Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Dean Howells

A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it.

Wendelin Van Draanen

Aw, he's just you know...entrenched," Matt said. "Gotta adjust to the perspective and deal from there." Then he added, "Not that I'd want him as my dad...." Mike practically sprayed his milk. "Dude! Can you imagine?" Then Matt gave my dad a slap on the back and said, "No way. I'm sticking with my main man here." My mom grinned from across the kitchen and said, "Me too." I'd never seen my father cry. And he didn't exactly sit there bawling, but there were definitely tears welling up in his eyes.

Wendelin Van Draanen

I fell asleep that night thinking about the kiss that might have been. What did a kiss feel like, anyway? Somehow I knew it wouldn’t be like the one I got from Mom or Dad at bedtime. The same species, maybe, but a radically different beast, to be sure. Like a wolf and a whippet – only science would put them on the same tree.

Wayne Dyer

Don't Let the Elusive Present Moment Get Used Up by Thoughts that Aren't in the Here & Now

Virginia Woolf

For we think back through our mothers if we are women.

Virginia Woolf

These moments of escape are not to be despised. They come too seldom.

Wendy Williams

I'm most proud of our son, having suffered several miscarriages before having him. As for the next mountain, it takes so much to maintain what's already going on that I don't have time to think about it. But I want some more seasons of the TV show, I'd like to write another book, and eventually, I'd like to retire and take vacations with my husband like my mom and dad do.

Samuel Hoffenstein

Babies haven't any hair; Old men's heads are just as bare; between the cradle and the grave lie a haircut and a shave.

Samuel Goldwyn

Spare no expense to make everything as economical as possible.

Salvador Dali

There comes a moment in every person's life when they realise they adore me.

Salma Hayek

...you have to understand that motherhood has to be your priority. It's important work.

Ryan White

I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere.

Ryan White

Financial hardships were rough on us, even though Mom had a good job at G.M.

Ryan Reynolds

If you have a dishonest moment, you're going to lose the audience. So I had to not only light myself in the scenes...

Whitney Houston

I'm good where I am at this moment.

Whitney Houston

She's my teacher, my adviser, my greatest inspiration.

Whitney Houston

My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don't fight it.

Wendy Liebman

My mom was a ventriloquist and she always was throwing her voice. For ten years I thought the dog was telling me to kill my father.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

Now, I love playing moms who can't hide their paranoia.

Wanda Sykes

Whatever I talk about is what I'm interested in at the time. Politics are big with me. But being a mom is taking up most of my time. My act is more family-oriented than it is about politics.

Josie Maran

I'm usually a mellow, go-with-the-flow person, except when someone tells me I should do something. Then I get stubborn. If they don't back off, I get this horrible rage and want to kill them. When I was four and my mom would send me to my room, I'd get so mad I'd go outside and bang my head on the sidewalk.

Joshua Waitzkin

Of course the sad truth is that if we are not present to the moment, our true love could come and go and we wouldn't even notice.

Joseph Joubert

TIME and truth are friends, though there are many moments hostile to truth.

Joss Whedon

At the end of the day I have many answers for it. It has to do with my mom, who was an extraordinary woman, and a great feminist. It has to do with the people in my life. It has to do with a lot of different things, but -- I don't know! Because I'm not just writing from the female characters for other people. I have a desire to see them in our culture -- that was not met for most of my childhood. Except occasionally by James Cameron. [From the 2011 San Diego Comic Con, in response to being asked why he writes strong female characters.]

Joss Whedon

When Roseanne read the first script of mine that got into her hands without being edited by someone else she said, 'How can you write a middle-aged woman this well?' I said, 'If you met my mom you wouldn't ask'.

Joss Whedon

It was only when I got to college that I realized that the rest of the world didn't run the way my world was run, and that there was a need for feminism. I'd thought it was all solved. There are people like my mom, clearly everyone is equal and it's all fine. Then I get into the world and I hear the things people are saying. Then I get to Hollywood and hear the very casual, almost insidious misogyny that just runs through so much of the fiction. It was just staggering to me.

Joss Whedon

I didn't know feminism was actually a thing until I left home and found out the country didn't run the way my mom's house did,

Kim Raver

My mom has always been a huge inspiration. She was a single mom raising two kids in New York. Now that is full-on all the time.

Kim Raver

I have an incredible role model in my mom. She was a single mother raising two kids in New York.

Kim Kardashian

My mom told me I could have sheets, towels, and a few pillows, but I wanted leopard drapes, carpeting, and a comforter, too. I think maybe my obsession had something to do with my grandmother - she told me the best print to buy is leopard because it always stays in style.

Kim Kardashian

My mom and I had the same vision, and we want the same things. We would always make a goal list every year.

Kim Kardashian

I always wanted what Mom and Dad had.

Kim Kardashian

I'd like to be remembered as someone who was smart in business, works hard, and can be sexy and a mom. A powerful but still sexy, nonconforming woman.