Life Celebration Quotes
Heartwarming
Heartwarming
Abraham Lincoln
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
Ada Limon
I saw a mom take her raincoat off and give it to her young daughter when a storm took over the afternoon. My god, I thought, my whole life I’ve been under her raincoat thinking it was somehow a marvel that I never got wet.
Adam Oates
You eat and sleep it all day long and play on the streets until mom calls you in. My story is no different than anybody else's.
Adrianna Stepiano
I'm blessed and I couldn't be more grateful. Do you want to know why? Because I'm a mother, but that's only half of it. I'm blessed because, when I need to, I can still just be a daughter. I get the feeling that there is nothing more precious than to have both of these roles, simultaneously.
Adriana Trigiani
The terrible things that happen to us in life never make any sense when we're in the middle of them, floundering, no end in sight. There is no rope to hang on to, it seems. Mothers can soothe children during those times, through their reassurance. No one worries about you like your mother, and when she is gone, the world seems unsafe, things that happen unwieldy. You cannot turn to her anymore, and it changes your life forever. There is no one on earth who knew you from the day you were born; who knew why you cried, or when you'd had enough food; who knew exactly what to say when you were hurting; and who encouraged you to grow a good heart. When that layer goes, whatever is left of your childhood goes with her. Memories are very different and cannot soothe you the same way her touch did.
Adrienne Rich
Probably there is nothing in human nature more resonant with charges than the flow of energy between two biologically alike bodies, one of which has lain in amniotic bliss inside the other, one of which has labored to give birth to the other. The materials are here for the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement.
In the mother’s eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child reads the message: ‘You are there!’
All human life on the planet is born of woman. The one unifying, incontrovertible experience shared by all women and men is that months-long period we spent unfolding inside a woman’s body. Because young humans remain dependent upon nurture for a much longer period than other mammals, and because of the division of labor long established in human groups, where women not only bear and suckle but are assigned almost total responsibility for children, most of us first know both love and disappointment, power and tenderness, in the person of a woman.
Agatha Christie
A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.
Alanis Morissette
I could get away with not taking care of myself as a bachelorette but as a mom I can't.
Alexa Vega
I consider my mom and all my sisters my friends.
Alfred Adler
a woman who contributes to the life of mankind by the occupation of motherhood is taking as high a place in the division of human labor as anyone else could take. If she is interested in the lives of her children and is paving the way for them to become fellow men, if she is spreading their interests and training them to cooperate, her work is so valuable that it can never be rightly rewarded. In our own culture the work of a mother is undervalued and often regarded as a not very attractive or estimable occupation. It is paid only indirectly and a woman who makes it her main occupation is generally placed in a position of economic dependence. The success of the family, however, rests equally upon the work of the mother and the work of the father. Whether the mother keeps house or works independently, her work as a mother does not play a lower role than the work of her husband.
Ali Wong
I also understood why my mom wasn’t into processing her feelings, and how she was taught to just get over tragedy. To survive, she had to believe things like depression and allergies were a choice.
Alice von Hildebrand
One thing is certain: When the time has come, nothing which is man made will subsist. One day, all human accomplishments will be reduced to a pile of ashes. But every single child to whom a woman has given birth will live forever, for he has been given an immortal soul made to God's image and likeness. In this light, the assertion of de Beauvoir that 'women produce nothing' becomes particularly ludicrous.
Alice Walker
Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
Alicia Keys
I lived with my mom in a really small apartment. My bedroom was like in the living room. That's why I still love to sleep on couches now.
Alyson Hannigan
My mom, Emilie, always taught me to think hard about marriage.
The first few weeks of being a mom were profound, not just emotionally but also, physically. All the changes you instinctually go through are miraculous.
Ama H. Vanniarachchy
She is the creature of life, the giver of life, and the giver of abundant love, care and protection. Such are the great qualities of a mother. The bond between a mother and her child is the only real and purest bond in the world, the only true love we can ever find in our lifetime.
