Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bengie Molina

My dad and my mom had to sacrifice so much, and had to teach us and show us the way of going about things, how to be humble, all those things. They helped us stay on track for what we wanted to do.

Bengie Molina

I think my mom and dad did a great job with that, because we [with brother] never had any competition in baseball. We always tried to help each other.

Ben Stiller

I'm Jewish, but my mom's Catholic, so the guilt area is covered. I have the highest expectations, along with the lowest. I tried to put as much of myself as possible in Reality Bites, but in terms of my humor, I'm still trying to figure out what my sensibility is. It's a process, really. I don't feel like I have a very clear idea of what I'm supposed to be, or even of how people perceive me, except that I got put into this Generation X file.

Benedict Cumberbatch

The generation now below me were born into a world where if you're a kid with raw talent now, you can roll in and land a lead in a Scorsese film. You don't have to have prove yourself by working up the ranks, doing the classics, and getting the canon under your belt in the way the great Sirs and Dames of mom and dad's generation - the [Ben] Kingsleys and [Helen] Mirrens and [Anthony] Hopkinses and people of that ilk.

Beau Bridges

My mom is many times responsible for getting us all together, but we trade off at each other's houses. My brother and I are actors and are traveling a lot of our job.

Audrey Hepburn

The most important job in life is being a mom.

Arne Duncan

It's fascinating to me that some of the pushback is coming from, sort of, white suburban moms who - all of a sudden - their child isn't as brilliant as they thought they were and their school isn't quite as good as they thought they were, and that's pretty scary,

Arnold Bennett

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother's love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over wastes of worldly fortunes sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star.

Edna O'Brien

In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.

Bobby Moynihan

My mom makes something called green pie, which I thought was a delicacy that many people only had at Thanksgiving, but it turns out it was just Jell-O with whipped cream on it. And it's delicious.

Bobby Heenan

I heard a rumor that your mom and dad ran away from home.

Bobby Heenan

Koko B. Ware … his mom’s first name was Tupper.

Benjamin Franklin

A ship under sail and a big-bellied woman, Are the handsomest two things that can be seen common.

Benjamin Franklin

Virtue and Happiness are Mother and Daughter.

Benjamin Franklin

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Ben Affleck

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

There is nothing worse that a thirteen-year-old boy. You're embarrassed by your parents, and you're trying to find your independance because, deep inside, you are so dependent on your mom.

Ben Affleck

My mother went to Radcliffe, and rather than just trying to get rich, she wanted to be a teacher and taught for over 30 years in the public schools. She's definitely got some war stories.

Avril Lavigne

My mom wouldn`t let me sing `Strawberry Wine` because it had `wine` in it.

Avril Lavigne

My mom made me go to a Britney Spears concert when I was young. And I was like, 'No, I don't want to!' she was like, 'You're going to be a performer, you need to see other people.'

Avril Lavigne

When I was 2 my mom said she knew I was going to be a singer. I`ve been performing ever since I was a young kid. So I`ve known I wanted to do this for awhile. I always knew in my heart that I`d be singing.

Bella Heathcote

My style icon has always been my mom. I feel like she was always sophisticated and effortless and looked really well put together without trying too hard.

Barry Switzer

The only way I’d ever recruit a white quarterback to play for me is if his mom and daddy would both have to be black, and that’s the only way I would do it.

Balthazar Getty

My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.

Bam Margera

One time my mom tried to ground me, but that lasted 15 minutes.

Austin Butler

I was always really shy. That's why being in front of cameras like this is uncomfortable. I found that when I was a kid, I would hide behind playing pretend. That's when I would come out of my shell. I would dress up as an old man or something and go out onto the street with my mom. I would come out of my shell that way. So I ended up stumbling into acting. It was the one thing that I found a passion for.

Ari Graynor

I was more of the kind of babysitter that liked holding the baby, sort of playing Mom, and then putting the baby to bed and watching TV while eating everything in their kitchen.

Arianna Huffington

There is nothing like becoming a mom to fill you with fear.

Arianna Huffington

Trying to be Supermom is as futile as trying to be Perfect Mom. Not going to happen.

Arianna Huffington

The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.

Diane Duane

Honey, have you seen your sister?” She’s on Jupiter, Mom.