3 December 2020 Erma Bombeck Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.
3 December 2020 Carmen Electra My mom was a seamstress, and I wish I’d learned to sew because I’m obsessed with ‘Project Runway!’
3 December 2020 Karen Hughes 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.
3 December 2020 Ethel Waters Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.
3 December 2020 Alexander Wang My mom would take me to restaurants, and the first thing I’d ask for would be a pen and a napkin, and I’d sketch shoes and shoes and shoes.
3 December 2020 Rodney King I’m a religious person. I remember my mom told me: ‘Vengeance belongs to God. It’s up to him to wreak vengeance.’ It’s hard for me to get to that point, but that’s the work of God.
3 December 2020 Ruben Studdard I grew up in the ’80s, and there was no bigger group than New Edition in R&B. I broke my piggy bank so me and my mom could go to a New Edition concert together.
3 December 2020 Adam Sandler I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing ‘Maria’ from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring, I hang up.
3 December 2020 David Duchovny I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do.
3 December 2020 Ryan Lochte No matter what, like, I couldn’t – I could break a world record, get an Olympic gold medal, and my mom would be, like, you could have done better. But you looked pretty. That’s what she says all the time.
3 December 2020 Gwen Stefani I was thinking that when I have children, that I should always dress as a character for them, so they think their mom is Alice in Wonderland or Cinderella. It would be totally messed up!
3 December 2020 LeBron James Being the only man in the household with my mom definitely helped me grow up fast.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 LeBron James My mom and I have always been there for each other. We had some tough times, but she was always there for me.
3 December 2020 Ed Bradley My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
3 December 2020 Alice Walker How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
3 December 2020 Cathy Guisewite Imagine my surprise when, after a lifetime of teaching me to keep personal things to myself, Mom insisted my drawings were the start of a comic strip for millions of people to enjoy.
3 December 2020 Kendrick Lamar My mom’s one of 13 siblings, and they all got six kids, and till I was 13 everybody was in Compton.
3 December 2020 Brandon Boyd My parents are wonderful, and I’m really lucky – but my mom has always been almost exclusively a right-brained person.
3 December 2020 Chrissie Hynde I’m not a figurehead for anything. I was a single mom with two kids. What else was I going to do? It was either be in a band or be a waitress.
3 December 2020 Marla Sokoloff An agent saw one of the plays I did at ACT, but my mom was like, No, she’s too young. I became so annoying that a year and a half later she just couldn’t stand hearing me any more!
3 December 2020 Candace Cameron Bure I’m so happy and thankful I made it a point be a stay-at-home mom.
