Mom Quotes - Page 33

One thing I've learned best from my mom is to be yourself and not everyone will get you and that's okay. I try to bring that into everything that I do and just understand that I will not be everyone's cup of tea and that's fine.

I was homeless. I lived in a car for a couple of years. That was the worst. But nothing was worse than when I was 40 and my mom passed away. My mother was the best person I ever knew. Those were the two lowest points.

...Every moment is the right moment.

So here we are, in our rare and precious lives, surrounded by gorgeous moments begging to be noticed and celebrated. Go! Celebrate!

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

Whenever I held my newborn baby in my arms, I used to think that what I said and did to him could have an influence not only on him but on all whom he met, not only for a day or a month or a year, but for all eternity - a very challenging and exciting thought for a mother.

In that moment of salvation, of belief, they are opening their lives to the person of Jesus.

Let's start a new tomorrow, today.

Some of the most powerful times are when we're quiet

Nothing in the past is as powerful as what we choose to do in the present moment.

We are the sum of who we are. We pick certain things at certain moments that influenced us.

Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value.

The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.

It is hard to avoid the aspect of time when producing what ones sees as a photograph.... my images [are] something that is not a frozen moment, but an image made up of many moments and that is created over time rather than taken.

I like to be on the edge, on the cutting edge, or be into the unknown, into the territory where I have to depend on being in the moment and depending on my instincts.

When I was 10 there wasnt trampolines and cartoon charaters, I never went to Chuck E Cheese! My mom said 'You wanna see a mouse pull the refrigerator Out!'

How many times have you noticed that it's the little quiet moments in the midst of life that seem to give the rest extra-special meaning?

[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

Its tough growing up where I grew up. My family is very small and really tight. Just being around the neighborhood, my brothers were always around. I didnt want to be in any trouble because I knew my mom or brothers would find out. I didnt want to hurt their feelings. I just tried to do everything right.

There is nothing more I ask of this life than this moment, exactly so. And suddenly forever seems like too short a time.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

Excuse my absolute freedom. I refuse to make a distinction between any of the moments of myself.

Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.

The greatest moments of the human spirit may be deduced from the greatest moments in music.

You put your head on the ground, and in that moment everything was okay.