My Mom Quotes - Page 13

• My parents both worked - my mom was an accountant, and my dad is a builder - and that taught me about having a really strong work ethic, and I respected them a lot for that.

  Miranda Kerr

  Mom, Strong, Dad

  "Love Letters: Miranda Tells All". Harper’s Bazaar Interview, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 24, 2016.

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• I'm really lucky because my mom is a good beauty muse.

  Elizabeth Jagger

  Mom, Lucky, Muse

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• My mom did a really good job teaching me about sunscreen. She's savvy when it comes to all things moisturizing and wrinkle-preventing. Even early on as a kid, I thought to myself, Why do I need to do this? I don't have wrinkles. I'm a child. But my mom was in the preventative mind-set and that helped me.

  Brittany Snow

  Mom, Jobs, Children

  "The Genius Way Brittany Snow Gets Tan Without Going in the Sun (and No, Not With Self-Tanner)". Interview with Julianne Carell, www.glamour.com. June 8, 2016.

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• My mom grew up in the Philippines, and she would use coconut oil. I put that in my hair always - literally, natural coconut oil that you use for cooking. I use that for my cuticles and dry spots on my skin too.

  Shay Mitchell

  Mom, Oil, Hair

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• My mom always wanted me be a ballerina, and I was just adamant that I wanted to be a track star. I wanted nothing to do with ballet.

  Emayatzy E. Corinealdi

  Mom, Stars, Track

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Undoubtedly, the biggest influence on my life is my mom, followed pretty closely by my dad.

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  Mom, Dad, Life Is

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I grew up in church. My mom's a minister, and my grandmother was an ordained minister. I was always very mindful of the presence of a greater being I call God.

  Mahershala Ali

  Mom, Grandmother, Church

  "Mahershala Ali: the 'free state of Jones'". Interview with Sam Williams, www.eurweb.com. June 24, 2016.

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• I love watching old movies anyway - I grew up with my mom watching old movies and being immersed in the history of old Hollywood.

  Lily Collins

  Mom, Hollywood, Old Movie

  "Lily Collins Explores Her Love of Old Hollywood and Vintage Clothing in 'The Last Tycoon'". Interview with Kristina Rodulfo, www.elle.com. June 23, 2016.

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• My father came from Germany. My mom came from Venezuela. My father's culturally German, but his father was Japanese.

  Fred Armisen

  Mom, Father, Germany

  Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. January, 2012.

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• Now my mom designs to resign so she runs for US senate, and now at 67 my mom just launched a new company called Women's Leadership Live, she is the cofounder and CEO, and it's all about empowering women to be successful in business however they define success. When you have a role model like that you really don't ever look at gender as an issue and it's about owning your place and taking charge of your role, regardless of what you look like.

  Stephanie McMahon

  Mom, Running, Successful

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• My mom [comes] to see my shows because she's so proud, but I'm talking about losing my virginity, my ex-wife and our sexual problems, and she's sitting in the front row smiling. I just go, "Mom, you can't sit in the front row, you can't smile. You have to go way in the back and dress in black. If I see you it's like you're breaking in when I'm having sex with my wife. It's just wrong."

  John Leguizamo

  Mom, Sex, Talking

  Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 31, 2016.

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• I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell's version of "A Case of You." My mom was a huge Joni Mitchell fan.

  Cheyenne Jackson

  Mom, Listening, Fans

  Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. June 23, 2016.

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• Joan Mitchell, Joan Baez, Judy Collins - that was my mom's era.

  Cheyenne Jackson

  Mom, Eras

  Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. June 23, 2016.

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• I came upon Diana Krall's jazz arrangement of "A Case of You" several years back. I've always wanted to pay homage to both her version and Joni's, and by proxy, my mom. She's the one that introduced me to that music.

  Cheyenne Jackson

  Mom, Years, Pay

  Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. June 23, 2016.

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• In the Miss America system talent is worth 50 percent of a contestant's points so my mom encouraged me to give it a try. And once I decided to do it, like anything else, I gave it 110 percent.

  Gretchen Carlson

  Mom, America, Giving

  Source: frankviola.org

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• My mom was a great tennis player, and I remember being six or seven years old watching Steffi Graf and Monica Seles in Wimbledon in my house. I've always been a tennis fan.

  Tom Brady

  Mom, Player, Years

  "#mancrushmonday: Tom Brady". Interview with Romy Oltuski, www.harpersbazaar.com. May 23, 2016.

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• I am a champion. My mom made sure that I did yoga every day. She dragged me because that was something she was doing for herself. She would have a great time with her friends. All the mothers would sit together and the kids all did yoga.

  Rajashree Choudhury

  Mom, Mother, Yoga

  "Rajashree Choudhury Interview Part II". Interview with Zoë Kors, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• So I went home and I told my mom that I wanted to quit and be an actress and she said, “Huh, that sounds fascinating. It’s wonderful!” And I told my father and he literally said, “I don’t care if you want to be an elephant trainer if it makes you happy.”

  Gena Rowlands

  Mom, Father, Home

  Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 13, 2016.

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• I just kept thinking about what my mom [Hillary Clinton] has said repeatedly when people have asked her similar questions, she's tough and she can take whatever people say about her.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Mom, Thinking, People

  "Matt Lauer Presses Chelsea Clinton On What Her Father Would Be Called if Hillary Elected" by Ian Schwartz, www.realclearpolitics.com. July 28, 2016.

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• 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.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Mom, Country, Daughter

  "Matt Lauer Presses Chelsea Clinton On What Her Father Would Be Called if Hillary Elected". Interview with Matt Lauer, www.realclearpolitics.com. July 28, 2016.

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• My mom is a great cook, and family dinners were a must growing up, even if that meant eating at 10 p.m. when my dad got home from the hospital. It's where we did our family bonding.

  Daphne Oz

  Mom, Dad, Growing Up

  Interview with Rachel Goldstien, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The hardest obstacle I've ever had to overcome in my life is losing my mom four years ago. I wouldn't even say that I've overcome it, really. I don't imagine that I ever will.

  Annie Wersching

  Mom, Years, Overcoming

  "Actor Annie Wersching: Losing her mom and the curative powers of a good night's sleep". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• My mom is my best friend and always offers me great perspective and reminds me to be compassionate to myself in moments when I feel low.

  Kandyse McClure

  Mom, Perspective, My Best Friend

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Of course I'm totally biased, but I think my mom is an amazing educator. She continues to work tirelessly for the kids in her classes, year after year - despite the innumerable obstacles she faces. She is a huge inspiration to me.

  Kandyse McClure

  Mom, Inspiration, Kids

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• My mom is a master gardener and I grew up on a farm. I came back to it really late in life and discovered that despite how lazy and inattentive I was as a child, I had managed to accidentally learn quite a bit about gardening.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Mom, Children, Lazy

  "Elizabeth Gilbert, ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ Author, On What It Takes To Get Inspired". Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2013.

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