“That's not what I want my children to hear. That's not representative of the country that I want my children to grow up in. And so that actually I found far more upsetting as a mom, as a woman, as an American, and even as my mother's daughter than anything they said about my mom.” WantChildrenSaidCountryMotherFoundGrowsGrowing UpMomDaughterMy MomMy ChildrenUpsetRepresentativesThey Said Author:Chelsea Clinton
“Any man that has had a mother, has a sister, wants to be a father will find this [movie Bad Moms] incredibly eye opening and hysterical and funny.” MenWantEyeMotherFatherMomOpeningHystericalEye OpeningBad Mom Author:Mila Kunis
“Even my mom. I have to tell her, "If you want a snack, don't go to bed with potato chips. Eat a handful of pistachios and a handful of dates."” IfsWantMomBedMy MomChipsPotatoesHandfulSnacksPotato ChipsPistachios Author:Sandra Cisneros
“Like the guy I was dating. White, liberal, educated. I went to meet his family and I think that they probably didn't know they had a problem with it until he walked in with me. And they definitely had issues. Mom had issues with it. Could not, didn't want to see her son. And I don't think she had anything against me. But it was about her son bringing me home. And I felt that for the first time. I was like, 'Wow, that's deep.' It's really simple: I don't fit their picture.” ThinkingKnowsWantFirstsProblemHomeGuyFeltSimpleWhiteIssuesSonMomFitFirst TimeDatingEducatedWow Author:Sanaa Lathan
“It was like I couldn't even begin to tell my mom I was singing. I didn't want anyone to think that she was trying to get me to sing. I wanted to prove to myself I could do it on my own. I really wanted to do a completely different thing.” ThinkingWantTryingDifferentWantedMy OwnMomProveSingingMy MomDifferent Things Author:Jillian Hervey
“You know, you always want to just do your own thing - I mean some people want to be exactly like their parents - Ibut I wanted to do my own thing and I ended up doing a kind of mix of my mom and dad.” PeopleKnowsWantKindMeanWantedParentMy OwnMomDadMy MomMom And Dad Author:Jillian Hervey
“When the kids were growing up, I think they thought the worst thing about me being a mom is that I would laugh at them. They would say something that they thought was serious and intense and I would laugh. I thought it was funny, but they don't want to be laughed at.” ThinkingWantKidsLaughingGrowing UpGrowingWorstSeriousMomIntenseLaughedWorst ThingsBeing A Mom Author:Micah Perks
“I want my son to grow up with a mom that he could see and look at her life with all the mistakes and with all the failures and all the flaws and say, "My mom lived an authentic life. That was the life she wanted to live."” WantLooksWantedGrowsMistakeGrowing UpSonMomMy MomFlawsMy SonAuthentic Life Author:Charlize Theron
“My mom and I had the same vision, and we want the same things. We would always make a goal list every year.” WantYearsMotherGoalVisionMomMy MomLists Author:Kim Kardashian
“I did do a presentation pilot with Jesse Eisenberg and he's wonderful. He's such a great writer. He directed me and he wrote these wonderful scripts and we're waiting to hear if marketers and advertisers think that an audience wants to look at a bad mom and her 10-year-old son in a show.” IfsThinkingWantYearsLooksShowsWaitingAudienceWonderfulSonMomScriptsPilotsPresentationGreat WritersMarketersAdvertisersBad Mom Author:Parker Posey
“I want my mom to be able to wear my clothes, I want my older sister to be able to wear my clothes, and the people in my life aren't necessarily built like I am, you know? They're built in a million different beautiful bodies, shapes, and sizes, and so why would I exclude anybody from being able to have it? This is the point.” PeopleKnowsWantDifferentBodyAbleBeautifulMillionsMomShapesClothesBuiltSizeMy MomBeing A MomOlder SisterBeautiful BodyBody Shapes Author:Zendaya
