My mom was always the supplier of soccer balls, and so people were always knocking on my door, and trying to get me out so we could play.
— Freddy Adu
My mom was so people-friendly. She was incredible. She'd go to the mall, and she'd talk to everyone. Give people a kiss on the cheek. I think if I wasn't pushed around a lot, I'd be great with people. Maybe I still can be.
— Fred Couples
My mom marched into the reservation tent and reserved a Model X for herself. She drives a Jeep; she has four grandchildren. She didn't ask my dad. She just went ahead and did it.
— Franz von Holzhausen
When I was a kid, we'd go crabbing, as a lot of folks do on the East Coast, and we'd catch some fresh crabs and take it home, and Mom would turn it into this unbelievable crab gravy - or, as they say, sauce.
— Frankie Avalon
I grew up in New Orleans. I had just moved into my dorm at the University of New Orleans, and I was doing laundry, and my mom called me, like, 'We've got to evacuate. There's a hurricane's coming.'
— Frank Ocean
My mom, she was unbelievable. She ran the whole town. She was like the mayor. There would be 15 people eating at our lunch table. She'd drag people from the street.
— Francisco Costa
I couldn't wait until I grew up. I used to look at my mom's stockings and put them on with her high heels and mess with my hair.
— Florence Griffith Joyner
Grades were important in our house. I was reading by two. My mom would sit there and read with me, read with me, read with me. It was wonderful.
— Fergie
By no means do we think, 'Oh, it's cool to be a teen mom.' I definitely don't think that it's cool.
— Farrah Abraham
I'm an old mom of a young baby, and every moment matters.
— Faith Salie
The hardest thing for me is planning ahead. My mom was brilliant at it.
— Faith Hill
I love playing moms. It's a lot easier than being a mom, I hear.
— Faith Ford
I never really saw my mom as Diana Ross. My mom was my mom.
— Evan Ross
I always loved movies, especially watching some of my mom's films when I was younger, like 'Out of Darkness,' where she played a schizophrenic.
I've always eaten egg whites because when I was little, I didn't like the color yellow, so my mom would trick me into eating eggs by taking out the yolk.
— Eva Longoria
My mom was a soap opera queen in Mexico and Latin America. I started acting because of her.
— Eugenio Derbez
Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity, but from their point of view, show business was no way to make a living.
— Ethel Merman
My mom had me at a young age, like 20, and she was the oldest child. All her brothers were seven and 10, so I was like a younger brother more so than the oldest child. I was the younger brother to all my uncles, so they were going through their childhood and their teenage years, and I was right there.
— Freddie Gibbs
My mom is from Venezuela, and my dad is German and Japanese, and we lived in Brazil when I was a kid for a couple of years, and then I grew up on Long Island. I think all the traveling and all the nationalities put that stuff in my head. I was just around it a lot.
— Fred Armisen
My grandma was actually a pretty well-known opera singer in Cuba, and then my mom was a ballerina. Two of my three sisters are dancers, so we grew up in the arts.
— Frankie J. Alvarez
My mother never threw anything out. If there was a sliver of a tomato, it was in the refridge. I would come in with my friends, and Mom would say, 'Want something to eat?' In 20 minutes, there was four, five dishes to eat.
We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her master's with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.
My mom, she wanted me to go to college and then after that you could do what you want.
— Frances Tiafoe
When I found out that my mom was sneaking listening to my music, I decided to make sure that my music is very clean.
— Flo Rida
My daughter knows she is loved. My daughter knows she has a mom, and I'm there, and I'm not worried about anything of what everyone else is worried about.
My parents got put into jail, both my mom and my dad.
I tell my kids all the time that I'm so lucky they chose me to be their mom.
When you're a mom to three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.
In terms of keeping kosher, I've basically just been vegetarian. I want to be fully vegetarian anyway, though sometimes my mom makes chicken soup and I have to eat it. I just love it.
— Ezra Furman
I've seen all of my mom's films. She's the reason why I do almost anything.
When I go home to visit my parents, my mom is your typical Mexican loving mom. She wants to cook and feed everybody.
— Eva Marie
I was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, the youngest of four girls, including my oldest sister, Lisa, who has special needs. My mom was a special education teacher, and my dad worked on the Army base. We weren't wealthy, but we were determined to succeed.
Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.
— Ethel Waters
Mom claimed that I could carry a tune at 2 or 3 years of age. Maybe she was a little prejudiced.
I think about my mom every day.
— Freddie Freeman
My father came from Germany. My mom came from Venezuela. My father's culturally German, but his father was Japanese. I was raised in New York and spent two years in Rio. My parents met at the University of Southern Mississippi, and they had me there, and then we moved to New York. I'm not very familiar with Mississippi.
My parents listened to a lot of James Taylor and Hall and Oates. My mom and I used to listen to Liz Phair and Indigo Girls a lot in the car, too.
— Frankie Cosmos
I come from good stock. Both of my parents are big - my dad is a big guy; my mom is a big lady.
— Frank Thomas
My first year playing Pop Warner football, my mom had to change my birth certificate because I was too young. I was 5, I think, and you were supposed to be 6.
— Frank Gore
My mom actively did not want me to play professionally.
I actually got started in acting when I was in pre-school. I was really into dance and performing, so my mom had me in dance classes, and then I got involved in a local theater company.
— Fiona Gubelmann
When it's my time to go, I'll go, but the only time that's going to be for 'Teen Mom' is when the network takes it off the air.
My mom was a huge fan of 'Dirty Dancing.' I couldn't quite get a break, and she was like, 'Patrick Swayze was a dancer!' And Fred Astaire. I started dancing, and it led me to acting. It helps with fighting or whatever choreography in general.
— Falk Hentschel
I'm able to shift gears from mom to performer to mom pretty quickly.
When you're a mom and you have three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.
I snap with my mom. It was a great way for me to see my dog when I was in college. We send selfies, too.
— Evan Spiegel
Me and my mom are extremely, extremely close.
My mom lived to be 91, and her advice was, 'Honey, just keep moving.'
— Eva Marie Saint
I've wanted to come to the U.S. since I was 8 years old. Every single year, my mom and I watched the Oscars. I always told her, 'I want to do that when I grow up. I want to tell stories; I want to be an actor and director.'
We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can.
