Famous Quotes

"I couldn't wait until I grew up. I used to look at my mom's stockings and put them on with her high heels and mess with my hair."

Florence Griffith Joyner on Mom

More quotes about Mom

• "My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her."

  George Washington on Mom

• "The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children."

  Jessica Lange on Mom

• "My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it."

  Mark Twain on Mom

• "Men are what their mothers made them."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson on Mom

• "My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso."

  Pablo Picasso on Mom

More quotes by Florence Griffith Joyner

• "A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up."

• "I love working with kids, talking with them and listening to them. I always encourage kids to reach beyond their dreams. Don't try to be like me. Be better than me."

• "A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up."

• "A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up."

• "That's what I'd like to do on the President's Council. Make sports and athletics available to every youth in America, not just one day a week like it was for me, but every day."