One More Day Quotes - Page 2

• Today House Republicans are doing what they always do - using taxpayers' money to continue investigating claims that have already been debunked just to keep them in the headlines one more day.

  Elijah Cummings

  House, Today, Republican

  "FBI Director Faces Congress Over Hillary Clinton Email Investigation". "All Things Considered" with Carrie Johnson, www.npr.org. July 7, 2016.

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• Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.

  Mitch Albom

  Family, Sticking It, Togetherness

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• I don't wanna go throught the motions
  I don't wanna go one more day
  Without your all-consuming
  Passion inside of me
  I don't wanna spend my whole life asking
  What if I had given everything?
  Instead of going through the motions.

  Matthew West

  Passion, What If, Asking

  Matthew West, Angela Thomas (2011). “The Story of Your Life”, p.174, Harvest House Publishers

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• But she wasn’t around, and that’s the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going in to every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone.

  Mitch Albom

  Sad, Losing A Loved One, Fighting

  Mitch Albom (2009). “For One More Day”, p.10, Hachette UK

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• I will try to be non-violent
  one more day
  this morning, waking the world away
  in the violent day.

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Morning, Trying, Violence

  Muriel Rukeyser (1994). “Out of Silence: Selected Poems”, p.137, Northwestern University Press

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• Though I lost you years ago, I dreamed you were here. That dream gave me the inspirational feeling that I could make it one more day.

  Jon Jones

  Inspirational, Dream, Years

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• We should not live one more day ignoring the sh** that suffocates and strangles US keeping US imprisoned in our own communities.

  T.I.

  Community, Should

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• When I knew I couldn't suffer another moment of pain, and tears fell on my bloody bindings, my mother spoke softly into my ear, encouraging me to go one more hour, one more day, one more week, reminding me of the rewards I would have if I carried on a little longer. In this way, she taught me how to endure — not just the physical trials of footbinding and childbearing but the more torturous pain of the heart, mind, and soul.

  Lisa See

  Mother, Pain, Heart

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• She had a bottomless well of love for me.

  Mitch Albom

  Wells

  Mitch Albom (2009). “For One More Day”, p.26, Hachette UK

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• Kids chase the love that eludes them.

  Mitch Albom

  Kids, Elude

  Mitch Albom (2009). “For One More Day”, p.26, Hachette UK

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• When death takes your mother, it steals that word forever.

  Mitch Albom

  Mother, Forever, Stealing

  Mitch Albom (2009). “For One More Day”, p.36, Hachette UK

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• A child embarrassed by his mother,” she said, “is just a child who hasn’t lived long enough.

  Mitch Albom

  Mother, Children, Long

  FaceBook post by Mitch Albom from May 10, 2017

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• Every day when I wake I tell myself that it will be my last. If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it... And then, if you make it to bedtime, you feel the joy of cheating death out of one more day.

  Suzanne Collins

  Cheating, Joy, Trying

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “The Underland Chronicles #1: Gregor the Overlander”, p.231, Scholastic Inc.

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• And then, if you make it to bedtime, you feel the joy of cheating death out of one more day," she said. "Do you see?

  Suzanne Collins

  Cheating, Joy, Bedtime

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “The Underland Chronicles #1: Gregor the Overlander”, p.231, Scholastic Inc.

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• Belief, hard work, love–you have those things, you can do anything.

  Mitch Albom

  Love You, Hard Work, Belief

  Mitch Albom (2009). “For One More Day”, p.110, Hachette UK

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• The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature. You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up.

  Mitch Albom

  Fighting, Mountain, Care

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• You may write twenty lines one day--or even three like Euripides in three days--and a hundred lines in one more day--and yet on the hundred, may have been expended as much good work, as on the twenty and the three.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Writing, One Day, Twenties

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2009). “The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846”, p.37, The Floating Press

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• What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you're so wrecked it's hard to believe you ever were a child?

  Mitch Albom

  Children, Believe, Childhood

  Mitch Albom (2009). “For One More Day”, p.16, Hachette UK

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• Going back to something is harder than you think.

  Mitch Albom

  Thinking, Harder

  Mitch Albom (2007). “For One More Day”, p.90, Hachette UK

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• I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters, and sometimes that means you'll never know what they endured, and you may treat them unkindly, in a way you otherwise wouldn't.

  Mitch Albom

  Believe, Love You, Mean

  Mitch Albom (2009). “For One More Day”, p.130, Hachette UK

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• You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart.

  Mitch Albom

  Heart, People, Giving

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• One day can bend your life.

  Mitch Albom

  One Day

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• The urge to quit is strongest just before breakthroughs occur. Those are the times when it's most important to stay focused and committed. You will encounter the urge to quit many times. Get over it. Quitting is not an option; always be prepared to give it one more day.

  Matthew Barnett

  Giving, Important, Encounters

  Matthew Barnett (2011). “The Cause within You: Finding the One Great Thing You Were Created to Do in This World”, p.177, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• I don't know what it is about food your mother makes for you, especially when it's something that anyone can make - pancakes, meat loaf, tuna salad - but it carries a certain taste of memory.

  Mitch Albom

  Mother, Memories, Food

  Mitch Albom (2009). “For One More Day”, p.44, Hachette UK

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• The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare.

  Juma Ikangaa

  Motivational, Running, Mean

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