Mom Quotes - Page 64

Don't listen to anyone's advice. Listen to your baby ... There are so many books, doctors, and well-meaning friends and family. We like to say, 'You don't need a book. Your baby is a book. Just pick it up and read it.'

My art would be that of living: each moment, each breath is a work inscribed nowhere.

Most of my comedy writing happens through improvisation on stage; doing it in the moment.

Most people, almost everyone knows of a teen mom. Teen pregnancy rates are growing, and we need to bring awareness to that.

And I have no control over which yesterdays I keep and which ones get deleted. This disease will not be bargained withMy yesterdays are disappearing, and my tomorrows are uncertain, so what do I live for? I live for each day. I live in the moment. Some tomorrow soon, I'll forget that I stood before you and gave this speech. But just because I'll forget it some tomorrow doesn't mean that I didn't live every second of it today. I will forget today, but that doesn't mean that today doesn't matter.

I'm very close with my family, so my mom is part of my entourage.

You named them: hustlers, killers, fiends, ex-cons. I called them: cousins, aunts, pops, moms. To you? Hoodlums, crackheads, gunmens. To me? Just neighbors, classmates, young friends.

Keeping a sense of humor about life. My parents divorced when I was 8, and whenever I felt down, my mom would remind me that a sense of humor gets you through just about anything.

Every moment brings a choice; every choice has an impact.

Looking at you has been my favorite pastime from the moment you asked me to describe your face," he said solemnly, looking straight into her eyes.

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

His mom lived in Long Island for ten years or so. God rest her soul. And, although, she's... wait... your mom's still... your mom's still alive. Your dad passed. God bless her soul.

I love what I do and I think it shows. As my kids get older, they can see me as a mom who loves working.

I still look forward to doing things I've never done before. But the fear beforehand is always worse than the actual moment.

Death happens but once, yet we feel it every moment of our lives; it is worse to dread it than to suffer it.

That best academy, a mother's knee.

Mothers are all slightly insane.

There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.

And for at least that moment, I wouldn't have traded the hundreds of books I've read for the few I know almost by heart.

I'm a lioness. I have four cubs. I'm a mom. I want to take care of my kids and protect them.

The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants but when she resolutely holds him to the highest standards and is content with nothing less than his best.

Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.

In the immediate as well as the symbolic sense, in the physical as well as the intellectual sense, we are at any moment those who separate the connected, or connect the separate.

My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?

I always say to myself, what is the most important thing we can think about at this extraordinary moment.