I was adopted, and so was my mom. And so I just was in tune with how life can be intentional. I feel like maybe that helped me to not feel super entitled to a lot of things as a kid.
— Lucy Dacus
My grandmother had six kids - one died as an infant - and she was dirt-poor, and all her kids got an education. And my mom grew up poor. And they both worked so hard and cultivated so much of their own happiness. I wanted to have that like an amulet. Not like armor, but like a magic feather. Like Dumbo's magic feather.
— Lucy Alibar
I grew up with the classics. My mom and I would sit and watch 'Singin' in the Rain' and 'White Christmas' - those kind of movies.
— Lucas Grabeel
My mom doesn't fit into my shoes, so sucks for her!
— Lourdes Leon
When I was a teenager, my mom got me a really nice baritone ukulele.
— Lou Barlow
Mommy smoked but she didn't want us to. She saw smoke coming out of the barn one time, so we got whipped.
— Loretta Lynn
My mom introduced me to science-fiction.
— Logan Marshall-Green
Nobody sang better than my mom. That's why I've never even thought of singing for singing sake. I've always thought of a song as an acting piece, as a way to say something.
— Liza Minnelli
I'm a mom. I'm from Ethiopia. I gave birth in the U.S. and had all the proper care available to me. If I had given birth in Ethiopia - I don't know if I might have even survived it.
— Liya Kebede
My mom moved up between Leland and Greenville when I was just a little tot.
— Little Milton
My dad was a mathematician and worked for New York City as a statistician. My mom was an accountant and eventually started her own business in her mid-40s. She linked manufacturers in Taiwan to companies in the United States that needed those types of products.
— Lisa Su
I don't think I would have been able to stick with it and been proud of who I am and be feminine out on the court. I think I would have folded to the peer pressure if I didn't have my mom to encourage me to be me and be proud of how tall I am.
— Lisa Leslie
Even though I grew up in America, at home we spoke mostly Chinese, because my mom is from Taiwan.
— Lisa Joy
My mom died when I was 8.
— Lisa Guerrero
The Republicans are, 'the party of the rich,' my mom said, 'We're poor, so we're Democrats.' That convinced me. I had no wish to remain poor, so I became a Republican at the age of 12.
— Lionel Sosa
I've never once heard my mom complain about her stroke.
— Lindsey Vonn
I'm a producer, I'm a mom, a friend.
— Lindsay Shookus
My mom is an elementary-school music teacher. For her, music is an educational tool.
My mom's a chemist, so she's pretty smart.
— Lucas Till
My mom died before she knew I was gay, and my dad thought it was a phase, then realized it wasn't.
— LP
My mom definitely inspires me. She's just crazy when it comes to her fashion sense.
Sinatra was just one of Mom's friends.
— Lorna Luft
I come from a short fiction background, and my mom is a poet, so I've always read poetry; I've always had a lot of different influences both linguistically and musically.
— Lorde
Every mom in a minivan, every person commuting - anytime they are on the road, they should be able to go into driver mode and give a ride to a neighbor. That's how we achieve scale.
— Logan Green
I'm really happy to be a mom, and I'm proud of the phase I'm in.
— Liz Phair
Mom was only 23 when she had me, and there's a version of my story where we could have lived in New York, and she could have had a very high-profile life, and I could have been raised by nannies.
— Liv Tyler
I did a film called 'Victor' that I'm really proud of! It was a period piece and the true life story of Victor Torres. I play his mom, and it's a very moving film.
— Lisa Vidal
But the fact is, I'm not work-identified. I'm not a lawyer or a writer. I'm a mom, and I'm a woman, and that's the kind of people I want to see in books in the starring role.
— Lisa Scottoline
My mom was very disappointed when I came out as a Republican in high school. And being a Republican in high school was really fun because all of my teachers were extremely liberal. Expressing anything that was counter to their deeply held beliefs was so easily unsettling that that form of contrarianism was very comfortable.
— Lisa Kennedy Montgomery
But I'm the child of a tiger mom.
Both of my folks were into art. My dad was an art collector, my mom had a little kiln in our basement, and we would make pottery. I think from about age five on, they sent me to art classes, and I was a huge colorer.
— Lisa Frank
My mom, dad, and sister have all watched every episode of everything I've ever done.
— Lindy Booth
My mom is positive and optimistic.
My mom is very close to me, and it has been really cool having a mom that's closer to my age because she can go out with me and stuff.
— Lindsay Lohan
My mom is an elementary school music teacher, a pianist, and a singer, and my dad plays guitar - he's a huge Bruce Springsteen fan. My mom does musical theater, too. All of those influences were around.
My dad's a filmmaker, and my mom's an actress. She was the original understudy, actually, for Harper in 'Angels in America' and did the show for about several months while she was pregnant with my older brother. And so I grew up obsessed with film and filmmaking.
— Lucas Hedges
My mom has helped me so much. She has great style, and she's an amazing dresser.
What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?
— Louisa May Alcott
My grandad and mom would drive me to training all the time, and from then - around seven to eight - coaches were telling me I had something special and needed to stick with it.
— Loris Karius
Mom was a nurse's aide. She worked in various hospitals. She took care of us that way, and we ate government cheese. I survived.
— Loni Love
My mom has a couple great tricks, but my father is consistently a good cook. He's extremely avid about health and fitness and a bit obsessive. He always talks about garden-fresh food.
— Lizz Wright
The most inspiring piece of advice I've gotten is simply to persevere. My mom taught me to always keep going no matter what from an early age. When it feels too difficult to push forward, I always remind myself, 'This too shall pass,' and then I redouble my efforts.
My mom raised me to be a strong person.
— Little Simz
When I'm home, I'm just mom. We're a normal, regular family doing normal, regular types of things.
I don't remember my first trip, but I do remember when my mom took me to Disney World in Orlando. It wasn't the rides but Epcot Center that most fascinated me. It made me want to see those countries that are represented there for real.
— Lisa Ling
I definitely think my ancestry has something to do with my politics. And I think being deeply suspicious of government and communists is implicit in a lot of first-generation immigrants, particularly from Eastern Europe. My mom came over from Romania when she was a kid and they fled the commies who took their family hemp farm.
I'm proud of what I look like. I'm proud that I look like my mom.
In May 2006, I had our son, Calder. I spent the next couple of years learning how to be a mom.
— Lisa Cholodenko
My mom is really tough.
YouTube - holy cow! - I can do my career at my own pace. I didn't have anybody to tell me I wasn't ready, and I learned how to self-market and how to strategize. 'Spontaneous Me' had already been up on iTunes, but besides my mom and grandma, no one bought it. Once it was up on YouTube, it went crazy.
— Lindsey Stirling
