Mom Quotes - Page 107

These days, it's often women in uniform - moms, wives, even grandmothers - who deploy and leave their families behind.

And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.

You just need that opening, that moment, when you finally decide to give yourself permission to change.

The real estate agent had to go door-to-door in the apartment building we wanted to rent, asking if it was OK for this interracial family - my mom is white and I was a 1-year-old half-African kid - to live in the apartment building.

Being an only child, I didn't have any other family but my mom and dad really, since the rest of my family lived quite far away from London.

I grabbed my mom and I went to the couch and I said, 'Mom I want to ask Jesus to come into my heart.' And I got on my knee and I asked Jesus to come into my heart, forgive me of my sins, and make me a child of God.

My mom is my hero. [She] inspired me to dream when I was a kid, so anytime anyone inspires you to dream, that's gotta be your hero.

Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.

My mom always taught me to be sweet and polite and cross my legs because it's what the guys like. Actually, they like a raunchy girl once in a while.

What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?

Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.

Vimes had got around to a Clean Desk policy. It was a Clean Floor strategy that eluded him at the moment.

I think to be an amazing actress, you have to be present, you have to be in the moment and not thinking about other things.

This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.

She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.

The impossible talked of is less impossible from the moment words are laid to it.

My problem is that my imagination won't turn off. I wake up so excited I can't eat breakfast. I've never run out of energy. It's not like OPEC oil; I don't worry about a premium going on my energy. It's just always been there. I got it from my mom.

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

Everybody has their black moments.

I would like to have a family someday, and I can't wait to be a stay-at-home mom.

Don't you notice that there are particular moments when you are naturally inspired to introspection? Work with them gently, for these are the moments when you can go through a powerful experience, and your whole worldview can change quickly.

Today it is not nearly enough to be a saint, but we must have the saintliness demanded by the present moment, a new saintliness, itself also without precedent.

For years I thought my work still lay ahead, and now I find it is behind me: there was no moment when it took place.

Nations don't start out. There is not a particular moment when they unveil the essence of themselves. They are always a work in progress.

My Mom is a ballet director, so I had this idea in me that classical training is the best foundation for anything you do, so I wanted to get a classical background and voice.