Famous Quotes & Sayings

Susan Smith

When I left home, I was going to ride around a little while and then go to my mom's. As I rode and rode and rode, I felt even more anxiety coming upon me about not wanting to live

Susan Smith

I felt I couldn't be a good mom anymore, but I didn't want my children to grow up without a mom. I felt I had to end our lives to protect us from any grief or harm

Susan Fletcher

There are moments. You will know them.

Susan Beth Pfeffer

Mom, is the world coming to an end?" Jonny asked, picking up the plate of cookies and ramming one into his mouth. "No, it isn'T," Mom said, folding her lawn chair and carrying it to the front of the house. "And yes, you do have to go to school tomorrow.

Susan Beth Pfeffer

Maybe I'm wrong," Mom said. "Maybe the world really is coming to an end." "Should I try Fox News?" I asked. Mom shuddered. "We're not that desperate," she said.

Susan Beth Pfeffer

So what if I don't learn algebra?' 'Someday schools will be open again,' Mom said. 'Things will be normal. You need to do your work now for when that happens.' 'That's never going to happen,' Jon said. 'And even if schools do open up somewhere, they're not going to open up here. There aren't enough people left.' 'We don't know how many people are like us, holed up, making do until times get better.' 'I bet whoever they are, they aren't studying algebra,' Jon said.

Susan Beth Pfeffer

The Christmas after Mom & Dad split up, they both went crazy buying us presents. Matt, Jonny, and I were showered with gifts at home and at Dads apartment. I thought that was great. I was all in favor of my love being paid for with presents. This year all I got was a diary and a secondhand watch. Okay, I know this is corny, but this really is what Christmas is all about.

Susan Beth Pfeffer

...when I came back, I found Mom sobbing at the kitchen table...Then I asked her what had happened. 'Nothing,'she said. 'I was thinking about that man...I started thinking about...if he and his wife and their other child are okay, and I don't know. It just got to me.' 'I know,' I said, because I did know. Sometimes it's safer to cry about people you don't know than to think about people you really love.

Sunidhi Chauhan

My mom is my heart. She was a rock for me even though she was not around as much as dad.

Stone Gossard

I've always related music to those moments when someone turns you loose on something and they haven't told you how to do it.

Steve Kaufman

I met Keith Haring at SVA college where he was having an art show, later we had a group art show at the Mud Club in NYC. Keith owed me $50, so he gave me a large framed canvas with barking dogs that had large dicks. I painted over Keith's painting to paint flowers for my mom's living room.

Steve Case

My father still is a lawyer, and my mom was a teacher and then later a career counselor

Steve Earle

From the moment [Bob] Dylan arrived as a songwriter, he was [so] much better than everybody else around.

Stephen Sondheim

Oh if life were made of moments Even now and then a bad one--! But if life were only moments, Then you'd never know you had one.

Stephen Sondheim

Best to take the moment present as a present for the moment. . .

Mother Teresa

The problem with the world is that we draw the circle of our family too small.

Monica Denise Brown

The best part of being a mom to me is the unconditional love. I have never felt a love as pure, a love that's as rewarding.

Mike Krzyzewski

My mom gave me unconditional support and unfailing love. You can't get any better than that. That's why I've never been afraid to lose.

Mike Krzyzewski

You can see and you can listen, but you have to have moments in which you feel.

Mike Krzyzewski

The person who has inspired me my whole life is my Mom, because she taught me commitment. She sacrificed.

Mike Krzyzewski

Throughout my life, my mom has been the person that I've always looked up to.

Paula Patton

Once I finished breastfeeding, my mom's like, 'Don't take that bra off ever!' Mom, thank you. I wore a one-size-too-small bra for like, two years. It helps...! They don't fall, you teach them, you teach them to come back!

Paula White

Don't waste another moment crying over what went wrong! If it wasn't a blessing - it was a lesson.

Paula Poundstone

My mom is one of those really angry moms who gets mad at absolutely everything. Once when I was a little kid, I accidentally knocked a Flintstones glass off the kitchen table. She said, 'Well, dammit, we can't have nice things.'

Paula Poundstone

I don't like sex ... I'm a single working mom with nine cats, a dog-shark, a lizard, and a bunny. I don't go to bed, I pass out. The idea that I'd get to my bed and there'd be someone in there with whom I was supposed to have an activity is horrifying to me.

Paul Walker

My mom's hot. I mean she's old, but my mom's out of control.

Paul Walker

My mom was always really healthy and cautious about her diet, so I'm not a big sugar guy.

Peter Thiel

There is perhaps no specific time that is necessarily right to start your company or start your life. But some times and some moments seem more auspicious than others. Now is such a moment. If we don’t take charge and usher in the future—if you don’t take charge of your life—there is the sense that no one else will.

Penelope Fitzgerald

Duty is what no-one else will do at the moment.

Pema Chodron

If you ask why we meditate, I would say it's so we can become more flexible and tolerant to the present moment.

Pema Chodron

We hold on to hope, and hope robs us of the present moment.

Pauly Shore

My mom and dad are both in stand-up comedy, so that's where I started, that's where I got everything. My roots are holding the mic.

Peter Jackson

Everybody's life has these moments, where one thing leads to another. Some are big and obvious and some are small and seemingly insignificant.