“Mothers send strips to daughters to make a point. Daughters smack strips down on the breakfast table to make a point. My own mom sometimes cuts a strip out and sends it to me to make sure I understand her.” SometimesMotherMy OwnInspiringCuttingMomDaughterTablesBreakfastMothers DaySmack Author:Cathy Guisewite
“Food became the antidote for feelings of guilt, sadness, and anger. ... Food is a resolution to controversy; food is rescue. We ate and talked and cried and laughed in the kitchen and ate again. This was about more than just food. It was about our mom making connections the best she could and in the way she knew best across the kitchen table, across time and across sadness.” WayFeelingsFamilySadnessFoodMomEatingConnectionsTablesGuiltMealsKitchenResolutionLaughedRescueCriedControversyAntidoteKitchen TableSadness And Anger Author:Rose Quiello
“My family, theyre story tellers. My mom is Irish, and my dad is Italian. In my family, we werent allowed to watch TV while we ate - we had to sit around the table and tell stories about our day.” StoriesWatchesTvsMomDadMy FamilyTablesMy DadMy MomItalian Author:Meg Cabot
“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
“When I have children that go home and mom and dad are not home because they're working, they're trying to get food on the table, and they come home to an empty house and they go to sleep in an empty house, there is no way that child can compete against a child from the west side of Los Angeles who both parents went to Stanford. Well, good for them, God love them. That's not an equal playing field.” WayTryingWellsChildrenHomeHouseParentSidesSleepFieldsMomDadEqualEmptyTablesWestGod LoveLos AngelesComing HomeGoing To SleepMom And DadPlaying FieldsStanfordWest SideEmpty Houses Author:Rafe Esquith
“When you were growing up, your mom and dad told you to look both ways before crossing the street or not to get into a car with a stranger. It's the same with the internet. We have a big responsibility and a huge role in bringing all the stakeholders to the table - users, parents, educators, law enforcement, government organisations.” WayLooksBigsGovernmentLawParentResponsibilityRolesGrowing UpGrowingStreetsCarHugeMomInternetDadTablesStrangerUsersLaw EnforcementEnforcementCrossingsOrganisationEducatorYour MomMom And DadStakeholderBig ResponsibilityCrossing The Street Author:Chris DeWolfe
“If you're a working mom, you're still expected to be a super-mom at home, buy organic food, put dinner on the table every night, and do all the research into preschools. It's really hard.” IfsStillsHardHomeNightMomResearchTablesDinnerExpectedEvery NightOrganic FoodWorking Mom Author:Joe Swanberg
“My mom is one of those really angry moms who gets mad at absolutely everything. Once when I was a little kid, I accidentally knocked a Flintstones glass off the kitchen table. She said, 'Well, dammit, we can't have nice things.'” WellsLittlesSaidKidsNiceMomTablesAngryMadGlassesMy MomKitchenLittle KidNice ThingsKitchen TableFlintstones Author:Paula Poundstone
“When I was seven, I watched One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest with my mom. When Jack Nicholson was strapped to the table getting electroshock treatment, my mom burst into tears. She said it reminded her of her life, and I was stunned, because I didn't know my mom had been nominated for an Oscar.” KnowsSaidTearsMomTablesSevenMy MomTreatmentOscarsNestsFlewStunnedCuckoosNicholsonOne Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest Author:Christopher Titus
“I was at the breakfast table this morning and I read in the newspaper that more and more adults are living at home with their parents. That surprised me, I was like Mom did you read this?” HomeParentMorningMomAdultsTablesNewspapersBreakfast Author:Brian Regan
“We didn't have a television, so we sat around the table, and me and my sisters and my mom would do these jobs, like, a penny for a piece, you know, these paper jobs. You know, what really saved me as a human today is my sisters and my mom.” KnowsHumansTodayJobsPiecesTelevisionMomPaperTablesMy MomSavedSatMy SisterPennies Author:Riccardo Tisci
“My inspiration was my mom. She's a great cook, and she still cooks, and we still banter back and forth about cooking. Growing up in a mostly Portuguese community, food was important and the family table was extremely important. At a very young age I understood that.” StillsImportantInspirationAgeYoungCommunityGrowing UpGrowingMomUnderstoodTablesCookingMy MomCooksBirthdayYoung AgeBack And ForthBanterPortuguese Author:Emeril Lagasse
“Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose.” IfsYearsFoundFatherSecretMorningHappenedMomDadMarriedDiedTablesRoseLocalsFatherhoodAnniversaryMom And DadFather DiedMy Father Died Author:Mitt Romney
“I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.” WayMadeLife IsUsedMotherValuesTaughtMomTablesRaisedWorkersDestinationCleaningBrooklynSubwayRagsFamily ValuesCore ValuesGood MotherSingle MotherPocketbooks Author:Al Sharpton