Men are what their mothers made them.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever good is happening with 'Newton' is because of my mom's blessings. I really believe in that.
— Rajkummar Rao
I had lice in third grade, and my mom shaved all my hair off.
— Rain Dove
Mom makes South Indian food for me almost always, because I get it rarely,as I travel a lot for work.
— Raftaar
It's a constant challenge trying to find balance between styling, designing and being a mom.
— Rachel Zoe
My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt 'very understood.'
— Rachel Platten
My mom was diagnosed with breast cancer when I was four. And she was re-diagnosed when I was seven or eight, and again when I was 13, and my dad was very unhealthy, too. I was living on the edge of mortality my entire childhood.
— Rachel Morrison
I have been a working mom as long as I've been a mom.
— Rachel Hollis
I live in, literally, the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I'd have to put back the Charmin. We still don't have a dishwasher. My mom has done all these gardens so now my house looks like the garden shack in the middle of Versailles.
— Rachael Ray
I'm not gonna be broke, like my mom was broke, my uncles were broke, my sisters didn't have money, my cousins on down.
— R. Kelly
I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.
— Queen Latifah
I like bad boys, and I like to take them home to my mom.
— Priyanka Chopra
I was always aware Mom was someone who was recognised, admired and loved.
— Prateik Babbar
When I was born, I was born very prematurely so I was very tiny and small. And so, my mom just nicknamed me Pixie, like a little fairy.
— Pixie Lott
My mom never wanted to be a grandmom. She never wanted to be a mom, really.
— Pink
My life started on the banks of the Boyne in County Meath. Navan is the name of the town; only me, Mom, Dad.
— Pierce Brosnan
I'm from South Georgia, so my mom, she always cooked some dang good food when I was growing up.
— Phillip Phillips
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.
— Rainn Wilson
Siddhant has received a perfect upbringing from his mother and it's up to me now to continue on the same track. But I must say that it's definitely not possible for a father to play the role of a dad and mom simultaneously.
— Rahul Dev
My mom's not working, my dad doesn't want to stop working because he likes to be engrossed, so everybody is happy.
'Sesame Street' is awesome - not only because they teach, edify and entertain kids but because they savvily make it possible to do so with parental engagement, because the show is loaded with references for Mom and Dad.
— Rachel Sklar
I have always loved music. My mom used to sing with my sister and I when I was younger, and I was in choirs and loved to perform, but when I was in college, I went on a study abroad to Trinidad, and while I was there, I sang backup at my first concert.
I was probably five when I first picked up a camera. My mom had an Olympus OM-10 that she carried around to document our family photos. And I just always loved it.
I am a classic Star Trek fanatic. When I was a kid, my mom and I used to go to conventions.
— Rachel Cohn
My mom actually had a band called Six Pack - even though there were seven of them - who went around Chicago performing popular songs. Her voice was like Gladys Knight mixed with Aretha Franklin.
My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.
— Quentin Tarantino
My mom will make me walk the dogs or take out the trash when I go home.
I am proud to be their child. It is very inspiring for me. I am inspired by my mom and dad.
I am not a woman on Monday, an immigrant on Tuesday, a worker on Wednesday, and a mom on Thursday, I am all of those things all of the time, and I am going to fight for all of those things all of the time.
— Pramila Jayapal
I'm a really bad liar. My mom finds out every time, especially now that she's got Facebook.
My mom has always wished me a daughter just like me.
I had one young man tell me he wished I was his mom. Another young woman told me that every time she watched 'The Office,' I reminded her of her mother, who had just passed away a year ago, and that every time she saw me she felt as if she had a piece of her mom still with her.
— Phyllis Smith
I used to say to my mom and dad all the time, 'I'm going to move to America.'
— Peyton Royce
I know how to read music, watching my mom and listening to Mom play music.
— Rakim
I always was drawn to the performing arts. I started dancing when I was two. I sang, loved to act, and loved going to visit my mom on-set. But she wanted me to have a normal childhood, so I wasn't really allowed to pursue acting till I got older.
— Rainey Qualley
My mom and my grandmother are probably two of the strongest women that I know.
— Raheem DeVaughn
My mom's whole life had been my gymnastics. We struggled to connect when I stopped.
— Rachele Brooke Smith
As an expectant mom who is currently self-employed, I'm amazed at just how tied to the workplace maternity benefits are.
I played cover gigs and traveled the country in my mom's old car, and my drummer and I set up a fake email and sent it out to agents. We pretended to be our own agent.
I'm from a very close-knit family, and there was something very... I guess you could say normal, about it, and I so appreciate that. We all ate dinner together every single night, and my mom stayed at home with us. I owe a lot to my parents.
— Rachel McAdams
Well, being a mom is the best job in the world.
— Rachel Campos-Duffy
I've always wanted to write movies - I always used to tell my mom that I wanted to be a director.
My mother wouldn't allow me to speak slang when I was growing up. But when I got outside, around my friends, it was 'Yo' and 'That's the joint' and 'Yo, what's up?' So I had my game for my friends and my game for my mom.
When I was 13, I would come visit my aunt and uncle in New York. I decided I wanted to live with them after seeing my cousin's school. Honestly, I just wanted to go to a school where I didn't have to wear uniforms, and my mom said okay.
I don't know if I am like her, but I am told that my eyes and my smile are like mom's.
My mom named me Pom because she said it sounded like a combination of Korean words that mean 'spring' and 'tiger.' So, it's very unique!
— Pom Klementieff
I just always wanted to be a singer. My mom said I was even singing in my cot!
My mom took all of my behavior personally. Everything I did, she thought it was an act of rebellion against her. But it was just me being me.
Chanel No. 5 is my perfume when I'm feeling like a lady. It's old-school and warm - and it reminds me of my mom.
— Phoebe Tonkin