Mom Quotes - Page 71

My faith isn't very churchy, it's a pretty personal, intimate thing and has been a huge source of strength in moments of life and death.

We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.

Everything we are is at every moment alive in us.

If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time.

The present moment is never intolerable. What's intolerable is what's going to happen in the next four hours. To have your body here at 8 pm and your mind at 10:30 pm, that's what causes us suffering.

I don't want to be a great executive without being a great mom and a great wife. I don't want to look back and say I wish I had done things differently.

Passion gives me moments of wholeness.

I consider my mom and all my sisters my friends.

My mom is a painter, so I've been doing drawings and paintings as early as I can remember. Then there was this gap where I was doing graffiti in high school and making as much [traditional] art.

There is only the constant knowledge and enjoyment of the Heart, moment to moment, through the instant of all conditions of appearance and disappearance. Of this I am perfectly certain. I am That.

So, absolutely, [my Dad] will call and say, "I just got offered this or that and what do you think?" My Mom [Lisa Bonet] will do the same. And we all trust each other's opinions. And we all know each other so well and what we're capable of so, if someone's scared to do something, we encourage them to take that chance because we believe in each other as a family.

I think the most important thing about holding a concert is to enjoy the moment, rather than showing off.

I’ve always lived in the moment.

The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated.

If you don't try and force it, a song will find the proper moment to come to life.

Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What's that supposed to mean? In my heart it don't mean a thing.

When anything huge happens to me, I always think, this isn't my moment, this is a moment.

Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.

What is salvation? To live with God. Where? Anywhere. Here this moment. One moment in infinite time is quite as good as any other moment.

You have to find a mother inside yourself. We all do. Even if we already have a mother, we still have to find this part of ourselves inside

It was my 16th birthday-my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do-write songs and sing them to people. [...] Everything on this record is what I really wanted to say, and I'm back to being the poet I always thought I was.

And I guess I realized at that moment that I really did love her. Because there was nothing to gain, and that didn't matter.

In the present moment, we are all innocent. Wake up!

I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.

It may be life is only worthwhile at moments. Perhaps that is all we ought to expect.