Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francesca Lia Block

Maybe one night I’ll be asleep and I’ll feel a hand like a dove on my cheekbone and feel her breath cool like peppermints and when I open my eyes my mom will be there like an angle, saying in the softest voice, When you are born it is like a long, long dream. Don’t try to wake up. Just go along until it is over. Don’t be afraid. You may not know it all the time but I am with you. I am with you.

Fran Lebowitz

Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.

John Quincy Adams

All that I am my mother made me.

Norah O'Donnell

As a working mom, I struggle to find time to work out and go for runs. I usually run two to three times a week and work out with a trainer once a week. I try to go for a longer run on Sundays.

Noel Gallagher

The thing about us is we're honest. If we're asked whether we take drugs, we say yes. I was brought up by my mom not to be a liar.

Nina Arianda

I was into opera as a kid - I'd play 'Carmen' and sing and dance. My mom signed me up for a theater group before preschool, and I never looked back.

Nina Garcia

I've had to adapt my wardrobe to my various roles, both at the office, as a mom, and for television. When I shop for the season I look for pieces that will suit every facet of my daily life, not just one single occasion.

Mitch Albom

I hope you never hear those words. Your mom. She died. They are different than other words. They are too big to fit in your ears. They belong to some strange, heavy, powerful language that pounds away at the side of your head, a wrecking ball coming at you again and again, until finally, the words crack a hole large enough to fit inside your brain. And in so doing, they split you apart.

Mitch Albom

You count the hours you could have spent with your mother. It's a lifetime in itself.

Mitch Albom

He almost told her everything right then, that very moment. But you grab a moment, or you let it pass. He let it pass.

Mitch Albom

But you grab a moment, or you let it pass.

Mitch Albom

Learn what you do not know. Understand the consequences of counting the moments.

Mitch Albom

I love you every day, Mom

Mike Vogel

When my wife and I met, I couldn't talk to her - and my defense mechanism is sarcasm. I belittle someone with verbal pokes and prods. I did it to her out of complete awe. When friends introduced us, I said 'Hi' - and turned my back. Later, I called my mom and best friend and said, 'I think I just met my wife.'

Thomas Jefferson

Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.

Thomas Jefferson

Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.

Rick Santorum

We are seeing it. We are seeing the fabric of this country fall apart, and it's falling apart because of single moms.

Rick Santorum

My mom was a working woman. She made more money than my dad. Both my parents worked. And this was in the '60s.

Rick Riordan

The old women only stuck around this long out of a sense of duty. Your mom was the same way. That's why I loved her. She put her duty first, ahead of evverything.

Rick Riordan

It's just Annabeth mom jeez!

Rick Riordan

I hoped I wasn't blushing. It was bad enough I had to depend on my mom to drive me to my battles.

Rick Riordan

Annabeth Thalia and I hadn't seen each other in months but between the blizzard and the thought of what we were about to do we were too nervous to talk much. Except for my mom. She talks more when she's nervous. By the time we finally got to Westover Hall it was getting dark and she'd told Annabeth and Thalia every embarrassing baby story there was to tell about me.

Ryan Miller

The game's not won in 10 minutes, but momentum can be earned. It took us a while for us to get back to where we wanted to be.

Edward Carpenter

Motherhood is, after all, woman's great and incomparable work.

Edgerrin James

I hate getting yelled at, that'll get you on my bad side. My mom never yelled at me. She just told us what needed to be done and we did it.

Edie Brickell

Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste.

Edie Falco

As a single mom, I'm juggling a lot and working long hours. Yes, it costs them a little, but what my children get in return is a mother who is energized and content.

Eckhart Tolle

Surrendering only refers to this moment, whatever "is" at this moment - to accept unconditionally and fully whatever arises at this moment.

Eckhart Tolle

Honoring the moment is honoring every human being you meet. The only place where you can meet them is in the moment.

Eckhart Tolle

Become intensely conscious of the present moment.

The markets' resilience at the moment is remarkable.

Hoda Kotb

I can't remember a time when my mom didn't work. She has forever been on the move: a go-getter. When my brother Adel and I had a paper route as kids, my mom would get up before us at the crack of dawn to drop off the Washington Post at different corners.

Holly Madison

I've always wanted to be a mom.