My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.
— Dan Gable
I adored my mom. I thought she was the best. I loved her very much.
— Dan Fogelman
The standard Bristol set at being a mother is high for a woman to have to step into. She, as a mom, is crushing it.
— Dakota Meyer
My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it's Hannah Dakota Fanning.
— Dakota Fanning
I was probably about 10 years old when I said to Mom, 'I'd really like to pursue a career in front of the camera.'
— Dacre Montgomery
We've all seen the mom who devotes all her time and attention to her child and is so hungry for adult interaction that as soon as she's around another adult, she's not paying attention anymore.
— Cynthia Nixon
I always heard 50 Cent, Da Brat, Lil' Kim, all that in the house. My mom's playing them - 50 Cent, Kanye West.
— Cupcakke
My mom is a translator for the school district in Delaware. She'd hear these different stories from working with families there. Those stories stuck with me.
— Cristina Henriquez
I always knew, even as a kid, that my mom had a really rough life, and I always wanted to make her feel happy and to make her feel good.
— Cristela Alonzo
My dad was a plumber, and my mom was on and off again, either a stay-at-home mom or working with the disabled as a visiting-nurse assistant.
— Craig Thompson
Growing up, my dad and my mom were there for my sister and I.
— Courtney B. Vance
I grew up in a suburb of Columbus, Ohio, in the early '90s, and hospitals and doctor's offices offered to x-ray candy. I was 7 or 8. The day after Halloween, my brother and I were sorting all of our candy, and my mom asked if she could have a piece of my gum. She put the gum in her mouth, bit down, and there was a shard of metal in it!
— Cory Michael Smith
My mom was on a soap opera for 40 years, so I know about love and romance.
— Corbin Bernsen
I think in a lot of ways unconditional love is a myth. My mom's the only reason I know it's a real thing.
— Conor Oberst
My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor or mediocre ones.
— Condoleezza Rice
I was joking with my mom that all Jewish mothers now will want their kids to be filmmakers instead of doctors. Because you can make one film, and suddenly you're directing a 'Jurassic Park' movie.
— Colin Trevorrow
When I left college, it broke my mom's heart, but I knew I had to be in Nashville. I knew that was the place you had to be in to become a better songwriter, and that's what I wanted to move there for and to ultimately get a record deal.
— Cole Swindell
I luckily had a very charming, lovable mom who I think everybody could see bits and pieces of their mom in.
I grew up in a very religious household. My mom was a church organist. I was a religious kid.
— Dan Brown
Actually, my mom doesn't let me touch any of my money out of my bank. She says she is going to keep it there until I am 18, and I don't think anyone can touch that. No money has been taken out of there.
— Dakota Goyo
I've always wanted to be an actress, ever since I was a little girl. I've always played the mom and I play my sister as the daughter. I wanted to be an actress on television and movies instead of just around the house.
My mom's a psychologist, and so is my grandfather.
Puffy's contribution to hip-hop culture was the remix. He offered us the music that his mom played in front of him, with newer drums and younger artists. That worked, and will consistently be there. The remix comes right after the original record, that's something Puffy did to influence the culture.
— Curtis Jackson
If you look through my photo album, they are all modeling poses. My mom was a young mom, so she took tons of pictures of me.
— Crystal Lowe
My dad is from Panama; he came to the U.S. in 1971. He came to study chemical engineering at the University of Delaware. He thought he would go back, and then he met my mom here. I was born and mostly raised in Delaware.
We grew up devout Catholics, so my trips to San Juan always include going to the churches that we used to go to and lighting candles and everything. Everything I do in San Juan is what I used to do with my mom, kind of as a tribute to her.
My mom has a very subtle way of encouraging.
— Craig Mello
The first time I ever dressed in drag was at a costume party during my childhood. I went as Wonder Woman and my mom even took me to get the costume.
— Courtney Act
I have my name Cory on my left arm, and I have my mom's name on my right with a cross. She passed away while I was still in high school, so I got that on my right arm.
— Cory Hardrict
I started cooking from watching my mom. My mother was a really, really great cook.
— Coolio
I was a single mom that raised two bright, beautiful, and compassionate girls.
— Connie Stevens
My mom had me when she was 24, so I want to be a young, cool dad.
— Colton Underwood
My mom was the breadwinner in my family. I always thought, 'That's how it is.' I never thought that was the exception.
— Colin Jost
My dad always believed in me. He was always kind of, 'All right, buddy, if that's what you want to do...' My mom was always more of a realist.
I would not drink bottles of water at my mom's house because I never knew how long she'd been refilling them from the sink and putting them back in the refrigerator.
Pressure is the single mom who is trying to scuffle and pay her rent. We get paid a lot of money to play a game. Don't get me wrong: there are challenges. But to call it pressure is almost an insult to regular people.
— Damian Lillard
I was always into fashion because my mom has always been interested in fashion. She majored in fashion merchandising in college, and it's always been something we have in common.
Back when I was a senior in high school in Haughton, LA, I had a chance to go to LSU. Everyone I grew up with adored LSU, including my mom. But I chose to come to Mississippi State because I wanted to start a new tradition instead of perpetuating an established one.
— Dak Prescott
Motherhood is the only thing in my life that I've really known for sure is something I wanted to do.
There was this guy, he must have been young, who told me on Twitter: 'CupcakKe, I just told my mom I'm gay and I'm getting kicked out.' And it just hit home. I automatically replied, 'If you need a hotel, I'll pay for it. Let me make sure you're OK.'
I had what you could call a chaotic childhood. My parents divorced when I was 2; I went back and forth between my mom's and dad's houses for years.
— Crystal Bowersox
My mom ending up passing away, and I got really depressed and didn't have money for therapy, and so I started doing standup to cope with my mom's death.
This goes across all racial lines, ethnicities, religious backgrounds. People believe in disciplining their children... It's the 21st century. My mom was wrong. She did the best she could, but she was wrong about some of that stuff she taught me. And I promised my kids, I won't teach that mess to them.
— Cris Carter
My mom used to cut out articles from the 'Atlanta Journal Constitution' when I was in high school. She would either give them to me to read or she would post them on the fridge. These articles would usually be stories of someone inventing something, breaking records, or achieving some kind of success.
— Coy Bowles
My mom has a rare talent for being able to open up the refrigerator, and with the peas, the leftover eggs, the cream, the spinach, the cheese, and a little rice, she can just whip up incredible risotto.
— Cote de Pablo
My mom saved my life. She gave me mouth-to-mouth more than once.
— Corey Haim
Sometimes I regret waiting so long to have a child, but I don't make the rules. The universe decided it was going to take me a while to get to be a mom!
— Constance Marie
I started on the stage with my mom in Denmark doing political revues in a small, small town.
— Connie Nielsen
My mom was sort of involved in amateur dramatics like Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, and played the violin. My dad played banjo and piano and sang as well, so there was all this music in my childhood.
— Colm Wilkinson
I got into theatre kinda late by some standards, and I sorta fell into it. I had broken my ankle playing football, and my high school was doing a production of 'Barnum.' I could juggle, and my mom really wanted to get me out of the house. She said since I wasn't playing football and couldn't wrestle, maybe I should audition for the show.
— Colin Donnell
