My Mom Quotes - Page 23

• My mom was a musician, and my dad had this passion for music. That's kind of how a lot of their relationship was built. When I came around, I was constantly exposed to music.

  Eldar Djangirov

  Mom, Dad, Passion

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• When I was four, I started taking lessons from my mom. That's pretty much how I started.

  Eldar Djangirov

  Mom

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• My mom was always the supplier of soccer balls, and so people were always knocking on my door, and trying to get me out so we could play.

  Freddy Adu

  Soccer, Mom, Doors

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• A friend of my mom's was a casting director so, really as kind of a lark, I had a couple of acting jobs that had just enough exposure to give me the option to continue if I wanted to. I followed through with it.

  Ben Affleck

  Mom, Jobs, Couple

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• Thankfully, I have my mom and a small group of close friends who are there for me 24/7 and whom I can trust and depend on.

  Christina Aguilera

  Mom, Mother, Groups

  "Christina Aguilera Talks Tears & Sadness Over Separation", www.huffingtonpost.com. October 21, 2010.

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• I remember watching the Grammys and looking at the performances and crying to my mom, saying how much I wanted to be there.

  Christina Aguilera

  Mom, Mother, Remember

  "Christina Aguilera Interview BURLESQUE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 16, 2010.

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• I have spoken honestly about being born into a home where there was discord and chaos. I saw my mom have a rough time with my dad being very controlling, which is why I push back whenever I feel like someone is trying to box me in. It makes me run for the hills.

  Christina Aguilera

  Mom, Running, Dad

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• My mom was a single mom, and she had enough on her plate. I knew when I was doing something I wasn't supposed to, and I tried to keep her from finding out about it. I did a pretty good job of that.

  Jason Aldean

  Mom, Jobs, Had Enough

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• I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom's family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car - it was the late sixties - and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols.

  Tori Amos

  Girl, Mom, Car

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• When I was little, my mom tells me, I used to say things like, 'Mom do you hear the string section? Do you hear the string section?' And she would look at me and say, 'No honey, I don't know what you're talking about.'

  Tori Amos

  Mom, Mother, Talking

  "Tori Amos On Her Muses, Her Song Girls And Her Father". Interview with Ann Powers, www.npr.org. October 17, 2012.

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• My memory of my mom is a wine glass in one hand and a cigarette in the other. She was a runway fashion model, and she was quite a glamorous woman.

  Loni Anderson

  Mom, Fashion, Memories

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• My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.

  Lance Armstrong

  Mom, Strong, Character

  "Oprah Talks to Lance Armstrong". www.oprah.com. July 2005.

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• Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom.

  Kevyn Aucoin

  Mom, Growing Up, Ideals

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• I've always competed in those shows. Like, I won 'Fear Factor', I did 'I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here', I did 'The Mole', 'Celebrity Apprentice' with Donald Trump. I've done a lot of those shows, all in the hope of being a blessing to my mom's organization.

  Stephen Baldwin

  Mom, Blessing, Organization

  "Stephen Baldwin on 'I'm in Love With A Church Girl,' Ja Rule and Christianity in Hollywood (CP Exclusive)". Interview with Vincent Funaro, www.christianpost.com. October 24, 2013.

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• My mom listened to the Beatles and Elvis, a lot of different types of music.

  Travis Barker

  Mom, Redneck, Different

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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

  Mom, Children, Husband

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• My mom had Julia Child and 'The Fannie Farmer Cookbook' on top of the refrigerator, and she had a small repertoire of French dishes.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Mom, Children, Refrigerators

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• My mom didn't let me play video games growing up, so now I do. Gaming gives me a chance to just let go, blow somebody up and fight somebody from another dimension. It's all escapism.

  Wayne Brady

  Mom, Letting Go, Growing Up

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• My mom wasn't a movie star.

  Jeff Bridges

  Mom, Mother, Stars

  "Piers Morgan Tonight", edition.cnn.com. August 11, 2011.

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• If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also.

  Garth Brooks

  Mom, Records, Talent

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• I was a brownie for a day. My mom made me stop. She didn't want me to conform.

  Sandra Bullock

  Mom, Mother, Want

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• I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.

  Adam Carolla

  Mom, Emotional, Connections

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• When it comes to children, my mom doesn't believe in borders. She loves all children, and that's a good example of mothering the world. I need to do that, but before I can, I need to get over my fear of kids in the first place.

  Margaret Cho

  Mom, Children, Believe

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• My youngest sister, Cindy, has Down syndrome, and I remember my mother spending hours and hours with her, teaching her to tie her shoelaces on her own, drilling multiplication tables with Cindy, practicing piano every day with her. No one expected Cindy to get a Ph.D.! But my mom wanted her to be the best she could be, within her limits.

  Amy Chua

  Mom, Mother, Teaching

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• My mom and I were super tight. I think she really wanted me to be an artist, you know? She used to like to tell people she wanted to be Beethoven's mother. That was her thing. She wanted to be the mother of this person.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Mom, Mother, Artist

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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