Mama Hupp > Mama's Quotes

“Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.”
― August Wilson

“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again.”
― Eric Roth, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay

“It’s hard to imagine there is a God at the moment, isn’t it?” he said. “If I was watching this from up in heaven, I’d want to step in and put a stop to it.”
― Rhys Bowen, What Child Is This

“A good mother is worth a hundred teachers. —Italian proverb”
― Jane Healey, The Saturday Evening Girls Club

“God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.”
― Jane Healey, The Saturday Evening Girls Club

“A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle. —Italian proverb”
― Jane Healey, The Saturday Evening Girls Club

“Mrs. Storrow, you come here, and Madame DuPont, you tell me you want to invest in . . . in my daughter . . . in my daughter’s business. You both are ladies of society—you believe in my daughter.” He paused, and I held my breath. “So I have to say—who am I not to believe in my daughter too?”
― Jane Healey, The Saturday Evening Girls Club

“I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that this delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it. I remember, in the winter of our first experiments, just seven years ago, looking on snow with new eyes. There the snow lay around my doorstep — great heaps of protons quietly precessing in the earth's magnetic field. To see the world for a moment as something rich and strange is the private reward of many a discovery.”
― Edward M. Purcell

“Memories establish the past;
Senses perceive the present;
Imaginations shape the future.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut