‘One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad.’ – Jim DeMint

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

‘It was my 16th birthday – my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do – write songs and sing them to people.’ – Stevie Nicks

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

‘No matter how good you are, at some point your kids are gonna have to create their own independence and think that Mom and Dad aren’t cool, just to establish themselves. That’s what adolescence is about. They’re gonna go through that no matter what.’ – Eddie Vedder

‘It’s always been a dream of mine to get somewhere and to have my mom and dad with me up there.’ – Haley Reinhart

‘My parents couldn’t give me a whole lot of financial support, but they gave me good genes. My dad is a handsome son-of-a-gun, and my mom is beautiful. And I’ve definitely been the lucky recipient. So, thank you, Mom and Dad.’ – Ashton Kutcher

‘My mom and dad used to tell me, ‘You’ve got to see this film,’ and they were influential to a high degree of the films I saw as a kid.’ – Jason Statham

‘I told my grandma a long time ago that I was going to take my mom and dad out the hood.’ – Young Dolph

‘My mom and dad weren’t together, so I never thought I would get married.’ – Kirstin Maldonado

‘Okay, fluoride in the water to help our teeth. Well, shouldn’t that be the job of your mom and dad? To teach you how to brush your teeth and use mouth wash? What do we need the government to do it for? Clearly, what a scam. Fluoride in the water.’ – Jesse Ventura

‘My mom and dad understood that every generation has to earn its freedom over and over again.’ – Martin Luther King III

‘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.’ – Charlie Puth

‘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

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

‘What I’m trying to say is, I’m really happy I’m not a doctor. So, take that mom and dad.’ – Simu Liu

‘I always wanted what Mom and Dad had.’ – Kim Kardashian

‘Being an only child, I didn’t have any other family but my mom and dad really, since the rest of my family lived quite far away from London.’ – Tom Hardy

‘I think I grew up with a profound sense of watching people who were good people, who were smart people, who were hardworking people – God, nobody on this Earth worked harder than my mom and dad – and they had very little.’ – Elizabeth Warren

‘I watched my mom and dad build everything that matters – a family, a home and a good name.’ – Mike Pence

‘My Mom and Dad always told me to not act on emotion, act on what is real. When you’re mad don’t do something wrong because you’re mad.’ – Mookie Betts

‘My mom and dad put my brother and sister through university and they were very keen for us to have an academic background just to give us a chance.’ – Rob James-Collier

‘A little before my 10th birthday, I was like, ‘Can I please have a puppet, Mom and Dad?’ They were like, ‘No. You are a singer, not a ventriloquist. You have three brothers, and you’re in gymnastics. There’s no way we have time for this.’ – Darci Lynne Farmer’ – Darci Lynne Farmer

‘I am blessed to have Mom and Dad.’ – Kevin Eubanks

‘I was selling stuff probably since I could remember, like 6 or 7 years old. I was always out there helping my mom and dad sell watches, glasses, CDs, DVDs, stuff like that. Whatever we could put our hands on. I did it until I was around 17. But I was just doing it because I had to. There was no other option.’ – Giannis Antetokounmpo

‘My mother was a full-time mom, and Dad started his own business. He was a mini-American dream story. Came from Russia at age 4, started his own pen business in Brooklyn. The company isn’t around now, but he created his own healthy little world, leaving a decent legacy. My dad taught at Cooper Union but was never fully graduated himself.’ – Bonnie Hammer

‘Both my mom and dad were models.’ – Lauren Wasser

‘We believe that the real child-care experts are mom and dad. That’s why we brought in the universal child care benefit way back in 2006.’ – Pierre Poilievre

‘It’s so crazy: my mom and dad divorced when I was 11, and my fondest memories are in the Philippines and being raised by my mom. It’s such a big part of my life.’ – Jo Koy

‘My mom and dad used to call me ‘full drama’. Mom had many videos of me as a kid where I was doing some dance moves, and suddenly the next moment, I was on the floor.’ – Janhvi Kapoor

‘My mom and dad worked very hard to give me the best chance in – not just in golf but in life. You know, I was an only child, you know, my dad worked three jobs at one stage. My mom worked night shifts in a factory.’ – Rory McIlroy

‘It’s because of their unrelenting, unconditional support and love I’m able to have the life that I have now and do everything I love to do, and that starts with the selflessness and love of my mom and dad.’ – Jordan Fisher

‘I think number one is what my mom and dad preached to me when I was a little kid: Just because you may have athletic ability and you may be able to play a sport doesn’t make you any more special than anybody else. Doesn’t mean God loves you more than anybody else.’ – Tim Tebow

‘It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from ‘Dear Abby’ instead of going to Mom and Dad.’ – Pauline Phillips

‘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

‘My mom and dad got divorced when I was, like, 8, and when I went to my dad’s house on the weekend, he’d play a lot of music: Miles Davis, Radiohead, Thom Yorke, Elton John.’ – Lil Yachty

‘If you’ve witnessed bullying or if you’re being bullied, tell somebody you trust. Tell mom and dad. Tell your counselors or your coaches. Tell your teachers. Tell an adult who you trust.’ – Stephanie McMahon

‘When I was six years old, Mom and Dad gave me a guitar for my birthday, and Daddy taught me the chords to ‘You Are My Sunshine.” – Roy Orbison

