Mom Quotes - Page 27

• I was actually the one who decided to move to LA. Mom and I were driving on Sunset Boulevard during one of our trips back to see her family, and I said, 'Can we just stay?' So we did.

  Lily Collins

  Moving, Sunset, Driving

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• We became a congresswoman, a stay-at-home mom, a filmmaker, and a journalist. And Lino and I taught our children that they could rise to even greater heights. They could become surgeons, CEOs, supreme court justices, secretary of state, and even president of the United States. We didn't teach our daughters that they were second-class citizens.

  Diana DeGette

  Daughter, Badass, Children

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• 'A mother must put on her oxygen mask first, in order to be able to help her children' - I see this instruction on airplanes as an appropriate metaphor for feminist mothering. Mothers, empowered, are able to better care for and protect their children

  Andrea O'Reilly

  Mother, Children, Airplane

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• Remember that a single mom is just like any other mom and that our number one priority is till our kids. Any parent does whatever it takes for their kids and a single mother is no different.

  Paula Miranda

  Mother, Kids, Numbers

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• My two Jamaican cousins ... were studying engineering. 'That's where the money is,' Mom advised. ... I was to be an engineering major, despite my allergy to science and math. ... Those who preceded me at CCNY include the polio vaccine discoverer, Dr. Jonas Salk ... and eight Nobel Prize winners. ... In class, I stumbled through math, fumbled through physics, and did reasonably well in, and even enjoyed, geology. All I ever looked forward to was ROTC.
  Autobiographical comments on his original reason for going to the City College of New York, where he shortly turned to his military career.

  Colin Powell

  Cousin, New York, Military

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• I thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up to Melissa and said, 'It's such an honor playing your daughter,' and she smiled and said, 'Oh, shut up.' I thought, 'Great, a normal person.'

  Kara Lindsay

  Daughter, Mother, Honor

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• I'm really thrilled to kind of be a role models for my daughters, and showing them the passion about what I do, and I get to go to work and I love to go to work. That's what I saw my mom doing my whole life.

  Sarah Rafferty

  Daughter, Mother, Passion

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• In fact, my mom always told me because I was the daughter of an Army officer born overseas in Paris, France, that under the Constitution she believed that I could never run for president.

  Karen Hughes

  Mother, Running, Daughter

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• I was new, and it was like that movie "Mean Girls". This clique would tease me and make up rumors about me being gay. I don't even know why they did it. I came home crying one day and told my mom I couldn't be around them anymore. So we decided I would be homeschooled. I think it's important to check in with yourself and make sure you are being exactly who you want to be. When I am true to who I am, I'm a better girfriend. I'm just more happy being me.

  Hayley Williams

  Mean Girls, Home, Gay

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• Just recently I was in Target with my mom shopping, and out of the blue, I see this father and his two daughters and he says, 'Can they get a picture with you?' And I'm thinking to myself, 'Am I the one millionth customer or something?'

  Atticus Shaffer

  Daughter, Mother, Father

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• Married and divorced, three beautiful daughters, two in college. The other one is 16, lives with her mom. I'm 46, I've worked for the Post Office for 18 years, seven facilities in three states.

  Arthur Godfrey

  Beautiful, Daughter, Mother

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• On how he spent his first Hollywood paycheck "I think my first big purchase was actually for my mom. She had one of those '90s TVs in her living room that's like a 10×10 brick, so I purchased her a flatscreen for her living room.

  Dave Franco

  Thinking, Hollywood, Rooms

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• The only woman a wife should ever be jealous of is her husband's mom.

  Jason Thomas

  Mothers Day, Husband, Jealous

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• Mom's always know how to make us happy, but they also know exactly how to make us cry.

  Phil Jones

  Mothers Day, Cry, Know How

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• I grew up in a makeup chair, to see! the women around me getting ready was so aspirational, It is about mothers and daughters, a girl watching her mom at a vanity table.

  Drew Barrymore

  Mothers Day, Girl, Daughter

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• Well I was eight years old, and I have an older cousin who is three years older than me and she was doing acting, commercials, and modeling at the time and... to see my cousin doing that was really inspiring and I wanted to do it. So I went to my mom and I asked her if I could do it, and for the acting part of it, she made me study for a year.

  Hailee Steinfeld

  Cousin, Eight, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My brother Jim and I spent many wonderful summers working on dairy farms in Wisconsin owned by Mom's cousins, and as members of our local Boy Scout troop.

  Peter Agre

  Summer, Cousin, Brother

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• I'm an immigrant kid who came to America from India when I was very young and grew up in New York City with a single mom and really was influenced by all of those immigrant cultures bumping up against each other.

  Padma Lakshmi

  New York, Kids, Cities

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• My mom was scared of the old Times Square so I was never allowed to go. Now I'm scared of the new Times Square, so I still never go.

  Padma Lakshmi

  Squares, Scared, Old Time

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• Madonna is my role model shes such a powerful woman. I love Gwenyth Paltrow, shes an actress I aspire to be like. And, of course, my mom. She drove me from New Jersey to New York every day for commercials so I could get where I am today.

  Kirsten Dunst

  New York, Powerful, Role Models

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• My Mom is a ballet director, so I had this idea in me that classical training is the best foundation for anything you do, so I wanted to get a classical background and voice.

  Shuler Hensley

  Ideas, Voice, Ballet

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• There are days when I wonder why my mom couldn't be here to see this.

  Maya Rudolph

  Wonder, My Mom

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• My mom and dad just loved the fact that I fooled around. They just embraced it. They'd always kind of enjoy it, and they liked it when I made them laugh

  Dominic Monaghan

  Dad, Laughing, Facts

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• If I could be a third of the woman that my mom is and have a third of the strength that she has, then I will have done good by this life.

  Brittany Murphy

  Done, This Life, Thirds

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It’s much harder for me... I think it’s different when you have an office job, because it’s routine and, you know, you can do all the stuff in the morning and then you come home in the evening. When you’re shooting a movie, they’re like, 'We need you to go to Wisconsin for two weeks,' and then you work 14 hours a day and that part of it is very difficult. I think to have a regular job and be a mom is not as, of course there are challenges, but it’s not like being on set.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Morning, Jobs, Home

  "Gwyneth Paltrow's Post-Split Plans: Actress Reveals She's Taking a Break From Acting to Focus on Her Kids". Interview with Lily Harrison, www.eonline.com. March 26, 2014.

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