Mom Dad Quotes

Working moms, and increasingly working dads, don't want a government handout, but they do need a hand up. ~ Madeleine M. Kunin

I'm not a religious person. My mom was of Jewish blood and my dad was Protestant. ~ Daniel Radcliffe

If my Dad doesn't like you, you will know. My Mom is just too innocent to ever lie. She doesn't even cuss. ~ Channing Tatum

I always had a standard of, back when I was doing the country music I always told people I would never record a song that I wouldn't sit down and sing in front of my mom and dad. ~ Ricky Skaggs

I grew up with my mom always talking to everyone everywhere, whether it was professionally or in a coffee shop. And my dad was the same way. So I love being able to talk to people, hear their stories and be inspired. ~ Katherine Schwarzenegger

Blessed with Mom and Dad's remarkable genes, raised on big words and big, iconoclastic attitudes, Larry and I, before entering kindergarten, knew who we were, what we wanted, and how we would get there. ~ Dan Hill

My dad was a golden gloves boxer in the Marine Corps, then a deputy sheriff. My mom worked as an office assistant. ~ Susana Martinez

From my mom and dad, because they're happily married for a long time: Just listen. Listen to him. I'm so independent and driven and stubborn. Just let him talk. It's about not being so stubborn and having to win every argument. My parents set a great example. They love each other and take care of each other so much. ~ Erin Andrews

My mom and my dad never pushed me into performing. They never prohibited me from trying anything, or being anything. They never restricted me in any way. For which I'll be forever grateful. ~ Heath Ledger

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

I always wanted what Mom and Dad had. ~ Kim Kardashian

I think my mom and dad knew from the very beginning that I was destined to go into public service. ~ Janice Hahn

Most young people haven't used their storytelling skills since they were 8 or 9 or 10 and wanted to persuade Mom and Dad to take them to the ball game. ~ Peter Guber

I just wasn't cut out to be a Chinese Tiger Mom. I'm more of an Irish Setter Dad. ~ P. J. O'Rourke

My dad's a jeweller, and my mom works for a bank. ~ Robbie Amell

On my mom's side I'm Mexican, and my dad is a white dude. ~ Tyler Posey

I've heard stories about me as a kid. My dad got me a T-shirt that said "here comes trouble," and when I ask my mom what I was like, she just sighs with this weary tone and says, "Oh, you were really busy." ~ Kristin Bauer Van Straten

My mom and dad will look at me and my husband, and they're like 'I feel so sorry for this child! He's not eating fish sticks and pizza!' I'm like, 'We try to give it to him, but he doesn't wanna eat it!' ~ Tia Mowry

I know my mom still wears lingerie and jumps out of closets to scare my dad. She's always joked that she tries to give him a heart attack so she can get his coin collection. But now she's actually worried that she might give him a heart attack. And the coin collection may not exist, so she's being gentler on him. ~ Pamela Anderson

Looking back, I think I was always musical. My dad was very musical, and I think my mom was musical. ~ Paul McCartney

It's interesting, because I named my first album after my dad because I wanted to find him. My second album was named after my mom because I felt like I learned all my creative talents I learned from her. All the survival stuff, too. And then the next album is 'Maya,' which is not my real name. It's fake. ~ M.I.A.

My mom and dad met at UCLA when he as a captain in the Air Force and she was in her junior year. ~ Tracy Austin

Dear Mom and Dad, Leave $50,000 in a bag under the bridge on Decatur Street. If there is no bridge on Decatur Street, please build one. ~ Woody Allen

My mom and my dad taught me the greatest gifts we have are our family, our health and the right to clean water and good land. ~ Erin Brockovich

At a very young age, I was in Germany watching TV and I told my mom I wanted to be an actor. She said, 'Go for it.' When my dad retired from the military, we moved to Los Angeles, and it all kicked off. ~ Khleo

What's going to be funny is when they think Mom and Dad are a little bit cool, because right now, we're not cool Mom and Dad. ~ Angelina Jolie

Our house was a collection of silences, each room a mute, empty frame, each of us three oscillating bodies (Mom, Dad, me) moving around in our own curved functions, from space to space, not making any noise, just waiting, waiting to wait, trying, for some reason, not to disrupt the field of silence, not to perturb the delicate equilibrium of the system. We wandered from room to room, just missing one another, on paths neither chosen by us nor random, but determined by our own particular characteristics, our own properties, unable to deviate, to break from our orbital loops, unable to do something as simple as walking into the next room where our beloved, our father, our mother, our child, our wife, our husband, was sitting, silent, waiting but not realizing it, waiting for someone to say something, anything, wanting to do it, yearning to do it, physically unable to bring ourselves to change our velocities. ~ Charles Yu

