Mom Quotes - Page 45

The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire.

My brother was a year younger than I am and he was never in the home with me hardly at all, ... My mom had to take him to every school there possibly was to get him some education. He ended up first in Columbus, Ohio, for grade school, then went to a high school for the deaf and Galludet in Washington.

As you go through life, there are thousands of little forks in the road, and there are a few really big forks-those moments of reckoning, moments of truth.

A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones.

The biggest change for me as a mom was realizing I needed to put someone else before me. Now the hardest part about the empty nest is learning to put myself first. I know that I have raised my sons to be big, strong, independent men who love God, themselves and care for others. I have to learn to let them have space and learn without me.

I was blessed, because I come from a family where they knock you down before you float away. I have a lot of brothers who just make sure we have our feet on the ground, and my mom is a rock star. She is an amazing mother.

Having children just puts the whole world into perspective. Everything else just disappears.

The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.

I could tell it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.

We're always in that head space about the audience and less about us at that moment.

The greatest moment of your life is now. This moment is God's irreplaceable gift to you.

You should laugh every moment you live, for you'll find it decidedly difficult afterwards.

Hope is the greatest thing for moms of autism. Hope is what gets us out of bed in the morning. I'm on a mission to tell parents that there is a way.

Live in the moment, where everything is just right, take your time and limit your bad memories and you'll get wherever it is you're going a lot faster and with less bumps in the way.

The whole reason I make these pictures is for those moments of clarity. For that single moment, everything seems to make sense in my world. And I think we all look for that in our lives, because our lives are generally filled with chaos and confusion and disorder and complication.

Art is the retelling of certain themes in a new light, making them accessible to the public of the moment.

All my life, I've been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.

For me, pictures provide a means of holding, intensely, a moment of communication between one human and another.

What is thematically posited is only what is given, by pure reflection, with all its immanent essential moments absolutely as it is given to pure reflection.

Let the moment come when nothing is left but life, and you will find that you do not hesitate over the fate of material possessions.

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

I've looked at pictures that my mom has of me, from when I was four years old at the turntable. I'm there, reaching up to play the records. I feel like I was bred to do what I do. I've been into music, and listening to music and critiquing it, my whole life.

Love is such an arbitrary thing. I love my mom. I love pancakes.

My friend and coach reminded me this week that there is a moment when the acrobat lets go of one trapeze and is completely suspended in mid-air before she catches the incoming rung. You have to let go to get there.

Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today.