“My mom. She was quite a character. Open-minded. It was a very small town, and she started her own business, manufacturing children's wear. She was very dynamic. Her death was like the umbilical cord being cut. That's when I moved to America.” CharacterCuttingMomMovedMy MomSmall TownOwn Business Author:Francisco Costa
“I always was getting into trouble some way, because I was really good at lying when I was a kid. If I left my jacket at school for the third time and my mom was really angry at me, I would make up a lie and I would just really believe in it. This sounds a little bit sociopathic.” BelieveKidsSchoolLyingTroubleMomMy Mom Author:Ian Harding
“I've never wanted to be anything other than an actor. I started performing on Broadway when I was 8 years old. My first night on stage, I told my mom, "This is what I want to do. I was always a very out-there kid. The sad thing about acting business is it's so fleeting. If I couldn't do that, I was going to go to school and study law and become a lawyer. But I probably would have been miserable, or they would have had some very theatrical court sessions.” KidsSchoolNightActingStudyMomMy MomLawyerMiserablePerformingTheatrical Author:Lea Michele
“My mom was proud but very hands off. She didn't really know enough about the model industry, and she didn't have the time to stop her life to go chaperone me. I think she trusted me.” ThinkingEnoughMomProudMy MomTrusted Author:Amber Valletta
“After the first summer modeling, I came home with almost as much money as my mom made in a year - after being away for about two months. I just decided to give it a shot, and if it didn't work, I was going to go to college.” GivingHomeCollegeMomSummerMy MomModeling Author:Amber Valletta
“I guess storytelling's always been in my blood. My mom said I was always dressing up and jumping in front of the camera and putting on plays. There must be a part of me that has to express that. If we were living in prehistoric clans, I'd probably be sitting by the campfire taking two stones and showing you how dinosaurs were chasing us. I'd be the one finding a way to communicate and perform.” MomCommunicateMy MomCampfire Author:Amber Valletta
“When you go into mama-bear mode and have no choice but to just go with the flow, that's kind of when I realized...it put life into perspective. Just seeing my little girls and knowing I was going to experience life all over again - I'd be able to take them to the same things that my mom did - it was beautiful. When you become a mom, you gain this vulnerability that is so beautiful. Just the fact that I'm vulnerable but I'm never ashamed is so cool.” KindBeautifulChoicesGirlPerspectiveMomMy MomI RealizedVulnerableVulnerabilityAshamed Author:Ayesha Curry
“My mom is Jamaican and Chinese, and my dad is Polish and African American, so I'm pretty mixed. My nickname in high school was United Nations. I was fine with it, even though I identify as a black woman. People don't realize it hurts my feelings when someone looks at my hair or my eyes, and says, "But you're not actually black. You're black, but you're not black black, because your eyes are green." I'm like, "What? No, no, I'm definitely black." Even some of my closest friends have said that. It's been a bit touchy for me.” PeopleFeelingsEyeSchoolBlackRealizingHurtMomDadHigh SchoolMy DadMy MomAfrican AmericanChineseIt HurtsBlack WomenUnited Nations Author:Ayesha Curry
“I was never that kid that wanted to be in politics. What happened was, I graduated with a degree in accounting. I came back home to the family business. I saw how hard it was to make a dollar, and how easy it was for the government to take it. And my mom said, "Quit complaining about it. Do something about it."” HomeKidsEasyMomMy MomComplainingQuitting Author:Nikki Haley
“God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.” MadeGodChristianMotherMomParentingMy MomMotherhoodNovelistsMothers DayConfidence In GodBeing A MomYour MomBeing A MotherSingle MomMotheringGreatness Of GodMother DaughterHappy Mothers DayMighty GodGod Is In ControlMother LoveMother's LoveBest MotherYour MumGod Is AbleInspirational MothersMother ProverbsMothers Day InspirationalInspirational MotherhoodLove For My MotherGood Happy Mothers DayJust A MomInspiring MotherhoodMothers Day MessagesFunny Mothers DayShort Mothers DayBest MomMother CareHappy Fathers Day MomHappy Mothers Day TextMother FlowerLove Your MotherInspirational MomMother Day PoemsYoung MotherHappy Mothers Day GreetingsLove MomGreatest Mothers DayMotherhood And LoveGood Mothers Day CardsMothers Day LoveSentimental MotherSpecial MotherWonderful MotherMothers Day CardsSingle MotherhoodBeing A Single MomMothers Day ImagesJewish Mother Author:Rudyard Kipling
