From losing my mom, I'll never be okay; I'll never be put together again.
— Andy Grammer
Dinner 'conversation' at the Cohens' meant my sister, mom, and I relaying in brutal detail the day's events in a state of amplified hysteria, while my father listened to his own smooth jazz station in his head.
— Andy Cohen
Usually on Sundays, I won't cook because I'll have dinner at my mom's. She's the provost of Mills College in Oakland and lives on campus. It's a very beautiful school in a very bad part of town.
— Andrew Sean Greer
I always appreciated my dad coming outside and playing with us - or my mom - and being a part of the game we were playing or refereeing it or just being outside. That was fun for us, and it was very encouraging.
— Andrew Luck
I came out to my mom at the age of 14. She didn't understand it at first, but she's been very supportive since.
— Andreja Pejic
I was living with my mom in a tiny apartment in Chula Vista, near Third and H Street behind the 7-Eleven. It was crazy to be on the phone with Stevie Wonder. I felt like a meteor hit our apartment!
— Andra Day
I grew up in Oxnard, CA, and I went to a church called St. Paul, where I was playing drums. My mom had a strawberry company. The whole town of Oxnard is basically built on produce, and more particularly, strawberries.
— Anderson Paak
'Anderson' is what I've been called since I was a kid; my mom is about the only person who calls me 'Mike.'
— Anderson East
I realized I didn't want there to be anything left unsaid with my mom. I didn't want there to be questions that I still had about who she was and what her life was like. And I didn't want her to have questions about me as an adult.
— Anderson Cooper
I was really lucky. My gal pal was my mom.
— Ana Ortiz
I was watching tennis on TV, and between games, they were showing a commercial for a tennis school. I wrote down the number, gave it to my mom, and said, 'This is what I want to do.' She thought it was a joke, but I was very stubborn, and I kept bringing it up.
— Ana Ivanovic
I grew up in Georgia, and my mom would tell me how to perform and act. So I learned to repress a lot of myself so that other people would feel comfortable.
— Amy Sherald
I grew up in the public schools, my mom taught in them, and then my daughter is in them.
— Amy Klobuchar
My youngest sister, Cindy, has Down syndrome, and I remember my mother spending hours and hours with her, teaching her to tie her shoelaces on her own, drilling multiplication tables with Cindy, practicing piano every day with her. No one expected Cindy to get a Ph.D.! But my mom wanted her to be the best she could be, within her limits.
— Amy Chua
My mom has the best style ever.
— Amber Stevens
My mom, she was, at a young age, caught up in the worldly ways. At that time, it was very intriguing to be out partying and having fun. As a young mother, she was caught in that.
— Amar'e Stoudemire
My mom is an incredibly direct person, and I like things to make sense.
— Amanda Seales
My mom is a Sikh immigrant born in a refugee camp. My Irish-Swedish-Norwegian-Danish-English-American dad grew up Baptist.
— Andy Dunn
My mom was as brilliant a cook as my dad is.
— Andrew Zimmern
My mother was predominately a stay-at-home mom.
— Andrew Rannells
On a personal level, my mom is my biggest inspiration. She's always been an idol for me. I used to dream about growing up and being like her.
I'm the type who minds my own business and am not keen on giving interviews on my mom's birthday, or my dog's birthday.
— Andrea Jeremiah
As I celebrate life, I can't help but think how young my mom was when she died of a heart attack at 53. My mom didn't get to meet her grandchildren, but I'm determined to watch mine grow up.
— Andie MacDowell
My mom eventually got out to Oxnard and started a produce company and was in the strawberry business. My pops was out of the picture by the time I was 7.
I think my mom and dad both wanted to get across to me that... I obviously grew up with great privilege and was very lucky and was able to afford college and not have student loans, and they would pay for college, but beyond that, it would be up to me to make a living.
When my mom turned 91, I wanted to use the time that we have left in our lives to get to know each other as adults.
I still feel like a kid sometimes myself so hard to believe that I'm a mom. Now I'm an adult! It only took 38 years!
This business - the auditions, the anxiety - it's all so, aaah, crazy! But I can always call my mom in Cuba to be reminded of what real life is.
— Ana de Armas
My mom used to say that Greek Easter was later because then you get stuff cheaper.
— Amy Sedaris
My mom taught me to go after my dreams. I have this faith in myself that I must have gotten from her.
— Amy Jo Johnson
My mom was really of the belief that, as long as you were reading anything, it was okay. Just read.
— Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
I would say the first concert I ever went to is my earliest memory. I was four and already obsessed with Michael Jackson. We were living in Munich at the time. My mom, being the best person ever, somehow managed to get us two tickets to the '97 Michael Jackson History World Tour.
— Amber Mark
A lot of people think I grew up with just my brother and me, but mom was there even when she wasn't. We had a good household.
I did some pretty bad things as a teenager. When I was 13, I took my friend's mom's car out for a joyride, and I actually managed to hit somebody else's car. No one was hurt, but needless to say, I didn't get behind the wheel again until I had my driver's license.
— Amanda Righetti
The youngest boy in an Indian family has a good life. Growing up in a matriarchal family where my Indian mom's culture was dominant, I experienced this first hand.
My mom is an experimental chemist and physicist, so she is a cut-and-dried, nuts-and-bolts kind of woman, and my dad is a theoretical chemist, so we were definitely raised with his philosophical point of view: imaginary numbers and dimensions beyond our own. That's the kind of thing we would talk about.
When you think of couponing, you picture a mom cutting coupons out of the back of the newspaper.
— Andrew Mason
I always dreamt of being a girl. One of my earliest memories is spinning around in my mom's skirt trying to look like a ballerina.
My mom and sister both make fun of me now. Well, it looks like you're on trade block again. Where we going this year?
— Andre Drummond
Growing up in a house where there was a lot of different musical influences - my mom listens to soul stuff and Top 40, my sisters would listen to hip-hop - and the church, I grew up listening to a lot of gospel stuff. So I think that plays a role in how I make music now because my music has a lot of range. I don't just do one thing.
My mom was born in Korea - Seoul, Korea, during the '50s, '51. She was abandoned; her and my uncle were abandoned. My grandfather was a Seabee and adopted my mom and my uncle, and brought them to Compton in the '50s. That's where she was raised.
My mom's made it clear to me that, like, there's no trust fund.
Obviously I was well aware that I had what people consider a privileged upbringing. My mom was never a bake-cookies sort of mom. I really had no reins whatsoever.
I know I'd be a good mom.
— Ana Kasparian
I know I'm talented, but I wasn't put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it's not where it begins and ends.
— Amy Winehouse
I was always a drama queen. I remember playing in the kitchen, trying to get my mom to think I was dead and call the police. When she didn't, I would cry. I was always theatrical. I don't think any of my relatives are surprised.
— Amy Lee
Come Christmas Eve, we usually go to my mom and dad's. Everybody brings one gift and then we play that game when we all steal it from each other. Some are really cool, others are useful and some are a bit out there.
— Amy Grant
Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
— Ambrose Bierce
I think our dad and our mom have always told us that in racing we're a team, and we work together, and that's how it's always been, and I think that's how it's always going to be.
— Amber Cope
My mom reminds me that all things are possible.
— Amandla Stenberg
