Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

You're grown - crooked and backbent, but grown - and it's time to stop hanging your heart on your mother.

Catherynne M. Valente

• Mother
• Stop
• Grown
• Hanging On

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in 'The Bling Ring.' I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden.

  

  Taissa Farmiga
  • Good
  • Why
  • Home

• Revenge doesn't stop.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Stop
  • Revenge

• All I've done all my life is disobey.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Life
  • Done
  • My Life

• People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• Much as my Boomer friends will hate me for saying this, Kanye West is the New Dylan. Not only do Kanye's best lyrics match Dylan's prescience, highly inventive word-play and genius for storytelling, his indefatigable cockiness eerily channels Muhammad Ali.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Friends
  • Hate
  • Best

• When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Time
  • Great
  • Writing

• As a Christian, Christ died so that we will have eternal life in Him in Heaven. What it looks like doesn't matter, what it smells like doesn't matter, as long as Christ is there it will be Heaven to me.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Life
  • Heaven
  • Christ

• Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.

  

  Vin Scully
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• If guys try to make a bigger company for the sake of size, they don't create value in most cases.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Value
  • Company
  • Size

• I would have been happy to have waited till I was in my mid- to late-30s before I got married, but you don't choose when these things happen, and when they do, there's no doubt in your mind.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Mind
  • Happy
  • Doubt

• Eating by myself in my own apartment, single and alone again for the first time in many years, I should have felt, but did not feel, sad. Because I had taken the trouble to make myself a real dinner, I felt nurtured and cared for, if only by myself. Eating alone was freeing, too; I didn't have to make conversation.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Time
  • Real
  • Alone

• I think all of us feel like we're a bit on show, all the time.

  

  Tatum O'Neal
  • Time
  • Think
  • Like

• They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Great
  • Sad
  • They Say

• I was a shy child, and when I was 13, I started wearing braces on my teeth. I used to be acutely self-conscious, and I think writing was a way of withdrawing into my own imagination.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Writing
  • Imagination
  • Child

• Dogs, to me, are like children. They are the closest thing to God. They are so pure in their love, and all they do is aim to please.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • God
  • Children

• The incest taboo is another major category of primed learning.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Learning

• I think often, and never without a certain fear of Nessim's love for Justine. - It coloured his unhappiness with a kind of ecstasy - Yet one touch of humour would have saved him from such dreadful comprehensive suffering.

  

  Lawrence Durrell
  • Fear
  • Suffering

• I don't think it's by any means an end to my career.

  

  Mario Vazquez
  • Career

• Women and birds are able to see without turning their heads, and that is indeed a necessary provision for they are both surrounded by enemies.

  

  James Stephens
  • Women

• Bullies have a soft spot, and mean girls have a reason to be that way. It's a matter of understanding why a person is the way they are.

  

  Camila Mendes
  • Why
  • Understanding

• What is essential - the one thing that could stop us being coarsened to other lives - is that we feel a great, living wave of animal life all around us, covering the earth.

  

  John Burnside
  • Life
  • Great
  • Earth

• I don't like smiley pictures. A smile is a defense mechanism. It says, You can't have the real me but here's my smile. You get closer to the real person when they stop smiling.

  

  Chris Killip
  • Real
  • Stop
  • Smile

• Obviously I'd love to see Demetrious Johnson, you know, 'Demetrious Johnson $500,000 payout baby,' absolutely.

  

  Demetrious Johnson
  • Baby

• You're grown - crooked and backbent, but grown - and it's time to stop hanging your heart on your mother.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Mother
  • Stop
  • Grown