Amit Kalantri
A mother is your first friend, your best friend, your forever friend.
People who lost their mother should be careful about committing crime, because probably no one else is praying to save you.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
Amy Hatvany
Being a good mother does not mean being perfect every single moment. we screw up. we get mad, we drink too much, eat too much, yell too much. a good mother learns from her mistakes and does what she can to not let them happen over and over.
Amy Jo Johnson
My mom taught me to go after my dreams. I have this faith in myself that I must have gotten from her.
Amy Poehler
When your children arrive, the best you can hope for is that they break open everything about you. Your mind floods with oxygen. Your heart becomes a room with wide-open windows.
Amy Tan
A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.
A mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place.
What do you think was the first sound to become a word, a meaning? I imagined two people without words, unable to speak to each other. I imagined the need: The color of the sky that meant 'storm.' The smell of fire that meant 'Flee.' The sound of a tiger about to pounce. Who would worry about these things?And then I realized what the first word must have been: ma, the sound of a baby smacking its lips in search of her mother's breast. For a long time, that was the only word the baby needed. Ma, ma, ma. Then the mother decided that was her name and she began to speak, too. She taught the baby to be careful: sky, fire, tiger. A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.
Anaïs Nin
She had first seen the world through her mother's eyes, and seen herself through her mother's eyes. Children were like kittens, at first they did not have vision, they did not see themselves except reflected in the eyes of the parents.
Angela Kinsey
I think it's a tough road if you're a stay-at-home mom, a working mom, if you have a partner, if you don't. It's the best job in the world, and the toughest job in the world all at the same time.
Anita Baker
Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.
Anita Diamant
Just as there is no warning for childbirth, there is no preparation for the sight of a first child... There should be a song for women to sing at this moment, or a prayer to recite. But perhaps there is none because there are no words strong enough to name the moment.
It’s a good thing babies don’t give you a lot of time to think. You fall in love with them and when you realize how much they love you back, life is very simple.
Why had no one told me that my body would become a battlefield, a sacrifice, a test? Why did I not know that birth is the pinnacle where women discover the courage to become mothers? But of course there is no way to tell this or to hear it. Until you are the woman on the bricks, you have no idea how death stands in the corner, ready to play his part. Until you are the woman on the bricks, you do not know the power that rises from other women-even strangers speaking an unknown tongue, invoking the names of unfamiliar goddesses.
Fear not, the time is coming. Fear not, your bones are strong. Fear not, help is nearby. Fear not, Gula is near. Fear not, the baby is at the door. Fear not, he will live to bring you honor. Fear not, the hands of the midwife are clever. Fear not, the earth is beneath you. Fear not, we have water and salt. Fear not, little mother. Fear not, mother of us all.
Anna Chlumsky
If you can't trust your mom, then who can you trust?
Annette Funicello
Of all the roles I've played, none has been as fulfilling as being a mother.
Ann Patchett
He is fifteen and ten and five. He is an instant. He is flying back to her. He is hers again. She feels the weight of him in her chest as he comes into her arms. He is her son, her beloved child, and she takes him back.
Anna Quindlen
The great motherhood friendships are the ones in which two women can admit [how difficult mothering is] quietly to each other, over cups of tea at a table sticky with spilled apple juice and littered with markers without tops.
A loose end - that's what we woman call it, when we are overwhelmed by the care of small children, the weight of small tasks, a life in which we fall into bed at the end of the day exhausted from being all things to all people.
We've made hyper motherhood a measure of female success.
Anne Frank
In the book Soldiers on the Home Front, I was greatly struck by the fact that in childbirth alone, women commonly suffer more pain, illness and misery than any war hero ever does. An what's her reward for enduring all that pain? She gets pushed aside when she's disfigured by birth, her children soon leave, hear beauty is gone. Women, who struggle and suffer pain to ensure the continuation of the human race, make much tougher and more courageous soldiers than all those big-mouthed freedom-fighting heroes put together.