“An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.” RealityMotherMomParentingMy MomMotherhoodPoundsMumMothers DayBeing A MomMotheringClergyHappy Mothers DayBest MotherInspirational MothersMother ProverbsMothers Day InspirationalJust A MomFunny MotherhoodShort Mothers DayBest MomGreatest MomSentimental Mother Author:Rudyard Kipling
“I grew up in a world where authority was female. I never thought to call myself a feminist because of branding. I had this skewed idea of feminist: I thought it meant being a woman who hates men. When I read Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's We Should All Be Feminists, I was like, "Oh, this is what my mom taught me. This is simple. I don't understand why everybody is not this."” MenWorldHateSimpleMomAuthorityFemaleFeministMy MomBrandingHate Me Author:Trevor Noah
“I take music really seriously. I haven't been doing this for too long, but I've been loving music for a long time. It wasn't really about other artists. I just wanted to do something more for me. I wanted to make a better life for my mom. I didn't have any way to take care of her, and I wanted to make a better way. Music was an outlet, so I went with it, and there you go.” LongCareArtistMomMy MomTake CareBetter Life Author:Trinidad James
“My mom would always say this thing about writing - and I've taken it into account in a lot of things in my life - which is just, "Make it shorter." Figure out what you are truly saying, whittle it down to the essence, then say that.” WritingTakenMomMy Mom Author:Jake Gyllenhaal
“I was raised by my mom. She taught me how to be a gentleman; nobody in the movies taught me. I think people are raised by their parents. If you're raised by movies, it's a whole other set of problems. I don't think it's as simple as me saying movies are meant to entertain, but I certainly don't feel moral responsibility in putting this out in the world and being like, "OK, this is going to affect how guys make decisions because they see some of my films or whatever." I just don't.” PeopleThinkingWorldProblemFilmGuyParentSimpleDecisionResponsibilityMoralMomMy MomGentlemanMoral Responsibility Author:Todd Phillips
“My mom was a cheerleader and had me as a teenager. I remember her giving me some pom-poms and teaching me how to do some splits when I was 3 or 4.” GivingRememberTeachingMomMy MomTeenagerCheerleader Author:Christina Milian
“It was fine when I was single and childless. Carrying the responsibility of screwing up your kids at the same time is huge. I remember when I got Peter Pan, and I told my mom and dad and my friends I was leaving - again, I was cast way late on - in the next two days to go to Australia for four months, and they all went "Bye! See you in four months!" But no one said "We need you," and I really knew that it was time to think about someone else for a change.” ThinkingKidsRememberResponsibilityMomDadLeavingMy MomRemember WhenTime To ThinkMom And Dad Author:Olivia Williams
“I wouldn't compare my sound on the mixtape to anything, but my influences are like - the minimal amount of hip-hop that I actually do know - because I didn't grow up listening to hip-hop like that. No one really put me on to hip-hop like that... My dad's from Jamaica and my mom is from Barbados, so that's really the stuff I grew up listening to.” Growing UpInfluenceListeningMomMy MomCompare Author:CJ Fly
“We do things tastefully but we do a lot. My mom has a lot of traditional Christmas things she likes us to do together. We get fresh greens and make garlands for the house. She has a list of things to do, we bake cookies together and deliver them around the neighborhood. My mother likes to make gifts for everyone we know, including all my friends. She remembers everyone.” TogetherRememberMotherHouseMomMy MomNeighborhood Author:Kristin Davis
“My mom never really pushed me into doing something. It was kind of whatever I wanted to do, and that was what made me continue and have the longevity that I had in my career. I went through ups and downs in the pool when I loved it and when I hated it.” KindMomMy MomHatedPoolLongevityUps & Downs Author:Michael Phelps
