Vera Wang Quotes
My mother was extremely controlled, sort of flawless. And I always tend to be a bit more hippie.
Quotes to Explore
-
I have a lot of breast cancer history on my mother's side of the family.
-
Buildings are always better than drawings and models.
-
One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
-
I like being scared, so I've always liked fairy tales because they're kind of creepy.
-
I always dreamed of being Maria in The Sound of Music.
-
I have always believed in dialogue and in nonviolence, and if you look at my background you will see that it has always been my policy to talk to everyone.
-
I visited my father for the full ten years that he was in prison, so we already had a deep and loving relationship, and remembered our mother at those times.
-
I'm just in love with Burberry. Always have been, always will be.
-
At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A young mother and a dutiful father with their baby were joined by poor shepherds and visitors from afar. They came with their gifts to worship the Christ child.
-
When you're younger they always try to get you to do every ninny role that's going.
-
Nature can always be more complicated than we imagine.
-
Sorry, there's nothing like a screaming baby to make a mother twitch.
-
I realize now that I've hoped to be great - as an actress, as a mother - because I want to embody the greatness of women who didn't get to be all they could have been. Their dignity, their courage, and their brilliance make me strive to be better. They're a part of me.
-
My mother witnessed the martyrdom of her husband, Hajj Malik Shabazz, Malcolm X, on Sunday, February 21, 1965, at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City. My older sisters, Attallah, Qubilah and I were seated with our mother up front and stage right.
-
We started by playing girls who only married at the end of the picture. We didn't play wives. That came later. But the most dreadful thing was when a star had to play a mother. That was the beginning of her professional end.
-
You don't need money to be free. You can just say if you don't need stuff, you're always free.
-
To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
-
I was very, very little - it was the first time I ever cooked on my own, with my mother's supervision - and I made scrambled eggs. I felt so accomplished, like magic!
-
I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her grandma could give someone the evil eye, and I'd better not cross her because she had some of that blood in her. Mother always believed that she could predict the future, and she had dreams that came true.
-
There are a lot more female writers wanting to direct their own material and hopefully will be given the opportunity.
-
We know what happens to little black boys that have no dads; we've heard that, we get it. But no one is really saying that young women who are born without fathers have real serious issues especially when their mother had no father and the mother has issues.
-
I've made a professional reputation playing working-class, middle-class, American women. There's a real sense of stoicism and pragmatism and strength and lyricism of a woman like that.
-
My mother was extremely controlled, sort of flawless. And I always tend to be a bit more hippie.
