Famous Quotes & Sayings

D. H. Lawrence

She is my first, great love. She was a wonderful, rare woman - you do not know; as strong, and steadfast, and generous as the sun. She could be as swift as a white whiplash, and as kind and gentle as warm rain, and as steadfast as the irreducible earth beneath us.

Cuba Gooding, Jr.

Don't let people disrespect you. My mom says don't open the door to the devil. Surround yourself with positive people.

Conor Oberst

I think in a lot of ways unconditional love is a myth. My mom's the only reason I know it's a real thing.

Danny Pudi

My mom put me in dance classes when I was 5 years old.

Danny Pino

Choose wisely, then eat in moderation. When I know I'm going to Mom's for dinner, I throw an extra 20 minutes on the cardio machine so I can be ready to eat.

Alexa Vega

I guess if you are making more money than your mom and dad, you can set your own boundaries.

Alexa Vega

My mom sent me to regular high school because she wanted me to have that experience and not say that I missed out, but I didn't like it at all. I'm more comfortable in the world that I'm in, I grew up in it so when I get around normal kids in regular high school I don't know what to do. I feel more secure in an adult environment.

Alexa Chung

I worry all the time that I'm going to run out of ideas, you know? I always tell my mom my fashion ideas, because I know she'll remember them.

Debi Thomas

I begged my mom to let me start skating.

Debi Thomas

I would make my mom buy me the toy doctor kit.

Debbie Ford

The present moment is the pivotal point of power.

Debbie Ford

We and we alone have the power to change our lives, and we can choose to do so at any moment.

Drew Barrymore

My mother used to dress rather risqué when I was a kid, and that sort of shocked me. I always thought moms were supposed to wear cardigans and flats, but she was in leather bracelets and minidresses. In hindsight, I thought it was pretty cool, but I'm probably more conservative because of it.

Drew Barrymore

I used to have a blankie, and when my mom had to wash it, I would sit outside the dryer and watch it go round and round, and cry.

Drew Barrymore

I'm a real stay-at-home mom. I'm really hands-on. Everything else became secondary.

Drew Barrymore

My favorite thing about being a mom is just what a better person it makes you on a daily basis,

Dorothy McGuire

I had such extraordinary breaks from the moment I entered the theater.

Dylan Lauren

My mom is a painter and photographer and my grandfather was an artist, so I've always been surrounded by creative people.

Douglas Booth

I remember someone saying to my mom that it must be so glamorous to have a child acting in movies. They had no idea how hard it was for her.

Doug Stanhope

Love is such an arbitrary thing. I love my mom. I love pancakes.

Douglas Adams

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

Donal Logue

I have 52 first cousins. My mom and dad were the only two to move to North America, so I've got deep family there, but I'm a California kid.

Donal Logue

My mom, she's from Ireland, coached tennis in Nigeria when she was a missionary and turned me on to it when I was young.

Cristela Alonzo

I always knew, even as a kid, that my mom had a really rough life, and I always wanted to make her feel happy and to make her feel good.

Creed Bratton

I love Westerns and I remember as a kid climbing up on the couch and make it into a saddle and shoot guns and fall off. I would lay there after my death and my mom would tell me to eat lunch and I'd say, 'I'm still dead, Mom!' I was Method, even then.

Criss Angel

It's so funny looking back, but my so-called overnight success actually took 15 years. I remember when I didn't have any money, and my only car was mom's Hyundai.

Craig Mello

My mom has a very subtle way of encouraging.

Daniel Radcliffe

I don't know where my romanticism comes from. My mom and dad would read to me a lot. 'Treasure Island,' 'Robinson Crusoe,' tales of chivalry and knights, things like that. Those are the stories I loved growing up.

Daniel Radcliffe

I'm not a religious person. My mom was of Jewish blood and my dad was Protestant.

Daniel Radcliffe

My dad believes in God, I think. I'm not sure if my mom does. I don't.

Daniel Radcliffe

My mom and dad were actors when they were younger and had a horrible experience of it. My dad became a literary agent and my mom a casting director.

Cynthia Heimel

We all have rosy memories of a simpler, happy time- a time of homemade apple pie and gingham curtains, a time when Mom understood everything and Dad could fix anything. "Let's get those traditional family values back!" we murmur to each other. Meanwhile, in a simultaneous universe, everyone I know, and every celebrity I don't know, is coming out of the closet to talk about how miserable they are because they grew up in dysfunctional families.

Cynthia Heimel

Those rosy memories we all share are actually memories from our favorite TV shows. We've confused our own childhoods with episodes of "Ozzie and Harriet," "Father Knows Best," and "The Brady Bunch." In real life, Ozzie had a very visible mistress for years, Bud and Kitten on "Father Knows Best" grew up to become major druggies, and Mom on "The Brady Bunch" dated her fifteen-year-old fictional son.