“I've been an atheist since I was nine years old. And my mom is really religious, so we have a strange relationship. But if my mother was right, what would be the reason that the gods could let anything bad happen in the world?” IfsWorldYearsReasonHappensWould BeMotherReligiousStrangeMomAtheistMy MomNineNine Years Author:Tarsem Singh
“My mom taught me to read when I was two or three. When I was five I read and wrote well enough to do my nine-year older brother's homework in exchange for chocolate or cigarettes. By the time I was 10, I was reading Orwell, Tolstoy's War and Peace, and the Koran. I was reading comic books too.” YearsWellsTwoBookWarEnoughThreeReadingFiveTaughtBrotherMomMy MomNineComicChocolateCigaretteComic BookHomeworkNine YearsOlder Brother Author:Chris Abani
“I don't like sex ... I'm a single working mom with nine cats, a dog-shark, a lizard, and a bunny. I don't go to bed, I pass out. The idea that I'd get to my bed and there'd be someone in there with whom I was supposed to have an activity is horrifying to me.” IdeasSexDogMomActivityBedCatNineSharksBunniesLizardsWorking Mom Author:Paula Poundstone
“I was always with a single mom, and we never had schedules or anything. We were just Bohemian, us against the world, which was kind of great, but it certainly didn't breed security. I've gotten hyper-sensitive to schedules and bath time and eating at the dinner table. We don't just 'Bohemian' go out at nine o'clock and go get Chinese food.” WorldKindSecurityMomEatingTablesDinnerNineChineseClockSensitiveSchedulesBathsSingle MomHyperDinner TableBohemianChinese Food Author:Brooke Shields
“I was very shy as a kid but when I found out I could perform and have people's attention everything changed for me. My mom likes to joke that until I was eight or nine I only knew what my sneakers looked like because I constantly walked around with my head down. But all of a sudden the stage made sense and that's what brought me out of my shell and a monster was created.” PeopleMadeKidsFoundAttentionStageChangedMomJokesMy MomEightMonstersNineLikesShyShellsSneakers Author:Justin Timberlake
“Barclays Bank in England purchased bankrupt Lehman Brothers Tuesday along with its Manhattan tower, saving nine thousand jobs. It's humiliating. The United States of America is 232 years old and we're having to go to mom for money.” YearsStatesJobsAmericaUnitedUnited StatesBrotherMomThousandEnglandNineSavingTowersUnited States Of AmericaManhattanTuesdayHumiliatingLehman Brothers Author:Argus Hamilton
“I was brought up Catholic. My mom brought us to mass every Sunday - short for 'massive head trauma' that you get from your mother punching you in your little nine-year-old head every minute because you can't sit still for anything that's boring.” YearsLittlesStillsMotherMinutesMomMassCatholicBoringMy MomTraumaNineSundayMassiveNine YearsPunching Author:Richard Jeni
“It was hard for me, as a father, to imagine going through what my birth mom went through, to raise a child inside of her for nine months, and then have to say goodbye. And so it's hard for me to understand that pain and that process.” ChildrenHardPainFatherProcessImagineMomMonthsBirthRaisesNineGoodbyeSaying GoodbyeNine Months Author:Michael Franti
“I wrote my first song when I was nine, and it was called 'Notice Me'. My Mom still has the piece of paper around somewhere, but I can't even imagine how terrible it is.” FirstsStillsI CanSongPiecesImagineMomTerriblePaperMy MomNineNotice Me Author:Kacey Musgraves
“I remember my mom had a conversation with Sam Jackson about what she should do with our careers and what the next step should be; I was eight and my brother was nine. He said, "You need to get them on Broadway."” NeedsShouldSaidRememberNextStepsCareersBrotherMomConversationMy MomEightNineMy BrotherBroadwayNext StepsSam Jackson Author:Aldis Hodge