‘I grew up with the Highwaymen, which was Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson. Mom and Dad rode rodeo, so country music was always in the house and the car. They threw in some Dolly Parton, too.’ – Christian Kane

‘When you were growing up, your mom and dad told you to look both ways before crossing the street or not to get into a car with a stranger. It’s the same with the Internet. We have a big responsibility and a huge role in bringing all the stakeholders to the table – users, parents, educators, law enforcement, government organisations.’ – Chris DeWolfe

‘I grew up on sets, because both my mom and dad were commercial and TV actors, so I’ve always felt very comfortable in that world.’ – Camila Morrone

‘Marvin Gaye is an inspiration to me. He was one of the first Motown musicians that my mom and dad introduced me to, and I always thought it would be a good idea if I was ever an artist, and now I am, to make a record called ‘Marvin Gaye.” – Charlie Puth

‘My mom and dad are just happy that I’m doing something that’s not illegal. My brother is just happy I found something that I’m passionate about. I didn’t see the future. They did. They saw a future for me in anything I wanted to do.’ – Eddie Kingston

‘My parents never pressured us. I didn’t even know how good my mom and dad were until someone told us.’ – Jrue Holiday

‘I did grow up in Los Angeles. I actually didn’t start acting until I was sixteen, so I was very removed from the Hollywood scene. I had always been in my school plays, but my mom and dad wanted to keep me out of the business until I was old enough to know who I was and not let anyone change me.’ – Halston Sage

‘I have great genes. Thank you to my mom and dad for that one.’ – Gloria Estefan

‘My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all – the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be, and much less about what we would do.’ – Mitt Romney

‘I loved rock and roll when that came in, Bill Haley, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, all those great records. So I begged my mom and dad for a guitar, which eventually they did get me for Christmas, but it went out of tune very quickly, and it hurt my fingers.’ – Ian McLagan

‘My dad lived a good life. He was a simple guy. His family had been poor, and he joined the Marines to be able to send money home to his mom and dad and brothers and sisters. He genuinely had the intention to live a good life and to respect other people.’ – Brendon Burchard

‘Mother Nature give me a hell of a body. My parents or whatever. Thanks, Mom and Dad. Mother of nature… From Russia with love.’ – Alexander Ovechkin

‘My mom and dad were ‘helicopter parents,’ literally. Meaning, I didn’t have a nanny, so I went up in the helicopter. My entire early childhood education consisted of tagging along while they reported on car accidents, multiple-alarm fires, and shootouts.’ – Katy Tur

‘I finished high school, moved to Nashville for college, and set out to break into the music business. Every night when I called home with news of my experiences, my mom and dad would encourage me to keep taking those small steps.’ – Trisha Yearwood

‘I hope that, somewhere, Mom and Dad are proud that little Walter is performing with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.’ – Walter Cronkite

‘My mom and dad began giving me dancing lessons when I was about four.’ – Demond Wilson

‘My parents have always had this philosophy that overindulging your children is one of the worst things you could do as a parent. It’s something that was hammered into my head growing up. And while my mom and dad are not professional authorities on parenting, I can confirm from experience that they had a point.’ – Dan Levy

‘My mom and dad just loved the fact that I fooled around. They just embraced it. They’d always kind of enjoy it, and they liked it when I made them laugh.’ – Dominic Monaghan

‘Our songs touch people, and take them back to a time when there was no threat of terrorism, when you didn’t have to lock your doors and when Mom and Dad took care of everything.’ – George Grove

‘It was sort of just a family sport. My mom and dad were pretty keen golfers when I was young and so were my grandparents, and I just sort of tagged along with them.’ – Karrie Webb

‘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

‘My earliest acting memory is making up a play for my mom and dad called The Lonesome Baby. I have no idea what The Lonesome Baby was about. I just remember the title. But I’m sure it was an epic.’ – Jane Horrocks

‘The real beauty of it – key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing.’ – Vince Gill

‘We’ve always loved going to the movies. Our mom and dad are big movie fans. They’d take us on these movie orgys where we’d see sometimes three movies in a day.’ – Lilly Wachowski

‘Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church.’ – Lynn Johnston

‘My Mom and Dad did it pretty good, so I know it can work. The foremost thing I would say about working with Robin and Sean is that they were devoted to this project and devoted to their characters. You can’t ask for any more from talented actors like that.’ – Nick Cassavetes

‘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

‘You know when everyone’s watching, your mom and dad, your friends in high school who thought they were better than you. You get your chance to get in the spotlight and shine.’ – Shaun Alexander

‘Most children – I know I did when I was a kid – fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don’t tell their real parents about that – you don’t want to tell Mom and Dad. Kids lead a very private life. And I was a typical child, I think. I was a liar.’ – Maurice Sendak

‘I’m sure there were times when I wish I had thought, ‘Gosh, that might really embarrass mom and dad,’ but our parents didn’t raise us to think about them. They’re very selfless and they wanted us to have as normal of a college life as possible. So really, we didn’t think of any repercussions.’ – Jenna Bush

‘My mom and dad – they were always there. They were always on the set. They focused on our family life. The entertainment business wasn’t the end-all. They weren’t out to get the next big paycheck or the next big movie. It was about ‘What can we do as a family.” – Candace Cameron Bure

‘In our family, mom and dad are Longhorns, our first two kids are Aggies and we’re hoping our last one is a Longhorn. It gives us family fun on Thanksgiving Day.’ – Bob Wells

