- Nov 07, 2020
Mom Quotes
The stories only a mom can give you.
This collection leans toward lighthearted, personal memories of mothers, including a childhood misunderstanding about a talking dog and a mom who still loves dancing along to modern music decades later. Readers looking for a more poetic tone might enjoy our Mom Shayari collection.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's really hard juggling, trying to carve out a time to have a family and be a mom and have a career, especially a creative career.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in 1974, so I grew up listening to what was on the radio - my mom's car sounded like Fleetwood Mac, because that was what was on the radio.
- Nov 07, 2020
My mom, who left Iran in 1976, steeped us in the smells, tastes, and traditions of Persian cuisine.
- Extended
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was young, one Sunday every month or so, my mom would load my brothers and me into our station wagon and drive 80 miles north to Orange County, where we'd meet our extended family at a Persian restaurant for lunch.
- Dark
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- Nov 07, 2020
After coating pasta with tomato-rich meat sauce, my mom would drizzle the bottom of a nonstick pot with oil and put it all back in to form a dark crust of tangled noodles. Once she unmolded it at the table like a cake, my brothers and I would excitedly cut into it, verbally laying claim to our preferred pieces.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
At home, Mom served us turkey breakfast links that she got at the health-food store. But whenever we went out for breakfast, she let my brothers and me order pork sausages (though, inexplicably, not bacon).
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up, I was aware of the kids-don't-like-vegetables trope, but it didn't make much sense to me. I never had any choice; all the traditional Iranian dishes my mom cooked teemed with herbs and vegetables.
- First One
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am the first one to go to university in my family. I am the first writer as well. My dad is a retired policeman, and my mom works for a glass-processing company. She is health-and-safety manager, and my stepfather is a plumber. I have four half siblings, one from my mom's marriage and three from my dad's marriage, so we are kind of scattered.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ray Bradbury published his first story 29 years before I was born. He established himself as an international writer long before I arrived. When my mom was nine months pregnant with me, my father read Bradbury aloud to her as I listened intently, in utero. And I later became his biographer.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom is from Ghana, and my dad is from Detroit, so I would go back and forth to Africa a lot.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm really the only artist in my family. I have one cousin who is a painter. I think I developed all of that from television and books - from being, essentially, an only child. I'm my mom's only child and my dad's fourth child, but separated by 14 years.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are so many slices to the African-American experience. I mean, I have the whole ghetto pedigree. My mom was in jail, I didn't have any money, and I didn't go to a fancy college. But that's not the type of story I want to tell or feel the need to tell on film.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
At nine, my mom used to tell me she saw an Olympic medalist in me. I used to take it as a joke, but she was very serious.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, my mom does keep making references to marriage, like all mothers do, but it's only in a lighter mood... she just jokes.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020