My Mom Once Told Me Quotes

#1. My mom once told me, back when I was a kid, that I would never understand girls unless I understood the fear of being lonely and alone. She said no girl would ever understand boys unless she understood the fear of being dishonored and defeated.

John C. Wright

#2. My mom once told me that my dad had given me an alliterative name, Wade Watts, because he thought it sounded like the secret identity of a superhero. Like Peter Parker or Clark Kent.

Ernest Cline

#3. I do whatever comes my way. But I get burned out on stage. It's a lonely world. I think part of the romanticism about being on the road is you get to meet a lot of - my mom once told me, "You've probably got a woman at every port." Like I'm a pirate. Obviously she doesn't know her son that well.

Zach Galifianakis

#4. My mom once told me that's the secret of life. We all think we're frauds. Everybody's winging it.

Elan Mastai

#5. My mom once told me that a good relationship isn't where the other person makes you feel better, but where they make *you* better.

Brian K. Vaughan

#6. But now when I think about that night, I think about something my stepdad once said when my mom yelled at him for quitting AA. He just told her in this sad, quiet voice, Sometimes the sickest part of me just seems like the truest part.

Anna North

#7. My mom told me, 'don't grow up too quickly; once you're an adult, you're an adult.'

Camilla Belle

#8. As someone who has led his party through two general elections, I have not always been immune from feeling the pressure of electioneering tactics.

Charles Kennedy

#9. Rod Clark has one of the most unique voices I have ever encountered. I still quote some of his political insights years later. To have him write political science fiction is both appropriate and intriguing.

Kristine Kathryn Rusch

#10. My dad once told me life would get complicated when I grew up. I'm guessing this isn't what he meant. My mom, on the other hand, agreed with him, and I'm guessing this kind of thing is exactly what she meant.

Susan Ee

#11. There must be bands of enthusiasts for everything on earth-fanatics who shared a vocabulary, a batch of technical skills and equipment, and, perhaps, a vision of some single slice of the beauty and mystery of things, of their complexity, fascination, and unexpectedness.

Annie Dillard

#12. The next stage of evolution is the evolution of perception, the evolution of the mind.

Vironika Tugaleva

#13. No one talks about it. No one talks about them at all. "The Ancients prefer discretion," Mom once told me. But some say it's because they're so freakish we'd drop dead of fright. Others say they're too attractive, too tempting. I prefer this theory.

Melissa West

#14. One of my favorite ways to eat albacore is tuna poke.

Tom Douglas

#15. My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting' to do all the things that she would have wanted to have done.

Buck Owens

#16. She deserved a man who could take care of her. But fuck if I was just going to leave her. I couldn't do that. I may not be good enough for her but I was gonna damn well try my hardest to become worthy.

Abbi Glines

#17. I've learned in a hundred ways that I rarely regretted acting but often regretted NOT acting fast enough.

Jack Welch

#18. The dead should not speak, for their words smell of rot

Brom

#19. I studied English at Princeton in the early eighties in what I consider a period of high obscurity. Professors and students ran around discussing the work of critics and philosophers that I doubt they'd read or understood.

Walter Kirn

#20. We need somebody to put rat poisoning in Justice Stevens' creme brulee. That's just a joke, for you in the media.

Ann Coulter

#21. Mom once told me Aly had me wrapped around her little finger. She'd been wrong. Aly had held me in the palm of her hand.

A.L. Jackson

#22. The nasty little apes that call themselves human beings can do nothing except run and hide.

Michael Crichton

#23. When I'm in a zone, I don't think about the shot or the wind or the distance or the gallery or anything; I just pull a club and swing.

Mark Calcavecchia

#24. Is there anything I can say to convince you to stay out of this?" he pleaded, his voice taking on a softer tone.
I shook my head. "Of course not."
"I didn't think so," he said miserably.

Ada Adams

#25. My mom told me once - relationships end until the one that doesn't. So you can't be sad, really. Because if the wrong ones didn't end, you wouldn't be available when the right one came along.

Eli Easton