I grew up in a somewhat religious family. My dad's family isn't religious at all, but my mom's side of the family is, so I was exposed to church a bit.
— Win Butler
I had a drag mom but she didn't really teach me about makeup. She just basically stuck me into gigs. And then I borrowed clothes from her and her drag to play the gigs.
— Willam Belli
My mom's never been married. I've never even seen my mom kiss a dude.
— will.i.am
My mom's discipline worked out perfectly. I wouldn't change a thing.
Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
— Will Durant
My mom is about 60 years old and she loves our music because she can bounce around to it.
— Wayne Static
I made a clean version of 'Enter the Ninja' that my mom can listen to.
— Watkin Tudor Jones
Now, my mom did not read well and she read 'True Romance' magazines, but she read with me. And she would spend 30 minutes a day, her finger going along the page, and I learned to read. Eventually, by the time I was four and a half, she could iron and I could sit there and read the 'True Romance.' And that was wonderful.
— Walter Dean Myers
I grew up hunting and fishing in Land Between the Lakes. I have so many great memories of camping with my mom over at Redd Hollow.
— W. Earl Brown
I loved my nanny very much, but she was never a replacement for my mom in any way.
— Virginia Williams
Both my parents were born in the Philippines. My dad is full Filipino, but my mom looks a little mixed, and her mom's name is Estelita Coquico.
— Vincent Rodriguez III
My mom used to say that I became a fighter and a scrapper and a tough guy to protect who I am at my core.
— Vin Diesel
I'd say that if you had a strained relationship with your mom, for whatever reason, the best thing to do is be open with each other, talk it over, try and work it out somehow as opposed to just putting a wall up and pushing them away.
— Victoria Justice
When I was 10 years old, 'Dancing with the Stars' premiered, and I told my mom, 'I'm going to be on that show one day.'
— Victoria Arlen
My mom and my father's birthday are on the same day.
— Victor Cruz
Yes, I love playing Mom.
— Vicki Lawrence
My mom used to make delicious aloo ke parathe, and would give me two for school lunch.
— Varun Sharma
My mom used to call us 'free range kids,' like free range chickens... We roamed the countryside.
— William Moseley
If you would ask my mom what books I liked growing up, I liked Dr. Seuss.
When I got into junior high school, that's when my mom let me dress how I wanted to dress. Up to that point I wore suits to school all the time.
My dad is black and my mom is white. It was not in vogue to be an interracial couple in the 1970s in South Texas. After my parents moved to San Antonio, it took almost a year for them to find their first home.
— Will Hurd
My mom was obsessed with Joni Mitchell; I grew up listening to so much of her music. But it was never a prerogative to emulate her.
— Weyes Blood
There's not a mom or dad that wants to leave their child unprotected.
— Wayne LaPierre
If I'm talking about something current, a current issue or something political, it's because I was able to read it when I was on the plane getting to the gig... a lot of it happens when I'm on the road because when I'm home, you're just mom, and that's it.
— Wanda Sykes
I hope that, somewhere, Mom and Dad are proud that little Walter is performing with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
— Walter Cronkite
I've had asthma my whole life. My mom used to hook the generator up to the Suburban and roll the extension cord all the way down to the football field and have my nebulizer hooked up to that so I could take treatments in between offense and defense. I was in the fifth grade when she started doing that.
— Von Miller
My mom's gonna be the biggest star - mark my words right now!
— Vinny Guadagnino
My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing.
— Vince Vaughn
My mom insisted on multigrain bread and never allowed soda in the house.
I was almost 8 years old when I was watching a kid on a TV commercial, and I told my mom that I wanted to do the same thing. She said that I would need to get an agent and that she would research it.
My mom was dying for me to write a book, she was my biggest advocate.
My dad met my mom just once before their marriage.
— Vicky Kaushal
I like the story about Bon Iver. They said he kept his GRAMMY in, like, the basement bathroom so he could just focus on getting another one. If I won a GRAMMY, I'd probably keep it at my mom's house on 47th Street.
— Vic Mensa
You can wine and dine all around the globe but the joy of coming back home to a meal cooked by your mom is pure bliss.
My dad was a surgeon, my mom a nurse, and they were always out working. I had five sisters and a brother. They didn't care what I got up to.
— Willem Dafoe
I remember when I was 11, I told my mom, 'One day I'm going to buy you a house.' And she said, 'Boy, don't you be making promises you can't keep.' I was like: 'No, Ma, it's not a promise. I'm going to buy you a house one day.'
I was born and raised in East Los Angeles by a single mom who had three biological kids and adopted four more. I never met my dad.
Oftentimes, even as a little kid, I would get up before anyone else. My brother would still be sleeping, my mom would still be sleeping, so I would literally play 'Monopoly' by myself. I would play board games; I would do things by myself.
— Will Ferrell
My mom was a ventriloquist and she always was throwing her voice. For ten years I thought the dog was telling me to kill my father.
— Wendy Liebman
My mom didn't let me play video games growing up, so now I do. Gaming gives me a chance to just let go, blow somebody up and fight somebody from another dimension. It's all escapism.
— Wayne Brady
There's so many good comedians in D.C. I started hanging out with those guys. Dave Chappelle was there. Actually, Dave was too young to be in the clubs, so when his mom couldn't make it, he would ask me to pretend I was his aunt, so he could do open mike.
I'm just another non-native whose mom told him we were part-Cherokee.
— W. Kamau Bell
I honestly don't remember when and why I started calling my mom 'Momsi'. These are family things; it starts for some reason. It's not that I just call her Momsi; I call her other things as well!
— Viswanathan Anand
That was one thing I wanted to win because, my mom, she didn't really know much else in music, but the Grammys were special to her.
— Vinnie Paul
I was a bed wetter till very late. My mom used to hang my sheets out the window to dry, and I'd have to run home from school in order to beat the other kids to my house so they wouldn't see them.
My mom is not trying to live vicariously through me.
My deceased grandmother on my mom's side was a real fairy godmother, who lived to be 102 and who I always feel is looking after me.
— Victoria Clark
My mom lived by herself with two kids. Sacrifice was the name of the game at our house.
When you've got kids, you turn into Mom, and that's it.
My mom didn't want us to go to the candy house, she didn't want us to go to the ice cream truck, she didn't want us to go to the... There was actually a donut truck, if that makes sense.
— Venus Williams
