Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arianna Huffington

The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.

Diane Duane

Honey, have you seen your sister?” She’s on Jupiter, Mom.

Derrick Rose

On Halloween, don't you know back when you were little, your mom tells you don't eat any candy until she checks it? I used to be so tempted to eat my candy on the way to other people's houses. That used to be such a tease.

Derrick Rose

Its tough growing up where I grew up. My family is very small and really tight. Just being around the neighborhood, my brothers were always around. I didnt want to be in any trouble because I knew my mom or brothers would find out. I didnt want to hurt their feelings. I just tried to do everything right.

Demi Lovato

My sisters and my mom, those people help me get through every single day.

Demi Lovato

My mother is everything to me. She's my anchor, she's the person I go to when I need to talk to someone. She is an amazing woman.

Dave Tippett

We feel the momentum is on our side now.

We're jubilant. The pro-life movement just couldn't be more energized at this moment in history.

Devon Sawa

I was a hyper kid in school and the teacher suggested to my mom she needed to do something with me.

Karolyn Grimes

I never saw movies I was in because my mom told me that would be prideful, being stuck on yourself.

Shemar Moore

I know that on my own sites, a picture of me with my mom or me with my dog does well, but when I put up a picture of myself shirtless, it does get a little crazy.

Alexandre Dumas

How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.

Ricky Gervais

There was a nobility in poverty when I was growing up. My mom was poor but she was planting roses and she was cleaning the steps, you know what I mean. You didn't feel sorry for yourself.

Brent Weeks

Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.

Bret Easton Ellis

When we sat down to eat I took inventory of the people in the room, and the remnants of my good mood evaporated when I realized how very little I had in common with them – the career dads, the responsible and diligent moms – and I was soon filled with dread and loneliness. I locked in on the smug feeling of superiority that married couples give off and that permeated the air – the shared assumptions, the sweet and contented apathy, it all lingered everywhere – despite the absence in the room of anyone single at which to aim this.

Bret Easton Ellis

It's like my characters, all my men are Dad and me in a mess; all my female characters are smart and hopeful, like Mom just trying to make the best of things.

Booker T. Washington

If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.

Billy Corgan

My step-mom would tell me that she would get complaints from adults that I stared too much at them.

Boman Irani

When I was child, I never spoke. Teacher used to write remarks on my note book. My mom sent me to a trainer. I started talking, and it gave me confidence.

Bode Miller

My daughter's name is Neesyn Dacey but everyone calls her Dacey. Her mom chose Neesyn and I chose Dacey after she was born. The mother is a good friend of mine who I was seeing a while ago. We are no longer together.

Bridgette Wilson

We had to give each other permission to be different as parents. That's why there's a mom and a dad with two different approaches, because you do need both.

Bridgette Wilson

The first time around as a mom, I held on really tight and I was so stressed.

Brie Larson

I think that, especially as the kids are growing up, they have so much stuff going on in their own lives, they don't really know how much they're looking at their mom as the big problem

Brie Larson

I'm sure that there's frustration that comes with wanting to just have a normal mom. But, I don't really know if they see it as any different than any other problem you might have with a parent. I think everybody can think about one thing that their parents used to do, all the time, that would embarrass you.

Brie Larson

I started acting in second grade - my first role was in the Thanksgiving play. I was the Indian chasing the turkey. All the other mom's encouraged my mom to get me into acting after that.

Brie Larson

I was home-schooled, was always very close with my mom and was very straight-laced and square. I was never the rebellious one, and I never threw hissy fits.

Brie Larson

I was 3 when I told my mom that I knew what my dharma was and that I wanted to be an actor.

Brian Regan

I was at the breakfast table this morning and I read in the newspaper that more and more adults are living at home with their parents. That surprised me, I was like Mom did you read this?

Brennan Manning

God is loving us - you and me - this moment, just as we are and not as we should be.

Brian Urlacher

My mom is my heart. But my [step]dad was my role model, the hardest working man I ever knew.

Brian Sandoval

Dad worked his entire career as an aviation technician. Mom was a legal secretary who became a teacher. We lived a simple American life.

Brian Selznick

He wished he was with his mom in her library, where everything was safe and numbered and organized by the Dewey decimal system. Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for, like the meaning of your dream, or your dad.

Brian J. White

As a little kid, not only is my dad Jo-Jo White, but M. L. Carr is involved in the family, Red Auerbach is my godfather, and my stepmother was an Olympic-caliber sprinter. Athletes were all around. I happened to be a natural athlete. If I wasn't, it might have been hell. But I never got any pressure from my mom and dad to be an athlete.