Content Updated On : 2022-07-05
My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World War II.
30 minutesEverything I am is because of my mom.
30 minutesI've wanted to come to the U.S. since I was 8 years old. Every single year, my mom and I watched the Oscars. I always told her, 'I want to do that when I grow up. I want to tell stories; I want to be an actor and director.'
30 minutesWhen you have girl children, they torture you! If at any moment of the day I ever think I'm remotely cool at all, which is hardly ever, I have two daughters who make sure that never happens. They say, 'Mom, you didn't really wear that?' And I say, 'Yes, and pretty much everyone saw it.'
30 minutesMy mom always told me that I could be anything I wanted to be. And I truly, actually believed it. And I fought.
30 minutesMy mother thinks I could have even run a larger company.
30 minutesHenry Hays was cheated all his life. He was cheated by his father who taught him to hate. His community taught him to hate. My mom told me, no matter what one does in life, he or she deserves some compassion, and I knew Hays deserved compassion more than anybody.
30 minutesI am not a woman on Monday, an immigrant on Tuesday, a worker on Wednesday, and a mom on Thursday, I am all of those things all of the time, and I am going to fight for all of those things all of the time.
30 minutesMy parents were reasonably affluent in Kabul. In the States, we were on welfare. My mom became a waitress, and my dad became a driving instructor. That part of the American immigrant experience applies to people of any nationality.
30 minutesWhat is free time? I'm a single mother. My free moments are filled with loving my little girl.
30 minutesMom worked as a school librarian, and she felt summers were for education.
30 minutesMy mom has always been my support system. She taught me to never give up and to keep pursuing my passions no matter what.
30 minutesWe 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.
30 minutesWhen I was in first grade, some psychologist told my mom if I didn't go to graduate school, she basically failed as a parent, because I had the aptitude to do it. Which is so dumb. Huge pressure!
30 minutesMy mom has always been beside me, always telling me what's right and what's not, guiding me through it all, keeping me away from bad company and from bad habits.
30 minutesI believe this with all my heart: The greatest coach of all time in my eyes is my mom. She's instilled in me a toughness and a perseverance and just a never-quit mentality, and I thank her every day for providing me, for what she sacrificed her life for.
30 minutesMy mom, she's still always there for me. Always.
30 minutesI'm just looking at how my dad's treating me and how my mom's treating me, and my mom has kind of backstabbed me a couple times.
30 minutesIt's tough growing up where I grew up. My family is very small and really tight. Just being around the neighborhood, my brothers were always around. I didn't want to be in any trouble because I knew my mom or brothers would find out. I didn't want to hurt their feelings. I just tried to do everything right.
30 minutesI think about my mom every day.
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