Mom Quotes - Page 126

Even my mom. I have to tell her, "If you want a snack, don't go to bed with potato chips. Eat a handful of pistachios and a handful of dates."

He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.

The poems ... are moments when I had the intensity to see, and the energy to build, some careful analog that completed the seeing. ... All I have been left is the exhausting habit of trying to tack up the slack in my life with words.

Whoever shall review his life, will find that the whole tenor of his conduct has been determined by some accident of no apparent moment.

If you sent me to cover a pie-baking contest on Mother's Day, I'm going to ask dear old Mom why she used artificial sweetener or stole the apples!

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

My mom was at every single game I played as a kid, rain or shine

Death is just the moment that your hourglass runs out of sand. That's it. It happens to everyone eventually. All any of us gets to decide is where the sand falls.

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

Just having the camera, being able to pull back from situations and be an observer, it saved my life... I realised I could find these intimate moments and that people trusted me. That, basically, my camera was magic.

I have a really big family, and pretty much all my work is about my brothers and sisters. I'm the youngest of eight - my mom had seven kids in seven years, and then she had me 11 years later - so I was basically raised by all these teenagers.

I love all my fam. I have quite possibly the best dad, mom, and sister in the world.

I felt that I was really living in the moment. I did not know where my life was going, but right now the future did not trouble me.

Growing up, I was utterly oblivious to the fact that Mom was teaching me all that. But I was instantly aware of her final lesson, which was hidden in her notes and leters. As I read them I began to understand that in the end you are the only one who can make yourself happy. More important, Mom showed me that it is never too late to find out how to do it.

This moment of dawning is called taqwa - God-consciousness, and ihsan - awareness. Suddenly you know that God can see you and knows you, even if you do not know or see Him.

In the blackest of your moments, wait with no fear.

At every moment, Love's voice talks to us from left and from right. All we have to do is to know how to listen.

I can't stop pointing to the beauty. Every moment and place says, 'Put this design in your carpet!'

With each passing moment, a Soul sets off to find Itself.

If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!

I am trying so very hard to stay in the moment despite the ferocity of my ambition.

One sign of a great actor is when he can be alone by himself on the screen, doing almost nothing, and producing one of a film's defining moments.

My mom took me to a dog show and I won!!

It was about being able to dance like Cassidy did, as though no one was watching, as though the moment was infinite enough without needing to document its existence.

In a nutshell, I am a mom, a grandma, and a midwife.