Quotes About Perspective

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother?

I should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to my mother-in-law.

When students scoff at the idea of a magical relation between a picture and what it represents, ask them to take a photograph of their mother and cut out the eyes.

My mother made it seem perfectly normal for thousands of people to be cheering me, as if there was nothing special going on. I thought all children must live as I did.

I'm sure you think that I don't understand what you're going through, but I do. It's just that sometimes, our future is dictated by what we are, opposed to what we want.

A car is like a mother-in-law - if you let it, it will rule your life.

My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother.

As the son of a Protestant Christian mother and a Shia Muslim father, I have nevertheless ended up without a religious bone in my body.

My mother, because of her life, had almost a contradictory way of viewing life. She had this great zest and joy for life and I think that I have that. The glass is always half full for me.

A mother-in-law is better than a single and childless political persona, though.

It's not that we didn't get along, it's just that my mother-in-law is very objective. She objected to everything I did.

I've been going through photos of my mother, looking back on her life and trying to put it into context. Very few people age gracefully enough to be photographed through their aging.

I take every opportunity to tell people how happy my mother is to be dead.

When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else.

Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind.

Don't go running off at the mouth. Let the picture tell the story. No one tunes in to hear you broadcast the game, except maybe your mother or your wife.

I think "waste of your brain" is something that my mother would say to me occasionally - I think it's usually when I'm telling her something like that I can remember every outfit I've ever worn.

People will ask, 'Are you famous?' And I always answer, 'My mother thinks so.'

There's no reason you'd shoot Mother Theresa and Newt Gingrich the same way.

Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but these things were not my mother's strong suit.

You know, my mother's beautiful, my dad was a really handsome man, and there was a lot of talk about looks when I was growing up.

My mother's whole family had been from the theater, really. Because I grew up in Hollywood, I wasn't that interested in Hollywood. But the New York theater was completely exotic and fabulous to me.

I would have to say that my mother's entrepreneurial perspective, and that of her father's, are very evident in my own outlook.