1,809 Quotes About Mom

So I went home and I told my mom that I wanted to quit and be an actress and she said, "Huh, that sounds fascinating. It's wonderful!" [laughs] And I told my father and he literally said, "I don't care if you want to be an elephant trainer if it makes you happy."

[Motherhood is] the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It's huge and scary-it's an act of infinite optimism.

It's always been a dream of mine to get somewhere and to have my mom and dad with me up there.

I was born and raised in the high desert of Nevada in a tiny town called Searchlight. My dad was a hard rock miner. My mom took in wash. I grew up around people of strong values - even if they rarely talked about them.

Working moms, stay at home moms, they're both extremely hard jobs.

Mom was a housewife; Dad was an accountant. They taught me a lot about the value of working hard.

He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark.

I had said to some pastor that I was having thoughts, and the church turned on me. They went to my mom and said, So sorry about your son.

I was dating a transvestite, and my mother said, 'Marry him. You'll double your wardrobe.'