Quotes About Perspective

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.

When I was growing up, my mom told me every story that was happening to her. Most of the stories that come to me are through a female voice in my head. My stories seem to naturally be about females.

I learned from my mom that you should always try to enjoy life, no matter what.

Sometimes I criticize movies. It's not fun to watch a movie with me, because I'll go, "That was a really bad shot." My mom's like, "Shut up, Chloe, watch the film!"

But I can see. I can see everything. I can see things that Mom and Dad can't. Or won't.

I'm all right, not as good as my mom is. Maybe because I don't have kids.

If you're reading something from a Nobel Prize-winning physicist next to some guy in his underwear writing in his basement, or his mom's basement, on text, it looks like it's equally plausible.

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.

My step-mom would tell me that she would get complaints from adults that I stared too much at them.

Realizing you're not anything special to the kids is always a great sort of reminder that you're just a regular person. A regular embarrassing old mom.

Before I was a mom I used to think that parents who worried about their kids watching MTV were just clueless. Now that I'm a mom, I see what the fuss was all about!

One of the blessings of becoming an adult is finally seeing my mom and dad as people, not just parents.

I played the mom in Spy Kids when I was, like, 27. So it was ridiculous. But [Robert Rodriguez] was like, "You know what? If we do our job right, no one will question it." And nobody did.

Never being number one in your list of priorities and not minding at all.

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.

Calvin: Why are you crying mom? Mom: I'm cutting up an onion. Calvin: It must be hard to cook if you anthrpomorphisize your vegetables.

The greatest gift that we have as human beings is our ability to empathize. That's why I think personal stories matter so much. That's someone's mom. That's someone's daughter. That's someone's son.

My mom used to ask me when I was gonna write a happy song. I still tell her that it's when I start to write really happy-sounding songs that everyone needs to start worrying.

I still feel like a kid sometimes myself so hard to believe that I'm a mom. Now I'm an adult! It only took 38 years!

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

I grew up raised by my mom and my two sisters, so I never had a real male influence in my life. I never really understood heterosexual male relationships.

That just sounds so funny, A-list. Really, I'm a mom, and that's how I'm going to be all my life.

We under no circumstances know the appreciate of your parent till we develop into dad and mom ourselves.

Becoming a mom allowed me to just relax in a way I never had before. I used to care a lot about what I looked like in public or what people thought of me. I care at least 40 percent less now.