telling me another that, even as a 5-year-old boy, there was no way that both of these stories are true. Something in the middle is true, and I have to figure out what it is, what the truth is, and I never did quite figure that out.” WayYearsStoriesKidsYoungBoysMiddleFiguresMomDadTruth IsMy DadMy Mom Author:Moshe Kasher
“The first show that my dad and my mom did together was for, was a comedy series, a short form that went in the middle of late-night news, and then through all of their career, it was always the "Ed Sullivan Show," it was a variety act, my dad was on the "Jimmy Dean Show" for a few years.” YearsFirstsShowsTogetherFormNightCareersComedyMiddleMomDadLateNewsSeriesMy DadMy MomVarietyJimmyDeanLate NightEd Sullivan Author:Brian Henson
“I began filmmaking in high school, at the Chicago Academy for the Arts. My first documentary was about a dysfunctional obese middle-aged carpet cleaner named Bill, who lived with his Mom, and his love affair with Anna, a drug-addicted prostitute. I made that when I was 16.” FirstsArtMadeSchoolMiddleMomDrugHigh SchoolBillsAffairChicagoFilmmakingDocumentariesHis LoveCarpetAcademyLove AffairCleanersMiddle AgedAnnaObese Author:Yony Leyser
“I've only been a mom for not even two years yet, so I haven't had much of a chance. But boy do I wish I could have lunch with my girlfriends in the middle of the afternoon. I don't remember the last time I had lunch in the afternoon with my girlfriends.” YearsTwoLastsRememberWishChanceBoysMiddleHavensMomGirlfriendTwo YearsLunchAfternoonLast TimeMy Girlfriend Author:Mila Kunis
“My middle name is Nicole. It's so weird because my mom is from El Salvador, but my sisters and I have Irish names - Christy, Kelly, and Erin. And Christy and Kelly, they're not even girls' names! In Ireland, they're boys' names. And somehow, my mom was in El Salvador dreaming about Shamrocks before we were born.” DreamGirlNamesBornBoysMiddleMomMy MomMy SisterIrelandNicoleEl SalvadorErinShamrocks Author:Christy Turlington
“The idea of social performance, that we're always performing identities, is something I got fairly obsessed with. I think it's probably because I am a person who went to 15 different elementary and middle schools. I moved all the time, often having to run out in the middle of the night because my mom couldn't pay the bills. There were schools where I'd be the poor loser kid. There were schools where I'd suddenly be the smart kid or the cool kid, although that was very seldom.” ThinkingPersonsIdeasDifferentRunningKidsSchoolNightSocialPoorPayMiddleIdentityMomSmartPerformancesBillsMovedMy MomPerformingObsessedLoserMiddle Of The NightMiddle SchoolCool KidSmart Kid Author:Robert Greene
“I live in, literally, the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I'd have to put back the Charmin. We still don't have a dishwasher. My mom has done all these gardens so now my house looks like the garden shack in the middle of Versailles.” IfsFirstsLooksStillsDoneHomeHouseWonderMiddleMomGardenMy MomCardsShackDishwashersVersailles Author:Rachael Ray
“I didn't come from a trailer park. I grew up middle class and my dad had money and my mom made my lunch. I got a car when I was sixteen. I'm proud of that.” MadeClassMiddleCarGrewMomProudDadWalkingGrew UpMy DadMy MomParksMiddle ClassLunchSixteenTrailersTrailer Park Author:Kid Rock
“My mom and I have always been really close. She's always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn't have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.” LoveLifeSchoolMotherRelationshipMiddleMomMy FriendsMy MomJuniorsMiddle SchoolHappy Mothers DayLots Of FriendsJunior High Author:Taylor Swift