Quotes for Mom

Yeah, I was born in Fort Dodge, Iowa. My parents lived in a little town called Eagle Grove. My mom taught high school and my dad was an instructor at the community college.

Katie Porter

I've wanted to come to the U.S. since I was 8 years old. Every single year, my mom and I watched the Oscars. I always told her, 'I want to do that when I grow up. I want to tell stories; I want to be an actor and director.'

Eugenio Derbez

What my mom's legacy is representative of is beyond words.

Quincy Brown

He knows my limitations and where I'm a good wife and a good mom.

Angelina Jolie

I'm not a religious person. My mom was of Jewish blood and my dad was Protestant.

Daniel Radcliffe

I grew up in a makeup chair. And to see the women around me getting ready was so aspirational. It's about mothers and daughters, a girl watching her mom at a vanity table.

Drew Barrymore

Hot Stuff' Eddie Gilbert was really the first guy to inspire me. My mom got a Memphis wrestling tape from the Bronx and I saw Gilbert and that was it. He was definitely the first guy who made me think I wanted to do this. He doesn't get enough credit.

Eddie Kingston

I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.

Tori Amos

My mom, she's still always there for me. Always.

David Ortiz

There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age.

Benjamin Spock

My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.

Carly Fiorina

Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.

Camille Paglia

We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.

Barack Obama

My parents are both English. My dad is a plastic surgeon - his name's Norman Waterhouse, but we call him Normy. And my mom's a nurse, which is how they met - in a hospital, over decaying bone.

Suki Waterhouse

My mom wasn't thrilled about me being in a band, because she very correctly said she couldn't see any sort of stability in it.

Caroline Polachek

I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

Eminem

My mom, she wasn't like a baseball mother who knew everything about the game. She just wanted me to be happy with what I was doing.

David Ortiz

Everything I am is because of my mom.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

My mom and dad are just happy that I'm doing something that's not illegal. My brother is just happy I found something that I'm passionate about. I didn't see the future. They did. They saw a future for me in anything I wanted to do.

Eddie Kingston

While 'The Help' is in so many ways a celebration of these women's friendships and what they overcome, it's also very truthful and very painful, and it was intense for my mom to read that.

Bryce Dallas Howard