So, absolutely, [my Dad] will call and say, "I just got offered this or that and what do you think?" My Mom [Lisa Bonet] will do the same. And we all trust each other's opinions. And we all know each other so well and what we're capable of so, if someone's scared to do something, we encourage them to take that chance because we believe in each other as a family. ~ Zoe Kravitz

I was born to a Nigerian dad and a Kenyan mom, and coming to the States was really academic. ~ Dayo Okeniyi

I did grow up poor. My mom managed to get a job as a custodian at our church, and it was really just a favor for her, and my dad's an electrician - just a blue-collar family, and the house was usually falling apart. ~ Crystal Bowersox

My dad and mom divorced when I was around ten, and I didn't live with him after that, though he was close by and we saw each other weekly. I wasn't really aware that he was a writer; I didn't start reading his writing until I was about fifteen. It occurred to me then that my dad was kind of special; he's still one of my favorite writers. ~ Andre Dubus III

Since I was born I remember my dad and my mom always embracing diversity and differences among people and that being the core of America and happiness and all those different things. And that goes along with equality and you should treat everybody equal and be fair and not judge people and dislike people because they are different, and embrace and enjoy people because of the differences they have ~ Connor Barwin

I was so small, I wasn't even going to go back out for my junior year. But my mom and dad sat me down and said, 'we didn't raise a quitter - you're going back out.' I made the team and everything happened from there. ~ Mark Buehrle

More people are leaving TV behind to read my books than ever before. In the last year alone I gained over two readers (three, to be exact). So I'd like to take a moment and say thanks mom, dad, and kidnap victim I keep chained in the basement. ~ Jarod Kintz

As a little kid, not only is my dad Jo-Jo White, but M. L. Carr is involved in the family, Red Auerbach is my godfather, and my stepmother was an Olympic-caliber sprinter. Athletes were all around. I happened to be a natural athlete. If I wasn't, it might have been hell. But I never got any pressure from my mom and dad to be an athlete. ~ Brian J. White

No one was more important than my mom and dad. I know they are watching from a place up in heaven here today to make sure all their kids are doing good. ~ Eddie Murray

It is a dichotomous time where the younger generation is perceived as free. But smoking pot is not being free. Taking drugs is not being free. I feel that being courteous and telling your dad, 'I'm going to have a drink' with your dad saying 'give me one too' is cool. That's being freer, happier and nicer. But having issues and saying that 'I am my own person, I am moving out Mom!' is not. Yes, if your mom tells you to move out then that's being free. ~ Shahrukh Khan

I gotta be honest with you. I'm kind of jealous of the way my dad gets to talk to my mom sometimes. Where are all those old-school women you can just take your day out on? When did they stop making those angels? ~ Bill Burr

Despite everything my mom and doctor and dad have said to me about blame, I can't stop thinking what I know. And I know that my aunt Helen would still be alive today if she just bought me one present like everybody else. She would be alive if I were born on a day that didn't snow. ~ Stephen Chbosky

In 1953, Mom and Dad, living in Toronto, discovered, to their shock, that Mom was expecting. I was born in June 1954. My parents, thrilled, showered me with love. ~ Dan Hill

My mom, dad, grandparents, we all do voices. ~ Bill Hader

I feel like I've lived quite a sheltered life, like my mom and dad were quite protective of me. ~ Leona Lewis

Ledisi means to come here, to bring forth. It's a Nigerian word and it's from the Yorubu culture, I believe, and my parents named me, my dad and my mom, and really my dad, and I had no choice in that. That's my real name and that's what it means. ~ Ledisi

We had to give each other permission to be different as parents. That's why there's a mom and a dad with two different approaches, because you do need both. ~ Bridgette Wilson

Probably the only thing my mom and dad agreed on was the vital importance of guilt. ~ Linda Barnes

I was going through some stuff regarding my mom and dad. There was 30 years difference [between them], so when you hear the lyric, "Girl I love you / You know I do / And I do not doubt / That you love me too / But you're so young / Your life has just begun", that's what I was wondering. They were married for 44 years. ~ Andy Kim