Anne Lamott
So how on earth can I bring a child into the world, knowing that such sorrow lies ahead, that it is such a large part of what it means to be human? I'm not sure. That's my answer: I'm not sure.
All these people keep waxing sentimental about how fabulously well I am doing as a mother, how competent I am, but I feel inside like when you're first learning to put nail polish on your right hand with your left. You can do it, but it doesn't look all that great around the cuticles.
Kids are hard -they drive you crazy and break your heart- whereas grandchildren make you feel great about life, and yourself, and your ability to love someone unconditionally, finally, after all these years.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
By and large, mothers and house wives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
Anne Tyler
It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.
Antonella Gambotto-Burke
It is only through my daughter that I have come to realise that a life without femininity – devoid of mystery, emotion, gentleness and the unerring power of a woman’s love – is no life at all.
Archibald Thompson
There is no velvet so soft as a mother’s lap, no rose as lovely as her smile, no path so flowery as that imprinted with her footsteps.
Arianna Huffington
There is nothing like becoming a mom to fill you with fear.
Aristotle
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
Arlene Benedict
To a child’s ear, ‘mother’ is magic in any language.
Ashlee Simpson
Being a mom's so empowering and incredible. I'm one of those people who believes that life brings things to you at a certain time for a certain reason, and if you just go with it, that's where the best moments come from.
Ashley Tisdale
My mom is very confident and she was always a role model of mine.
Ayelet Waldman
Even if i'm setting myself up for failure, I think it's worth trying to be a mother who delights in who her children are, in their knock-knock jokes and earnest questions. A mother who spends less time obsessing about what will happen, or what has happened, and more time reveling in what is. A mother who doesn't fret over failings and slights, who realizes her worries and anxieties are just thoughts, the continuous chattering and judgement of a too busy mind. A mother who doesn't worry so much about being bad or good but just recognizes that she's both, and neither. A mother who does her best, and for whom that is good enough, even if, in the end, her best turns out to be, simply, not bad.
Ayura Ayira
Someone loved you so much it concentrated in your stomach. I think that’s the closest anyone can get to magic.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
There is no greater heaven than the heart of a loving mother. She takes care of you when you are still in her womb. She nurtures you after you are born. She hurts when you fall. She celebrates when you make your first steps. She is the only person who genuinely cares about you. She loves you as she loves herself. Her heart is your true paradise. I love you mama.
Barack Obama
My mother was the one constant in my life. When I think about my mom raising me alone when she was 20, and working and paying the bills, and, you know, trying to pursue your own dreams, I think is a feat that is unmatched.
Barbara Ehrenreich
Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.
Barbara Johnson
To be in your children’s memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today.
Barbara Kingsolver
But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run.
A mother's body remembers her babies-the folds of soft flesh, the softly furred scalp against her nose. Each child has it's own entreaties to body and soul.
But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be no more coming after - oh, that's love by a different name. She is the babe you hold in your arms for an hour after she's gone to sleep. If you put her down in the crib, she might wake up changed and fly away. So instead you rock by the window, drinking the light from her skin, breathing her exhaled dreams. Your heart bays to the double crescent moons of closed lashes on her cheeks. She's the one you can't put down.
She has changed in this way that motherhood changes you, so that you forget you ever had time for small things like despising the color pink.
Bella Pollen
Children expect their mothers to love them, no matter what. Those who don't get this tend to feel cheated the rest of their lives.
Beth Ditto
We all seek approval, and our mother's seal is usually the most important. The nitty gritty is that we have to accept ourselves, even if it is just to be ready for the next cut-down. Mom's blessing or not.
Betty Smith
She sat in the sunshine watching the life on the street and guarding within herself, her own mystery of life.
Brené Brown
Quoting Viola Davis (who is sharing rules she lives by): '4. I will not be a mystery to my daughter. She will know me and I will share my stories with her—the stories of failure, shame, and accomplishment. She will know she’s not alone in that wilderness.
Bill Watterson
Mothers are the necessity of invention.
