Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anthony Horowitz

Alex decided he’d had enough. He put down his knife. “All right,” he said. “You’ve made it pretty clear that you don’t want to work with me. Well, that’s fine. Because I don’t want to work with you either. And for what it’s worth, nobody would ever believe you were my mom because no mom would ever behave like you.” “Alex…,” Carver began. “Forget it! I’m going back to London. And if you’re Mr. Byrne asks why, you can tell him I didn’t like the jelly, so I went home to get some jam.

Alison Brie

Stay at home mom is still a job.

Alicia Keys

Moments are so fleeting; I want to hold on to the good ones.

Alicia Keys

It's important for everyone - working moms especially - to find moments to ground themselves and connect with their own breath.

Alicia Keys

I lived with my mom in a really small apartment. My bedroom was like in the living room. That's why I still love to sleep on couches now.

Alicia Keys

My mom always said, 'Don't date a guy who thinks he's prettier than you.'

Alicia Keys

Be driven, be focused, but enjoy every moment, because it only happens once.

Alice Walker

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

Alice Hoffman

Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working.

Alice Barrett

I'm a just a mom when I walk down the street.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I must try to be alone for part of each year...and part of each day...in order to keep my core, my center...Women must be still as the axis of a wheel in the midst of her activities. She must be the pioneer of achieving this stillness, not only for her own salvation, but for the salvation of family life, of society, perhaps even of our civilization.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

In the sheltered simplicity of the first days after a baby is born, one sees again the magical closed circle, the miraculous sense of two people existing only for each other.

Anna Chlumsky

I had no idea of the size of my bank account as a teen, and I didn't care to know. That was my mom's job, I figured that I would just find out when I turned 18. If you can't trust your mom, then who can you trust?

Alber Elbaz

There is nothing scarier than being ‘the designer of the moment,’ because the moment ends.

Albert Camus

Likewise and during every day of an unillustrious life, time carries us. But a moment always comes when we have to carry it.

Time is a very precious gift- so precious that it is only given to us moment by moment.

America Ferrera

You'll never see me at the launch of the new PlayStation or some club. For me, the fun stuff is being able to get my mom tickets to 'Dancing With the Stars' - she loves Mario Lopez.

Amanda Hocking

Well,I hope you like the ring." He held it out to me, he velvet lid still closed. "My mom hates it." "I'm sure I'll love it,then," I said, and he laughed.

Amanda Hocking

My mom has a tape from when I was, like, 2 years old, talking with my grandma, telling her a story that's really elaborate about werewolves and wolves.

Annie Leibovitz

A lot can be told from what happens in between the main moments.

Anna Silk

I think when you're a mom and an actor, it forces you to leave any actor neuroses behind and just concentrate on the work.

Anna Quindlen

I don't know what I would do in the world without [female friends] for advice, for comfort, for simply knowing that there is someone out there who knows me as I am, and loves me despite and because of it.

Anna Quindlen

Anyone who has breast-fed knows two things for sure: The baby wants to be fed at the most inopportune times, in the most inopportune places, and the baby will prevail.... And so the baby should, and the mom, too. Sometimes a breast is a sexual object, and sometimes it's a food delivery system, and one need not preclude nor color the other.

Anna Quindlen

So you're getting squeezed at both sides. You're taking care of your mom and dad and you're still doing caregiving with your kids, which is not easy. But I think overall, there's a level of satisfaction that might be unparalleled.

Anna Quindlen

I know that it's very dispiriting for people in their twenties, who expected to graduate from college, get their own apartments, get a job, and move forward with their lives, and in fact are still now living with Mom and Dad, which is challenging for all involved.

Anna Quindlen

an the president bring out the voters who were so enthusiastic about him in 2008 and seem a little disenchanted now? Can he bring out young people? Can he bring out Latinos? Can he bring out those white suburban moms?

Cindy Margolis

Every couple years when Mr. [Hugh] Hefner would call, I would very graciously decline, because my mom would kill me, and I thought it was more mysterious keeping my clothes on.

Cindy Margolis

My mom would have killed me before, but I'm an adult woman now, and I'm ready to show the world that you can have it all at 40 - be fabulous, 40, and pose for Playboy.

Cindy Sheehan

I'll be a grieving mom until I die because of the lies that took my son, ... I plan on keeping this up until the troops are brought home.

Ciara

Being young, and having your mom come to school with the laced-up hats and the crazy outfits are definitely moments to remember.

Chuck Yeager

At the moment of truth, there are either reasons or results.

Cindy Crawford

It's important for moms to have alone time. However, that's the first thing that goes on a busy day. Fortunately for me, because of my job, I have to find the time to do it. At least that's the way my mind sees it.

Cindy Crawford

As a mother, I always have something better to be doing. I love work still, but I'm less tolerant of my time being wasted.