My Mom Quotes - Page 14

• This is a nice metaphor, too, about mothers and daughters - that when it came time for me to make my own, I was making a completely different garden than the one that my mom has. They don't look like they came from relatives. Hers is a very productive and pragmatic vegetable garden, and mine is a ridiculous overabundance of useless plants. It doesn't feed anybody, it doesn't serve any purpose.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Mom, Daughter, Mother

  "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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• I was going through some stuff regarding my mom and dad. There was 30 years difference [between them], so when you hear the lyric, "Girl I love you / You know I do / And I do not doubt / That you love me too / But you're so young / Your life has just begun", that's what I was wondering. They were married for 44 years.

  Andy Kim

  Girl, Mom, Dad

  "'Songs I Can Sing Ya': An Interview with Andy Kim and Kevin Drew". Interview With Evan Sawdey, www.popmatters.com. February 24, 2015.

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• 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."

  Sandra Cisneros

  Mom, Snacks, Bed

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. September 28, 2006.

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• I've endured quite a bit of physical pain. My mom says that I got my first set of stitches when I was one-and-a-half. A cat got my eye.

  Bobby Williams

  Mom, Pain, Cat

  "Mariel Hemingway and Bobby Williams". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 7, 2013.

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• 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.

  Jillian Hervey

  Mom, Thinking, Singing

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• 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.

  Jillian Hervey

  Mom, Dad, Mean

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I feel like my dad was the more artistic one, creating his own thing, loving to be around people, and all this stuff, doing exciting things, and my mom was more of the performer.

  Jillian Hervey

  Mom, Dad, Creating

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• My mom has kind of been more of the emotional support system. One time I was really feeling all out of it, just dealing with a lot of cooks in the kitchen and adjusting to what it means to be in the music industry, and I called her. One of the first things she said to me was 'You have to be thankful that these people even like you, no one liked me, at all, I was not really accepted for a very long time.'

  Jillian Hervey

  Mom, Mean, Emotional

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• [My mom] has a few choice words to calm me down. I think it's beautiful that I sometimes, weirdly, see myself in a photo and I'm like 'Omg, that looks like my mom.' It freaks me out and all that stuff, but it's also just a part of my legacy.

  Jillian Hervey

  Beautiful, Mom, Thinking

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• My mom is one, but there have been performers in my family since as long as we can trace them back, so I think it was kind of inevitable to be artistic and to have a force. We're leaders; we're a family of leaders, so I think it's just part of my genes.

  Jillian Hervey

  Mom, Thinking, Long

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• My mom always has this amazing ability to always see the best in a situation.

  Allyson Felix

  Mom, Ability, Situation

  "Exclusive: Allyson Felix, The Best to Ever Do It". Interview with Sylvia Snowden, www.ebony.com. September 13, 2016.

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• I had worked so hard; that was my opportunity. And my mom was just able to turn it around for me. She helped me to be able to see the other side of things and that this is not the end for me.

  Allyson Felix

  Mom, Opportunity, Able

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• My mom always has this amazing ability to always see the best in a situation. In that moment [when finished 2nd in the 200 meter race in the 2008 Olympic games] I was just completely devastated. I mean, I had worked so hard; that was my opportunity. And she was just able to turn it around for me. She helped me to be able to see the other side of things and that this is not the end for me. She's just an amazing supporter and an encouraging person and she has a unique ability to do that. And so those are the kind of things she said to me in that moment and over the next four years. When things get tough, she's always been my strength.

  Allyson Felix

  Mom, Unique, Years

  "Exclusive: Allyson Felix, The Best to Ever Do It". Interview with Sylvia Snowden, www.ebony.com. September 13, 2016.

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• My mom didn't adhere to any of those typical rules. She woke us up for school every morning, and was there at dinner or would call at bedtime. She never left for longer than a week. She recorded while we were sleeping.

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Mom, Morning, School

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I never heard my mom say, "Not now, I'm busy." But I did have extraordinary experiences that I'm very aware were extraordinary. I mean, I traveled Europe before I was 12 years old, had been to the White House numerous times. Andy Warhol photographed me; Michael Jackson called our house.

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Mom, Mean, Years

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• My mom would leave her job, and there would be throngs of people screaming and banging on our car. I come from a very private family, but I was born into a public family.

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Mom, Jobs, People

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• My mom helped me. I was very shy growing up, but my shyness sort of manifested in a big personality.

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Mom, Growing Up, Personality

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I watched the video [ with my first commercial] when I was 20, and in the video, there are two families. The first family is this smiling blond Partridge family, a Californian/Aryan kind of thing, all playing guitars, all singing together and harmonizing. And then, there's my family - and in my family, it starts with my mom saying that she feels like a drill sergeant sometimes, and she's yelling at one of my brothers to stop hitting another one of my brothers. It's just like, "Great, we're that family." It felt a little Simpsons versus Flanders.

  Mara Wilson

  Mom, Brother, Yelling

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I never fit in with my peer group. I never hung out with kids my age - I always wanted to hang out with my mom and her girlfriends.

  Jessica Alba

  Mom, Girlfriend, Kids

  "Hollywood Honey". www.cosmopolitan.com. October 26, 2005.

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• I think people couldn't really put me in [one race]. I wasn't Mexican, I wasn't white, I wasn't black, I wasn't Asian... I wasn't anything, and I didn't really fit into anybody's group. My dad is Mexican, and my mom is French and Danish.

  Jessica Alba

  Mom, Dad, Thinking

  "Hollywood Honey". Cosmopolitan Interview, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 26, 2005.

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• My mom is American, so I was raised in her household in my formative years.

  Nipsey Hussle

  Mom, Years, Raised

  "Interview: Nipsey Hussle Talks African Roots, Snoop Dogg Co-Sign, and Rappers Reppin' Gangs". Interview with Toshitaka Kondo, www.complex.com. April 1, 2010.

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• My mom started understanding how many people take advantage of a child, so she hired smart people to protect me in that way. I'm happy that when I was younger, people protected me and put me in a position where I can now control my music.

  Miley Cyrus

  Mom, Children, Smart

  Interview with Amanda Fitzsimons, www.elle.com. September 27, 2016.

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• Being a kid, by the time I was three years old, my mom was married, divorced and had three kids; she was 19 - so, my brother's just older than my mom.

  Diamond Dallas Page

  Mom, Brother, Kids

  Source: screenanarchy.com

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• My mom moved up north to make more money to support the family, and I was left with my dad and I was just bounced around from one family to another.

  Diamond Dallas Page

  Mom, Dad, Up North

  Source: screenanarchy.com

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• It's so funny - my mom when I am dating someone new, all she will get is the name, first and last, and within an hour, I will get an entire life report of the person.

  Nico Tortorella

  Mom, Names, Dating Someone

  "Younger Stars Sutton Foster and Nico Tortorella Answer All Your Relationship Questions". www.cosmopolitan.com. September 28, 2016.

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