Booker T. Washington
If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
Brittany Murphy
Home is where my mom is.
If I could be a third of the woman that my mom is and have a third of the strength that she has, then I will have done good by this life.
Brooke Shields
It was my mom and I against the world.
Caitlin Moran
While motherhood is an incredible vocation, it has no more inherent worth than a childless woman simply being who she is, to the utmost of her capabilities. To think otherwise betrays a belief that being a thinking, creative, productive, and fulfilled woman is, somehow, not enough. That no action will ever be the equal of giving birth.
Cardinal Mermillod
A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.
Carl Jung
This is the mother-love, which is one of the most moving and unforgettable memories of our lives, the mysterious root of all growth and change; the love that means homecoming, shelter, and the long silence from which everything begins and in which everything ends.
Caroline Wozniacki
My mom was always the support. I can always go out to her and she'll always find the positive in things.
Charley Benetto
When you are looking at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.
Charlize Theron
My mom has made it possible for me to be who I am. Our family is everything. Her greatest skill was encouraging me to find my own person and own independence.
You know, I don't think any mother aims to be a single mom. I didn't wish for that, but it happened.
Chaske Spencer
There was a point - when I was a kid - where I said I wanted to be like Luke Skywalker, with blond hair and blue eyes. My mom right there told me to never be ashamed of who I am.
Catherynne M. Valente
As all mothers know, children travel faster than kisses. The speed of kisses is, in fact, what Doctor Fallow would call a cosmic constant. The speed of children has no limits.
Chaz Bono
What mom cares about most is that I'm happy, healthy and enjoying my life.
Celeste Ng
It came, over and over, down to this: What made someone a mother? Was it biology alone, or was it love?
Cheryl Lacey Donovan
Mother is a verb. It's something you do. Not just who you are.
Cheryl Strayed
My whole life sort of ended when my mom died.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Be a full person. Motherhood is a glorious gift, but do not define yourself solely by motherhood. Be a full person. Your child will benefit from that.
Chinese Proverb
There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.
Chinua Achebe
When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Motherhood taught me something new about love. It was the one relationship where you gave everything you had and then wished you had more to give.
Christina Ricci
My mom knows when something is real and something is not.
Cindy Crawford
When you are getting ready to become a mom, being in love with someone just isn't enough. You need to think about whether he would be a good parent and raise your children with similar beliefs.
Claire Oshetsky
I begin to understand what a gift I've been given, to have been chosen for this task. The truth overwhelms me, and humbles me. The birds are telling me that my life's work, as your mother, will be to teach you how to be yourself - and to honor however much of the wild world you have in you, owl-baby rather than mold you to be what I want you to be, or what your father wants you to be.
Claudette Colbert
Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? The mother.
Danny Aiello
Death can't be so bad if mom went through it. It makes it easier for the child to follow.
David Ortiz
My mom, she's still always there for me. Always.
David Bergen
The most difficult part of being a mother was to observe the mistakes of one's children: the foolish loves, the desperate solitude and alienation, the lack of will, the gullibility, the joyous and naive leaps into the unknown, the ignorance, the panicky choices and the utter determination.
David O. McKay
Motherhood is the greatest potential influence either for good or ill in human life. The mother's image is the first that stamps itself on the unwritten page of the young child's mind. It is her caress that first awakens a sense of security; her kiss, the first realization of affection; her sympathy and tenderness, the first assurance that there is love in the world.
The noblest calling in the world is motherhood. True motherhood is the most beautiful of all arts, the greatest of all professions. She who can paint a masterpiece, or who can write a book that will influence millions, deserve the plaudits and admiration of mankind; but she who rears successfully a family of healthy, beautiful sons and daughters whose immortal souls will exert influence throughout the ages long after paintings shall have faded, and books and statues shall have decayed or been destroyed, deserves the highest honor that man can give, and the choicest blessings of God.
David Rockefeller
I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.
