Dakota Fanning

My mom, she is the most unbelievable mom that you could ever have in your entire life and she's always with me on everything. The most I've ever been away from her is two days. I love her more than anybody could ever know.

American Actress

Sidney Poitier

I learned to hear silence. That's the kind of life I lived: simple. I learned to see things in people around me, in my mom, dad, brothers and sisters.

American Actor

Alicia Keys

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

American Musician

Kenny Troutt

My mom was born poor, raised poor, and was going to die poor.

American Businessman

Jeff Bridges

I think my love of journalizing my life comes from my mom.

Nadya Suleman

I wanted to be a mom. That's all I ever wanted in my life.

American Celebrity

Sofia Richie

I spent pretty much every minute of my life with my mom.

Kim Fields

Being a mom is really the greatest role in my life.

Kerri Walsh Jennings

My mom is a constant in my life in so many ways.

American Athlete

Jayson Tatum

I've always lived with my mom. My whole life.

Used casually, especially in American English, to refer to one's mother in everyday conversation.

Informal Term

'Mom' conveys a sense of warmth and affection when addressing your mother directly.

Affectionate Address

Using 'mom' suggests a close personal relationship in contrast to 'mother,' which is more formal.

Personal Connection

Can be used to describe someone who provides significant emotional support, not just biological mothers.

Emotional Support

Indicates a motherly figure irrespective of biological connections, highlighting the role over the relation.

Non-biological Relation

Sometimes used informally to address older women who are not one's mother, especially in certain cultures.

Endearment for Elders

 They lived with their mom and grandfather in a two-story row home with a front lawn and a back porch. Their mom was struggling with addiction all while the boys were growing up. She never really was able to hold down a job for very long. It was their grandfather's pension that supported the family, not really enough to pay for food and clothes

Alice Goffman: How we're...

 that the amount of nurturing a mother rat provides its newborn baby plays a part in determining how that baby responds to stress later in life. The pups of nurturing moms turned out less sensitive to stress because their brains developed more cortisol receptors, which stick to cortisol and dampen the stress response.

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 rupert will stay with mom while he fights his infection at his age being with her is the best possible place for him but there comes a time in every young animal's life when they have to break away from mum i'm back in tenerife to find out if yara the incredibly rare spix's macor

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 maybe from drought or shade, the more the mother tree sends to them. It's kind of like in your families, where if you're kind of stressed out, mom and dad kick in and help you out a bit more, right? Well, it's the same in forests. The other thing that we've recently discovered

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 good news bad news and mom said oh no you in that potty mouth but there is a phenomenal poet and a dear mentor of mine and fellow potty-mouth by the name of Kristen O'Keefe optics and she has this beautiful poem about women writers

Poetry makes people...

 Here's the second reason. That's my mom. Anyone here ever listen to what their mom told them to do? Everyone ever do what their mom told them to do? I rarely did, but what my mom said to me was, one day, she handed me a newspaper,

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 immunity boosting antibodies which it's almost impossible to replicate dom is relieved that at least this part of the process has gone to plan well done little boy little girl i think it's time to wake your mom up

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 I don't even talk about my mom really with my close friends. I put the wall up and I'm like, yeah I'm doing great. Doo-doo-doo, let's keep going. But again, I'm really trying to dig deep,

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 bit of persuading before they dare step foot into this brave new world the mom's trying to get the kids out of the box and into the burrow and the kids are trying to get mom from

Adorable Baby Animal...

 this surge of life from the ashes feeds the next generation the new shoots are rich in essential minerals for nursing moms and plenty of grass means plenty of milk