‘My mom and dad played this music all the time when I was growing up, so to me songs by Jerry Lee and Fats Domino are the classics, they’re the best songs ever.’ – Chris Isaak

‘My mom and dad got divorced when I was very young, and growing up in a family where the head of the household wasn’t a man made a big difference.’ – Dave Mustaine

‘Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist – because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That’s how she found out what happened on the day my father died – she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose.’ – Mitt Romney

‘I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free.’ – Iggy Pop

‘My mom and dad met at Anaheim High School. After they got married, all they wanted to do was have four children, and they did.’ – Gwen Stefani

‘I wanted to perform well for my mom and dad, because in high school, I didn’t have a job. My brothers, they worked at Pizza Hut or places like that, but sports, that was my way of giving back.’ – Junior Seau

‘I have great faith that Heaven’s there and I’ll see my brothers and my mom and dad when I get there.’ – Ernie Harwell

‘Every kid needs to say, ‘I want what my mom and dad have.” – Josh McDowell

‘Most children – I know I did when I was a kid – fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don’t tell their real parents about that – you don’t want to tell Mom and Dad.’ – Maurice Sendak

‘I didn’t really get into golf until I was about 14. My mom and dad were taking lessons from a pro an hour and a half from our farm in Cohuna, Australia. When they got home, I’d ask my mom to explain everything they learned – drills and all.’ – Stuart Appleby

‘Well, Mom and Dad are both actors, and I’ve spent a lot of time watching my mom on stage and a lot of time on set with my dad, so it was very much a part of my growing up.’ – Eleanor Tomlinson

‘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

‘Now, if you’re Al Gore, you can afford $10 a pop for squiggly-pig-tailed fluorescent light bulbs. But if you’re mainstream America, two or three kids, mom and dad working outside the home, that’s not a very good deal.’ – Joe Barton

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

‘I love my mom and dad.’ – Taylor Momsen

‘I was a sickly baby, and after two sets of adoptive parents took me home, they returned me to the orphanage because of a serious respiratory infection. But as they say, the third time’s a charm, because my mom and dad adopted me and took me into their home where I was raised in a family full of love.’ – Rodney Atkins

‘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

‘The military infrastructure grew me. My faith in God is important, my belief in my country is important, my relationship to my family is important, the things that Mom and Dad tell you growing up are important.’ – Tommy Franks

‘Christmas was always a big holiday in our family. Every Christmas Eve before we’d go to bed, my mom and dad would read to us two or three stories and they would always be ‘The Happy Prince,’ ‘The Gift of the Magi’ and ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas,’ and I would like to keep that alive.’ – Cameron Mathison

‘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

‘You may earn whatever money you earn as a cricketer, but you want to play for your country. At the end of the day, you want to do something special. There are plenty of people who earn 50 crores or 100 crores as businessmen or big professionals or who are really doing well in business. But what gives pleasure to your mom and dad is the fame.’ – MS Dhoni

‘Being a Sikh meant having to do what Mom and Dad said, and going to temple, and Mom and Dad choosing who I would marry. But going to an American school taught me that I was the one who’s supposed to make those choices.’ – Sheena Iyengar

‘Feminists of my mother’s generation argued that both mom and dad should work a little less and each do some of the household chores. My parents, for example, split everything 50/50. Even though my father is a terrible cook, he still made dinner exactly half the time.’ – Emily Oster

‘We come from fallible parents who were kids once, who decided to have kids and who had to learn how to be parents. Faults are made and damage is done, whether it’s conscious or not. Everyone’s got their own ‘stuff,’ their own issues, and their own anger at Mom and Dad. That is what family is. Family is almost naturally dysfunctional.’ – Chris Pine

‘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

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

‘I definitely got my philanthropic genes from my mom and dad. They taught me from a very early age to always lend a helping hand to anyone in need, and I hope to raise my daughter to be a very kind and charitable person.’ – Rebecca Gayheart

‘I think the most fun part about working on ‘Good Luck Charlie’ is spending time with everyone, honestly, because everybody on set is like my brother and sister and mom and dad. They’re so fun to be around, so that’s probably the best part about working there.’ – Bradley Steven Perry

‘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

‘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

‘I don’t know where my romanticism comes from. My mom and dad would read to me a lot. ‘Treasure Island,’ ‘Robinson Crusoe,’ tales of chivalry and knights, things like that. Those are the stories I loved growing up.’ – Daniel Radcliffe

‘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 thought my family was really funny. Everybody in my family was funny. My mom and dad both have great senses of humor and really saw the funny in stuff, so I think that’s probably where it came from. I always try to see the funny in things.’ – Christine Ebersole

‘My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.’ – Dan Gable

‘My wrestling and family go together. It’s always been that way, from day one with my mom and dad, my sister, my wife, four daughters, grandsons, son-in-laws.’ – Dan Gable

‘My mom and dad were divorced, and although they got along very well, my mom thought American television was reprehensible, so I was raised on the BBC. I kind of agreed with her. We watched American news, though.’ – Joss Whedon

‘If you don’t have savings, and your co-founders are as poor as you are, and if Mom and Dad won’t loan you money, then your best bet is to find people that know you – your friends. If they, too, won’t help, then you’re stuck seeking out angel investors.’ – Vivek Wadhwa