Debolina Bhawal
Mom is my best friend not because she is my mom, but because - She is the one who understand me without my saying. She is the one who can read my eyes. She is the one who can read my painful heart. She is the one who can give love without any return. She is the one who never leave my hand no matter how much i fight with her. She is the one who never complains for anything you do to her. She is the one with who I can share everything without fear. She is my best guide. She fights for me when I am innocent. She trusts me when others don't. This is why. She is the one who is my Best Friend. Love you mom...
Diana Gabaldon
When you hold a child to your breast to nurse, the curve of the little head echoes exactly the curve of the breast it suckles, as though this new person truly mirrors the flesh from which it sprang.
Debasish Mridha
A mother’s love is more beautiful than any fresh flower.
Denise Richards
The best gift a parent can give children is time... Single moms need to know it's okay to have a little 'me' time.
Diane Keaton
The loves of my life are my children and my mother. I don't feel as if I need a man.
Donna Ball
Motherhood is a choice you make everyday, to put someone else's happiness and well-being ahead of your own, to teach the hard lessons, to do the right thing even when you're not sure what the right thing is...and to forgive yourself, over and over again, for doing everything wrong.
Donna VanLiere
I know the well of my maternal incompetence is deep but I am determined to siphon up a calm and breathing hope for him.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
Dorothy Day
If I had written the greatest book, composed the greatest symphony, painted the most beautiful painting or carved the most exquisite figure I could not have felt the more exalted creator than I did when they placed my child in my arms.
Dorothy Koomson
I was in charge. Of it all. All the time. For ever.
Edgar Allan Poe
The angels, whispering to one another, can find, among their burning terms of love, none so devotional as that of Mother.
Edie Brickell
Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste.
Edie Falco
As a single mom, I'm juggling a lot and working long hours. Yes, it costs them a little, but what my children get in return is a mother who is energized and content.
Edwin Chapin
No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother’s love.
Elaine Heffner
The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.
Elder M. Russell Ballard
There is no role in life that is more essential than that of motherhood.
Elisabeth Shue
My mom had started to go to work when I was nine or ten, so I was aware of women trying to find their own identities by working.
Emeril Lagasse
Mom ran the house, so we grew up Portuguese.
My inspiration was my mom. She's a great cook, and she still cooks, and we still banter back and forth about cooking. Growing up in a mostly Portuguese community, food was important and the family table was extremely important. At a very young age I understood that.
Emily Dickinson
Mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
Emma Goldman
Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?
Emma Roberts
I grew up with just my mom. She and I were like best friends. She's a very independent woman and I admire that about her. In my life, I've tried to be like that. To be okay with being on my own and being independent.
You don't realize how hard it is to live on your own. But there's no mom to do your laundry, and make you dinner and to do things for you, and you don't think about little things like buying paper towels and salt.
Emmanuelle Chriqui
When I look up and see a star, I know my mom is there. She's with me all the time. It's a powerful connection.
Erich Fromm
Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.
Erma Bombeck
It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
Ethel Waters
Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me.
Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.
Ezra Taft Benson
It is a fundamental truth that the responsibilities of motherhood cannot be successfully delegated. No, not to day-care centers, not to schools, not to nurseries, not to babysitters. We become enamored with men’s theories such as the idea of preschool training outside the home for young children. Not only does this put added pressure on the budget, but it places young children in an environment away from mother’s influence. Too often the pressure for popularity, on children and teens, places an economic burden on the income of the father, so mother feels she must go to work to satisfy her children’s needs. That decision can be most shortsighted. It is mother’s influence during the crucial formative years that forms a child’s basic character. Home is the place where a child learns faith, feels love, and thereby learns from mother’s loving example to choose righteousness. How vital are mother’s influence and teaching in the home—and how apparent when neglected!
Faith Hill When you're a mom and you have three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.
Fantasia Barrino
I feel like a good mom. I'm a strong woman now... Don't look down on me. Pray for me because I'm trying.
