Mom Quotes - Page 68

May love be your guide in every moment of your life.

Do you know who else is hot? My mom! My Mom's HOT!!!

Life is like a roller coaster. It's never going to be perfect - it is going to have perfect moments, and then rough spots, but it's all worth it.

Mothers are the pivot on which the family spins, Mothers are the pivot on which the world spins.

God is the Great Engineer, creating circumstances to bring about moments in our lives of divine importance, leading us to divine appointments

Many people have said to me, "What a pity you had such a big family to raise." "Think of the novels and the short stories and the poems you never had time to write because of that." And I looked at my children and I said, "These are my poems, these are my stories."

Be part of the miraculous moment.

Call it the Tiger Mom effect: In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option.

When I was growing up, my mom told me every story that was happening to her. Most of the stories that come to me are through a female voice in my head. My stories seem to naturally be about females.

. . . maybe that's what life's all about: there's a lof of despair, but also the odd moments of beauty, where time is no longer the same . . . [like] something suspended . . . an elsewhere . . . an always within a never. Yes, that's is, an always within a never.

My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all - the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be, and much less about what we would do.

My mom and my dad wanted my brother and I to have a better life, you know, better education, better jobs. It was probably harder, much, much harder, for my parents. When you're a kid, you can learn a language much more easily; I learned English in less than a year.

The day you spend hoping, the day you spend waiting, the day you spend in despair, is a day in your life as much as the tomorrow you hope for, but which may never come, so betting today on tomorrow is always a bad bet.

Nothing is permanently perfect. But there are perfect moments and the will to choose what will bring about more perfect moments.

At the moment my art is situated between the pornographic tendency to reveal everything and the erotic inclination to hide what it's all about.

My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid and a cashier and a stock clerk at WalMart. We were not people of financial means in terms of significant financial means. I always told them, 'I didn't always have what I wanted. I always had what I needed.' My parents always provided that.

I think of movies as depicting moments of change. Change is growth, and that change also possesses the same dynamism that movies do.

Every moment of my life I realize that God is putting me on my trial.

Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.

...the truer measure of sacrifice isn't so much what one gives to sacrifice as what one sacrifices to give. Faith isn't tested so much when the cupboard is full as when it is bare. In these defining moments, the crisis doesn't create one's characterit reveals it.

I didn't make any kind of grades in high school. My mother was a single mom, putting my three sisters through college, and I was such a bad student that I knew I had no right to take her money. But I loved being in classes and learning. I took in a huge amount of what I learned, but I had a feeling of always being behind and being in trouble.

You can wait your whole life for the right moment and it might never come, so I'm a big believer in making now the right moment.

I'm not one to hide anything, but I don't feel the need to comment directly on [my relationships]... I think it would be a shame to not live in the moment and not enjoy everything that's happening in fear of other people's opinions.

There will be a moment of silence while our prints do the talking.

Being a mom, I love to play with my kids and have fun with them, but I also love fashion. My mom and both of my grandmothers have always been into fashion, so it's been around us our whole lives.