Famous Quotes & Sayings

E. B. White

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

Ann Romney

It's the moms of this nation - single, married, widowed - who really hold this country together. We're the mothers, we're the wives, we're the grandmothers, we're the big sisters, we're the little sisters, we're the daughters. You know it's true, don't you? You're the ones who always have to do a little more.

Ann Romney

I know what it's like to struggle and to have those concerns that all mothers have.

Anais Nin

But the artist persists because he has the will to create, and this is the magic power which can transform and transfigure and transpose and which will ultimately be transmitted to others.

Anita Roddick

I want to work for a company that contributes to and is part of the community. I want something not just to invest in. I want something to believe in.

Chuck Palahniuk

May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect.

Chuck Palahniuk

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.

Chuck Palahniuk

We'll never be as young as we are tonight.

Christopher Reeve

There is no such thing as can't.

Anne Baxter

It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Angie Harmon

All mothers go through the exact same things.

Angelina Jolie

If you don't get out of the box you've been raised in, you won't understand how much bigger the world is.

Amos Bronson Alcott

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.

Alveda King

We should recognize that women become mothers the moment they are pregnant.

Anthony de Mello

If you never condemned you would never need to forgive.

Angela Davis

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

Amy Goodman

Go to where the silence is and say something.

Amy Grant

In the past, when I'd recorded during a break in a tour, it was so easy to sing, because I felt strong. Also, like so many new mothers, I wasn't getting a lot of sleep, and sleeping is such a huge part of being able to sing.

Anita Hill

I did what my conscience told me to do, and you can't fail if you do that.

Ambrose Bierce

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

Alicia Keys

I'm inspired by artists and musicians. There are so many wonderful and talented people in the world. I love discovering new music, new writers, or new art.

Alicia Keys

My mom is definitely my rock.

Alice Sebold

Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.

Alice Walker

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

Alice Walker

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

Alice Walker

Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.

Anne Lamott

No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother's Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture's bad people and behavior.

Anne Lamott

I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends, and my own best friends' mothers, and from surrogates, many of whom were not women at all but gay men. I have loved them my entire life, even after their passing.

Anne Lamott

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.

Anne Lamott

Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.

Drew Barrymore

God made a very obvious choice when he made me voluptuous; why would I go against what he decided for me? My limbs work, so I'm not going to complain about the way my body is shaped.

Donald E. Westlake

Who's a boy gonna talk to if not his mother?

Dwight L. Moody

I never saw a fruit-bearing Christian who was not a student of the Bible.