Fatima Farheen Mirza
Just one more moment. Just give us one more. But maybe her heart would never be satisfied; maybe it was ever-enlarging in its want for me. Because she knew that if she were granted one more moment, then another one was what she would ask for. She could live around her son for a hundred years and even then, when it was time to part, she would think - but it has been too brief.
Fay Weldon
Guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine.
Faye Diane Kilday
Mothers are a special gift sent from God above. They bless us with their nurturing and fill us with their love.
Felicity Jones
Being a working mother and a working single parent instills in you a sense of determination.
Fred Couples
My mom was so people-friendly. She was incredible. She'd go to the mall, and she'd talk to everyone. Give people a kiss on the cheek. I think if I wasn't pushed around a lot, I'd be great with people. Maybe I still can be.
Fred Rogers
When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, 'Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’
Fredrik Backman
Mom. You taught me that I don't have to have dreams. I can have goals.
Being a mother can be like drying out the foundations of a house or mending a roof: it takes time, sweat, and money, and once it's done everything looks exactly the same as it did before. It's not the sort of thing anyone gives you praise for.
She goes silent. Ashamed of herself as mothers are when they realize they have passed that point in life when they want more from their daughters than their daughters want from them.
Fulton J. Sheen
Most of us love a non-self, or something extrinsic and apart from our inner life; but a mother's love during the time she is a flesh-and-blood ciborium is not for a non-self but for one that is her very self, a perfect example of charity and love which hardly perceives a separation. Motherhood then becomes a kind of priesthood. She brings God to man by preparing the flesh in which the soul will be implanted; she brings man to God in offering the child back again to the Creator.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
A long while yet will you keep that great mother's grief. But it will turn in the end into quiet joy, and your bitter tears will be only tears of tender sorrow that purifies the heart and delivers it from sin.
G.K. Chesterton
How can it be a large career to tell other people's children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one's own children about the universe? How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone, and narrow to be everything to someone? No. A woman's function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute. I will pity Mrs. Jones for the hugeness of her task; I will never pity her for its smallness.
Garth Brooks
If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom…
George Bernard Shaw
Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do.
George Carlin
My mother didn't get home until about seven most nights and, yes, there was a sense of being very alone after school. She gave me all the proper guidance and influences, but physically, she just couldn't be there.
George Eliot
Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
George Washington
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
Genevieve Gornichec
My heart is so much more than it once was, even if it now beats outside my chest.
Giada De Laurentiis
Every time I think I have something under control, it changes and I don't have it under control. I think it takes several years to get there. Jade is 19 months old, so right now I'm on alert all the time. And as a mom I think you're constantly worrying about things.
These days it's cool to be ethnic and to be different, but when I was a kid, it was not cool - at all. My friends would come over and my mom would make crepes with eggs, stuffed with mozzarella cheese, tomatoes and spinach. And they'd be like, 'What is this?'
Gilda Radner
Motherhood is the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It’s huge and scary – it’s an act of infinite optimism.
Glennon Doyle
What if love is not the process of disappearing for the beloved but of emerging for the beloved? What if a mother’s responsibility is teaching her children that love does not lock the lover away but frees her? What if a responsible mother is not one who shows her children how to slowly die but how to stay wildly alive until the day she dies? What if the call of motherhood is not to be a martyr but to be a model?
Greg Louganis
Mom was the one who taught me unconditional love. With Dad, I'd always felt there was something to live up to - expectations. But in the last year, we had a wonderful relationship.
Gretchen Wilson
I'm a mom first, a singer second.
Gwen Stefani
Being a mom is hard, I think a lot of working moms feel that way.
Being a singer is all about me. About ego. Being a mom is all about being selfless - two different worlds.
It's superfun being a mom, but it's hard too.
Hilary Rosen
As a mom I know that raising children is the hardest job there is.
Hoda Kotb
I can't remember a time when my mom didn't work. She has forever been on the move: a go-getter. When my brother Adel and I had a paper route as kids, my mom would get up before us at the crack of dawn to drop off the Washington Post at different corners.
