893 private quotes tagged mom

“I've never had a very closely connected family. My parents split up when I was young and I was living with my mom for a little while, then I was kind of just on my own really young. It wasn't some kind of global tragedy, it was just never really a very close-knit family. So there was support in the sense that they didn't stand in my way.” — Ani DiFranco

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“I guess now that I think back, I used to play priest and be a funny priest. I don't know, I grew up in such a Catholic family that I kind of liked to test the boundaries a little bit and I think I had fun watching my mom laugh.” — Jenny McCarthy

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“Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house.” — Elizabeth Warren

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“It's not common for a woman on television, especially if she's the mom of the family, to be funny. She's usually a straight man or foil.” — Martha Plimpton

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“If you go from a structure where you have the support and that partner and that construction of a family and that's broken apart, I think that's probably a lot harder than always being a single mom and having the father being a support in another area.” — Bridget Moynahan

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“I wish I had an extra day with my mom sometimes. Or another hour in the day with my family, husband and children.” — Mary J. Blige

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“My mom always said I was the peacemaker in the family. My older brother, Eric, was the leader, the creative one. I was just his puppet.” — Gwen Stefani

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“My mom just didn't put a very high premium on me being like really famous or really wealthy or anything.” — Martha Plimpton

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“My food is Louisiana, New Orleans-based, well-seasoned, rustic. I think it's pretty unique because of my background being influenced by my mom, Portuguese and French Canadian. There's a lot going on there.” — Emeril Lagasse

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“I remember that at the beginning of the month, the kind of menus my mom and father would prepare for us would have fish, chicken. But at the end of the month - because my father would be waiting for paycheck - the refrigerator would get empty. I remember that without a lot of food left, some of the best meals happened right there.” — Jose Andres Puerta

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“When I was growing up, my mother was always a friend to my siblings and me (in addition to being all the other things a mom is), and I was always grateful for that because I knew she was someone I could talk to and joke with, and argue with and that nothing would ever harm that friendship.” — Marlo Thomas

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“My parents are both very funny but they're also relatively soft-spoken, normal human beings while I'm just a lunatic. I don't know where this loud, ballsy, hammy ridiculousness came from. I'm just glad I followed my goals and my parents did too. It's not like we even had a plan when I dragged my mom to Los Angeles.” — Emma Stone

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“Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.” — Maxim Gorky

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“Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.” — Billy Graham

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“When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.” — Dick Gregory

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“Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.” — Helen Hunt Jackson

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“Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.” — Anita Baker

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“My grandmother had six kids - one died as an infant - and she was dirt-poor, and all her kids got an education. And my mom grew up poor. And they both worked so hard and cultivated so much of their own happiness. I wanted to have that like an amulet. Not like armor, but like a magic feather. Like Dumbo's magic feather.” — Lucy Alibar

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“My daily schedule is quite hectic, but I have to put my health first in order to be the best mom and wife I can be.” — Ellen Pompeo

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“I came from a broken home, so my mom was a major influence in my life.” — Julius Erving

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“For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you'd would wake up times and hope that the next day you'd be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.” — LeBron James

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“Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.” — Amos Bronson Alcott

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“If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.” — E. W. Howe

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“From the moment this baby came into our home, those two dogs have never been more in love. It's the most beautiful thing I've ever witnessed. People keep saying, 'Oh, you're a single mom.' I'm like, 'Actually, I'm not. I've got two boys helping.'” — Charlize Theron

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“My dad died when I was three so my mom had to raise four kids on her own, and I think there's a part of me that pulls upon having watched my mom do that our whole lives. She had to make it work.” — Leslie Bibb

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