Mom Quotes - Page 96

I don't get caught up in the moment.

Nowadays they say you need a special chip to put in the TV so kids can't watch this and that. In my day, we didn't need a chip. My mom was the chip. End of story.

Mixing is figuring out what is essential to the moment and subordinating everything else

I experience each moment like baklava: rich in this layer, and this layer, and this layer.

Each moment of the year has its own beauty.

My moms is strictly Christian but once I got knowledge of self and started reading she used to love when I would sit there and tell her some of the things that I learned. It gave her an open mind to where she started believing in the most high.

Jewel-Like the immortaldoes not boast of its length of yearsbut of the scintillating point of the moment.

I sense that the moment has come to commit all of the Church's energies to a new evangelization... No believer in Christ, no institution of the Church can avoid this supreme duty: to proclaim Christ to all peoples.

Fifteen years ago I knew I had to settle into being a mom and give them a normal life, which I never had. I was always traveling. I had tours. I wanted my kids to settle down, and we kind of did it together.... It was a bumpy transition. There was no director telling me what to do. No script, but I really enjoyed it. I even became president of the PTA. Doing the laundry was a meditative experience. Now, when I start to get nervous and stressed, I go in and start to fold towels.

Sex means nothing--just the moment of ecstasy, that flares and dies in minutes.

I represent a rural state and live in a small town. Small merchants make up the majority of Vermont's small businesses and thread our state together. It is the mom-and-pop grocers, farm-supply stores, coffee shops, bookstores and barber shops where Vermonters connect, conduct business and check in on one another.

There is perhaps no specific time that is necessarily right to start your company or start your life. But some times and some moments seem more auspicious than others. Now is such a moment. If we don’t take charge and usher in the future - if you don’t take charge of your life - there is the sense that no one else will.

We're all of us dying . . . from the moment we're born

We hold on to hope, and hope robs us of the present moment.

I know it sounds cliche, but you have to believe in yourself because there's going to be moments that no one else does.

The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us. And to save us.

This is the present moment. Learn how to gobble it up without fear or guilt.

My mom was always really healthy and cautious about her diet, so I'm not a big sugar guy.

Fill the moment and find variety.

Sometimes a movie encapsulates a period or a moment in all of our lives in such a way that it never dies.

As I got older, the role that I ended up (playing) on One Life to Live was a mother because, by then, I had a stable marriage - so I thought - and a beautiful son and mother roles became what I was doing well. I was still the Latina mom who very much related to people who love family. All those traditional values (were) coming back into my life.

Charm is often despised but I can never see why. No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting and speaking. Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false.

There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.

I'm a concert pianist, that's a pretentious way of saying I'm unemployed at the moment.

You can have fun with a son, But you got to be a father to a girl.