Honoring Mom Quotes & Sayings

The Matrix is surely the kind of film about the matrix that the matrix would have been able to produce. — Jean Baudrillard

A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other ... until death do them join. — Elbert Hubbard

The price one pays when choosing exile is the loss of all that defines you as an individual. The only thing that makes this immense loss tolerable is the discovery of a self you did not know existed - of a true independence. That is the real gift of America, not its fabled wealth and prosperity. — Azar Nafisi

In no affairs of mere prejudice, pro or con, do we deduce inferences with entire certainty, even from the most simple data. — Edgar Allan Poe

It dawned on me that no person is as poetically homesick as someone who has come to New York for the first time and glimpsed a small vestige of her home state. — Suzanne Rindell

But I didn't put it back on after the Porters. It isn't a crisis of faith. I'm not sure I ever had faith, not the way Mom does. Mine is more like Dad's - I believe there is a God, and I believe in honoring Him, but I'm not sure how much of a role He plays in our lives, and I don't blame Him for that, because it's up to us, isn't it? It's up to us to say we'll be a good person because that's what we believe is right, not because it'll earn us a better place in the next life. — Kelley Armstrong

As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children. — Naomi Wolf

Doing a budget means learning an ancient and powerful word: NO. — Dave Ramsey

I nod and wave to my enemies like Miss America, pausing to blow kisses at the worst of them as I work my way across the cafeteria with a plate loaded with horridly healthy food. — Eliza Crewe

Intelligence is playing a more important role in policymaker decisions than I think I've ever seen in my time in Congress or before. — Mike Rogers

I think people are enticed by indie rap and every time you have a group going against the grain, they're gonna be like, 'Wow, you did it yourself in 2012, that's impressive - how did you do it? What're you doing that's different? And how can I be a part of it?' — Macklemore

We should no longer allow a mother to be defined as "just a mom". It is on her back that great nations are built. We should no longer allow any woman's voice to be drowned out or disregarded. As we affirm other women, and as we teach our sons, husbands and friends to hold them in the highest regard, we honor both the mothers whose shoulders we've stood on and the daughters who will one day stand tall on ours. — Oprah Winfrey

Just. Sometimes everything falls apart at once, you know And I'm slowly putting it back together, but it's taking a freaking eternity. — Jolene Perry

If everything is an illusion. To experiment is to find out what's real. — Matthew Donnelly

No apologies. I could kiss you right now. Judging by the look in his chocolate-brown eyes, he meant it. — Katie McGarry

Since one never knows what will be the line of advance, it is always most rash to condemn what is not quite in the fashion of the moment. — Paul Martin