My Mom Quotes - Page 24

• My mom and dad passed away from cancer. Within nine months, I lost both of my folks. Immediately after that, I had a horrible betrayal where my brother, who worked for me, stole a lot of my money. He's in jail now.

  Dane Cook

  Mom, Brother, Betrayal

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

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• My nickname for my mom was 'The Compass.'

  Dane Cook

  Mom, Nicknames, Compass

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

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• My humanitarian work evolved from being with my family. My mom, my dad, they really set a great example for giving back. My mom was a nurse, my dad was a school teacher. But my mom did a lot of things for geriatrics and elderly people. She would do home visits for free.

  Cat Cora

  Mom, Teacher, Dad

  "Chef Cat Cora says "Bon Appetit" at Sundance". Interview with Jane Clark, www.reuters.com. January 20, 2009.

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• Every single thing I learned about marketing and building my business, I learned from my mom, and she had never been in the workforce. She just had great practical sense.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Mom, Marketing, Building

  FaceBook post by Barbara Corcoran from Jan 27, 2014

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• My mom is always telling me it takes a long time to get to the top, but a short time to get to the bottom.

  Miley Cyrus

  Mom, Mother, Long

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• I told my mom, 'I'm not buying another magazine until I can get past this thought of looking like the girl on the cover'. She said, "Miley, you are the girl on the cover,' and I was, like, 'I know, but I don't feel like that girl every day.' You can't always feel perfect.

  Miley Cyrus

  Girl, Mom, Past

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• If I could get any animal it would be a dolphin. I want one so bad. Me and my mom went swimming with dolphins and I was like, 'How do we get one of those?' and she was like, 'You can't get a dolphin. What are you gonna do, like, put it in your pool?'

  Miley Cyrus

  Mom, Swimming, Animal

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• I probably have an earlier curfew than anyone. My mom wants to keep me really safe and my dad's not overly protective, but he's a dad no matter what.

  Miley Cyrus

  Mom, Dad, Safety

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• My mom put me away at 7. I enjoyed it... Being in institutions, I got three meals a day, clothes.

  DMX

  Mom, Clothes, Meals

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• My dad was a surgeon, my mom a nurse, and they were always out working. I had five sisters and a brother. They didn't care what I got up to.

  Willem Dafoe

  Mom, Brother, Dad

  "Willem Dafoe: 'Don't make this into a crackpot profile, please'". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2013.

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• My dad is still Christian Scientist. My mom's not, and I'm not. But I believe in God, and that there's a higher power and an intelligence that's bigger than us and that we can rely on. It's not just us, thinking we are the ones in control of everything. That idea gives me support.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Christian, Mom, Dad

  "Ellen DeGeneres: Nice Girls Finish First". Interview with David Hochman, www.goodhousekeeping.com. September 10, 2011.

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• I wanted to be a child actor so bad that every day I'd beg my parents if I could audition, but my mom said, 'Not until you can drive yourself to auditions.'

  Zooey Deschanel

  Mom, Children, Parent

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• My nursery school did a production of 'The Three Little Pigs.' I played the third pig. When the wolf knocked on my door, I refused to get up and answer it because, to me, he was knocking the wrong way. I just lay there, snoring away on stage, fully immersed in my character. My dad turned to my mom and said: 'Dustin Hoffman.'

  Zooey Deschanel

  Mom, Dad, Funny Motivational

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• My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World War II.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Mom, War, Grandmother

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• You do need parental guidance and I was in a great position with both my mum and dad. They split when I was a baby but even though I stayed with my mom they were both very much involved in my upbringing.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Mom, Baby, Dad

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• 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

  Mom, Support, Parent

  "Ani DiFranco, Then and Now". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. December 13, 2010.

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• My mom used to say that I became a fighter and a scrapper and a tough guy to protect who I am at my core.

  Vin Diesel

  Mom, Who I Am, Guy

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• When I moved out of my mom's house at 18 I was almost as sad to leave her sewing machine behind as anything else.

  Beth Ditto

  Mom, House, Machines

  "What would Beth Ditto do?" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2007.

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• I was given baby doll toys myself, and they proved a stark reminder that my life was expected to revolve around childbearing - just as my mom's had before me, and her mom's had before her.

  Beth Ditto

  Mom, Baby, Dolls

  "I'm 30 and feel under huge pressure to have kids. What should I do?" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2007.

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• My mom always says, 'If you don't believe in something, you'll lose yourself completely.'

  Hilary Duff

  Mom, Life Lesson, Believe

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• I love my mom. I totally look up to her, and she just doesn't let anybody take advantage of me. People might call that a stage mom.

  Hilary Duff

  Mom, People, Looks

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

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• I'm ridiculous in my oversharing; my mom and sister are very open but a little more judicious than me... and my father is a decidedly private person.

  Lena Dunham

  Mom, Father, Littles

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• A lot of moms give their kids line reads. My mom wasn't put in that position because I always had an acting teacher helping with the feelings rather than how to say something.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Mom, Teacher, Kids

  "Kirsten Dunst Relies on Intuition and Years of Experience to Serve the Role". Interview with Jessica Gardner, www.backstage.com. November 2, 2011.

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• These days it's cool to be ethnic and to be different, but when I was a kid, it was not cool - at all. My friends would come over and my mom would make crepes with eggs, stuffed with mozzarella cheese, tomatoes and spinach. And they'd be like, 'What is this?'

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Mom, Kids, Eggs

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• My mom was a seamstress, and I wish I'd learned to sew because I'm obsessed with 'Project Runway!'

  Carmen Electra

  Mom, Wish, Obsessed

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