Mom Quotes - Page 77

Never before probably has the need for interfaith commitment been nearly as great as it is at this very moment.

The only thing a lawyer won't question is the legitimacy of his mother.

My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing.

The moment when one thing turns into another is the most beautiful moment. A combination of sounds turns into music. And that applies to everything.

I'm a mom, a full-time mom when I'm not taping. I do the carpool thing, and bake the cookies, and do the homework.

Often it is a moment rather than an event that makes a poem.

It's like our daddies and moms always used to tell us growing up, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you earn.

Perspective is a moment in time that cannot be fully appreciated until that moment has passed.

I love being a mom. That's the best job I've ever had. All the other stuff I love the same, but being a mom trumps all of it.

As a kid growing up, this was sometimes a little bit intimidating to have a mom who was always, like, speaking up and always saying something that might be kind of controversial . . . . The thing I think that we got out of that that was really good was, like, we weren't afraid to make waves.

A lot of those little things that I really like doing are just moments of cool articulation, just little moments of phrasing that probably go over everybody's head.

I have been doing merch' since I was 15 and in bands when I was a teenager - silk-screening shirts, making the emulsion in my mom's closet I converted into a dark room, through college. That's essentially how us bands survived was selling homemade t-shirts.

This moment will just be another story someday.

For me the moment of death will be a moment of jubilation, not of fear. I cried when I was born and I shall die laughing.

The essence of saintliness is total acceptance of the present moment, harmony with things as they happen.

Something my mom taught me when I was little is that everything happens for a reason. Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected. And those wouldn't have happened had I not accepted my injury as a way to try something new.

If I should have a daughter, instead of "Mom," she's going to call me "Point B."

You can't always get the perfect moment. Sometimes, you just have to do the best you can under the circumstances.

Like the guy I was dating. White, liberal, educated. I went to meet his family and I think that they probably didn't know they had a problem with it until he walked in with me. And they definitely had issues. Mom had issues with it. Could not, didn't want to see her son. And I don't think she had anything against me. But it was about her son bringing me home. And I felt that for the first time. I was like, 'Wow, that's deep.' It's really simple: I don't fit their picture.

A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.

If we do not push ourselves enough, we do not grow, but if we push ourselves too much, we regress. What is enough will change, depending on where we are and what we are doing. In that sense, the present moment is always some kind of beginning.

The first thing necessary for a constructive dealing with time is to learn to live in the reality of the present moment. For psychologically speaking, this present moment is all we have.

we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.

You are facing death and danger and competition, but at any moment, you can decide to have a fearless mindset.

There is a what-the-hell moment in life when you feel you have been pre-punished for every sin you'll ever commit.