Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jack Kerouac

..and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didnt know who I was

Mom can't get that, she's up on the ladder.

It is a momentous decision, and they need more time to think about it.

Mo'Nique

I say to those people who are desperately trying to get healthy, in those moments where you feel like you can't go any further, you can.

Mary Lambert

My mom, grandma, great-grandma - we're all named Mary, and we all play piano and sing.

My mom tells me the first show we saw was 'The Secret Garden,' but I don't remember that.

G-Eazy

My mom would always play me a lot of late-'50s, late-'60s rock.

Bibhu Mohapatra

I remember an old Singer sewing machine at home that belonged to my grandmother. It had a pedal. My mom taught me how to use it when I was 12 years old. I used to find it so intriguing, how a flat piece of material could be made into an object that had so many uses.

Carrie Underwood

I would say that my role model, as far as just somebody leading by example, which to me is what a great youth counselor does - they are there to talk to and lead by example - would be my mom, but she wasn't a youth counselor. She was a teacher, and she is a good person and definitely one of the biggest influences in my life.

Carl Sagan

We live at a moment when our relationships to each other, and to all other beings with whom we share this planet, are up for grabs.

Ashley Tisdale

I don't drink, and I don't smoke. It's a personal preference. My mom has never drunk or smoked. I look up to my mom.

Ashton Kutcher

My mom was more into the yelling. She was the enforcer. She was the one that laid down the law. My dad made up the rules, but my mom laid down the law. It's not her words, it's her tone that sticks with me.

Lindy Ruff

We played them pretty even for most of the game. But our power play struggled, and that threw a lot of momentum off because it was all special teams early.

Kasey Kahne

We had momentum. We've had momentum all weekend long.

We had moments where I thought they played really well. It's just that once we got that goal, they just quit playing.

Dick Powell

When it starts to move it will make a lot of noise and it will move and have a lot of momentum and take anything in its way out.

Germaine Greer

I'm passionately opposed to the nuclear family, with its mom and dad and their 2.4 children. I think it's the most neurotic life-style ever developed.

Georges St-Pierre

Everyone is a threat, and anyone can be beat at any given moment. No one is invincible.

Jill Scott

Being a mom, it feels like I did something so powerful and amazing. It's such a gigantic blessing, and a confirmation that the Creator exists. And all of that has made me feel sexier and stronger. I call it 'lava in my spine.'

Jessica Lynch

I woke up and all I could see was Iraqis standing all around me, looking down upon me. I knew at that moment something terrible had happened and I wasn't in the right place.

Jessica Lange

Moments of pure happiness come upon you unexpectedly. Don't be too preoccupied to experience them.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

This is a historic moment in global public health, demonstrating the international will to tackle a threat to health head on.

Hannah Arendt

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.

Gillian Jacobs

There were definitely bands and musicians I liked that drove my mother insane. I probably liked them all the more for it! Bjork drove my mom nuts. What I listened to was actually pretty mom-friendly for the most part. I wasn't very rebellious.

Gillian Jacobs

My mom wouldn't know Tom Cruise if he punched her in the face.

Harvey Weinstein

I must admit, even though I'm the product of two Jewish parents, I think the Irish temper got in there somewhere, so I'm going to check Mom's genealogy.

Jackie Evancho

The only thing that really inspired me for singing was the movie and musical 'Phantom of the Opera.' I went to see it in the theaters, and I loved it so much. And when I got home, I started singing the songs around the house, and my mom thought I was really good, so she asked me if I wanted to do a talent competition. And I said, 'Yes, definitely.'

Gloria Feldt

This women's moment to embrace the power-to for good in life and leadership.

Gloria Allred

I think there should be better child support laws to make it easier for those single moms to support their children so they don't have to go on welfare.

Gloria Allred

There appears to be a disturbing trend in this nation to try to force single moms to choose between their children and their careers. If they take their careers seriously, they are labeled as bad mothers. If they spend time with their children, they are labeled as people who can't be serious about careers outside the home. This is a sexist double standard. No such guilt trip is imposed on men, who are generally not forced to choose between their children and their jobs.

Gloria Estefan

My mom was definitely very strict with me.

Gloria Estefan

Well first of all, I'm a singer. I sing since I talk. So the great ballad singers, the people that sang with so much feeling, jazz, blues, all those singers, they were songs that I listened to, records that my mom played for me, and then later I bought.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Happiness is a state of which you are unconscious. The moment you are aware that you are happy, you cease to be happy.