Famous Quotes & Sayings

Catherine Zeta-Jones

Motherhood to me is something that I always wanted, but never quite knew how it was going to happen.

Bob Woodward

Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.

Beyonce Knowles

I felt like God was giving me a chance to assist in a miracle. There is something so relieving about life taking over you like that. You're playing a part in a much bigger show. And that's what life is. It's the greatest show on earth.

Edith Wharton

Charity, till then, had been conscious only of a vague self-disgust and a frightening physical distress; now, of a sudden, there came to her the grave surprise of motherhood.

Deborah Norville

The biggest surprise, which is also the best, is that I didn't know I would love motherhood as much as I do.

Carre Otis

Motherhood has brought me many joys and insights, but the new perspective it granted me on the role I had inadvertently played in young women's lives for the 2 decades I spent in the modeling industry was downright sobering.

Barbara Johnson

Motherhood: if it were going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor.

Ayelet Waldman

I am consumed, or I have been consumed, with these issues of motherhood and the way we act out societal expectations and roles. So both my nonfiction and my fiction have been pretty much exclusively about that.

Elizabeth Blackwell

The gross perversion and destruction of motherhood by the abortionist filled me with indignation, and awakened active antagonism. That the honorable term 'female physician' should be exclusively applied to those women who carried on this shocking trade seemed to me a horror. It was an utter degradation of what might and should become a noble position for women.

Catherine the Great

You were in a mood to quarrel. Please inform me once the inclination passes.

Dennis Brown

Certain rhythms just have certain moods.

Bram Stoker

Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.

Keren Ann

It's always a mixture of fiction and your own story. It's more I recreate atmospheres and moods through songs.

Al Groh

I don't know that my mood is a Rolling Stones mood right now, ... It would be kind of a shame to miss, though.

Grant Thomas

I was in the mood where it should have been a long walk off a short pier, but I actually went for a long walk on a long road.

Gerhard Schroeder

The people don't see a future, the country's mood is gloomy,

Laura Mvula

I always start with emotion. That's where I start all of my improvisations, on the piano. I always start with the mood or the feel of where I am in that moment.

Eleanor Catton

Sometimes I'll read something on Twitter, and I'll just be in the darkest of moods for the rest of the day or the rest of the week sometimes.

John Donne

Since you would save none of me, I bury some of you.