Famous Quotes & Sayings

Britney Spears

My mom said giving birth was the most excruciating thing she's ever gone through in her life. So...if [a cesarean] doesn't happen, I'll be like, `'pidural, please!' Hopefully my athletic abilities will take over.

Britney Spears

Oh, I've wept. Yeah, I've definitely wept just with the world, you know, how judgmental they are. You know what, I know I'm a good mom.

Brian Grazer

"No" is just a moment in time.

Brett Ratner

My mom had me when she was 16, and I was an only child, which is probably why I received a lot of love and didn't miss that my father wasn't around.

Brett Ratner

Miami Beach - that's where I grew up, in a middle-class Jewish family led by my maternal grandfather. Me, my great-grandmother - a Holocaust survivor, who was my roommate - my grandparents, my mom and her brother all shared a four-bedroom house.

Argus Hamilton

Barclays Bank in England purchased bankrupt Lehman Brothers Tuesday along with its Manhattan tower, saving nine thousand jobs. It's humiliating. The United States of America is 232 years old and we're having to go to mom for money.

Barbara Mandrell

I am loving being Momma. I really, really am.

Barbara Kingsolver

Mom is losing, no doubt, because our vegetables have come to lack two features of interest: nutrition and flavor. Storage and transport take predictable tolls on the volatile plant compounds that subtly add up to taste and food value. Breeding to increase shelf life also has tended to decrease palatability. Bizarre as it seems, we've accepted a tradeoff that amounts to: "Give me every vegetable in every season, even if it tastes like a cardboard picture of its former self."

Bailee Madison

I honestly don't even know how I got into acting. It happened so quickly because my mom and sister used to do commercials, and apparently when I was little I would unbuckle myself from the stroller and crash their auditions.

Bailey Chase

I was growing up with a single mom who'd be at work when I came home from school. So I'd just turn on the TV. I grew up watching old Clint Eastwood westerns. I adopted him as one of my male role models.

Ashthon Jones

I want to buy my mom a house; I want my family to never have to worry about anything. And I just want to have an amazing career in music, because I love to do it.

Ashley Scott

Everyone checks out my mom. My mom's hot.

Ashton Eaton

When I see my mom in the stands, it always pushes me to succeed.

Charlize Theron

There are these moments when you can't back down.

She was protecting my 4-year-old son that was in the house. How do you tell a 4-year-old (that) he is not going to see his mom for a while?

She's here now. The big thing is the time is now and the moment is now and we're all here. We have to play for that. There's no sense in thinking about the future.

Dick Vitale

My childhood was epitomized by my parents who were uneducated but had a doctorate in love. My dad pressed coats and through my mom and dad I learned about love, family and respecting people. They never went to high school but they had within them every element that makes a great American. They had pride and a great work ethic and they knew how to do things the right way.

Dick Vitale

When I was growing up, I wanted to be a coach. I had people telling me you can't do this, you're not a great player. Be realistic. When I got rejection letters from colleges where I wanted to coach, my mom would say, "You are going to make it someday. You have something special within you and that is your spirit for life which will help you get to the top."

Dennis Wilson

My mom had to beg the guys to let me play. I couldn't even play the drums right - Brian had to show me.

Dennis Quaid

You go to Main Street, and Wal-Mart is coming to town and kicking out all the mom and pop stores. All the people that were in the mom and pop stores are now working for Wal-Mart.

Debra Messing

I'm a mom, and I'm always looking for ways to encourage, support, and embolden my son to help make him believe in himself.

Debra Messing

It's the job that I take most seriously in my life and I think it's the hardest job.

Dikembe Mutombo

My heroes always are mostly my parents - my father especially, and my mom, who's passed on already. My dad is a very strong man, and by him being educated, and a principal and school superintendent over 37 years, he plays such a big role in my life.

Dikembe Mutombo

When I was born, my dad and my mom gave me names, but in Africa, when your child is born, especially close family members can suggest names they want to add on.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Furnish an example, stop preaching, stop shielding, don't prevent self-reliance and initiative, allow your children to develop along thier own lines.

Eileen collins

My daughter just thinks that all moms fly the Space Shuttle

Edward Abbey

Every moment is precious. And precarious.

Aubrey Plaza

I like my name. My mom named me after a song by the 1970s group Bread. So, it's meaningful, and I like the song. It's a love song - kind of - but it's kind of depressing and dark.

Aubrey Plaza

My mom's Puerto Rican. That's why I'm so lively and colorful.

Shemar Moore

I know that on my own sites, a picture of me with my mom or me with my dog does well, but when I put up a picture of myself shirtless, it does get a little crazy.

Alexandre Dumas

How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.

Saina Nehwal

At nine, my mom used to tell me she saw an Olympic medalist in me. I used to take it as a joke, but she was very serious.

David S. Goyer

Ever since I was a little kid, I told my mom that I want to go to Hollywood and make a 'Batman' movie.