Mom Quotes - Page 26

We all have life-defining moments. They are like open-book tests, but we don't know we have been examined until it is over.

Don't let the pressure of the moment outweigh the pleasure.

How big can you be if just the underground niggas know you? You can't buy your mom a house when you just an underground celebrity.

Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

I always think of moments of love with someone I love.

And it was a most remarkable, a most moving glance, as if for a moment a lighthouse had looked at me.

It's the three pairs of eyes that mothers have to have...One pair that see through closed doors. Another in the back of her head...and, of course, the ones in front that can look at a child when he goofs up and reflect 'I understand and I love you' without so much as uttering a word.

I don't think in the past. I don't think in the future. You grasp the moment.

The power of a smile goes a long way. My mom taught me that.

I think boxers are the greatest athletes in all sports for the simple fact that they don't cry. That is mind-blowing. Have you ever been punched in the nose? Oh my gosh, it hurts so bad. They have to go back to corner, where some little man yells at them. 'Shut up, I just got punched in the face!'... If I was a boxer, do you know who I would hire as my corner man? My mom.

My mom was a manic depressive schizophrenic who, after a year in prison, went home and shot herself. My sister, Kirsten, an amazing poet, who was raised by this woman, and was dating a guy who broke up with her for the fourth time in three weeks. And one day, she came to his house, got a gun, and blew her brains out all over his headboard. I just went through a divorce, five years in court and cost me $2 million dollars. If anyone, by law, should be forced to take antidepressants it's me... But instead, I choose to be an antidepressant. And you can take me with alcohol.

The thermometer of a church is its prayer meeting.

Not the intense moment Isolated, with no before and after, But a lifetime burning in every moment.

The inner light actually comes from the soul; it is already inside us. The moment we can have free access to our soul, we will see that this light is coming to the fore to permeate our whole outer existence.

There are moments that define a person's whole life. MOMENTS in which everything they are and everything they may possibly become hinge on a single decision.

Success is won by those who believe in winning and then prepare for that moment.

You know there are moments such as these when time stands still and all you do is hold your breath and hope it will wait for you.

If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it never got stale. And then, when one wanted it, the bottle could be uncorked, and it would be like living the moment all over again.

I was at the breakfast table this morning and I read in the newspaper that more and more adults are living at home with their parents. That surprised me, I was like Mom did you read this?

So I asked him to play "Trav'lin' All Alone." That came closer than anything to the way I felt. And some part of it must have come across. The whole joint quieted down. If someone had dropped a pin, it would have sounded like a bomb. When I finished, everybody in the joint was crying in their beer, and I picked thirty-eight bucks up off the floor. . . . When I showed Mom the money for the rent and told her I had a regular job singing for eighteen dollars a week, she could hardly believe it.

It's fascinating to me that some of the pushback is coming from sort of white suburban moms who, all of a sudden, their child isn't as brilliant as they thought they were, their schools aren't quite as good as they thought they were. And that's pretty scary.

Time is of your own making; Its clock ticks in your head. The moment you stop thought Time too stops dead.

Every moment is not great and sometimes those are the moments in which you learn the most.

The moment in Paris where I saluted Napoleon's tomb was one of the proudest of my life.