Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michelle Obama

As a mom, I know it is my responsibility, and no one else's, to raise my kids. But we have to ask ourselves, what does it mean when so many parents are finding their best efforts undermined by an avalanche of advertisements aimed at our kids.

Michelle Obama

You can be a good mom and still work out, get your rest, have a career - or not. My mother encouraged me to find that balance.

Michelle Obama

We're our kids' first and best role models. So the first question is, what are you as a mom or a dad doing every day, or every week, to start getting into the good habits?

Michael Patrick King

My mom would be leaving the house and she'd say, 'Don't you pull out all of the old dresses in the attic and put on a show again!' And the door would close, and that's exactly what I'd do. The show was calling me!

Michael Pena

You can have a kid and just be off at work all the time, and it's all mom. But, I spent a lot of time with him, so now, every time I see him, he's like, "Dada!"

Michael Phelps

I grew up around the pool with my sisters. Both of my sisters swam. I was always there. So I thought, why not? My mom put us in the water for water safety, so we were comfortable in the water in case anything ever happened. I learned that way, and started liking it more and more.

Michael Phelps

Even in high school, I'd tell my mom I was sick of swimming and wanted to try to play golf. She wasn't too happy. She'd say, 'Think about this.' And I'd always end up getting back in the pool.

Michael Phelps

My mom put me and my sisters in the water to feel comfortable, to have water safety.

Michael Pollan

Culture, when it comes to food, is of course a fancy word for your mom.

Sidney Poitier

I learned to hear silence. That's the kind of life I lived: simple. I learned to see things in people around me, in my mom, dad, brothers and sisters.

Sidney Poitier

I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.

Shonda Rhimes

I was 4 and dictating stories into a tape recorder, and my mom typed them up.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Imagine a life-form whose brainpower is to ours as ours is to a chimpanzee’s. To such a species, our highest mental achievements would be trivial. Their toddlers, instead of learning their ABCs on Sesame Street, would learn multivariable calculus on Boolean Boulevard. Our most complex theorems, our deepest philosophies, the cherished works of our most creative artists, would be projects their schoolkids bring home for Mom and Dad to display on the refrigerator door.

John Wesley

My mother was the source from which I derived the guiding principles of my life.

John Waters

At the premiere of Hairspray on Broadway, Harvey Fierstein's mom said to my mom, "Didn't we raise great sons?" and my mother just started sobbing, because I'm sure they'd both been through other nights when people didn't say that.

John Rosemond

Today's mom watches her every child-rearing step lest she commit some egregious and apocalyptic parenting faux pas that will certainly doom her child to a life spent sleeping under overpasses, or worse, not going to Harvard.

John Slattery

My mom used to wear the fragrance Poison when I was younger, and I remember that scent and the purple bottle. That was my first [perfume] memory.

Mark Teixeira

My dad and all my family were into baseball. His brothers, my mom's brothers, my mom's father. Baseball was just always a part of our family.

Nancy Friday

Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.

Seth Rogen

My mom drives me crazy sometimes, but I have a good relationship with her.

Sebastian Faulks

I never for a moment considered killing myself, because it wouldn't have achieved anything.

Scott Speedman

I had dropped out of theater school after six months and was just staying on my mom's couch at home in Toronto.

Scott Speedman

I didn't really know what I wanted to do, and then I got this call from a casting director in Los Angeles. She remembered me from something years before, and she called my mom wanting me to audition for this thing.

Scott Haze

The Sherry Theater, which I named after my mom, is a place I can go. I do want to give back to the community. There are so many people out there who want to be seen and heard, and get connected.

Seth Godin

It always feels too soon to leap. But you have to. Because that's the moment between you and remarkable.

Ray Charles

My mom taught me a lot. A lot about minding your own business and leaving other people's business alone. And let them think what they want.

Ray Charles

Do it right or don't do it at all. That comes from my mom. If there's something I want to do, I'm one of those people that won't be satisfied until I get it done. If I'm trying to sing something and I can't get it, I'm going to keep at it until I get where I want it.

Tom Hiddleston

I believe in the strength and intelligence and sensitivity of women. My mother, my sisters [they] are strong. My mum is a strong woman and I love her for it.

Tom Cruise

But my friends are happy for me. The people who know me are happy. My mom is happy. My family is happy.

Tom Cruise

I have cooked turkeys in my day but when Mom`s around I let her do it.

Todd Phillips

I grew up raised by my mom and my two sisters, so I never had a real male influence in my life. I never really understood heterosexual male relationships.

Soleil Moon Frye

I wanted to be an astronaut and wanted to go to space camp, but then I found out that I was too short to become an astronaut. My mom really made me believe that if I worked hard enough and if I really wanted to do it, I could do it.

Soleil Moon Frye

My mom always made sure I lived my life as a regular kid.