Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rashida Jones

I know my mom said as early as she can remember letting me watch TV, my one treat a week when I was like 6 was to stay up and watch 'Saturday Night Live.'

Rashida Jones

In 2002 Mom and I got a chance to act together in a play called 'Pitching to the Star,' with her brother, Robert Lipton. The three of us on the same stage - that was such a special experience for me.

Rashida Jones

Mom is the most unconditionally loving person I will ever know, and she has always supported me on every level.

Rashida Jones

Once, a friend’s mom said to me when I was very young 'You can't really invest in your looks as the only thing because it's a depreciating asset. I think this is trueit’s like putting money into a stock that’s going down. Put your money, put your effort, invest in your brain and talent which will appreciate and get better as you get older.

Thomas Jefferson

Peace, that glorious moment in time when everyone stops and reloads.

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.

Rob Sheffield

'The Voice' has lots of singers who fit the 'Idol' mold of young, innocent ingenues with psycho stage moms. But it also has long-suffering adult pros, with a whiff of thirtysomething despair in their voices. That adds an edge of realness.

Rob Sheffield

Nothing connects to the moment like music. I count the music to bring me back, or more precisely, to bring her forward.

Rob James-Collier

My mom and dad put my brother and sister through university and they were very keen for us to have an academic background just to give us a chance.

I always wondered why babies spend so much time sucking their thumbs. Then I tasted baby food.

Robert M. Pirsig

Now the stream of our common consciousness seems to be obliterating its own banks, losing its central direction and purpose, flooding the lowlands, disconnecting and isolating the highlands and to no particular purpose other than the wasteful fulfillment of its own internal momentum

Washington Irving

A mother is the truest friend we have...

Washington Irving

The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated.

Walter Dean Myers

Within the black community, roughly 60 percent of children are born to single moms. Moms don't have the emotional wherewithal to deal with their children. Their English is atrocious. Their speaking is atrocious. The dropout rate is horrendous.

Vladimir Putin

Another point is that ultimately, as far as the budget is concerned, of major importance is who offers more money during the bidding that must be organized as a part of the privatization process. In this sense, we cannot discriminate against any market participants, not one of them, but this is not relevant at the moment, as the Government has decided to postpone the privatization of Bashneft.

Yngwie Malmsteen

My mom really wanted me to be a musician so she gave me a guitar for my fifth birthday, but I didn't start playing till I was seven.

Winona Ryder

When I was young, I was really, really obsessed with Gena Rowlands and John Cassavetes. Because my mom was a projectionist in college, she was somehow able to get a real projector. And she had some connections, so she would get real prints, and we'd put up a sheet. The first movies I saw were To Kill a Mockingbird [1962], Gigi [1958], A Woman Under the Influence [1974]. Then when I was old enough to be able to rent movies, I went through a very big Cassavetes phase.

Winona Ryder

Scapegoating will go on forever. We need someone to blame - illegal immigrants, single moms, people in prison. We need someone to victimize.

Winona Ryder

Suddenly you're the mom, or you go from ... You're not an ingénue, you don't want to play an ingénue, but it's like that line in The First Wives Club [1996]: "There are only three ages for women in Hollywood: babe, district attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy."

Winston Churchill

My mother made a brilliant impression upon my childhood life. She shone for me like the evening star.

William Zinsser

Although the frankfurter originated in Frankfurt, Germany, we have long since made it our own, a twin pillar of democracy along with Mom's apple pie. In fact, now that Mom's apple pie comes frozen and baked by somebody who isn't Mom, the hot dog stands alone. What it symbolizes remains pure, even if what it contains does not.

Virginia Woolf

No, she thought, one could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low.

Woody Allen

Dear Mom and Dad, Leave $50,000 in a bag under the bridge on Decatur Street. If there is no bridge on Decatur Street, please build one.

William J. Clinton

[My mom] had this amazing attitude in the face of everything, including when she got cancer.

William Gibson

Novels set in imaginary futures are necessarily about the moment in which they are written.

Will Ferrell

I remember going with my mom to a random garage sale as a kid and thinking what a cool treasure hunt that whole world was. Only to transition as an adult to think, 'What a gross place that really is.'