Mom Quotes - Page 119

Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.

This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for.

What does good in bed mean to me? When I'm sick and I stay home from school propped up with lots of pillows watching TV and my mom brings me soup - that's good in bed.

It's always been my mom and I against the world.

I always call my cousin because we're so close. We're almost like sisters, and we're also close because our mom's are sisters.

I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness - it's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude.

I was once on a mission, on a cruise I was wishin, that my mom was in the kitchen, eatin chicken, finger lickin.

One of the greatest, smartest things I ever did was give my kids Angie as their mom. She is such a great mom. Oh, man, I'm so happy to have her.

My happiest moment is the day they call wrap and I'm free. I'm not looking back.

Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.

It's quite hard to have your mom as a teacher - it's like, she's not necessarily a "real teacher" for me. But she'd always teach me to really hear the music, and develop my ear, and to try and hear the harmonics of the piano. That was the main thing.

I had been inspired by an organ player named Earl Grant, who played organ and piano together. My mom took me to see him. So I went home, put my piano and organ together, too.

The difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull: At some point, a pit bull does stop whining.

It was rough being dark. I got heat from my own people more than anyone else. I remember going to my mom and saying, 'Why am I so black?' And she said, 'Because I'm black. You just gotta always work harder than the average bear.'

Entrance into Heaven is not at the hour of death, but at the moment of conversion.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

I just increasingly enjoy the quiet moments when I can be on my own with my friends and family, or with a book, having a live experience. That's really what I crave, and I always have done.

The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.

All addictions have one thing in common - they numb you out to what is happening in the moment.

I wanted to be a 150% entrepreneur and a 150% mom, and I found that I was having a very hard time doing both. I was about 75% and 75% - still better than 100%, but not what I was accustomed to at work.

My mom is Jamaican and Chinese, and my dad is Polish and African American, so I'm pretty mixed. My nickname in high school was United Nations. I was fine with it, even though I identify as a black woman. People don't realize it hurts my feelings when someone looks at my hair or my eyes, and says, "But you're not actually black. You're black, but you're not black black, because your eyes are green." I'm like, "What? No, no, I'm definitely black." Even some of my closest friends have said that. It's been a bit touchy for me.

Everything is always spur-of-the-moment. All of my tattoos I decide that second and do it.

For all we know, at this very moment, somewhere far beyond all those distant stars, Benny Russell is dreaming of us.

It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.

Once in high school, I completely over plucked my left eyebrow all the way up to where you're not supposed to. I had no idea what I was doing and it looked terrible! My mom was like 'What did you do to yourself?' I was so embarrassed.