It’s one of those things where you think you’ve done it all, you think you’ve felt it all. But I just didn’t know that this kind of love existed.
To this day, my mom's unsinkable spirit is an inspiration to me. For nearly thirty years, she's worked at the Library of Congress. Everyone knows Sameha simply as 'Sami.' Along with 500 miles of shelved books, her closest friendships are cataloged in that library. They are as much the value of work to my mom as is the work itself.
Holly Madison
I want my daughter to be proud of me and look up to me. I think early on in my pregnancy I realized that to be the mom I want to be, I had to change my life, and that's what I'm doing.
Holly Marie Combs
When you become a mom you just learn how to function sleep deprived and you do get used to it. I came back to work when Finley was three months old and the first few months were rough. Then somehow you learn to exist on no sleep and now when he does upon occasion sleep through the night, which is like a full six hours, you're pretty sure he's suffocating. So you don't sleep anyway.
Honore de Balzac
A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
Howard W. Hunter
Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind.
Idina Menzel
As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty.
My biggest project right now is trying to be a really great mom and learning how to balance family and career. I'm just trying to spend as much time with my family as I can.
Iggy Pop
My mom was a saint. She taught me to be terminally nice.
Isabella MacDonald Alden
No occupation in this world is more trying to soul and body than the care of young children. What patience and wisdom, skill and unlimited love it calls for. God gave the work to mothers and furnished them for it, and they cannot shirk it and be guiltless.
J.R. Martinez
My father left... but I tell my mom - and I told my mom this when I was a kid - I said, 'You know what, Mom? Good thing he left because you're a strong woman.'
J.K. Rowling
He didn’t realize that love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark.
J.R. Miller
Oh that God would give every mother a vision of the glory and splendor of the work that is given to her when a babe is place in her bosom to be nursed and trained! Could she have but one glimpse in to the future of that life as it reaches on into eternity; could she look into its soul to see its possibilities; could she be made to understand her own personal responsibility for the training of this child, for the development of its life, and for its destiny,--she would see that in all God's world there is no other work so noble and so worthy of her best powers, and she would commit to no others hands the sacred and holy trust given to her.
Jack London
But the Wild is the Wild, and motherhood is motherhood, at all times fiercely protective whether in the Wild or out of it.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do well matters very much.
Jai Rodriguez
When Queer Eye hit, the church told my mom they were praying for me. She said, God loves him too. And I support him 100 percent.
James E. Faust
The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.
James Franco
When I was a child, I wanted to be an actor, but I had really bad buckteeth. I didn't want to get braces, but my mom said I couldn't be an actor if I didn't get the braces. So, I got the braces.
James Joyce
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
Jami Gertz
Being a Hot Mom means being respected as a mom and a woman. And, the key to being a Hot Mom is having a sense of humor about yourself and all the crazy situations that arise.
Being a working mom is not easy. You have to be willing to screw up at every level.
Jamie McGuire
A mother’s love is everything. It is what brings a child into this world. It is what molds their entire being. When a mother sees her child in danger, she is literally capable of anything. Mothers have lifted cars off of their children and destroyed entire dynasties. A mother’s love is the strongest energy known to man.
Jane Elliot
I loved raising my kids. I loved the process, the dirt of it, the tears of it, the frustration of it, Christmas, Easter, birthdays, growth charts, pediatrician appointments. I loved all of it.
Jane Sellman
The phrase ’working mother’ is redundant.
Jane Smiley
My mom was paranoid about my safety.
Janet Fitch
They wanted the real mother, the blood mother, the great womb, mother of fierce compassion, a woman large enough to hold all the pain, to carry it away. What we needed was someone who bled, someone deep and rich as a field, a wide-hipped mother, awesome, immense, women like huge soft couches, mothers coursing with blood, mother's big enough, wide enough for us to hide in, to sink down to the bottom of of, mother's who would breathe for us when we could not breathe anymore, who would fight for us, who would kill for us, die for us.
Janice Dickinson
Mothers don't let your daughters grow up to be models unless you're present.
