“I was watching TV at age 9 or 10, and my mom said that I came from the front room and I told her that I want to act. And she said if you want to do this at 18, then you can. It was a very simple story, yet, I do not even remember the conversation that I had with my mother. Until she reminded me of the story many years later.” IfsWantYearsSaidStoriesAgeRememberMotherSimpleRoomsFrontsTvsMomConversationMy MomWatching Tv Author:Derek Luke
“When my dad was badly weakened by the flu and my mom wanted to call an ambulance to take him to the emergency room, he wouldn't go unless he could shave first and change into a nice shirt and a pair of slacks.” FirstsWantedRoomsNiceMomDadMy DadMy MomShirtsPairsEmergenciesFluAmbulanceEmergency Room Author:Rich Lowry
“Work - get paid; don't work - don't get paid. Everybody is on commission, .. Try not coming to work for six weeks. Work gets paid; don't work, don't get paid. When they earn those dollars, and when you're 4, and you clean up your room, it really means mom cleaned up the room and you did two toys. When you're 14, it means you cleaned up your room. But still, we got the money caused by work, and then, we have teachable moments on how to handle the money they earn.” TryingMeanStillsTwoMomentsRoomsWeekMomSixPaidDollarsCleanHandleToysReally MeanCleanlinessYour RoomTeachableTeachable Moments Author:Dave Ramsey
“And last, my mom. I don’t think you know what you did. You had my brother when you were 18 years old. Three years later, I came out. The odds were stacked against us. Single parent with two boys by the time you were 21 years old. Everybody told us we weren’t supposed to be here. We went from apartment to apartment by ourselves. One of the best memories I had was when we moved into our first apartment, no bed, no furniture and we just sat in the living room and just hugged each other. We thought we made it.” ThinkingKnowsYearsFirstsMadeTwoLastsThreeCausesParentMemoriesRoomsBoysBrotherMomBedMovedMy MomMade ItSupposed To BeSatMy BrotherNbaThree YearsOddsApartmentFurnitureEighteenLiving RoomSingle ParentMvpBest MemoriesEighteen Years Old Author:Kevin Durant
“I only do private room karaoke where its just me and one of my closest girlfriends. My mom always said I could really belt songs out, and the Dixie Chicks feed that encouragement.” SaidSongRoomsMomEncouragementMy MomGirlfriendClosestBeltsChicksKaraokeDixieDixie Chicks Author:Chelsea Peretti
“I appreciate your giving my book -- and in no small way, me -- a chance. To thank you, I really wanted to acknowledge all of you in the book. Unfortunately, I didn't have enough room for each name. So I've put in a code name that stands for all of you reading this book. The name is 'Mom.' It will be our little secret. So when you see 'Mom' in the acknowledgments, you'll know I'm really talking about you. And don't let my mother try to tell you otherwise.” KnowsWayGivingTryingLittlesBookEnoughWantedMotherReadingNamesChanceRoomsSecretTalkingMomAppreciateCodeAcknowledgeAcknowledgmentAppreciate You Author:Ellen DeGeneres
“In America we tell our parents to bring their child home and put him or her in a crib; as they get older, children sleep in they own room not in Mom and Dad's room. What are we training them for? It's independence, because that's what being empowered is all about.” ChildrenHomeAmericaParentSleepRoomsMomDadTrainingIndependenceEmpoweredMom And Dad Author:Sheena Iyengar
“The first time my mom found condoms in my room, she literally started crying hysterically.” FirstsFoundRoomsCryMomFirst TimeMy MomCondom Author:Jason Segel
“Diane Coffee is just the part of me that has always been a performer. It's something that's always been there and Diane Coffee is just the name I've given her for this project. But I was always the one who would raid mom's closet and get all dressed up and put on crazy weird shows in the living room or film little movies.” LittlesShowsFilmNamesGivenRoomsCrazyMomProjectsCoffeePerformersClosetsLiving RoomDressed Up Author:Shaun Fleming
