My mom and I were super tight. I think she really wanted me to be an artist, you know? She used to like to tell people she wanted to be Beethoven's mother. That was her thing. She wanted to be the mother of this person. Harry Connick, Jr.
My dad and mom believed that you do what you have to do in private and don't make a big deal out of it. Just try to help people as much as you can. Harry Connick, Jr.
My relationship with my mom is really the single most profound relationship that I've ever had in my life. Mindy Kaling
My parents are wonderful, and I'm really lucky - but my mom has always been almost exclusively a right-brained person. She goes completely on her feelings of things, on her intuition, and so she instilled that in my brothers and I. Brandon Boyd
My dad is a Deadhead, my mom's a Jewish-American princess from Jersey. Adam Lambert
Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own. Nelson Algren
My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said, 'Mom, they weren't trying to teach you how to swim.' Paula Poundstone
My mom was a waitress, and my dad was a plumber who worked for the City of San Clemente fixing mains breaks, so not too glamorous. Shaun White
I like to work. The self-esteem and satisfaction that I get from working makes me a better person, which makes me a better mom. I feel lucky because I have the luxury of working only one or two days a week. Cindy Crawford
I don't drink, and I don't smoke. It's a personal preference. My mom has never drunk or smoked. I look up to my mom. Ashley Tisdale
I pretty much borrow my entire beauty regime from my mom. Rashida Jones
I know my mom said as early as she can remember letting me watch TV, my one treat a week when I was like 6 was to stay up and watch 'Saturday Night Live.' Rashida Jones
I want to be as healthy as I can because I'm a mom now. Jessica Simpson
I have so much respect for my mom and all the women across the world. Jessica Simpson
I guess now that I think back, I used to play priest and be a funny priest. I don't know, I grew up in such a Catholic family that I kind of liked to test the boundaries a little bit and I think I had fun watching my mom laugh. Jenny McCarthy
When I was a little girl, rocking my little dolls, I remember thinking I would be the world's best mom, and so far I've done it. Jenny McCarthy
When I was in nursery school, the teachers asked me, y'know, 'What does your dad do for a living?' So I said 'He helps women get pregnant!' They called my mom and they were like, 'What exactly does your husband do?' Natalie Portman
Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house. Elizabeth Warren
I could do without 'cool' publications calling me 'mom jazz.' But I laughed all the way to the bank, baby. Norah Jones
My mom just didn't put a very high premium on me being like really famous or really wealthy or anything. Martha Plimpton