“Initially, the only thing that mattered to me - I was too young to understand the politics of the day - was that there was a woman who was covering the NFL. I asked my mom if I could be a sportscaster when I grew up. My mom was an adventurous spirit herself. Much to my mom's credit, she said, "Yes, you can." It didn't matter to her that no other women were doing it at the time. It didn't matter to her that there was a double standard. It just mattered that her daughter had a dream and she was going to help her pursue that.” HelpingDreamSpiritMomDaughterMy MomAdventurousDouble Standard Author:Beth Mowins
“My inspiration comes from many sources, and one of those sources is precisely the maison Versace. When I was a little boy, my family was not very well off. I had a sister who worked in a hairdressing salon. I lost my dad when I was 4 or 5 years old. I grew up with eight sisters and my mom. Nine incredible women all a little "à la Donatella Versace." Real strong women from the South of Italy, women who had sensuality. They had a confidence in their body and in their sensuality. And it was a poor family, I am very proud to say it.” RealInspirationStrongPoorBoysMomProudDadMy FamilyIncrediblesMy DadMy MomSensualityStrong WomenLittle BoysVersace Author:Riccardo Tisci
“My great strength, which I very much believe in, is family. For me, family doesn't simply mean components of DNA. I mean family in the sense of siblings. My mom and my sisters are the energy and inspiration in my life.” BelieveMeanInspirationEnergyMomMy MomMy SisterSibling Author:Riccardo Tisci
“I don't have anything against homes for the elderly, but my mom, after having nine children, after all the sacrifices, living in an apartment - it gave me anxiety. Being the only male in the family, I said, "No I can't let this happen." Therefore I signed, because I wanted to buy a house for my mom. I started at Givenchy and the whole fashion world was saying, "Couture is finished." No, couture is not finished. Couture has changed - thank goodness.” WorldChildrenHomeHouseSacrificeFashionChangedMomGoodnessAnxietyMy MomApartment Author:Riccardo Tisci
“I think women are not interested in being like "the man" or having the same position as "the man." Women want to be women with equal rights. At this point now, we're very clear about that. I don't want to be the same as him. I want to be me with the same opportunity. So I think that's the difference of today than the fight that my mom had to fight, which was a little bit different and as complicated.” ThinkingMenDifferentTodayFightingOpportunityHe ManMomEqualMy MomComplicatedNot InterestedEqual RightsWomen Want Author:Kate Hudson
“My little son is already like me - my mom has always said I used to bounce off the wall and never stop talking or sit still. I'm starting to see that with him. I guess it's living proof he's part of me.” SonWallMomMy MomOff The Wall Author:Michael Phelps
“New York was fun as a kid. I loved to go walking. It was an adventure. I remember throwing my retainer into a garbage can one time and my mom yelling, "Get your ass over here now!" And I had to dig through the garbage and find my retainer.” KidsRememberFunAdventureMomWalkingMy MomAss Author:Liv Tyler
“Being a teenage model was lot of fun, like playing dress-up. I'd feel ugly and awkward and chubby, and they'd transform me. Not that that makes everything better. Then my mom shopped the pictures around, I guess, and the agencies started calling. I wound up going with a little agency, Spectrum. It all happened really quickly, I started modeling for magazines like YM and Seventeen, and I did a couple of bigger things like Italian Vogue.” FunMomCoupleUglyMy MomWoundsItalianAwkwardTeenageModelingVogue Author:Liv Tyler
“My mom has a diary entry or something where I wrote, "I think Steven Tyler is my father." I had the same feelings for Todd Rundgren, who raised me as his daughter. I would go to sleep at night and wake up at like 6 in the morning and creep up the little steps to the tower where he would be on his computer. I would just sit there.” ThinkingFeelingsNightFatherSleepMorningMomComputerDaughterWake UpMy MomGoing To Sleep Author:Liv Tyler
“I would like to meet with Drake. I would love to meet him. He's from the city I'm from. I feel we share the same interests and I'm really just into his music and him as a person in general. He's great at what he does. I would want to meet Eminem. He was my first ever influence. The reason why I even started writing was because my mom bought me my first Eminem CD and I was glued from there.” WritingReasonInterestShareInfluenceMomMy Mom Author:D-Pryde