“[Kurt] Vonnegut once said, if you ever want to know who somebody is... Like you look at Richard Nixon, or Adolf Hitler, or Ralph Nader, or anybody who seems like a difficult person to understand, and is therefore not part of the pattern of human behavior. Think about who they were in high school, and they will explain themselves to you. So we got a hold of, like, 50 high-school yearbooks, including my mom's from 1925 or something, and we discovered that they're all the same.” IfsThinkingKnowsWantHumansLooksPersonsSaidSeemsSchoolDifficultLike YouMomBehaviorHigh SchoolIncludingPatternsMy MomHuman BehaviorYearbookHigh School Yearbook Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“I ask you, how would you like your mom, your wife, your daughter to spend $100,000 to go to Harvard or some state school, and go out into the workplace, and you know she's great, and men are getting paid $200 per week more than her? Would that piss you off? What if you lost your job and you stay home crippled while she goes out, and she thinks she's going to get a good job, but someone male with the same level of experience and the same level of education gets paid more than her? You're going to get pissed. Until you walk a mile in someone else's shoes, I don't want to hear it.” IfsThinkingKnowsMenWantStatesHomeSchoolJobsAsksLostWalksLevelsWifeWeekLike YouMomDaughterPaidMalesShoesMilesWhat IfWorkplaceGood JobHarvardYour MomOur DaughterCrippledYour Daughter Author:Pam Grier
“[My kids] were very young at the time and didn't realize what was going on. We told them that mom made a mistake and people want to talk about it in the news so they're outside our house.” PeopleWantMadeKidsYoungHouseRealizingMistakeMomNewsMade A Mistake Author:Paula Broadwell
“That is a huge need for a lot of women, even in 2016. You can have the most ambitious career woman, and at the end of the day, she's like, 'I just want to be a mom.” WantNeedsEndsCareersHugeMomThe End Of The DayAmbitiousAnd At The End Of The DayCareer Women Author:Viola Davis
“I don't think that moms, with all that's going on in our society today, would want to put their kids in front of something that will be disheartening rather than uplifting.” ThinkingWantKidsTodayFrontsMomUpliftingOur SocietySociety TodayDisheartening Author:Octavia Spencer
“When the time came to say, "Mom, I want to do this as a job," it was brutal. She was really against it. There were screaming matches. Some people are shut down by that and get defeated by it, and other people are empowered by the negativity. My father kind of encouraged me through that.” PeopleWantKindJobsFatherMomBrutalNegativityDefeatedEmpowered Author:David Copperfield
“I was a single mom at 20. A lot of choices came out of that. I've seen a lot of my friends be in relationships they didn't want to be in because they couldn't leave.” WantChoicesMomMy FriendsSingle Mom Author:Patricia Arquette
“I love being a mom. And I think what I love the most is the way it makes me think about what's important and what's not important. What to fight for and what to just be cool with. What it is that I'm teaching through example and what it is that I was taught that I don't want to teach.” ThinkingWayWantImportantFightingLove IsTeachTeachingExampleTaughtMomWhat's ImportantBeing A MomBeing CoolLove Being A MomI Love Being A Mom Author:Alicia Keys
“Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.” WantPoliticalMotherPoliticsGrowsProcessPresidentGrowing UpSonMomPoliticianParentingBeing A MomPolitical HumorMother CarePolitics FunnySentimental Mother Book:The Wicked Wit of John F. Kennedy Source: The Wicked Wit of John F. Kennedy
“My mom lost her dad at a very young age, and has this sort of belief system of, you know, "If there's something that you want to do, if there's something that means a lot to you, do it now."” IfsKnowsWantMeanAgeYoungBeliefLostMomDadMy MomYoung AgeBelief Systems Author:Emma Stone
“When I started acting, my mom said, "If you want to go to film school and eventually direct, being on set is probably the best film school in the world." I'm incredibly grateful for the career I've had, but I was an actor to be a part of movies and TV, not the other way around.” IfsWorldWayWantSaidSchoolFilmActorsActingCareersTvsMomDirectGratefulMy MomFilm SchoolBest Film Author:Jay Baruchel
“I specially want to have young women not to wait as I did until my children were grown, but young women to come in to gain their seniority so they could be respected leaders at a much earlier age. It's important for all women to see young women who share their experience whether it's as a working mom with young children, who understands the struggle and the aspirations of young women in a similar situation. And if they don't have family and they're pursuing their career women should see that as well.” IfsWantShouldWellsChildrenImportantAgeYoungWaitingSituationLeaderCareersStruggleShareMomGainsMy ChildrenAspirationYoung WomenYoung ChildrenCareer WomenWorking MomSeniority Author:Nancy Pelosi
“The most important thing is that I'm in a position to take care of my family and take care of my moms, man. I can take care of myself now and my mom is able to just worry about herself and do what she wants to do.” MenWantI CanImportantCareAbleWorryPositionMomMy FamilyImportant ThingsMy MomTake Care Author:Victor Cruz