‘My parents had a gardener when I was growing up, and he and I would dig in the dirt together – my mom and dad were definitely not digging with me! When I was 5, he helped me plant some corn in our backyard, and I remember how fascinating it was to watch it grow. Little did I know that 50 years later I’d be growing corn in a different way.’ – Howard Graham Buffett

‘When I was a kid, I played sports a lot. My mom and dad were divorced, but I hung out in the neighborhood a lot, and it was all about sports. I would be out all day on the sand lot or on the hockey rink. My dad would take me to baseball games, but he worked so hard, and he would always fall asleep.’ – Alex Gibney

‘I love my real mom and dad; I love them both equally.’ – Imogen Poots

‘It was so weird that I would end up directing ‘The Greatest Game Ever Played,’ because, y’know, I’m not a big golfer myself. But I grew up around the game. My mom and dad kind of built their dream house off the 11th fairway of Shady Oaks Country Club in Fort Worth.’ – Bill Paxton

‘All my life I’ve been that way – ever since I was a kid. It doesn’t matter whether we played video games or even before that when we had board games when you played with your sister and mom and dad – I didn’t like losing then and didn’t want to do anything but win when we played.’ – Tony Stewart

‘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

‘My mom and dad? Oh, they were a fiery pair. They stayed together for the kids and also because they were hopelessly in love with each other, but they were totally incompatible.’ – Peter Scolari

‘I grew up in a two-bedroom house with my grandfather, my mom and dad and four kids. I slept on the couch or on the floor, and I always wanted to have my own space.’ – John Searles

‘When I wanted to audition for a dinner-theater junior troupe in my hometown, I needed to have a piece of musical theater music to sing. I wasn’t sure what I wanted to use. My mom and dad suggested that I sing ‘Edelweiss’ because I knew it from the music box.’ – Audra McDonald

‘My first real acting gig was probably playing Mamillius in my mother’s ‘Winter’s Tale.’ My mom and dad are both in theater, so I grew up acting and being a little theater brat as well.’ – Logan Marshall-Green

‘Ever since the kids were babies, we have treated them with respect. We are the mom and dad for sure, but we look for opportunities for us to sit down and say, ‘How are things going for you? Is there anything that we can do as parents to help you? Let’s all come up with a solution together.’ We work better as a team.’ – Jodi Benson

‘My mum is, like, my biggest fan, and she’s the one who will basically do all the publicity for me back home… She’ll constantly be talking to me saying, ‘Dan, what’s going on? We’ve heard this. Tell us about it! Dad wants to know!’ And so I’ll give them as much information as I can, and Mom and Dad are both my biggest fans.’ – Dan Feuerriegel

‘Music has always been in my family down to my dad through my uncle. I’m just the next generation, since it’s always been around me when I was younger when I looked up to my mom and dad, to Michael Jackson, and B2K was my favorite band growing up.’ – Jacob Latimore

‘I’ve been a vegetarian since I was about 12 years old. When I became a vegetarian, I got my mom and dad to become vegetarian, and my brother became a vegetarian.’ – Christie Brinkley

‘I’ve had letters from people who have read my articles and said, ‘I’m a guy, I’m 18, and I’ve not come out to my mom and dad yet, but it was so nice to hear your story, and you know, I wish your article would have been longer, because you gave me hope for the future.” – Luke Evans

‘I was raised – my mom and dad were dairy farmers. Once you’ve made a decision to plant a crop for that year, you can’t go back and undo that decision.’ – Roy Blunt

‘I bugged my mom and dad to ‘get me inside the television set’ when I was about four years old.’ – Bill Mumy

‘I love my dad. It’s fair to say that I probably would not have thought of politics had I not seen my mom and dad involved in politics.’ – Mitt Romney

‘For the naysayers that claimed ‘American Family’ revealed us to be vacant, unloving, uncaring morons of the materialistic ’70s, this image will be proven wrong when Mom and Dad remarry… Make no mistake. This is not to emphasize the sadness of my demise but rather emphasize the love of my family and friends.’ – Lance Loud

‘My mom and dad always taught acting, so instead of getting me babysitters, they would just bring me to class.’ – Blake Lively

‘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

‘Mom and Dad are truly my heroes. And I have to say, so is my little brother Robert. He’s 11, and he’s just the most amazing boy. He’s so much like Dad sometimes, it’s a bit scary.’ – Bindi Irwin

‘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

”Sesame Street’ is awesome – not only because they teach, edify and entertain kids but because they savvily make it possible to do so with parental engagement, because the show is loaded with references for Mom and Dad.’ – Rachel Sklar

‘The first seven years of my life, me, my mom and dad and my four older siblings lived in a suburb of Stockholm, and my mom was very active with directing theater. So I basically grew up at the theater on the floors of the shows, so I was really surrounded with music at a young age.’ – Erik Hassle

‘My mom and dad are second-generation Greek-Americans who instilled in our middle-class family the values of hard work, self-reliance, and service, exemplified by my father’s tenure as a U.S. Marine who was stationed at Camp David under President Truman.’ – James Costos

‘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

‘My dad was an FBI agent. My mom and dad were straight arrow types, and I had a conservative, suburban Orange County upbringing.’ – Steve Breen