I learned from my mom and dad, who didn't have a formal education but had doctorates of love. They told me that if you gave 110 percent all the time, a lot of beautiful things will happen. I may not always be right, but no one can ever accuse me of not having a genuine love and passion for whatever I do. ~ Dick Vitale

My dad was a theater actor, so I would follow him backstage. And my mom was a casting director. The moment I heard the applause and realized it would get me out of school, I was hooked. ~ Christian Slater

I'd like to thank Mom and Dad, just for the genetics. ~ Shawn Michaels

At some point, in order to gain his identity, the kid goes "I'm not my dad" or "I'm not my mom." ~ Guillermo Del Toro

My mom and dad are both in stand-up comedy, so that's where I started, that's where I got everything. My roots are holding the mic. ~ Pauly Shore

There's a lot of influences that I have from Detroit that are subliminal. I mean, I spent the first 10 years of my life there. My mom and dad were born and raised there, so a lot of that rubbed off on me. When I get angry, sometimes a Detroit accent comes out. ~ Lizzo

The first show that my dad and my mom did together was for, was a comedy series, a short form that went in the middle of late-night news, and then through all of their career, it was always the "Ed Sullivan Show," it was a variety act, my dad was on the "Jimmy Dean Show" for a few years. ~ Brian Henson

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'm more like my father, personality-wise. But my mom and I get alone really well - obviously, because my mom and my dad get along so well. ~ Jenna Bush

I'm just going to jump and say:hey Mom, Dad, I'm gay, What's for dessert? ~ Kathe Koja

My mom and dad were actors when they were younger and had a horrible experience of it. My dad became a literary agent and my mom a casting director. ~ Daniel Radcliffe

I wanted to get into films, and my parents were against it. I convinced my mom, and finally she convinced my dad. My dad then felt, who best to launch his son than him? So he launched me, and here I am. ~ Vijay

You need your mom and dad to protect you. It means they love you so much. ~ Gabby Douglas

My mom and dad passed away from cancer. Within nine months, I lost both of my folks. Immediately after that, I had a horrible betrayal where my brother, who worked for me, stole a lot of my money. He's in jail now. ~ Dane Cook

My parents were very young when they had me. They were still growing up and learning themselves. They did the best they could, but my mom and dad split up when I was little ... So that kind of made me stronger. ~ Justin Bieber

I want to be on stage and perform and win Grammys and help out my family in Bulgaria, because they are struggling, and my mom and dad, too. ~ Leah LaBelle

Work ethic has always been stressed in my family. My dad is going to be 80 years old and he still works part time. My mom just retired a couple years ago and she's in her mid- to late 70s. ~ Jamie Moyer

My mom and dad got divorced, so it was one of those things where Sundays I'd go to Dad's apartment, and this was, say, 1970-whatever, and it had a pool table on the top floor in a very traditional kind of divorced-dad apartment building. ~ Chris Eigeman

My guess is my brother would call his mom and his dad pretty regularly, a lot more than I probably did. ~ Jeb Bush

My mom is a very warm, typical sort of Jewish-mother type. And my dad has a somewhat, um, different personality. ~ Peter Orszag

Listen to your mom and dad! They are almost always right, especially about boys. ~ Melissa Ordway

My family wasn't particularly political. Mom and Dad voted, but that was the extent of their involvement. In fact, I ended up going to U.C. Davis because, to them, Berkeley was too radical. ~ Jackie Speier

Ultimately, my connection to my Indian-ness comes back to my mom and dad. They would all tell me and my siblings stories about their life in India, so it was very close to my two brothers and my sister and I. ~ Nikki Haley

But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24. ~ Rachael Leigh Cook

Mom, Dad, I'm fourteen, I see what the world is like. And, no, I did not get this from the psychologist ... I came to this understanding on my own, from what I really see in myself and about life. ~ Darryl Steven Markowitz

Adjusted for inflation, somebody going to college today to a state university, is paying about 300 percent of what her mom or dad did just 30 years ago. ~ Elizabeth Warren

I guess if you are making more money than your mom and dad, you can set your own boundaries. ~ Alexa Vega

My mom wasn't, like, she was reading all these historical romance novels the majority of the time. She read a feminist book and then my dad would sit down and explain it to her like she was an idiot. ~ Kathleen Hanna

