Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brooke Burns

I would borrow my mom's red Borghese lipstick and smear it on like a clown!

Brooke Burns

I love being a single mom. But it's definitely different when you're dating.

Brooke Shields

I was always with a single mom, and we never had schedules or anything. We were just Bohemian, us against the world, which was kind of great, but it certainly didn't breed security. I've gotten hyper-sensitive to schedules and bath time and eating at the dinner table. We don't just 'Bohemian' go out at nine o'clock and go get Chinese food.

Brooke Shields

It was my mom and I against the world. We lived in New York in this bohemian lifestyle where an extended group of artists and photographers were like my aunts and uncles.

Brooke Shields

I hope this will help new moms not feel alone or desperate, and that there is no shame in their feelings. PPD is out of their control, but the treatment and healing process is not.

Brooke Burke

I think I'm a really hands-on mom.

Brooke Burke

When I was a new mom, I used to think that life was going to be balanced, and I strived for that. But life is crazy!

Brooke Burke

I'm also crazy about Pilates Plus, which I do three times a week. The class is 55 minutes, head to toe. In that short amount of time, I've done everything I need to do. And for a working mom, what could be better?

Brittany Snow

My mom did a really good job teaching me about sunscreen. She's savvy when it comes to all things moisturizing and wrinkle-preventing. Even early on as a kid, I thought to myself, Why do I need to do this? I don't have wrinkles. I'm a child. But my mom was in the preventative mind-set and that helped me.

Brittany Murphy

I always wanted to be a young mom, but generations of women have worked so hard so we can have a career and wait to have children. So I say carpe diem - take advantage of that.

Brittany Murphy

If I could be a third of the woman that my mom is and have a third of the strength that she has, then I will have done good by this life.

Brittany Murphy

Home is where my mom is.

Brittany Murphy

It's always been my mom and I against the world.

Bridget Moynahan

If you go from a structure where you have the support and that partner and that construction of a family and that's broken apart, I think that's probably a lot harder than always being a single mom and having the father being a support in another area.

Bridget Moynahan

I'm not sure anyone - and I could be wrong in this - grows up thinking, I want to be a single mom.

Eckhart Tolle

If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.

Eckhart Tolle

Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.

Eckhart Tolle

Work to recognize the primary importance of the present moment.

Eckhart Tolle

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

Eckhart Tolle

The future is only a thought form. Work with the present moment. Be with what is.

Elijah Wood

I credit my mom Debbie for creating a solid family base, ... She gave me a strong sense of reality so I could avoid falling into the normal pitfalls of child actors.

Bobbi Brown

Whether you are a stay-at-home mom, or on the red carpet, or in Afghanistan, the better you feel, the better you do your job.

Bobbi Brown

Over the years I’ve worked with countless women who have inspired me with their stories. Beyond makeup, we’ve talked about life-altering events. Everything from the joy of being a new mom to dealing with homelessness and divorce. With each conversation, these women have shown that when you have the will and the heart, almost anything is possible—and that’s what Pretty Powerful is all about.

Bobby Bowden

I was always going to church with my mom, dad and sister. I was literally raised under the godly influence both at home and church. There was no alcohol and no smoking at our house. That was the way a Bowden was supposed to live. My dad always told me to represent the Bowden name in a respectful manner.

Bob Monkhouse

My mother tried to kill me when I was a baby. She denied it. She said she thought the plastic bag would keep me fresh.

Billy Gibbons

My mom took my sister and me to see Elvis [Presley] in concert when was, maybe 5 or 6, and I liked everything about it.

Billy Gardell

I always like to find those little mom-and-pop sandwich places, or diners. Those are my favorite kind of places.

Betty Who

I'm very much half-American - my mom is American. I grew up in Australia until I was 16, then I finished high school over here because I got into this performing arts high school.

Beyonce Knowles

My mom is one of those people that you feel honored to meet. And no matter who you are, you fall in love with her because she is spiritual, she's inspiring, she's strong, she's funny, she's creative, she's talented... she's everything that I want to be.

Bernie Mac

It was rough being dark. I got heat from my own people more than anyone else. I remember going to my mom and saying, 'Why am I so black?' And she said, 'Because I'm black. You just gotta always work harder than the average bear.'

Bernie Mac

I was in love with a lot of people, because I was a student of the game of comedy - Carol Burnett, Jack Benny, Red Skelton, Jackie Gleason, Don Rickles, Red Foxx, Moms Mabley - who gets no credit, Richard Pryor, Bill Cosby, George Kirby. I loved them all, and I used to just take a page out of all of them.

Dayo Okeniyi

I was born to a Nigerian dad and a Kenyan mom, and coming to the States was really academic.

David Hockney

The moment I got a very big studio, everything took off.