• "I don't think I would have been able to stick with it and been proud of who I am and be feminine out on the court. I think I would have folded to the peer pressure if I didn't have my mom to encourage me to be me and be proud of how tall I am." - Lisa Leslie Tweet
• "My mom has this great skiing event in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, every year for a local charity." - Joely Fisher Tweet
• "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 Tweet
• "My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education." - Jennifer Garner Tweet
• "And to this day, my Mom is my role model." - Paul Ryan Tweet
• "I used to do skits for my mom... and I was always entertaining as a kid." - Leah Remini Tweet
• "The 'believe' tattoo is because my mom always told me to believe." - Ashley Tisdale Tweet
• "Mothers are the necessity of invention." - Bill Watterson Tweet
• "I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars." - E. M. Forster Tweet
• "My mom was diagnosed with breast cancer when I was 13 and it was something we weren't really aware of as a family." - Rima Fakih Tweet