Lauds Morning Quotes & Sayings

I like to be able to get up and go and buy a pint of milk without bumping into 20 people I know. — Lily Allen

Being a kind, emperor, or president is mighty small potatoes compared to being a mother. Commanding an army is little more than sweeping a street compared with training a boy or girl. The mother of Moses did more for the world than all the kinds that Egypt ever had. Oh, you wait until you reach the mountains of eternity, then read the mothers' names in God's Hall of Fame. — Billy Sunday

No one really knows what I'm really like, and you won't unless you spend a day with me, or if you're my friend. No one ever knows what anyone is really like. Read all the interviews you want on them, it's just the media talking and you can't really get to know someone that way, obviously. — Avril Lavigne

A baby's a full time job for three adults. Nobody tells you that when you're pregnant, or you'd probably jump off a bridge. Nobody tells you how all-consuming it is to be a mother-how reading goes out the window and thinking too. — Erica Jong

Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have. — Robert Holden

You know, Tsitsi, you are so quick to point out that you are not a prostitute. I just want to laugh because you are just falling into rank. You all should spare us your 'morality' that lauds 'women' over the supposedly lesser 'whores' and 'girls'. That's how society sees us. That's how you see us. You want it to be that we are like coal, only to be loved in the dark and tossed like ashes come morning. — Panashe Chigumadzi

I've always thought if you watch the performance and you don't know about the person, then you only see the performance. — Janet McTeer

Really, her [Mother Mary] spirit is everywhere, Lily, just everywhere. Inside rocks and trees and even people, but sometimes it will get concentrated in certain places and just beam out at you in a special way ... I started thinking about the world loaded with disguised Marys sitting around all over the place and hidden red hearts tucked about that people could rub and touch, only we didn't recognize them. — Sue Monk Kidd

Time is the material from which everything is made — Sunday Adelaja

But then such a book as this is not meant to amuse. — Richard Wagner

I was born to an Arab father and I was born Islamic. — Kola Boof

abruptly stopping. I don't care. I'm no more dangerous than Mr. Taylor. I — Stephen Metcalfe

War is sometimes described as long periods of boredom punctuated by short moments of excitement. History is often similar, if rather safer. — John H. Arnold

I feel like I'm adapting to society. I went feral a little bit. I found that when I would get back to the city, if there was any second-guessing about stuff, it would happen. — Luke Temple

I didn't sit down and work out other people's material; I've never believed in that. — Robin Trower