‘I don’t want just 25-year-old girls watching my show. I want Grandma, Grandpa and Mom and Dad and the kids. I just want everyone to hear good music.’ – Drake Bell

‘I think my mom and dad have an incredible work ethic, and we’ve grown up around it.’ – Kendall Jenner

‘I like to make music that feels good, that I can listen to with my mom and dad. I don’t think you’ll see me swinging on a wrecking ball any time soon! But if I do, that will be a day! My dad might have a heart attack.’ – Rosanna Pansino

‘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 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

‘When mom and dad were at the height of their careers, and things were super-crazy, and they couldn’t leave their houses, there wasn’t social media. It was all about autographs. Now, everyone’s the press. I feel fame is perforated: it can be glorious, but it can completely destroy a human, too.’ – Dakota Johnson

‘I think I can always look back and say my mom and dad would have done this or suggested that in a particular situation. I just really feel blessed to have had them as parents.’ – Tony Dungy

‘People have to understand how important it is for kids to be nurtured by their mom and dad and get the great role modeling when they are young.’ – Tony Dungy

‘When I was young, I watched my mom and dad build everything that matters: a family, a business and a good name. I was raised to believe in hard work, in faith and family. My dad, Ed Pence, was a combat veteran in Korea.’ – Mike Pence

‘When I graduated from high school, my mom and dad were saying I needed to go to college, but I said I wanted to pursue my dream of acting. At the end of my high school career, they quit their jobs, and we moved out to California on a leap of faith.’ – Elijah Kelley

‘My mom and dad are New Yorkers who left the tenement streets of the Bronx and came to Los Angeles when ‘West Side Story’ was real. They have the scars to prove it.’ – Taylor Negron

‘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.’ – Charlie Haden

‘I grew up in rural Pennsylvania, in a really rundown old house. I’d stay out till 8:30, 9:00 at night. Just blow in. My mom and dad never really cared much. It was okay. We were pretty free to roam. I mean, I had no concept of stopping play. It just didn’t occur to anyone.’ – Michael Keaton

‘I grew up watching my mom and dad selling rooms in our motels. We had CEOs coming to our house so that my dad could persuade them to have their executives stay in Hyatt hotels.’ – J. B. Pritzker

‘When I moved out, my mom and dad came to help me get settled into my apartment – a place I ultimately got hooked up with in Coach Nelson’s building. We had to figure out how to get all my shoes over here. That was a little stressful.’ – Stephen Curry

‘We understood, growing up – ’cause it was taught in our family home, my mom and dad – to respect women, for instance. To respect yourself. That you respect your name. Those are the kind of things we were taught.’ – Burgess Owens

‘When your mom and dad read the paper, they like to know their sons are on the roster.’ – Kirby Smart

‘I don’t know if I found soccer or if soccer found me. Especially because when I was younger, I was doing it, in a lot of ways, because I wanted the attention of my mom and dad.’ – Abby Wambach

‘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.’ – Anderson Cooper

‘I’m very quiet. In the beginning, my brother would play the piano, and I would sing, because that’s what my mom and dad did. And then along the way, somebody teased me for even thinking that I could get up there. That stayed with me, and I became very shy.’ – Tyka Nelson

‘My guess is that my mom and dad are very actively involved in the affairs of the next life, and they don’t spend too much time looking back. My dad used to say he always looks forward; he never looks back.’ – Mitt Romney

‘One cool thing is because Mom and Dad aren’t into the Hollywood scene, they don’t read ‘US Weekly’ or anything like that. They give me space. They don’t care. They just want all of their children to be doing something that they love to do and be able to pay their insurance.’ – Jack McBrayer

‘When I’m singing, it’s a mixture of my innocence in the projects, my mom and dad. It’s all the good and the bad, the laughs and the frowns that I went through and seen other people go through. Then you be trying to write it. Whatever’s coming out, you try and make it all cool.’ – Aaron Neville

‘All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they’ll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad’s restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you.’ – Lady Gaga

‘I went to Brooklyn College as an education major. It was a big deal in the family, but really, I was living for Mom and Dad.’ – Jimmy Smits

‘I have very vivid memories of my mom and dad making up batches of fake blood at night.’ – Steve Spangler

‘The concept of ‘family’ has changed so much. It’s not just ‘mom and dad’ anymore. It’s ‘mom and mom’ and ‘dad and dad,’ and it’s kind of beautiful.’ – Theodore Melfi

‘First of all, I was a good Christian kid. My mom and dad taught me never to fight. So I never fought. The other kids picked that up right away. They said, ‘Oh, he’s not going to try to do anything.’ They’d push me, shove me, hit me. I’d just stand there and take it.’ – Frank Peretti

‘I am so blessed. I have an incredible wife, children I adore; I’m a very happy man. I’ve got a great mom and dad and brothers and sisters and stuff, so I’ve always been happy. And I never stop smiling.’ – Michael Kelly

‘First and foremost, it’s my mom and dad who gave me the foundation, the belief in me that I could do anything.’ – Michael Kelly

‘I rarely felt or noticed any real divide between girls and boys when I was growing up. Maybe it was because I was so involved in sports and competed with the boys. Maybe it was my mom and dad, who constantly instilled confidence in me and never made me feel as though there were boy activities and girl activities.’ – Alex Morgan

