My mom is a painter and photographer and my grandfather was an artist, so I've always been surrounded by creative people.
— Dylan Lauren
Mom and sister played piano growing up; my grandma still plays piano in church. They always beat me over the head trying to get me to play piano, but I was more interested in riding dirt bikes and playing in the mud.
— Dustin Lynch
My mom had grown up in the South. Louisiana and Georgia. She had been deeply religious. Baptist, then Mormon. She had worked for the U.S. military. She had voted for Ronald Reagan and Bush Senior.
— Dustin Lance Black
My mom achieved so much more than the doctors said she ever would. I miss her.
Mom came from what has been called the poorest place in America - Lake Providence, Louisiana. She was born on the south side of the Mississippi which was mainly African American and even poorer than the rest.
I used to have a blankie, and when my mom had to wash it, I would sit outside the dryer and watch it go round and round, and cry.
— Drew Barrymore
My mom was a championship pool player.
— Drake Bell
I love my mom so much, and I always have, but I was definitely a monster to her a lot during my teen years.
— Dove Cameron
I remember someone saying to my mom that it must be so glamorous to have a child acting in movies. They had no idea how hard it was for her.
— Douglas Booth
The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.
— Dorothy Fields
My mom raised me.
— Donovan Mitchell
My mom tells me every single day that she's proud of me.
— Don Lemon
I was sort of getting used to being a single mom, maybe a little too used to it.
— Domino Kirke
I tried writing a song and it wasn't very good. I sung it to my mom and she told me it was bad - but I was eight, so it's okay.
— Doja Cat
When I was 12 I was obsessed with green and had my mom get me a bunch of green bedding for my room.
The Almighty has plans for us to make a place so we can go on and make a difference. It all has to do with my faith; I am deeply religious. It goes back to my roots, to my mom and my dad.
— Dikembe Mutombo
My mom played me all kinds of music, from Ella Fitzgerald to Celine Dion. I listened to everything growing up, old and new.
— Diana DeGarmo
I was brought up as an only child, and we were very close. But when I was 14, we got evicted. We came home to a padlock, and I looked up at my mom and she was crying, and there was nothing to do.
— Dwayne Johnson
My mom was paralyzed from polio at the age of 2, abandoned by her husband, left with a 2-year-old, a 6-year-old and a 10-year-old, and so, we were raising her as much as she was raising us.
Just like my mom, when things get bad, I get quiet. The worse they get, the more silent I become.
Eventually my courageous Mom did something we do all too rarely. She got on a plane and she came to see me in L.A. - this place where we'd always been told sinners lived. She came to see my gay friends.
I go back five generations in Jamaica. My dad grew up in Port Royal, and my mom grew up in Kingston. My family is from the country like West Moreland and also in Manchester. I've been there countless times. As far as cuisine, there's not really much that comes out of Jamaica that's on a plate that I don't like.
— Dule Hill
I'm a real stay-at-home mom. I'm really hands-on. Everything else became secondary.
I don't want just 25-year-old girls watching my show. I want Grandma, Grandpa and Mom and Dad and the kids. I just want everyone to hear good music.
I want to work, but the balance to find between working and being a mom is challenging.
— Doutzen Kroes
I always had short hair, and I hated my short hair. I was always mistaken for a boy, but my mom wouldn't let me change my hair because she was always chasing me around with a hairbrush, and it was always tangled, so she just would cut it off, and she's right: short hair did suit me.
— Dorothy Hamill
I keep a small - a very, very, very small circle. It's just me and my mom and my sister. And maybe Chris Paul.
My mother was a working woman, and I was alone a lot. So I wanted to be a stay-at-home mom.
— Donna Karan
An overzealous parent is just one example of the kind of Problem Mom or Dad who pops up at track meets, threatening to put a damper on the day.
— Don Kardong
I feel like doulas put the ball back in the mom's court. They trust you to normalize the high drama.
My mom loves music and it poured into my childhood.
My mom put me away at 7. I enjoyed it... Being in institutions, I got three meals a day, clothes.
— DMX
I remember how my mom would take me on the subway from Queens to Broadway. We'd go to the offices of casting agents. Many doors were slammed in our faces. I was just a boy, but I remember that well.
— Dick Van Patten
My mom had a tape of Patsy Cline's greatest hits, and whenever we were in the car, she would put it on, and it got to the point where I knew all the words to every one of the songs, and I knew what order they came in on the tape.
My mom was from Germantown and was of German descent. She was a real force behind me and my dream. She was always my biggest fan, even when I was wrestling at an early age.
— Dusty Rhodes
Although my mom and I had often disagreed politically and personally, she'd led our family by example, instilling in us a can-do attitude that often defied reason - an optimism many would call foolish, ignorant, and naive, but an optimism that occasionally shocked our neighbors and our world with its brazen veracity.
My mom would watch me giving speeches on TV and she'd call and say, 'I don't know who this son is.'
Mom got very heated about the new government policy of Don't Ask, Don't Tell. In her view it was going to allow closeted gay people into her military and she was really against it... she just assumed I agreed with her opinions.
One of my first memories is marching with my mom. I was in kindergarten with with the Catholic ladies when Martin Luther King Jr. got shot. We wore the black armbands and marched downtown.
— Duff McKagan
I grew up in a household where my mom made $16,000 a year. I know the struggle. I know how to keep those things in perspective, and I do keep it into perspective.
— Draymond Green
I would go to sleep with headphones on. My mom and pop - they would have music loud enough to shake the walls.
— Dr. Dre
Dad met Mom in 1983 during the lead-up to the 1984 games. She was an Olympic downhill skier. In those days, the winter and summer games were held in different cities but in the same year, so there was more intermingling of winter and summer athletes at social functions.
— Douglas Brunt
My mother stopped working when she had my brother. She was a full time mom until I started getting heavily into ice skating lessons, and it got to the point where they really needed my mom to earn an income.
Growing up, my mom used essential oils in our home, so I've always noticed the benefits and now incorporate them in my daily routine.
My mom, she's from Ireland, coached tennis in Nigeria when she was a missionary and turned me on to it when I was young.
— Donal Logue
My son's birth was pretty life-shattering, in good ways and bad ways. I realized that I needed a doula because I'm not close to my mom, and I don't have a lot of people in New York.
My mom was always very, very careful with my mind: what I saw and didn't see.
— Dominick Cruz
My mom was a painter and loves to sing behind closed doors.
My mom's an art teacher, so I always had music in the house. She always had records, and I was mesmerized by the mechanics of how a turntable works.
— DJ Premier
My mom would keep all kinds of materials in her classroom for children for reading. She kept comic books, newspapers, sports magazines, and books of all kinds.
— Diana Gabaldon
