Quotes About Transformation

When I found out that I was going to be CBS every morning, my first phone call was to Jenny Craig. Ten days later, I lost nine pounds. Now I even take the plan's popcorn with me to the movies.

I was completely unhealthy, obese, so I committed to running three miles every morning for six months and following a strict diet, and 100 pounds came off.

It's like you wake up one morning, and decided that how you've been in the past doesn't have to define who you are in the future. Simple as that.

Barack Obama is the New Generation and the hot light of a dawn that goes way beyond clever talk of morning in America.

It is odd how one can feel like someone else early in the morning - bigger, cleaner, so much more alive.

Schools will change more in the next 30 years than they have since the invention of the printed book.

Meditate five minutes each morning and see it wake up your entire life.

The day we mean what we say, even a "good morning" can be transformational!!!

My mother always called me an ugly weed, so I never was aware of anything until I was older. Plain girls should have someone telling them they are beautiful. Sometimes this works miracles.

Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers.

She became a very famous, very popular young girl. Before that, she was my daughter, but now I'm her father.

War is the mother of everything.

The mom doesn't become sexy; the woman does. You have to retrieve the woman from the mother. And she may need to separate to do that: a bath, a walk. She must cordon off an erotic space.

The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.

Plus, according to my mother, memories change like people do, especially if there's enough alcohol involved-Aphrodite

The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.

You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me.

Becoming a mother has been the most amazing experience - in an instant you become strong. You have to be a little bit wiser; it's the most important job in the world.

The first snowball I froze was put in my mother's deep freeze when I was in my early 20s.

We, like the Mother of the World, become the compassionate presence that can hold, with tenderness, the rising and passing waves of suffering.

Writing stories has given me the power to change things I could not change as a child. I can make boys into doctors. I can make fathers stop drinking. I can make mothers stay.

Fearlessness is the mother of reinvention.

Mother Earth is giving birth to a co-creative humanity. There's not a majority anywhere, but it's cropping up everywhere, because old leadership does not have the authority to guide us.

You can take the babushka off the Jewish mother and dress her up in a pair of Seven jeans and Marc Jacobs sling-backs, but she's still going to expect a passel of grandkids.