‘I was a dramatic kid. I was always like, ‘Watch me put on my play, Mom and Dad! You have to watch me put on all these outfits and do this play!’ But my family is very academic and straightforward and normal Midwestern people, so the idea that I could act as an actual job wasn’t really there.’ – Laura Harrier

‘I watched a lot of television as a kid, and the suburbs to me – that was exotic! Like, a mom and dad who lived in the same house and had jobs and cooked breakfast at the same time every morning and did laundry in a washing machine and dryer? That was like, ‘Woah! Who are they? How do you get to be like that?” – Gaby Hoffmann

‘The house was big enough for my brother and me to have firecracker wars at one end and leave Mom and Dad undisturbed at the other. When firecrackers weren’t available, we attacked each other with pennies and marbles and clumps of Crisco, which made brilliant greasy asterisks when you missed and hit the wall.’ – John Dickerson

‘My mom and dad always tried to make Christmas special for us. We were poor, but it’s funny because we had no idea.’ – Johnny Mathis

‘My mom and dad taught me a lot. They kept me out of trouble and told me to go a better route. They taught me how to be a man, basically.’ – Jason Pierre-Paul

‘We lived on the farm, and our mode of transportation was wagon and team. No electricity. I’m the seventh son of 12 kids – eight boys and four girls. Mom and Dad handled that very well. But I wanted to get out.’ – Glen Campbell

‘My mom and dad have always, always, and continue to be the most incredible citizens of the world and most generous in quiet ways, that I strive to do even a fraction of what they do.’ – Gavin Creel

‘I have four sisters at home, and both my mom and dad worked, and both of them took care of us. It wasn’t like my mom was fully domestic, or my dad was fully domestic: they were just equals in their relationship. So I grew up with the perspective that women should be pursuing their dreams and not have to depend on a guy.’ – Daya

‘My mom and dad decided to homeschool us – I’m one of eight – because they really wanted us to be outside and learn some other fundamentals instead of it being school all day in a classroom.’ – Jamie Anderson

‘I have always been more of a joyous person than a sad person. But I was fortunate to have a mom and dad where my mom could look at my face and know what was going on and was able to get me to talk and draw it out. As a result, I didn’t have to hide an emotion. I didn’t have to worry about her telling me, ‘That’s silly.” – Phyllis Smith

‘My mom and dad both would grow vegetables. So, when I delivered my baby, we went there, and she would cook a lot, and we would eat all the vegetables from their garden.’ – Doutzen Kroes

‘A lot of our family was undocumented. My mom and dad were both super conservative. My dad had a green card; my mom was an Eisenhower Republican who did not approve of all the ‘illegal people.” – Luis Alberto Urrea

‘I was always interested in storytelling, particularly in theater and film. I liked creative things. My mom and dad are wonderful people, but both are tone deaf, so I don’t know where the gene came from.’ – Marc Platt

‘I was very thankful that my mother was a very strong mom. She was mom and dad. She is mom and dad. She is my hero.’ – Ryan Frazier

‘There’s this issue where I’m really doing well and got hate ’cause I’m too light-skinned. I understand why people say that – throughout history, the lighter you are, that’s how it’s been. But it’s not my fault. My mom and dad had me! I look how I look.’ – Jorja Smith

‘We weren’t rich by any means, but we had each other, so we were rich in family. When you don’t have a lot, it just fuels that creativity. So it manifested in us doing characters of people in the neighborhood or doing impersonations of Mom and Dad. The comedy bug, it takes over.’ – Tony Rock

‘I was kicked out of my own house and had my own drag mother, you know, a house mother. Things with my family are great now – my mom and dad were at the premiere – but they had kicked me out.’ – Angelica Ross

‘Economically anxious, many parents see their children’s accomplishments as a sort of insurance against the financial challenges of old age; high-achieving kids, this logic goes, will become high-earning adults and therefore be better able to help Mom and Dad pay for the assisted-living facility in a few decades.’ – Alissa Quart

‘My mom and dad both worked when I was little… My mom, her mom died when she was 11, so she had a rough childhood as well. She put herself through college in three years at the University of Texas – while working a job to pay for it.’ – Nick Foles

‘We grew up probably having as hard a life as anybody. A lot of times, we didn’t have any food on the table. At Christmas, everybody else would always get something nice, but we’d get one T-shirt or one shirt… So I want to take care of Mom and Dad… and I’m having a damn good time doing it.’ – Jim Kelly

‘My mom and dad are great cooks. We ate meals at the dinner table, as a family.’ – Adrienne C. Moore

‘When I talk to my mom and dad, and I’m in Paris, I’m like, ‘Can you believe it?’ It’s ridiculous. I have a serious love for what we do. It’s not something we take for granted.’ – John Gourley

‘I’m a remedial reading student from Ohio who grew up to write pieces on my mom and dad in the ‘New York Times.’ They were really touched by that – something they never saw coming.’ – Mark Kozelek

‘There’s a misconception that I can’t relate to the quote-unquote ‘Asian-American experience’ because I didn’t grow up with an Asian mom and dad. And that’s just not true. I am Asian American, and so playing a girl who is half Korean, half white, but her white dad tried really hard to connect with her mom’s heritage – that’s very familiar to me.’ – Lana Condor

‘My mom and dad had a store, and sometimes people would return broken stuff. I’d take it apart and reassemble it. At 16, I really understood the architecture of things.’ – Marcel Wanders

