My mom would put me in these preppy little suits and slick my hair to the side. I have these baby pictures of me where I'm this little preppy kid with a sweater tied around my neck.

- Alexander Wang

My dad didn't graduate from high school, ended up being a printing salesman, probably never made more than $8,000 a year. My mom sold real estate and did it part time.

- Al Franken

Personally, I am obsessed with my mom, and I would do literally anything for her.

- Alexa Von Tobel

If I would make a song dedicated to any woman, it would have to be my mom because, you know, she's been there since I came out of her. She would have to be the one... my mom or my daughter.

- Action Bronson

I could get away with not taking care of myself as a bachelorette but as a mom I can't.

- Alanis Morissette

I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing 'Maria' from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring, I hang up.

- Adam Sandler

My mom would take me to restaurants, and the first thing I'd ask for would be a pen and a napkin, and I'd sketch shoes and shoes and shoes.

- Alexander Wang

I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.

- Al Sharpton

My mom had very low expectations for me, and she really had a point. I was a big problem at seventeen. If I had a kid like me, I would have those same expectations.

- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I was so ready to become a mom. Actually, I was ready secondarily to become a mom. I was so ready to have the intimacy and commitment of marriage.

- Alanis Morissette

I lived with my mom in a really small apartment. My bedroom was like in the living room. That's why I still love to sleep on couches now.

- Alicia Keys

My dad's a pastor and a seminary professor; my mom, she has such great faith.

- Allyson Felix

Ultimately, the only people who are in any way edified by hanging with famous people are you at the age of 11 and your mom.

- Adam McKay

My mom always said, 'Don't date a guy who thinks he's prettier than you.'

- Alicia Keys

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

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

- Alice Walker

My mom is great and I make sure that we pray together before every race. She helps me put everything in perspective and remind me of the real reason I run.

- Allyson Felix

My mom is definitely my rock.

- Alicia Keys

I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.

- Adam Carolla

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

- Alice Walker