Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Happiness comes uninvited: and the moment that you are conscious that you are happy, you are no longer happy.

Jenny McCarthy

Hope is the greatest thing for moms of autism. Hope is what gets us out of bed in the morning. I'm on a mission to tell parents that there is a way.

Jenna Bush

[My mom] is quite the strict editor. I feel like maybe she has more of the old-school editing style, which really works in picture books, because you don't want to articulate anything in words that is already shown through the pictures.

Jenna Bush

I think I've become more like my mom just because of what we're both interested in, children and teaching and writing.

Gilda Radner

[Motherhood is] the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It's huge and scary-it's an act of infinite optimism.

Gillian Anderson

If I chose to have a nanny, I'd be able to pay to have a nanny - a lot of women don't have that opportunity. I don't feel like I'm a working single mom, because I have that option that a lot of people don't have.

George H. W. Bush

There are singular moments in history, dates that divide all that goes before from all that comes after.

Hailee Steinfeld

Well I was eight years old, and I have an older cousin who is three years older than me and she was doing acting, commercials, and modeling at the time and... to see my cousin doing that was really inspiring and I wanted to do it. So I went to my mom and I asked her if I could do it, and for the acting part of it, she made me study for a year.

Jim Butcher

She studied my face for a long minute. "Are you going to help my mom?" It was a simple question. But how do you tell a child that things just aren't that simple, that some questions don't have simple answers--or any answer at all?

Jessica Biel

My mom was [a hippie]. We weren't allowed sugar cereal. We weren't allowed processed foods-except Van de Kamp's fish sticks. We never locked the front door.

Jessica Capshaw

I got a Cabbage Patch doll from my mom when they were impossible to get. She later told me that she had to buy it off the black market. That was the best!

Jessica Capshaw

I love the surprise element of being a mom.

Jessica Capshaw

Being a mom has been my most important job to date, and I take my job very seriously, and I have a lot of fun doing it.

Jessica Capshaw

I love what I do and I think it shows. As my kids get older, they can see me as a mom who loves working.

Jessica Alba

I think people couldn't really put me in [one race]. I wasn't Mexican, I wasn't white, I wasn't black, I wasn't Asian... I wasn't anything, and I didn't really fit into anybody's group. My dad is Mexican, and my mom is French and Danish.

Jessica Alba

Makeup can be pure fantasy--it can transform you into any kind of magical creature, whether that's a superhero or a retro Hollywood icon or just a more fun, fresher version of yourself. Looking like a stress-free, well-rested working mom? That's some kind of magic to me.

Jessica Alba

All moms need confidants who are in their shoes and can relate to what they're going through. You need a night out together to be who you are, and not feel like you have to be the career woman, wife and mommy--all at once. After all, we're not superwomen.

Jessica Alba

I guess for me, balance isn't about treating your time like a pie chart and dividing it into equally sized slices for you, the kids, work, and so on. It's about the quality of how you spend your time, not the quantity--are you being present and focused on whatever you're doing while you're doing it? I truly believe that's how you can be the best version of yourself, whether you're in work mode, mom mode, or wife mode. When I know I'm giving my undivided attention in each of these areas, I don't feel so guilty about the time spent away from them.

Howard Thurman

keep fresh before me the moments of my high resolve.

Jerry Sloan

For the most part, ... he's had his moments where he's played pretty well.

Ivan Illich

At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.

Iyanla Vanzant

In all relationships, regardless of their nature, there comes that moment when you understand that there are some things you will never understand. When you are standing in that moment, just be right with it.

Irene Rosenfeld

Mom was a housewife; Dad was an accountant. They taught me a lot about the value of working hard.

Immanuel Kant

I shall never forget my mother, for it was she who planted and nurtured the first seeds of good within me. She opened my heart to the lasting impressions of nature; she awakened my understanding and extended my horizon and her percepts exerted an everlasting influence upon the course of my life.

Ariel Winter

If I go on dates, my mom is always with me. She's always there making sure I'm all right. Like if I go to see a movie with a boy, she'll go to dinner next door.

J. K. Rowling

He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark.

J. Reuben Clark

Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind. It places her who honors its holy calling and service next to the angels.

Jeffrey Loria

I can only tell you at this moment there is nothing going on in South Florida.

Allison Janney

I don't think any of us thought for a moment it was going to do what it did.

Hunter S. Thompson

There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.

Chloe Grace Moretz

The problem with me is, anything that's easy I will just overdo it. Especially with clothes. But I'm 14 - my mom is super-strict about that.

Daniel Ortega

We are going to wait for the moment of the debate, and we'll make the decision,

will.i.am

My mom's never been married. I've never even seen my mom kiss a dude.