Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tatiana Maslany

My mom's a translator, my dad's a woodworker; that's the world I grew up in, that's the world I'm most comfortable in. The whole idea of Hollywood or any of that other stuff that unfortunately goes along with film, that wasn't part of my upbringing, thankfully.

Taraji P. Henson

Once you're a mom, always a mom. It's like riding a bike, you never forget.

Tao Lin

One seemed simply to be here, less an accumulation of moments than a single arrangement continuously gifted from some inaccessible future.

Tara Brach

We, like the Mother of the World, become the compassionate presence that can hold, with tenderness, the rising and passing waves of suffering.

Judith Viorst

It has been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. My mom says some days are like that.

Judy Blume

In a New York Post interview, Judy Blume, author of young-adult fiction, gave this advice on getting your kids to read: "Moms come up to me at book signings and describe how they're telling their daughters, 'These were my favorite books,'?" she says. "I say, 'Quit it! That's the biggest turnoff!'"You want to get them to read them, leave them around the house and every so often, say, 'You're not ready to read this yet.'

Judy Blume

Moms come up to me at book signings.

Josh Peck

I do work too hard sometimes, but my mom is such an inspiration. She tells me to 'chill out' and not take things so seriously. She will say: 'Go and have a massage.

Josh McDowell

Every kid needs to say, 'I want what my mom and dad have.’

Karyn Parsons

Im married to a white man, and then my daughter came out looking like the whitest white child with blonde hair and blue eyes. And Im like, Omigosh, now what am I going to do? She has my moms features and is lighter than my husband. And my boy is browner than I am. Brown eyes and really tan.

Karrie Webb

It was sort of just a family sport. My mom and dad were pretty keen golfers when I was young and so were my grandparents, and I just sort of tagged along with them.

Leona Lewis

I feel like I've lived quite a sheltered life, like my mom and dad were quite protective of me.

Lars Ulrich

The worst day of my life was once that my mom didn't allow me to go to a Queen concert because I was grounded.

L. J. Smith

Come on, it's an American tradition. Apple soup? Mom's homemade chicken pie?' She chuckled in spite of herself, then winced. 'It's apple pie and Mom's homemade chicken soup. But you didn't do badly, for a start.

Kurtis Blow

Yeah when I was 7 or 8 my moms would have little parties, and I would play the music.

John Keats

You have absorb'd me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving.

Lisa Kleypas

It's drugs, isn't it"? Tara was so innocent. She got pulled into that glamorous lifestyle with all her rich friends...all that cocaine dust floating around, she probably inhaled some by accident, and then -' 'There's no such thing as secondhand cocaine snorting, Mom.

Lisa Hammond

The best thing a mother can give her child is a happy and fulfilled mom. There are many paths to happiness and fulfillment--follow your heart and choose your own way.

Lisa Guerrero

I'm proud of what I look like. I'm proud that I look like my mom.

Lisa Guerrero

My mom died when I was 8.

Lisa Edelstein

For me, just being how old I am, I know I don't want to be a single mom. I really would rather make it a two-person job. But I've also come to terms with not being a mother at all. I'm actually really good with either direction that my life can take as being a valid experience.

Lindsey Vonn

My mom is positive and optimistic.

Lindsey Vonn

I've never once heard my mom complain about her stroke.

Lindsey Vonn

My mom is really tough.

Lindsay Ellingson

Growing up I always shopped at Victoria's Secret with my mom and saw Angels like Gisele and Karolina Kurkova in the windows.

Lindsay Davenport

[On a strained relationship between a tennis champion and her mother:] There comes a time when it's probably not cool for your mom to be your best friend.

Lindsey Graham

My mom's disease, Hodgkin's disease, wiped us out financially. We eventually lost our businesses. I understand we're all one car wreck from needing help. But what it told Lindsey Graham, above all else, is that family, friends and faith really do matter. I'm a lucky man to have had all the support I've had all these years.

Linda Evans

I played with dolls until I was 15. My mother encouraged it because my older sister got married when she was 15, so Mom thought that the longer I stayed with dolls, the better.

Linda Cardellini

I think I'm going to spend some time learning how to be a first-time mom, and then I'll go back to work.

Lil Wayne

My family and my friends-they keep me grounded. Especially my mom, because she would kick my ass if I was to change.

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Penelope Fitzgerald

Duty is what no-one else will do at the moment.

Pema Chodron

If you ask why we meditate, I would say it's so we can become more flexible and tolerant to the present moment.