I remember that my mom, my dad and I would play different roles in mock debates, where one of us would be the moderator, one of us would be my dad - frequently not my dad - and then one of us would play his opponent.
— Chelsea Clinton
What mom cares about most is that I'm happy, healthy and enjoying my life.
— Chaz Bono
I can only hope to be 10 percent of the mom mine was to me. She encouraged me to be confident and enjoy life. That's what I want for my son.
— Charlize Theron
I started piano when I was four. My mom taught me. And then I went to Manhattan School of Music during high school, like every Saturday. And then I went to Berklee for college, in Boston.
— Charlie Puth
One of the things my mom used to do - I don't know why she chose me, but she chose me out of her six children to take to the African-American church that was in the town that we lived in Springfield, Missouri. And we would go to the church, and we would sit in the back row, and we would listen to all of the spirituals in the hymns.
— Charlie Haden
I just grew up a poor black kid in Alabama with a single mom and two brothers.
— Charles Barkley
We always had 'Vogue' in our house. But, when I was around 12, my Mom finally took me seriously about modeling and put a stack of magazines in front of me, then told me to study all the poses. The ones I loved the most were in 'Vogue.'
— Chanel Iman
My mom has accepted my style. My dad is a little suspect with all the bright colors and loud stuff. He's a khakis and polo kind of guy. He's OK with it, but the loud stuff, he says I'm his little daughter.
— Chandler Parsons
I thought I would draw or paint or be an architect. I was always drawing portraits. My mom put me in art classes in the summer.
— Chadwick Boseman
I'd never really babysat. I feel like I'm Blair, or 'Gossip Girl.' A teenager, basically - and now suddenly I'm a mom?
— Cecily von Ziegesar
When I was 13, my mom said she had a dream that I would win Miss Universe in a red dress.
— Catriona Gray
I'm lucky that my real-life Mom has both a great sense of humor about herself and an amazing ability to slip into complete denial if the subject matter gets a little too close to home.
— Cathy Guisewite
As a mom, my priorities have changed.
— Catherine Oxenberg
I'm a total Twihard. I read all the books and saw every movie on opening night with my mom.
— Cassie Scerbo
My mom always worked, and I certainly don't want to look back and think, 'Well, I don't have kids, but I'm glad I did that sitcom.'
— Casey Wilson
My dad is from Japanese descent, my mom is from Swedish descent and, through marriages and divorces, a pretty multicultural family - a lot of Spanish speakers in the family.
— Cary Fukunaga
My dad worked for a generator company and then UC Berkeley, and my mom was as a dental hygienist and then eventually a history teacher. My uncles and aunts, all of them are elementary school teachers or scientists.
I just hope that I will be as good a mom to my child, and hopefully children, as my mom was to me.
I'd always tell my mom, 'I want to be famous like Claudia Schiffer or Brigitte Bardot.'
— Charlotte McKinney
I didn't grow up wealthy. We couldn't even afford spaghetti sauce when I was first born, but my mom and dad worked really hard and came from the bottom up.
My roots have never left me... because the very first memory I have is my mom singing and me singing with her.
When my brothers and I were young, my mom, a Democrat, and my dad, a Republican, used to lead freewheeling discussions at our dinner table. The only rule was paying attention when others were talking, and no interrupting.
— Charlie Baker
I wanted to be a doctor, but my mom was like, 'It's really hard and it's going to take 10 years,' so I was like 'OK, I'll just be a lawyer'.
— Charice Pempengco
My mom said I was not going to be an idle child, so I had things to do every day after school.
— Chandra Wilson
I was raised in a house where my mom was the primary breadwinner. It was a dysfunctional house, but she showed tremendous resilience.
— Chamath Palihapitiya
My dad being a DJ, I heard all the hits, no matter what. My mom always had on the radio because my dad was on it.
— Chad Channing
I had an imaginary friend. I don't know when I stopped having an imaginary friend, but my mom and everybody in my family remembers it pretty good. It's definitely true.
— CC Sabathia
Becoming a mom makes politics real. Whether it's education policies, health care policies, family leave - it informs your decision-making.
— Cathy McMorris Rodgers
The relationship between Cathy and Mom in the strip is the one relationship drawn from real life that I have proudly never even tried to disguise.
Being in Australia, I was really sun conscious. For a couple of summers there, I did the baby oil thing, and my my mom said, 'Just don't. You'll regret it.'
— Cate Blanchett
Empowering girls is extremely important to me because, growing up, I needed those empowering women to show me the way. When my parents divorced when I was 11, my mom was a force to be reckoned with. She showed me how to be self-sufficient and independent.
— Cassadee Pope
My mom worked tirelessly on getting equal rights for women.
My mom loved the old black-and-white films.
The only reason I felt like I could sing a song like 'Blown Away' is because I have definitely lived through my fair share of trips to the cellar in the spring. We were no stranger to that. I still ask my mom, 'Is the cellar cleaned out now? Is everything OK?' Even in my new house, I had something built in it that's like a storm shelter.
— Carrie Underwood
My mom was Sicilian, my dad was Sicilian. Mom was a great cook, but all the women were.
— Chazz Palminteri
So far I'm not surprised by anything about being a mom. It's all pretty great - but that's what I expected.
When I get high anxiety, I vomit. My mom was so stressed out. Then I found out I was staying in John Mayer's old dorm room, and I had a nice roommate. That completely brought me down. I was completely comfortable at Berklee.
I wanted to do 'Oh Shenandoah' because that's the town I was born in - as a tribute to my mom and dad for giving me all this music. I don't really sing this as a singer, because I'm not a singer. But I wanted to do it for them.
We're definitely a hodgepodge of influences. Mine, most heavily, would be Southern rock - the Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd and stuff like that. Hillary is more from the country side - her mom is Linda Davis, a country singer. Dave, he's a big fan of the Eagles and like that.
— Charles Kelley
Soccer was the first sport that my parents put me in, and ultimately, all the parents kind of came over to my mom and were, 'We think Channing would be better at football.... We love him, he's really great, but he's kind of hurting our children.' I was just a little wild.
— Channing Tatum
Starting at age four, my mom decided that she was not going to have an idle child in the house. So I started taking dance lessons on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and then I was in acting classes on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and I was also modeling on Saturdays. And that was my childhood.
My mom was a nurse, and my dad worked in the Health Ministry as a civil servant. When I was 6 years old, my dad got a job at the Sri Lankan High Commission in Canada, so we moved there.
I want to be more successful as a mother than I am in show business.
— Celine Dion
My dad is 20 years older than my mom. Growing up, I felt like he knew everything. I felt like, for every question I had, he had an answer.
I wanted Cathy and Irving to actually say 'I do' and be pronounced husband and wife on Feb. 5, which is my mom's birthday.
Imagine my surprise when, after a lifetime of teaching me to keep personal things to myself, Mom insisted my drawings were the start of a comic strip for millions of people to enjoy.
My Mom always cooked healthy. Greek food lends itself to cooking healthy.
— Cat Cora
My parents are both super funny, and I always knew I wanted to be on 'SNL.' My mom and I would watch it a lot.
My first exposure to TV, film, theater, the idea of what acting was, is I was a little kid, and my mom's best friend was a local casting director in Cambridge, Mass. Her name was Patty Collinge.
— Casey Affleck
My mom was married to a Mexican guy - a surfer - and so we'd kind of camp out on the beach the swell season.
