Things Your Mom Never Told You Quotes

#1. To lunch with the important ... that should be the daily goal of those for whom life is not a playground but a ladder.

Rose Macaulay

#2. The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

#3. He who knows what best to omit is the best teacher.

Otto Neurath

#4. You need a relationship with Jesus, and I had never heard that before. So when my mom told me about that, I said, "Okay, let me try this." And so I did.

Frances Newton

#5. You have a girlfriend?" said Brian. "You never told us."
"I'm not going to tell you now either. Don't tell Mom and Dad, don't tell Jodie, don't tell Bren."
"Why not?" said Brian. "Mom and Dad would be thrilled. Unless she's some disgusting skank leading you down a sick and twisted path.

Caroline B. Cooney

#6. There are other options that no one ever told you about. These are things mom and dad never explained to you; your teachers didn't know; they weren't enlightened. They weren't luminous beings that stood out of time and space.

Frederick Lenz

#7. My mom always told me to never give my heart to a girl with a guy best friend, because her heart isn't really hers to give in return.

Kandi Steiner

#8. I have accepted that I don't know all the things that I ought to know, but I do know the things that I need to know. I don't know how to say, "I love you," but I do know how to show it. The people who love me know the same.

Hope Jahren

#9. Men in our culture have been spoiled, treated with false reverence instead of respect.

Marianne Williamson

#10. Mom, how come you never go outside?"
"I told you, I'm a vampire.

Alison Bechdel

#11. A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death.

Ernest Hemingway,

#12. Creativity helps us realize that we don't have to understand everything. We can enjoy something -feel it and use it- without ever fully comprehending it.

Faith Ringgold

#13. I learned that the richness of life is found in adventure ... It develops self-reliance and independence. Life then teems with excitement. There is stagnation only in security.

William O. Douglas

#14. What you see is real - but only on the particular level to which you've developed your sense of seeing. You can expand your reality by developing new ways of perceiving.

Wynn Bullock

#15. I'm going to be a person who writes stories.

I never told mom and dad how much I loved them.

I wanna be someone who can tell a lot of people how much I love them.

Kimama Aoboshi

#16. My mom told me a long time ago, 'Never get in a fight with a lady.'

Oliver North

#17. But what Mom never told me is that along the way, you find sisters, and they find you. Girls are cool that way.

Adriana Trigiani

#18. I never saw movies I was in because my mom told me that would be prideful, being stuck on yourself.

Karolyn Grimes

#19. I hate getting yelled at, that'll get you on my bad side. My mom never yelled at me. She just told us what needed to be done and we did it.

Edgerrin James

#20. I was always a closet lover of acting. My mom was very practical. She never, ever restricted our dreams, always told us we could do or be anything. Then I said, 'Maybe I want to be an actor'. And she said, 'Maybe not that'.

Octavia Spencer

#21. My mom told me I never had enough Tonka toys when I was growing up.

Howard Graham Buffett

#22. But when I was a little girl, my mom always told me to be nice to everybody, no matter what they looked like or how they treated me, because I never knew who might be an angel God had sent to Earth in disguise.

Jennifer Echols

#23. Deep down ... she's a good woman ... you should be proud of her. When I told my mom about this, she just looked very sad because he could never say those things to her. Not ever. Not even when he walked her down the aisle.

Stephen Chbosky

#24. I always had a standard of, back when I was doing the country music I always told people I would never record a song that I wouldn't sit down and sing in front of my mom and dad.

Ricky Skaggs

#25. But now I'm thinking that wanting to end up with a great storyteller might have been a bad idea. Because girls who can tell great stories are also great liars.

Lauren Barnholdt

#26. Your mom was right when she told you never to discuss politics and religion because emotions run so high in those arenas. Especially religion.

Bill O'Reilly

#27. Wes wants to be with Macy. And Macy, whether she'll admit it or not, wants to be with Wes. And yet they're not together, which is not only unjust, but when you think about it, tragical!

Sarah Dessen

#28. There was a point - when I was a kid - where I said I wanted to be like Luke Skywalker, with blond hair and blue eyes. My mom right there told me to never be ashamed of who I am.

Chaske Spencer

#29. 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

#30. My mom always told me one of the reasons that she was really happy in her life was that, if Dad never worked again, she was confident that she could support the family.

Bryce Dallas Howard

#31. You must spend money to make money.

Plautus

#32. The Internet and Yahoo are firmly established as 'must buys' for brand advertising.

Terry Semel

#33. In fact, my mom always told me because I was the daughter of an Army officer born overseas in Paris, France, that under the Constitution she believed that I could never run for president.

Karen Hughes

#34. I came to New York in 1962 and it began to look like I might he able to make a living in 1972.

Sam Waterston

#35. The mind is susceptible to suggestions. It learns whatever you teach it.

Swami Brahmananda