Mom Quotes - Page 94

Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence.

Oftentimes, even as a little kid, I would get up before anyone else. My brother would still be sleeping, my mom would still be sleeping, so I would literally play 'Monopoly' by myself. I would play board games; I would do things by myself.

I'm most proud of our son, having suffered several miscarriages before having him. As for the next mountain, it takes so much to maintain what's already going on that I don't have time to think about it. But I want some more seasons of the TV show, I'd like to write another book, and eventually, I'd like to retire and take vacations with my husband like my mom and dad do.

Don't Let the Elusive Present Moment Get Used Up by Thoughts that Aren't in the Here & Now

[My boys] bloody well will work. Same as myself, same as David. They're not going to be the kinds of kids that just hang about. I want them to be able to fulfill their passions, but I think it's important that the children grow up and have respect for themselves.

Sorry, am I being rude?" she asks. "I'm used to saying whatever is on my mind. Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging

I didn't like the '80s at all; it was a vulgar moment of fashion.

No matter how much you want to say you've got all these plans ahead. The moment is all you got.

Jacopo Belbo didnt understand that he had had his moment and that it would have to be enough for him, for all his life. Not recognizing it, he spent the rest of his days seeking something else, until he damned himself.

Worrying won't prevent the worst outcome. I've learned to live in the moment, which is not my natural tendency. I've always thought that if I worried about something enough, it wouldn't happen. I forgot to worry about Parkinson's.

Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.

A friend of ours, the wife of a pastor at a church in Colorado, had once told me about something her daughter, Hannah, said when she was three years old. After the morning service was over one Sunday, Hannah tugged on her mom's skirt and asked. "Mommy, why do some people in church have lights over their heads and some don't?" At the time, I remember thinking two things: First, I would've knelt down and asked Hannah, "Did I have a light over my head? Please say yes!" I also wondered what Hannah had seen, and whether she had seen it because, like my son, she had a childlike faith.

I'm attracted to roles that are unpredictable, and if I can get my hands on something like that, I'm thrilled. I like performances where you don't know what's coming, moment to moment.

People out there said I was too small. It's those kinds of moments that pushed me to be where I'm at right now.

I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time

Death is not the monarch for the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest he loses a subject.

[With my photographs] you have a [single, forever fixed] moment and my particular angle of vision. My tyrannical condition, as it were, is that I prescribe your vision.

And never resist a perfect moment.

Young people have got to start their own theaters, really. All good theater is a kind of mom-and-pop operation. Start your own theater.

Moments in time when the world is changing bring out the best and the worst in people.

Never say anything on the phone that you wouldn't want your mother to hear at your trial.

If you dare declare that you are free, free you are this moment. If you say you are bound, bound you will remain.

I would never date or marry an actress. I will marry the girl of my mom's choice.

The past is able to close round certain moments, as if they were seeds, and deliver them again fresh and living in the present.

People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived.' They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates, and society.