“As a kid, I was a big reader. Books and theater were the way I understood the world, and also the way I organized my sense of morality, of how to live a good life. I would read all night. My mom would come into my room and tell me I had to go to sleep, so I would hide books under my bed. At first I had a tough time getting through novels, so I read plays, because a play is generally shorter and has all those tools for getting people hooked early on.” PeopleWorldBookKidsNightSleepNovelMomMoralityToughMy MomGood LifeTough TimesGoing To Sleep Author:Greta Gerwig
“Most of the bio men on earth were born to women, so it's pretty ordinary! But I think because I had come from a matriarchy - my father died when I was young, and I only have a sister and a stepsister - when I told my mom and my sister that I was having a boy, they were both like, "That does not compute within our family relation!" It was like, "Girls only here!" Now that all seems very strange to me.” ThinkingMenEarthGirlFatherBoysStrangeMomRelationMy MomOur FamilyMy SisterFather DiedMy Father Died Author:Maggie Nelson
“I still talk to my mom every day and she passed away when I was 28. And I still talk to my dad. The reality is that they're with you forever; the bond continues and they're there to help you and guide you. The best coaches I ever had, the best teachers, my parents, they all made it safe for me, not by being warm and fuzzy all the time, but by loving me so much, they were willing to make me better.” HelpingRealityParentForeverTeacherMomDadMy DadMy MomCoachesBest TeacherPassed AwayWarm And Fuzzy Author:Mike Babcock
“I was about 20 when my mom got sick with cancer and it was bad. It was very scary and at the time I was doing my first screenplay and I was on deadline and was alone with my father in Massachusetts. I said, "Pop, you know, I don't how I'm going to work. I don't know how I can get this done. You know, I got to hand this script in and I can't think about anything but Mom." He said, "Well, you know, now is the time when you're going to learn what it means to compartmentalize." And those words really had an impact on me.” ThinkingMeanDoneFatherMomSickCancerScaryMy MomGoing To WorkDeadline Author:John Buffalo Mailer
“My father probably taught me everything I know, aside from dialogue, which I think I get from my mom a lot more. He certainly didn't teach me everything he knew, but you know he has got this book out called "The Spooky Art," which is essentially an advanced book on writing and it's not... You know it's not ABC, but it's for people who feel that bug and know that they're writers and are willing to put in that time alone. Pretty much the vast majority of what he taught me you can find in that book.” PeopleThinkingWritingArtBookFatherTeachMomMy MomDialogueMe Alone Author:John Buffalo Mailer
“I might sound crazy about this but, years ago, my mom told me: "We almost died when you were born. Both of us." I was a Caesarean baby, and the doctor who delivered me later told me, "I opened your mother up, and you were right there. It freaked me out because everything was broken and out-there." I've thought about it a lot - could this have something to do with the fact that I'm only happy when I'm at home and alone? Maybe I was just freaking out for two weeks before I was born, feeling really insecure.” FeelingsHomeMotherWeekCrazyBrokenBabyMomMy MomInsecureDoctor Who Author:Fiona Apple
“I was born in Okinawa, but on a U.S. Army base. And my father is Japanese-American which means that he is second generation, but my mom was born in the Philippines and raised in Okinawa. So, how do you know where you are generationally from? I can claim all three legitimately, but I like to say that I am third generation American.” MeanFatherMomArmyMy Mom Author:Tamlyn Tomita
“My mom is 70, and she's still wearing the things she wore in the 80s. I appreciate people like that, who know who they are and what they like to wear - and have fun with it. Like, you can see that they enjoy expressing themselves.” PeopleFunEnjoyLike YouMomAppreciateMy MomHaving Fun Author:Kate Hudson
“Trying to understand the fear I had of truly opening my heart - first, you have to be whole to do that. The fears, the voices in my mind saying, "Oh, you don't want to do that, you might get hurt, they might abandon you - "those are ghost voices from my mom and dad.” TryingMindHeartHurtMomDadMy HeartMy MomGhostAbandonMom And Dad Author:Jane Fonda