“We need to show how we really are and how we really are is that I'm the Dad, that's the Mom, these are the kids. This is how you respect us. It's "Yes Sir", "No Sir", "Yes Mam" and "No Mam". We don't see a lot of that on TV, so I just want to give an example and show examples on how a family should be versus how families are portrayed on TV.” WantNeedsGivingShouldShowsKidsExampleTvsMomDadVersus Author:Ginuwine
“I find that most people [in social media] just want me to say "happy birthday" to their mom or wish them good luck with their exams.” PeopleWantWishSocialMediaMomLuckSocial MediaWant MeGood LuckExam Author:Boy George
“If I'm a young mom or young dad, I can find a great source of strength. God has promised that He will help me to be the mom or dad that He wants me to be. He has promised to be with me every step of the way. He has promised that He will never leave me or forsake me. These are wonderful promises that I can learn to trust and build a life on.” IfsWayWantI CanHelpingYoungStepsWonderfulSourceMomDadPromiseHelp MeWant MeLeaving MeEvery StepForsakeSource Of StrengthNever Leave MeHe Wants Me Author:Max Lucado
“Working moms, and increasingly working dads, don't want a government handout, but they do need a hand up.” WantNeedsHandsGovernmentMomDadHands UpHandoutsWorking Mom Author:Madeleine M. Kunin
“I don't want to have kids for like 10 years. I still have a lot to do. I don't even know if I could handle a dog right now. I'm so not ready. Someday I'll be a mom but not until I'm in my 30s.” IfsKnowsWantYearsStillsMotivationalKidsDogReadyMomRight NowHandleIf I CouldSomedayNot Ready Author:Avril Lavigne
“My mom is going to kill me for talking about sleeping with people. But I don't want to put myself in the position where I'm in a monogamous relationship right now. I'm not dating just one person. 'Sex and the City' changed everything for me because those girls would sleep with so many people.” PeopleWantPersonsGirlSexSleepCitiesTalkingPositionChangedMomRight NowDatingMy MomJust OneKill MeSex And The CityMonogamous Relationship Author:Lindsay Lohan
“Mommy smoked but she didn't want us to. She saw smoke coming out of the barn one time, so we got whipped.” WantMotherSawsMomMotherhoodSmokeOne TimeComing OutBarns Book:Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter Source: Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter
“I want to go to college to study journalism. I want to speak French fluently, to travel. My mom was a journalist and it's in my blood.” WantSpeakStudyBloodCollegeMomMy MomJournalismJournalistSpeaks French Author:Mandy Moore
“Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad. Kids lead a very private life. And I was a typical child, I think. I was a liar.” ThinkingKnowsWantChildrenRealKidsParentMomDadLiarsTypicalPrivate LifeMom And DadReal Parents Author:Maurice Sendak
“With my new venture, Club Mom, we want to empower moms to feel their value and also build their collective power to make their lives better and easier. We want to bring them together as a community to share experiences and information.” WantFeelsTogetherValuesCommunityShareInformationMomEasierClubsEmpoweringCollectivesVentureNew Ventures Author:Andrew Shue
“Being a working mom, you want to make a difference in our schools, which is making a difference in our children and ultimately it's making a difference in our community.” WantChildrenSchoolCommunityDifferencesMomOur ChildrenMaking A DifferenceOur CommunityWorking Mom Author:Kimora Lee Simmons
“I made some truly awful movies. 'Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot' was the worst. If you ever want someone to confess to murder just make him or her sit through that film. They will confess to anything after 15 minutes.” IfsWantMadeFilmMinutesWorstMomMurderMy MomAwful Author:Sylvester Stallone
“I really want to adopt a child... I want to be called 'Mom.' It really is the most beautiful word in the English language.” WantChildrenBeautifulLanguageMomEnglish LanguageBeautiful Words Author:Patti Stanger
“The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.” WantMotherInterestingMomParentingPetInteresting ThingsBeing A MotherKittiesKitty Litter Author:Meryl Streep
“For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.” IfsThinkingWantYearsTwoLastsMotherNightValuesGirlIndividualMoralSawsMomClubsConcertsLast NightArrestedMoral ValuesDui Author:Taylor Swift