“Mom claimed that I could carry a tune at 2 or 3 years of age. Maybe she was a little prejudiced.”
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“Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity, but from their point of view, show business was no way to make a living.”
“I'm so proud to represent the people of South Florida. I was so honored when President Obama asked me to serve as chair of the Democratic Party. But there's one job I'm even more proud of, and that's being a mom to my three kids, Rebecca, Jake and Shelby.”
“My mom was a seamstress, and I wish I'd learned to sew because I'm obsessed with 'Project Runway!'”
“If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also.”
“I want to be a fun mom. Not a gasping for air mom.”
“I could never have pictured myself writing a book when I was 25 years old. My mom was an English teacher but I wasn't that way growing up.”
“My mom obviously had a problem.”
“It's been very hard, after being mostly a mom, to develop an adult life of my own. And not being married anymore, I have to come up with challenges.”
“I grew up painting and playing piano so when I was a little kid I thought I was going to be an artist or a painter but my mom had me taking piano lessons for about 10-12 years as a young kid.”
“I've never had siblings, I didn't grow up in a big family it was just me and my single mom. And hectic family dysfunction was actually something that I craved.”
“I look at my father. He is one of my heroes. He is such an incredible, classy man. He was such a great father and such a great husband in so many ways, and we lived through some pretty tough times losing my mom. When I see all that he did, I think, 'Wow, that's a really wonderful man.'”
“AIDS can destroy a family if you let it, but luckily for my sister and me, Mom taught us to keep going. Don't give up, be proud of who you are, and never feel sorry for yourself.”
“My parents are wonderful, and I'm really lucky - but my mom has always been almost exclusively a right-brained person.”
“I shoplifted. I was about five years old, and I took a candy from a store. We paid for three of them, but I took four, and I went home and cried. My mom took me back, and I paid for the missing piece.”
“I had to take my makeup off at work every night. I wasn't allowed to do it at home because my mom said that when your work day is done, you're done with work.”
“When you think of couponing, you picture a mom cutting coupons out of the back of the newspaper.”
“It's fun to play mom. Last I knew I was playing a 17-year-old who graduated.”
“I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, 'No, you just have anxiety.'”
“All of us kids ended up 'doing Mom.' There are four of us who've tried show business. Five if you insist on counting my sister the nun, who does liturgical dance.”
“It was my mom and I against the world. We lived in New York in this bohemian lifestyle where an extended group of artists and photographers were like my aunts and uncles.”
“Country was about character. Country's changed because of monsters like Clear Channel who bought up all the stations and sliced them up into formats. Our demographic is now the soccer mom.”
“I think a good mom is an awake mom. At least for me, I've always been a kinder, better person awake than sleep-deprived!”
“My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life.”