‘My mom and dad met at U. Conn., and their lives couldn’t have been more different in terms of their upbringing.’ – Cheo Hodari Coker

‘When you’re going to meet your man’s mom and dad, it’s always nice to bring them something homemade and from the heart.’ – Katie Lee

‘I would always sneak in the refrigerator and eat seconds, and underneath my bed – you know, I had my own bedroom – it was littered with Twinkie wrappers and Jolly Rancher wrappers. And I would sneak-eat, because I was denied food, not because I was hungry, but because my mom and dad did the best they could in 1970 and ’71 and ’72.’ – Wendy Williams

‘With my mom and dad around, I became a child yet again.’ – Manisha Koirala

‘My best memories growing up are of putting on musicals with my mom and dad, Both of them are real hams; it was like vaudeville in East Hampton.’ – Alexa Ray Joel

‘I started working out and doing martial arts when I was about 4 years old, and I was competing by the time I was five or six. So my mom and dad had me doing push-ups and sit-ups from a very young age.’ – Sage Northcutt

‘I’m from a single-parent family. My mom is like my mom and dad. She’s my world.’ – Shaggy

‘When I was fourteen, Mom and Dad sent me to St. Joseph High School, the Catholic school up the hill from our place, housed in a 1950s-era tan brick building sometimes confused for a light industrial structure due to the surprisingly high smokestack of its old incinerator.’ – Pete Buttigieg

‘My mom and dad, although they may not have had a lot of formal education, they were two of the most brilliant people that I know.’ – Elijah Cummings

‘We became amazed with Property Brothers at how many kids watch and love the show. We’ll even have 4- and 5-year-olds walk up on the street and say, ‘Mom and Dad, look: it’s the Property Brothers.” – Jonathan Scott

‘We were pretty fortunate that we lived in a very supportive household, so our mom and dad, they didn’t care what we did. They just wanted us to do something. Whatever we’re passionate about, they would support us.’ – Jonathan Scott

‘I started busking when I was 24. I was living with Mom and Dad. I’d broken up with my girlfriend and didn’t know what I was doing with my life, and I thought, ‘Well, this is the last shot – I’m going busking, and let’s see what happens.” – Passenger

‘I feel like in the old days, it was once it’s a divorce, it’s a constant fight until they die. That’s how my mom and dad lived. They didn’t talk to each other. They hated each other. They only spoke through lawyers. It’s just a horrible way to live.’ – Jo Koy

‘My mom and dad sang in the church choir. They also had a local group. They loved music, especially my dad.’ – Gladys Knight

‘My mom and dad are Republicans. At least two of my brothers are.’ – Eric Swalwell

‘I was always growing, so it made no sense for my mom and dad to load me up with a bunch of clothes. But I hated coming to school and feeling like a girl could be like, ‘Iman’s probably gon’ wear this today.’ So I would always have to mix and match and find a way to look different. I took a lot of pride in that.’ – Iman Shumpert

‘I did drama at school and when I was doubling Xena, one time for my birthday mom and dad bought me an acting course ’cause I’ve always liked the performance side of anything.’ – Zoe Bell

‘Even coming from Ghana to the United States, my mom and dad did so much to provide a better life for their kids. It was such a huge sacrifice; leaving your entire family – and we have a huge family – leaving them to come to America and have a better life for their kids.’ – Kofi Kingston

‘Nobody in our family’s ever recalled seeing my mom and dad speak a harsh word to one another.’ – Neil Bush

‘All my children ski now, they don’t have a choice. They have to join mom and dad on the ski hill.’ – Sophie Gregoire Trudeau

‘Yeah, well, in the beginning, our mom and dad had one philosophy. We couldn’t just sit inside and play video games.’ – Drew Scott

‘I am proud to be their child. It is very inspiring for me. I am inspired by my mom and dad.’ – Prateik Babbar

‘My mom and dad are from Mexicali, and I feel more Mexican than others who were born in Mexico because I fought for my race and for Mexico.’ – Andy Ruiz Jr.

‘With my Mom and Dad, we always had everything that we needed, but not everything that we wanted. I am going to get my parents what they want, especially my Mom.’ – Andy Ruiz Jr.

‘I’ve always been into music. My mom and dad used to always play music in the house.’ – Jade Bird

‘My mom and dad taught me nothing but ABCs.’ – Nick Diaz

‘My mom and dad divorced when I was 8 years old, but my Dad never left my life. We would go over there on weekends and he’d be playing his guitar, listening to Bobby Blue Bland and B. B. King and KBLX radio while he was out in the garage painting custom cars.’ – E-40

‘For the most part, metal has been underground. It’s too dangerous for mom and dad and schools. It will probably always be that way.’ – Wayne Static

‘I used to say to my mom and dad all the time, ‘I’m going to move to America.” – Peyton Royce

‘The greatest thing I could say about my son, and this is what you always worry about with your kids, that they kinda outgrow their Mom and Dad. But for him, when I see him, when he calls me Dad, and he can still hug me, he’s still like my little boy. Even around his friends, he still calls me Dad.’ – Herm Edwards

‘My mom and dad never really had friends, never went on vacations. We stayed home. And I see a similarity there: A general anxiety runs pretty deep.’ – Adam Granduciel