“I'm the only person in my family who can't sing. My grandmother was an opera singer and all of her kids were in church five days a week - or between church and vocal lessons at Carnegie Hall. But my mom had her first studio experience recording on my album. She's used to having to fill the room, so she had to adjust to the microphone and not sing opera.” FirstsPersonsKidsUsedChurchRoomsFiveWeekMomLessonsMy FamilyAlbumsStudiosMy MomSingersGrandmotherHallsOperaMy GrandmotherVocalMicrophonesCarnegieOpera SingersCarnegie Hall Author:Le1f
“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
“Tom Osborne, Lou Holtz, Bobby Bowden were in our living room. My mom didn't know who they were!” KnowsRoomsMomMy MomTomsLiving Room Author:Hines Ward
“I would mimic what I saw in Grease and Guys and Dolls in front of my mom's mirror and I would practice voices and songs. When you put me alone in a room, that's what I would do.” GuySongVoiceRoomsPracticeSawsFrontsMomMirrorsMy MomDollsMe AloneGrease Author:Elizabeth Olsen
“One time my mom tried to send me to my room for a time-out when I was 5 or 6, and I was like, "Fine! I like my room! All my imagination and toys are in my room!" I will never forget that. And she will never forget that.” ImaginationForgetRoomsFineMomMy MomNever ForgetOne TimeToysMy Imagination Author:Elizabeth Olsen
“I have been doing merch' since I was 15 and in bands when I was a teenager - silk-screening shirts, making the emulsion in my mom's closet I converted into a dark room, through college. That's essentially how us bands survived was selling homemade t-shirts.” Has BeensDarkRoomsCollegeMomBandMy MomSellingTeenagerShirtsSurvivedClosetsT ShirtSilkScreeningHomemadeDoing MeDark Room Author:Steve Aoki
“My dad also survived five divorces, and the women he married cleaned his ass out every time. I used to think my dad got divorced because he wanted new furniture. At one point in my life, all we had left was a wooden box, a 12 black-and-white TV, and a four-man rubber raft for a couch. And yet, I was the coolest kid in third grade. Mom, can we have a sleepover in Christopher Titus' house? They have a raft in the living room! We can row to breakfast in the morning. I can actually be Captain Crunch!” ThinkingMenI CanKidsWantedUsedHouseLeftBlackWhiteRoomsMorningFiveFourTvsMomDadMarriedThirdsMy DadBoxesDivorceAssGradesBreakfastBlack And WhiteCaptainsSurvivedFurnitureDivorcedCouchesLiving RoomRubberCrunchThird GradeSleepovers Author:Christopher Titus
“When I get home I'll still have to unload the dishwasher and clean my room. Last night my mom got so fed up of my messy floor in my room she picked it all up off the floor and put it on my bed so I would have to clean it up before I went to bed!” StillsHomeLastsNightRoomsMomBedCleanMy MomFedsLast NightMessyFed UpDishwashers Author:Stacie Orrico
“I'm usually a mellow, go-with-the-flow person, except when someone tells me I should do something. Then I get stubborn. If they don't back off, I get this horrible rage and want to kill them. When I was four and my mom would send me to my room, I'd get so mad I'd go outside and bang my head on the sidewalk.” IfsWantShouldPersonsRoomsFourMomFlowMadMy MomRageHorribleStubbornBangsSidewalkMellow Author:Josie Maran
“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
“I had gone to jail, but I wasn't gettin' locked up for drugs then. I was gettin' locked up for guns. My moms kept finding guns and stuff in my room and she was gettin' more scared.” StuffRoomsGoneMomDrugFindingsGunScaredMy MomJailLockedLocked Up Author:The Notorious B.I.G.
“I lived with my mom in a really small apartment. My bedroom was like in the living room. That's why I still love to sleep on couches now.” StillsSleepRoomsMomMy MomApartmentBedroomCouchesLiving Room Author:Alicia Keys
“I read [The Women's Room] in my 20s, and I was like, "I understand this now." And now I've become a mom and read it again and truly understand on a different level what one of the main characters goes through as a mother.” DifferentCharacterMotherLevelsRoomsMomDifferent LevelsMain Characters Author:June Diane Raphael
“I once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental cars as my mom drove to three different cities in one day.” DifferentThreeSleepRoomsCitiesCarMomOne DayRadioMy MomHotelHotel RoomsSleeping InCar Rental Author:Taylor Swift