“My friends and I would get up early and take our horses through the national forest. My mom was very free. It was always 'Out of the house!' There was no watching television on weekends.”
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“I grew up with just my mom. She and I were like best friends. She's a very independent woman and I admire that about her. In my life, I've tried to be like that. To be okay with being on my own and being independent.”
“You don't realize how hard it is to live on your own. But there's no mom to do your laundry, and make you dinner and to do things for you, and you don't think about little things like buying paper towels and salt.”
“I lived with my mom in a really small apartment. My bedroom was like in the living room. That's why I still love to sleep on couches now.”
“My mom is definitely my rock.”
“My mom always said, 'Don't date a guy who thinks he's prettier than you.'”
“My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.”
“We've all seen the mom who devotes all her time and attention to her child and is so hungry for adult interaction that as soon as she's around another adult, she's not paying attention anymore.”
“Grades were important in our house. I was reading by two. My mom would sit there and read with me, read with me, read with me. It was wonderful.”
“Ever since I was a little kid, I've felt comfortable in a suit. It all started when my mom bought me a three-piece Pierre Cardin suit. I wore that thing everywhere. Eventually I realized I was going to be the kid who got beat up in school, but I kept wearing it.”
“I spend my afternoons painting and working on my Open Hearts jewelry line for Kay Jewelers. I designed an image of a heart that isn't completely closed. My mom always told me to live with an open heart - when life gets tough, you should go out and help someone else.”
“What does good in bed mean to me? When I'm sick and I stay home from school propped up with lots of pillows watching TV and my mom brings me soup - that's good in bed.”
“My mom passed away a day before high school started, and her dream was for me to be a full rock and roll guy, and play drums in a band.”
“My mom listened to the Beatles and Elvis, a lot of different types of music.”
“My mom died when I was 16. I had a rough childhood, you know what I mean, but it made me strong.”
“My mom was scared of the old Times Square so I was never allowed to go. Now I'm scared of the new Times Square, so I still never go.”
“I'm an immigrant kid who came to America from India when I was very young and grew up in New York City with a single mom and really was influenced by all of those immigrant cultures bumping up against each other.”
“I never Tweet about my daughter. Never. I just want to be respectful of her privacy. My job as a mom is to know when to open my mouth and when not to.”
“I think I'm a really hands-on mom.”
“When I was a new mom, I used to think that life was going to be balanced, and I strived for that. But life is crazy!”
“My mom was a ventriloquist and she always was throwing her voice. For ten years I thought the dog was telling me to kill my father.”
“My mom passed away at 41 from diabetes. And I'm 42, thank you. I didn't want to do that to my son. So any time I was at the gym, that thing that helped me do that last squat was my son calling some other woman mommy. And that would just give me that extra oomph to do that last squat. I want to be around for him.”
“I don't spend a lot of time online. My mother's really good at picking out if she sees a really great review, and she'll forward it to me. She's like my little Internet filter. It's always nice to see something going up if I want to find something on Nathan Fillion, I do know where to look, but I've got a nice little delivery system in my mom.”
“I like to write and draw and paint, and my mom's an artist, so I think I get caught up in thinking, 'I'm afraid it's gonna be bad,' and it's hard for me to start sometimes.”