‘I eat a lot of Chicken McNuggets, which are full of protein. No, seriously, I train probably two or three times a week. I’m also lucky that my parents have good genetics – so, thanks, Mom and Dad!’ – Maryse Mizanin

‘To be honest my mentor was my mom and dad. I was very blessed and fortunate to have parents like I had.’ – Robert Parish

‘I miss my mom and dad. They brought me into this world and I wish they were with me on my birthday. So I don’t celebrate it much.’ – Sonu Sood

‘For me, it’s always been to be on your toes about everything no matter what you do – my mom and dad always stressed that to me.’ – Bubba Wallace

‘Both my mom and dad were quite supportive. They never ever stopped me in realizing my dreams in the film industry.’ – Amrita Rao

‘I go by the script and the director. Decisions about signing on the dotted line are mine. Of course, mom and dad listen to the scripts but I think I’m a better judge.’ – Shamna Kasim

‘My mom and dad taught me to never take anything for granted, and to give what you are to your community.’ – Dominique Crenn

‘My mom and dad have two very different tastes in music, so they were playing everything from Prince to the Beatles to Aaliyah.’ – Lexi Underwood

‘Something a lot of people don’t know about me is I sucked my thumb until I was in like eighth grade. It’s cause, when I was a baby, I sucked my thumb and I guess my mom and dad never weaned me off of that, because they thought it was cute. And then it’s like an addiction. That’s your security blanket.’ – Gabby Barrett

‘Mom and Dad were the best. I never clashed with them.’ – Frank Vogel

‘My mom and dad did something special when they made me.’ – Terrell Suggs

‘My Mom and Dad, I saw them struggling in their lives for me and my brother Ankur Tiwari. They struggled so that we could enjoy our lives.’ – Ankit Tiwari

‘Even when I was 3 or 4 years old, I’d go out riding in the car with mom and dad, and I already knew all the songs off mom’s Hank Williams and George Jones records by heart. I remember just sitting in the back seat and singing them at the top of my lungs.’ – Keith Whitley

‘Both Mom and Dad were blackout, killer drinkers. Dad came to school football games drunk. I’d find Mom passed out in the bushes, scared and hiding.’ – Mariette Hartley

‘We once were at a time in our lives when we felt our vote did not matter, and that came from conversations with people who felt the same way. But our vote really does count. We all sat down together, talked with our mom and dad, and you can’t get to the point that it doesn’t matter.’ – Shaquill Griffin

‘I’m one of the larger mammals. Everyone in my family was large, mom and dad, my two older sisters. If you meet a skinny person in my family, you say, ‘And you are married to who?” – John Pinette

‘It should not matter what a kid’s zip code is nor should it matter what their mom and dad do or in some instance don’t do for a living.’ – Tate Reeves

‘I want a relationship like the one my mom and dad had, what every strong relationship around me looks like, and I wasn’t going to allow past heartbreak to hinder me from finding that.’ – Becca Kufrin

‘My mom and dad had the relationship that I want, and they were teammates. They were always equal 50/50.’ – Becca Kufrin

‘My mom and dad bought me colorful fruit-patterned dresses from Kenzo when I was really young. I wanted to wear them all year round, even in the snow!’ – Kelly Gale

‘It’s amazing having in-home training. My mom and dad were my acting, singing and life coaches.’ – Isa Briones

‘My mom and dad were very young when they had me.’ – Brendan Hunt

‘Growing up, my mom and dad relentlessly emphasized hard work and a good education as key to a better future.’ – Alex Padilla

‘My mom and dad are from the streets. My mom’s from Chicago. My dad’s from Memphis. My dad got out of school and got with my mom. They were hustlers. They were from the streets. They were doing their thing. The streets ain’t got no love for the streets. You can light up the streets, or be a victim of the streets.’ – Young Dolph

‘My mom and dad weren’t married.’ – Shawn Porter

‘I think both my mom and dad, just preached, be yourself every day. Be humble, but obviously have fun with what you do.’ – Auston Matthews

‘When my dad was a traveling salesman we moved, I think, seven times before I was 14. There was no real home. Of course, it was wherever my mom and dad were and the house we were living in.’ – Steve Doocy

‘It’s cool to be able to make somebody’s day and smile, make a kid feel good and make mom and dad happy. And listen, there’s times when you’re having a bad day or you’re irritated about something. But it takes five seconds to make somebody’s day.’ – Jason Taylor

‘My mom and dad told me not to trust anybody, because people will hurt you.’ – Randall Cunningham

‘Sure enough, my mom and dad are from different cities north of Seattle and they had met through my mom’s cousin.’ – T. J. Oshie

‘My mom and dad encouraged my brother and I to travel and broaden our horizons.’ – Morten Andersen

‘Luckily, my mom and dad both have a pretty absurd sense of humor.’ – Edi Patterson

‘Both my mom and dad were hunters.’ – Doug Burgum

‘I was taught by excellent leaders, the best of which being my mom and dad, to do the right thing even when it’s hard.’ – John E. James

‘It was great to have two parents there because you get the nurturing from your mother and you get the sternness from your father. With him there, he was my role model. He was a guy that I looked at and saw how you did things, how to be a man. I think there were a lot of benefits to having mom and dad in the household, and it felt normal.’ – Jerome Bettis

‘The mind-set was, ‘We’re in the hood. Mom and Dad, they’re working their butts off. There’s no money around. We need to make some money.” – Jerome Bettis