Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Morello

The real estate agent had to go door-to-door in the apartment building we wanted to rent, asking if it was OK for this interracial family - my mom is white and I was a 1-year-old half-African kid - to live in the apartment building.

Tom Hardy

Being an only child, I didn't have any other family but my mom and dad really, since the rest of my family lived quite far away from London.

Tom Brands

It's like our daddies and moms always used to tell us growing up, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you earn.

Tom Brady

My mom was a great tennis player, and I remember being six or seven years old watching Steffi Graf and Monica Seles in Wimbledon in my house. I've always been a tennis fan.

A friend of ours, the wife of a pastor at a church in Colorado, had once told me about something her daughter, Hannah, said when she was three years old. After the morning service was over one Sunday, Hannah tugged on her mom's skirt and asked. "Mommy, why do some people in church have lights over their heads and some don't?" At the time, I remember thinking two things: First, I would've knelt down and asked Hannah, "Did I have a light over my head? Please say yes!" I also wondered what Hannah had seen, and whether she had seen it because, like my son, she had a childlike faith.

Tina Fey

The topic of working moms is a tap-dance recital in a minefield.

Tina Fey

I had to get back to work. NBC has me under contract. The baby and I only have a verbal agreement.

Tina Fey

Sometimes I'll be telling my husband, 'I think I'm cracking up'. Sometimes you just need a minute to say, 'I think I'm cracking' and just acknowledge it.

Tina Fey

I grew up in a family of Republicans. And when I was 18 and registering to vote, my mom's only instruction was 'You just go in and pull the big Republican lever.' That's my welcome to adulthood. She's like, 'No, don't even read it. Just pull the Republican lever.

Tina Fey

My parents raised me that you never ask people about their reproductive plans. “You don’t know their situation,” my mom would say. I considered it such an impolite question that for years I didn’t even ask myself. Thirty-five turned into forty faster than McDonald’s food turns into cold nonfood.

Tina Fey

My parents are very well-behaved. If anything, if my Mom were here right now, she would hug and kiss every one of you hello, and then she would feed you.

Tina Fey

I never get to go to movies, because I'm a mom.

Tina Fey

My mom wanted me to apply to Princeton, cause she just I guess since I was a kid had this dream that I would apply to Princeton, and it was not happening.

Tina Fey

You know who DOES have a funny bone in her body? Your Mom every night for a dollar!

Tina Fey

It is less dangerous to draw a cartoon of Allah French-kissing Uncle Sam — which, let me make it very clear, I have not done — than it is to speak honestly about [working moms].

Tichina Arnold

I didn't plan on being a single mom, but you have to deal with the cards you are dealt the best way you can.

Tia Mowry

I'm pretty busy: I'm a working mom and I know a lot about having a hectic schedule, but I think what's really important to me and what's on the top of that list is just making sure that my family stays healthy, especially during flu season.

Tia Mowry

The one advice that I would give just to moms who have a child or a newborn is definitely sleep while the baby sleeps. I've heard that so many times. I never realized how true it really is. If you don't, you'll be walking around like a zombie.

Tia Mowry

Before becoming a mom, I never knew how good I had it to just spend time at a spa for a few hours. Now, those days are far and between. So when I have an hour, it's all about the mani and pedi.

Sam Donaldson

If you sent me to cover a pie-baking contest on Mother's Day, I'm going to ask dear old Mom why she used artificial sweetener or stole the apples!

Tamera Mowry

I try so hard to be the best mom that I can be and usually I'm always thinking about how to better my son's life.

Tamera Mowry

I love being a mom. That's the best job I've ever had. All the other stuff I love the same, but being a mom trumps all of it.

Taissa Farmiga

Being in the moment is the best thing I can do.

Taissa Farmiga

I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in The Bling Ring. I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

My mom didn't run for mayor until she was 65 years old - it was like a second and third career.... The way I've always thought about it is that I don't believe you run for office because you want a job. I believe if you run for office, it's because you have a vision for change. And if I ever came to that point, that's what would lead [me to run]. And right now I'm happily in a position where I believe I can work to deliver impact and work for change.

T Bone Burnett

I naturally wanted to be saved, so when I came home I told my mom I wanted to be confirmed. That's the way I related to it, being raised an Episcopalian. I went to Dallas and got confirmed.

Rosario Dawson

I don't know my biological father. That could have had a huge impact on my life had it not been for the fact that my dad married my mom when I was one and raised me as his own.

Rumi

Every moment, the sunlight is totally empty and totally full.

Tom Lehrer

So long, Mom I'm off to drop the bomb So don't wait up for me But while you swelter Down there in your shelter You can see me On your TV

Tom Baker

It's the end--but the moment has been prepared for.

Toby Keith

My mom taught us the Serenity Prayer at a young age.

Steve Schirripa

Moms and daughters can negotiate over anything, and they can go on longer than it took to settle the Vietnam War.

Steve Harvey

My mother was a Sunday school teacher. So I am a byproduct of prayer. My mom just kept on praying for her son.