Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Ellery Channing

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.

Red Adair

It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody's face when you're finished and packing, it's the best smile in the world; and there's nobody hurt, and the well's under control.

Robert Plant

It's sort of a feeling of power onstage. It's really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have some effect later on. I don't really think it's power... it's the goodness.

Tyra Banks

Smiles come naturally to me, but I started thinking of them as an art form at my command. I studied all the time. I looked at magazines, I'd practice in front of the mirror and I'd ask photographers about the best angles. I can now pull out a smile at will.

Wilfred Owen

And by his smile, I knew that sullen hall, By his dead smile I knew we stood in Hell.

Alexander Johnson

I had to do something to get a smile on Coach's face.

Jon Lovitz

Woody is the guy who made me want to be a comic. I was in heaven and couldn't stop smiling because he was my idle and 29 years after seeing Take the Money and Run, I was working for him.

Lord Acton

There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.

Jim Valvano

And if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That's important to me too.

Rudyard Kipling

If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!

Napoleon Bonaparte

Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.

Jodi Picoult

The best place to cry is on a mother's arms.

Mark Twain

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

Oprah Winfrey

I believe the choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is.

Pearl S. Buck

...most mothers kiss and scold together.

Lauren Bacall

I always brought up my children not to believe in Mothers Day gifts, and now I regret it.

Phyllis McGinley

A mother's hardest to forgive. Life is the fruit she longs to hand you Ripe on a plate. And while you live, Relentlessly she understands you.

Phyllis Diller

It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.

Carl Jung

But why didn't you just ask me?" I set down my fork and glare at her. "Because you were sleeping," She says, taking a sip if Chardonnay. "I was taking a nap, Mom. It wasn't intended to be some kind of Disney fairy-tale hundred-year snooze.

Jack Bicknell

I don't know what to say to someone who doesn't know what's going on with his mom and dad.

Rob Sheffield

'The Voice' has lots of singers who fit the 'Idol' mold of young, innocent ingenues with psycho stage moms. But it also has long-suffering adult pros, with a whiff of thirtysomething despair in their voices. That adds an edge of realness.

Richelle Mead

I went to bed feeling melancholy, wishing I could have poured out all my fears and insecurities to my mom. Wasn’t that what normal mothers and daughters did?

Renee Zellweger

My brother has two children now, so I've been playing aunt Renee. They're two and four. It's chaos. Moms out there, kudos to you. The cool thing about being an aunt is like, I can leave. No offense to my big brother Drew, but that is slavery. I dare you to take a shower. You can't do anything unless they let you. It's a dictatorship. They're little dictators in their crib.

Ryan Lochte

I grew up listening to oldies, like Motown. That's from my mom.

Rose Kennedy

Life isn't about milestones, it's about moment

Ronda Rousey

One of my mom's best lines is... You're not training to be the best in the world, you're training to be the best in the world on your worst day.

Ronda Rousey

I get asked that a lot and I always go back to my mom's, 'No one has the right to beat you.' I take that to every venue that I'm in. She would say, 'Someone has to be the best in the world, why not you?' I always try to keep that in mind.