Mom Quotes - Page 92

If you start thinking that only your biggest and shiniest moments count, you're setting yourself up to feel like a failure most of the time.

Harlem is filled with moments of history.

There are moments when things just break apart and not really for very valid reasons, either. But they just change your life and make you go in different directions.

I want my son to grow up with a mom that he could see and look at her life with all the mistakes and with all the failures and all the flaws and say, "My mom lived an authentic life. That was the life she wanted to live."

I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn’t have you by the throat.

The biggest surprise was a picture my mom sent me, just about the time that we were about to wrap up the book, of me as a 5-year-old dressed in my first Halloween costume that she made for me. I said, "What's this? I never saw this photo." And she said, "We made you this black-and-orange Halloween costume out of crepe paper" - we were too poor to have fabric back then - "and you wanted to go as the Queen Of Halloween." And I was like, "What?" And she said, "Yeah, the Princess Of Halloween, the Queen Of Halloween, something like that.

My mom has a good way of engaging me in a conversation about the choices I make, listening, being objective and open-minded, and respecting those choices so long as they don't put me in danger.

The moment it begins to question itself, the mind becomes so clear that it starts working with itself rather than with the body's identification.

I hope this will help new moms not feel alone or desperate, and that there is no shame in their feelings. PPD is out of their control, but the treatment and healing process is not.

My mom is my heart. But my [step]dad was my role model, the hardest working man I ever knew.

Develop and maintain momentum by working continuously toward your sales goals every day.

Even in your darkest moments, you'll think of something that'll crack you up.

For all that "I was lost, I am found," it is probably more accurate to say, "I was really lost, I'm a little less so at the moment.

My mom just told me it's impossible to know what's going to happen in life. Except with breakfast, cause she eats the same thing every day.

My mom modeled and made clothes, so I always had such an appreciation for design. And then Gossip Girl completely blew open the door to fashion for me.

I want you to think back to when you were a kid. Remember the day you learned you could burn ants with a magnifying glass? Oh, what a great day that was! You got to be God. You decided who lived, who died. I must've burned ants for an hour, just laughing. Then I saw one on my arm. Let me tell you something, when you burn yourself with a magnifying glass, you're on your own. You can't even tell your mom, because she gives that face, Oh, he is that stupid.

Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.

I like showing moms what it's really like having a baby, and how it's not Hollywood life.

I really learned it all from mothers.

My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia

Releasing the chains to the material means experiencing life within each cell, moment to moment, each moment renewed.

One time my mom tried to ground me, but that lasted 15 minutes.

I honestly don't even know how I got into acting. It happened so quickly because my mom and sister used to do commercials, and apparently when I was little I would unbuckle myself from the stroller and crash their auditions.

My mom's Puerto Rican. That's why I'm so lively and colorful.