I told my mom, 'I'm gonna buy you a house one day.' I was 2 or 3 years old. I know it sounds crazy, but I did.
— Saquon Barkley
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.
— Santigold
I was a brownie for a day. My mom made me stop. She didn't want me to conform.
— Sandra Bullock
Growing up, I was aware of the kids-don't-like-vegetables trope, but it didn't make much sense to me. I never had any choice; all the traditional Iranian dishes my mom cooked teemed with herbs and vegetables.
— Samin Nosrat
When I was young, one Sunday every month or so, my mom would load my brothers and me into our station wagon and drive 80 miles north to Orange County, where we'd meet our extended family at a Persian restaurant for lunch.
Ray Bradbury published his first story 29 years before I was born. He established himself as an international writer long before I arrived. When my mom was nine months pregnant with me, my father read Bradbury aloud to her as I listened intently, in utero. And I later became his biographer.
— Sam Weller
My mom is from Ghana, and my dad is from the States, so even in my family when I was growing up, my mom said I was the American one, and my dad said I was the weird African one.
— Sam Richardson
Microchimeric sharing means that, even if the mother loses a child, she'll have a small memento of him or her secreted away inside her. Similarly, a bit of our mothers live on in all of us no matter how long ago Mom died.
— Sam Kean
At nine, my mom used to tell me she saw an Olympic medalist in me. I used to take it as a joke, but she was very serious.
— Saina Nehwal
I would write scripts and little plays and perform them in the living room for my family when I was little with my brother until my mom said, 'Alright, you need to go do it somewhere else other than the house.'
— Sadie Sink
My mom gave me the children stories of the Bible. I memorized that book at the age of nine.
— Rza
Financial hardships were rough on us, even though Mom had a good job at G.M.
— Ryan White
In 1984, my mom gave birth to my older sister, Teresa. Due to a complicated delivery, she needed a blood transfusion, and at that moment, my mom had HIV+ blood put into her body.
— Ryan Lewis
I love all my fam. I have quite possibly the best dad, mom, and sister in the world.
— Ryan Eggold
My mom had me when she was 25, and I'm 28 now, and just to even imagine myself three years ago starting to have children and be married and have my career, it's pretty trippy, and I'm so proud and kind of in awe of her.
— Rumer Willis
Being a mother is hard and it wasn't a subject I ever studied.
— Ruby Wax
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.
— Ruben Studdard
I love how my mom loves everyone unconditionally.
— Saqib Saleem
I'm simply the mom who makes the lunch, drives to school, finds where the toys are, washes the clothes, and I'm here to play. And that's all I should be.
My dad is a director/producer and my mom is a dancer; she performed with Alvin Ailey, but I didn't even think about becoming an actress.
— Sanaa Lathan
At home, Mom served us turkey breakfast links that she got at the health-food store. But whenever we went out for breakfast, she let my brothers and me order pork sausages (though, inexplicably, not bacon).
My mom, who left Iran in 1976, steeped us in the smells, tastes, and traditions of Persian cuisine.
My parents were Beatle fans, but my mom was especially a Lennon fan, so I was exposed to him more. I remember her playing 'Double Fantasy' quite often.
— Sam Taylor-Johnson
I'm really the only artist in my family. I have one cousin who is a painter. I think I developed all of that from television and books - from being, essentially, an only child. I'm my mom's only child and my dad's fourth child, but separated by 14 years.
There are so many slices to the African-American experience. I mean, I have the whole ghetto pedigree. My mom was in jail, I didn't have any money, and I didn't go to a fancy college. But that's not the type of story I want to tell or feel the need to tell on film.
— Salim Akil
Not everybody has their first kiss in front of 200 extras and their mom.
My friend had told me about 'Stranger Things' and how I had to watch it. I was like, 'OK, I will!' I binged it in, like, a day and was like, 'Oh my gosh, Mom, you need to watch this show. Everyone needs to watch this.' A week later, I got the breakdown for Max. A month later, I got the part.
My mom was at every single game I played as a kid, rain or shine.
— Ryne Sandberg
I have a really big family, and pretty much all my work is about my brothers and sisters. I'm the youngest of eight - my mom had seven kids in seven years, and then she had me 11 years later - so I was basically raised by all these teenagers.
— Ryan McGinley
I'm Mexican-American. My dad was actually born in Mexico. He was raised up there, and he came back and forth to America pretty much his whole teenage years. My mom is from Sacramento, California, and she's a blonde-haired, blue-eyed girl. She's a whitey.
— Ryan Guzman
Growing up, it was just me and my mom, so we would play games where we'd listen to the radio and sing harmonies to each other.
— Ruthie Ann Miles
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
— Rudyard Kipling
I have to keep reminding myself that I am their mother. Sometimes we are sitting at home and I feel like we are waiting for our mom to come home.
I want to make sure I continue to make good music that my mom and everybody around me can be proud of.
It's really hard juggling, trying to carve out a time to have a family and be a mom and have a career, especially a creative career.
I basically became a cheerleader because I had a very strict mom. That was my way of being a bad girl.
I was born in 1974, so I grew up listening to what was on the radio - my mom's car sounded like Fleetwood Mac, because that was what was on the radio.
— Samuel Ervin Beam
After coating pasta with tomato-rich meat sauce, my mom would drizzle the bottom of a nonstick pot with oil and put it all back in to form a dark crust of tangled noodles. Once she unmolded it at the table like a cake, my brothers and I would excitedly cut into it, verbally laying claim to our preferred pieces.
I am the first one to go to university in my family. I am the first writer as well. My dad is a retired policeman, and my mom works for a glass-processing company. She is health-and-safety manager, and my stepfather is a plumber. I have four half siblings, one from my mom's marriage and three from my dad's marriage, so we are kind of scattered.
— Samantha Shannon
I saw things at an early age because my mom was a theater actress. I did a play with her when I was 10 years old.
— Sam Rockwell
My mom is from Ghana, and my dad is from Detroit, so I would go back and forth to Africa a lot.
Yes, my mom does keep making references to marriage, like all mothers do, but it's only in a lighter mood... she just jokes.
My mom always plays Madonna in the car, so I was kind of familiar with what she was into in the '80s.
When I was young, all the books were about a Mary Jane and the football player and the prom and ending up with the quiet guy and making your mom happy.
— S. E. Hinton
I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere.
I grew up listening to oldies, like Motown. That's from my mom.
— Ryan Lochte
My mom was really cool.
— Ryan Gosling
One of mom's greatest acts of generosity was that she trained me to be defiant. Her great gift to me was encouraging me to be the person that I wanted to be, not the one that she and my father wished I was.
— Ruth Reichl
My mom probably has a record player. I might need to get one.
— Rudy Gobert
We'd get these boxes of clothing in the mail, and my mom would say, 'What makes you think all this is for you? You've got a sister right behind you.' So then I realized, we're all in this together. We have to help each other.
— Ruby Bridges