“Like other undocumented people in this country, I want a green card, and I want a driver's license, and I want a passport. What, to me, is the immigration bill? It's a green card, a driver's license, and a passport. That's what it's about to me, tangibly. That I could see my mom. That I could drive. Is there anything more American than driving? That I could get a green card and be able to - right now, I'm just like freelancing and working as an independent contractor. It's hilarious. I'm unhirable.” PeopleCountryMomIndependentMy MomDrivingImmigrationContractor Author:Jose Antonio Vargas
“I've had to cut my mom out of a movie before - it's ruthless, editing. But it's also so necessary; because once you start taking away, it's like sculpture, you can really start feeling the shape of the whole.” FeelingsCuttingMomMy Mom Author:Derek Cianfrance
“I lived in the house with my mother so she had no choice but to hear what I was doing. I would ask her for her opinion. I used to like doing that because I would let my friends hear what I did, but they listened to it on another level. My mom listened to it with a different ear, because she's older.” DifferentMotherChoicesHouseOpinionMomMy Mom Author:D'Angelo
“Basically what my mom told me - I was extremely shy, I didn't have any girlfriends 'til I was 21 - my mom would see me suffering and tell me, "Just focus on your school, study very hard, and some day you will be successful and you can use all the resources that you have to a dating advantage." Ultimately, I took that advice and turned it into dating sites.” SchoolSufferingStudySuccessfulFocusAdviceMomDatingMy MomGirlfriendBeing SuccessfulShy Author:Brandon Wade
“My dad has a very dry sense of humor and my mom has a more fun, silly sense of humor. My mom is the type that, at the dinner table, you'd look over at and she'd have a piece of asparagus hanging down her nose. Classic mom bit.” FunMomDadMy DadMy MomSillyClassicSense Of Humor Author:Katie Dippold
“I think I was just a strange kid. I was definitely a weirdo. I ran a newspaper that had really dark stories all the time. My mom was always fun, she had this large box of costumes and I remember dressing up as a door-to-door saleswoman with a wig and this small suitcase I was using as a briefcase. I was walking down the street like that; I was sure I was fooling everyone.” ThinkingKidsRememberFunDarkStrangeMomWalkingMy MomRanWeirdo Author:Katie Dippold
“Having my foundation be from two positive black role models in my life, my mom and my dad, two strong-minded intelligent individuals who clearly have made a great deal of great decisions in their lives and put me in a position, via educational institutions, to be around other intelligent people and to have a strong moral foundation, from which I try to never stray far. It all spurred me to carve out my own little niche as a human being.” PeopleTryingIndividualStrongBlackDecisionMoralMomDadIntelligentMy DadEducationalMy MomRole ModelsNiche Author:Mr. Lif
“It's always been a desire of mine to work with my parents, so Wild at Heart was a wish come true. The first day we did a scene together I came down the stairs and my mom pointed that finger at me: "Don't you dare talk to that boy again!" You know, I've seen that finger for 23 years. And I started laughing, she started laughing, then the whole crew broke up - in that moment, they all knew that she and I had been there before.” HeartMomentsTogetherDesireWishParentBoysLaughingMomSceneDareMy MomBrokeBroke Up Author:Laura Dern
“It's interesting to talk to my mom about her character in Wild at heart, because she sees her as a mother who's just trying to protect her baby from a bad boy. I think that's why it works so beautifully - she has conviction about what she's doing.” ThinkingTryingHeartCharacterMotherInterestingBoysBabyMomProtectConvictionMy MomBad Boy Author:Laura Dern
“My dad, was, by trade, he had a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering. He's a huge, huge jazz fan. He used to travel all the time for projects, and he used to collect jazz records. He used to collect hundreds and hundreds of jazz records because he had this passion for it. That's kind of how they had certain hobbies together with my mom.” KindTogetherPassionMomDadTradeJazzMy DadMy Mom Author:Eldar Djangirov
“My mom was a musician, and my dad had this passion for music. That's kind of how a lot of their relationship was built. When I came around, I was constantly exposed to music.” KindPassionMomDadMusicianMy DadMy Mom Author:Eldar Djangirov