Quotes About Experience

I was a theater man, so I was never in the situation of being a handsome Hollywood leading man, and then having to age.

Adversity makes men wise but not rich.

Give me a used Bible and I will, I think, be able to tell you about a man by the places that are edged with the dirt of seeking fingers.

There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't.

I was born in Texas and I lived there 'till I was 8. Then I moved to the Dominican Republic with my mom, lived there for two years and forgot every word of English I knew.

My mom was a photographer and whenever they needed a baby for a modelling job, she'd stick me in front of the camera. That's how it started.

Being young, and having your mom come to school with the laced-up hats and the crazy outfits are definitely moments to remember.

My first words, as I was being born [...] I looked up at my mother and said, 'that's the last time I'm going up one of those.

Every single thing I learned about marketing and building my business, I learned from my mom, and she had never been in the workforce. She just had great practical sense.

My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.

In a nutshell, I am a mom, a grandma, and a midwife.

I'm a mom. I'm from Ethiopia. I gave birth in the U.S. and had all the proper care available to me. If I had given birth in Ethiopia - I don't know if I might have even survived it.

I always say every single moment that has led me to this moment has made me who I am.

I learned a lot from my Mom. My favorite lesson: remember there is no such thing as a certain way to parent and to remember that you are learning along with your child - it's ok to make mistakes.

Anything that opens you up emotionally is going to impact your acting. Parenthood, becoming a mom, certainly does that.

A moment was not a single moment at all, but rather an infinite number of different moments, depending on who was seeing things and how.

Being an older mom, I'm super mellow with my kids. Also, "curious" and "loving.

I think because I became a mom later in life, everything in life means more.

My mom was onstage when she was pregnant with me.

I grew up watching my mom in the kitchen, that's how I know anything about cooking. I've always wanted to go to a culinary class actually.

My mom used to say, "You cannot experience what you cannot imagine ... yet you always experience what you do imagine.

I was born to a Nigerian dad and a Kenyan mom, and coming to the States was really academic.

You don't take a class; you're thrown into motherhood and learn from experience.

I was class mom at the preschool one year and I was pretty much asked not to do that again!