3 December 2020 Regina King I learned a lot from my Mom. My favorite lesson: remember there is no such thing as a certain way to parent and to remember that you are learning along with your child – it’s ok to make mistakes.
3 December 2020 Amanda Beard I always tell people, I’m a better swimmer because I’m a mom and a better mom because I’m swimmer.
3 December 2020 Chris Christie And the greatest lesson that mom ever taught me though was this one. She told me there would be times in your life when you have to choose between being loved and being respected. Now she said to always pick being respected.
3 December 2020 Sara Blakely When I was 7, I came up with the idea of ‘charm socks.’ My mom would take me to buy bags of plastic charms, we would sew them on frilly white socks, and I sold them at school.
3 December 2020 Andy Wachowski We’ve always loved going to the movies. Our mom and dad are big movie fans. They’d take us on these movie orgys where we’d see sometimes three movies in a day.
3 December 2020 Larry Elder My mom and my dad were married 56 years, and the fact that I reconciled with my dad I think made their marriage a little bit better as well.
3 December 2020 Schuyler Fisk Part of the reason that I moved to Los Angeles is that even though my mom introduced me to all kinds of music, I really wanted to work on having my own identify, on being who I am and doing what I do, and seeing how people responded.
3 December 2020 Ally Condie I had really great parents who always gave me lots of opportunity for choice, but I didn’t always realize how rare that was for a girl for them to say, ‘You can be a mom or have a career or do both or do something we haven’t thought of yet.’
3 December 2020 Emeril Lagasse I started cooking when I was about 10. I have memories like when I was 6 or 7 with my mom, and when I was 12 I started getting real serious about cooking.
3 December 2020 Joe Barton Now, if you’re Al Gore, you can afford $10 a pop for squiggly-pig-tailed fluorescent light bulbs. But if you’re mainstream America, two or three kids, mom and dad working outside the home, that’s not a very good deal.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Yul Vazquez When I was a child it was very clear what I was allowed to see and what I was not allowed to see and there was no discussion or option or negotiation. Whatever my mom said, that’s what went down.
3 December 2020 Isabelle Huppert My mom’s a Catholic, and my dad’s a Jew, and they didn’t want anything to do with anything.
3 December 2020 Frank Ocean We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor – got her master’s with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.
3 December 2020 Ethel Waters We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can.
3 December 2020 Amy Sedaris My mom used to say that Greek Easter was later because then you get stuff cheaper.
3 December 2020 Gary Allan Country was about character. Country’s changed because of monsters like Clear Channel who bought up all the stations and sliced them up into formats. Our demographic is now the soccer mom.
3 December 2020 Lance Armstrong My mom was such a strong character. I don’t want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Santigold My mom’s collard greens. No one else in the world can make them like hers. I’m not just saying that because she’s my mom. She’s got some Mississippi secret. I could seriously eat them every day.
3 December 2020 Emmy Rossum I’ve never had my brows done – I tweeze them myself. I used to watch my mom pluck her brows, that’s how I learned.
3 December 2020 Paul Ryan A Romney-Ryan administration will protect and strengthen Medicare, for my Mom’s generation, for my generation, and for my kids and yours.
3 December 2020 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.’
3 December 2020 Cathy Guisewite Mothers send strips to daughters to make a point. Daughters smack strips down on the breakfast table to make a point. My own mom sometimes cuts a strip out and sends it to me to make sure I understand her.
3 December 2020 Stuart Appleby I didn’t really get into golf until I was about 14. My mom and dad were taking lessons from a pro an hour and a half from our farm in Cohuna, Australia. When they got home, I’d ask my mom to explain everything they learned – drills and all.
3 December 2020 Arianna Huffington Trying to be Supermom is as futile as trying to be Perfect Mom. Not going to happen.
3 December 2020 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.