It's like my characters, all my men are Dad and me in a mess; all my female characters are smart and hopeful, like Mom just trying to make the best of things. ~ Bret Easton Ellis

My question about luging is, How do you get into the luge community to begin with? Is it one day like, 'Mom, Dad, I really want to luge.' And your parents are like: 'O.K., I'll quit my job. We'll move to an Alpine community.' ~ Douglas Coupland

My father had infused my childhood with unspoken blame. He was the kind of man who scoped around looking for things to be angry at. It had turned me into a knee-jerk suck-up to authority - Mom, Dad, teachers. 'Whatever makes your job easier, sir or madam.' I craved a constant stream of approval. ~ Gillian Flynn

My dad was an autoworker, my mom was a clerk. Until I was thirty-five, I never made more than fifteen thousand dollars a year. ~ Michael Moore

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

My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing. ~ Vince Vaughn

My life has always been with my dad. Since I can remember, I was raised by my father my entire life. So he's kind of been that mom and father figure - always. ~ Apolo Ohno

My dad served 21 years and my mom did 13, so through that process, they taught me that I always have to give back. ~ Robert Griffin III

[My mom] worries about me going and taking drugs, whereas my dad advises me on what drugs to take and what ones not to take. So, they're very different. ~ Charli XCX

My brother's a grip. My mom's a scriptwriter. My dad's a director. So it's like, at heart, I'm a below-the-line girl. ~ Kristen Stewart

My nursery school did a production of 'The Three Little Pigs.' I played the third pig. When the wolf knocked on my door, I refused to get up and answer it because, to me, he was knocking the wrong way. I just lay there, snoring away on stage, fully immersed in my character. My dad turned to my mom and said: 'Dustin Hoffman.' ~ Zooey Deschanel

I remember taking my mom and dad to the premiere of 'The Inbetweeners Movie' and being really nervous. My mom was like, 'Laura, don't worry: I've watched all of the first series of the TV show, so I understand what this is going to be like.' ~ Laura Haddock

My dad is from India, my mom is from Russia. Fortunately, we moved a lot. I went to a lot of different schools and completely different cultures, so that's my background. ~ Annet Mahendru

My mom's Jewish and my dad's Irish Catholic alcoholic, so I whine on the inside. ~ Margaret Smith

It's a mission for me to make sure that philanthropy doesn't feel like a vintage hand-me-down from mom or dad. I want people to feel compelled to do something positive because they just love it, they're excited about it, and it's cool. ~ Usher

Dad is in commercial real estate. Mom is a writer and a retired teacher. ~ James Snyder

When I was in my early twenties, my mom started repeating things, asking the same questions, telling the same stories. It was like, 'Oh, God, this is not right.' When I was 25, my brother and I finally told our dad we had to take her to the doctor. ~ Lauren Miller

My mom's a Catholic, and my dad's a Jew, and they didn't want anything to do with anything. ~ Isabelle Huppert

The golden child may be the oldest one, unless it's the youngest. It may be the toughest one, unless it's the most sensitive. It's not even necessary that Mom and Dad have the same favorite - and typically they don't. ~ Jeffrey Kluger

When my mom and dad got married, they lived in south Boston, which is where the first six of my brothers were born. After that, they moved to Minnesota, which is where the other five of us were born. So there's 11 of us. ~ Denis McDonough

My dad was a Punjabi from Amritsar, and my mom is a Punjabi from Kashmir. My dad was a soldier in the Indian Army. ~ Akshay Kumar

My own back yard, and my mom and dad's back yard, is where I learned about tomatoes and weeds and daily maintenance. ~ John Bytheway

My mom's been married three times; my dad has been married a lot. I didn't really see my dad that much. ~ Skeet Ulrich

I think for me, as far as cooking, some of it came naturally just from watching my dad. My dad was more of the cook than my mom was, so it's just handing it down from generation to generation. I just love to cook and have fun. And as performers, we love to cook, and we love to entertain people. ~ Joey Fatone

My mom had a job, and she also took care of us, and she also took care of Dad - I always saw her pulling triple duty, doing more than I ever felt like she needed to. I made a promise to myself that it would be more of a team effort in my family someday. And because of that, I became more independent. ~ Carrie Underwood

When my first semester grades came out, my mom and dad told me I wouldn't be playing football. ~ Joe Biden