Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paulo Coelho

There are moments when tribulations occur in our lives, and we cannot avoid them. But they are there for some reason.

Paulo Coelho

In life's most significant moments we are always alone.

Peter Guber

Most young people haven't used their storytelling skills since they were 8 or 9 or 10 and wanted to persuade Mom and Dad to take them to the ball game.

Peter Guber

My mom used to tell me stories at night, read books to me - and I read 'em over and over and over again. And you know what I learned from that? I went back and looked at everything - Why do I like reading the same stories over and over and over again? What, was I some kind of nincompoop? No - the narrative gave me connection with my mom.

Questlove

I have a lot of those 'Forrest Gump,' I-was-there moments.

Pia Zadora

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.

Phyllis Schlafly

The feminist movement has spent 30 years putting down the role of stay-at-home moms and trying to tell young women that only someone who is mentally disabled would pick that for a career.

Naveen Jain

Call it the Tiger Mom effect: In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option.

Mother Teresa

The problem with the world is that we draw the circle of our family too small.

Monica Denise Brown

The best part of being a mom to me is the unconditional love. I have never felt a love as pure, a love that's as rewarding.

Mike Krzyzewski

My mom gave me unconditional support and unfailing love. You can't get any better than that. That's why I've never been afraid to lose.

Mike Krzyzewski

You can see and you can listen, but you have to have moments in which you feel.

Mike Krzyzewski

The person who has inspired me my whole life is my Mom, because she taught me commitment. She sacrificed.

Mike Krzyzewski

Throughout my life, my mom has been the person that I've always looked up to.

Paula Patton

Once I finished breastfeeding, my mom's like, 'Don't take that bra off ever!' Mom, thank you. I wore a one-size-too-small bra for like, two years. It helps...! They don't fall, you teach them, you teach them to come back!

Paula White

Don't waste another moment crying over what went wrong! If it wasn't a blessing - it was a lesson.

Paula Poundstone

My mom is one of those really angry moms who gets mad at absolutely everything. Once when I was a little kid, I accidentally knocked a Flintstones glass off the kitchen table. She said, 'Well, dammit, we can't have nice things.'

Paula Poundstone

I don't like sex ... I'm a single working mom with nine cats, a dog-shark, a lizard, and a bunny. I don't go to bed, I pass out. The idea that I'd get to my bed and there'd be someone in there with whom I was supposed to have an activity is horrifying to me.

Paul Walker

My mom's hot. I mean she's old, but my mom's out of control.

Paul Walker

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

Terry Gross

My parents were pretty open about a lot of things, especially my mom. And any kind of little crazy thing I was into, she was very supportive of. You know, whether it was BMX bike racing or being in the Boy Scouts or surfing or anything else, she always seemed to sort of support it. And I think it's because she was an immigrant and that idea of sort of having her kids be able to have access to their dreams and whatever they wanted to follow was very important to her.

Terrence McNally

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.

Terrell Davis

My mom still lives in Denver and some of my brothers are still in the area, so I still have strong ties there.

Teri Polo

It's my favorite role - being a mom.

Terence McKenna

The future holds no terrors for a person who knows how process inevitably unfolds. They are always right and with it each moment.

Shania Twain

Fortunately, when you're a mom, the responsibility of caring for your child can keep you going.

Selma Blair

It's fun to play mom. Last I knew I was playing a 17-year-old who graduated.

Selena

I came to my mom and told her I wanted to do this[acting].

Selena Gomez

My mom always told me if I love what I'm doing and I'm having fun then just continue to do it. But if it's not fun for me anymore and I'm miserable, then I'm going to go back to Texas and quit it all, to be honest.

Selena Gomez

I got my first car when I was 16, but I didn't have a license. It was a Ford Escape. And I just let it sit there for two years, because I enjoyed having my mom drive me.

Selena Gomez

She was really strong around me. Having me at 16 had to have been a big responsibility. My mom gave up everything for me, had three jobs, supported me, sacrificed her life for me.

Sean Kingston

My mom, she got taken away from me when I was 14 years old. She is incarcerated. My sister was incarcerated. I was homeless. When my mom went away when I was 14. ... I was forced to live with my aunt. My aunt, she doesn't like rap music. She thinks rap music is the devil's music. Basically she said, "Yo, if you are going to do music you can't do it in my house."

Sean Mackin

My Mom played violin and piano when she was growing up and she insisted, and I don't know if you can imagine how uncool it is to play the violin when you're eight and ten years old, but I told my Mom that I would quit every day until I went to high school and I met these other gentlemen who would become Yellowcard, and my friends, and I really fell in love with music and it wasn't just classical music, just submerged in the arts in the school I was in.