Why not share this as a heartwarming gift?
Jason Behr
I think if I could be any superhero, it'd probably be my mom... but I don't think I'd look too good in high heels, so it's not gonna happen.
Jason Derulo
I want somebody like my mom. My mom is a very charitable woman. She's the sweetest woman in the world. I'm looking for the second sweetest woman in the world. I'm looking for honesty and a big heart.
Jeff Bridges
I think my love of journalizing my life comes from my mom.
Jeffrey Donovan
My mom raised us three boys by herself on welfare. It's not worse than anybody else's life.
Jenna Bush
I think I've become more like my mom just because of what we're both interested in, children and teaching and writing.
Jennette McCurdy
Why do we romanticize the dead? Why can't we be honest about them? Especially moms. They're the most romanticized of anyone. Moms are saints, angels by merely existing. NO ONE could possibly understand what it's like to be a mom. Men will never understand. Women with no children will never understand. No one buts moms know the hardship of motherhood, and we non-moms must heap nothing but praise upon moms because we lowly, pitiful non-moms are mere peasants compared to the goddesses we call mothers.
Jennifer Garner
I remember, my mom didn't have any help, so if she needed to be somewhere after school, we'd just go down to the neighbors' and she'd give us a snack and make sure we did our homework. There weren't any latchkey kids.
My mom was really vigorous about making sure that we saw things and that we questioned things.
Jennie Garth
I love kids and children, and I love being a mom.
My mom really instilled in me that I'm beautiful and I can do anything, and I echo that now with my own girls.
Jennifer Weiner
“This is motherhood for you,” said my own mother. “Going through life with your heart outside your body.”
Jewel
For now I'm just enjoying being a mom. I don't want to be more famous and more rich. I want to be a good mom.
Jewish proverb
A mother understands what a child does not say.
Jhumpa Lahiri
With children the clock is reset. We forget what came before.
Jill Churchill
There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.
Jill Savage
Motherhood is a fleeting season in our life, maximize every moment.
Jill Smokler
Being a parent is dirty and scary and beautiful and hard and miraculous and exhausting and thankless and joyful and frustrating all at once. It’s everything.
Joan Ryan
Motherhood is about raising and celebrating the child you have, not the child you thought you would have. It's about understanding that he is exactly the person he is supposed to be. And that, if you're lucky, he just might be the teacher who turns you into the person you are supposed to be.
Jillian Michaels
I've always believed fitness is an entry point to help you build that happier, healthier life. When your health is strong, you're capable of taking risks. You'll feel more confident to ask for the promotion. You'll have more energy to be a better mom. You'll feel more deserving of love.
It's impossible to put yourself first when you're a mom.
Having a child makes you realize the importance of life - narcissism goes out the window. Heaven on earth is looking at my little boy. The minute he was born, I knew if I never did anything other than being a mom, I'd be fine.
Jessica Capshaw
I love what I do and I think it shows. As my kids get older, they can see me as a mom who loves working.
Jessica Lange
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 Szohr
I have a very close relationship with my mom, and I'm able to talk to her about anything.
Jessica Simpson
I have so much respect for my mom and all the women across the world.
I want to be as healthy as I can because I'm a mom now.
Jim DeMint
One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad.
Jimmy Fallon
You can feel when your mom’s proud of you. You can feel the love.
JoBeth Williams
I think there's a danger of a being typecast as the all-American mom forever.
Jodi Picoult
My Mother: She is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.
Sometimes when you pick up your child you can feel the map of your own bones beneath your hands, or smell the scent of your skin in the nape of his neck. This is the most extraordinary thing about motherhood - finding a piece of yourself separate and apart that all the same you could not live without.
Was it the act of giving birth that made you a mother? Did you lose that label when you relinquished your child? If people were measured by their deeds, on the one hand, I had a woman who had chosen to give me up; on the other, I had a woman who'd sat up with me at night when I was sick as a child, who'd cried with me over boyfriends, who'd clapped fiercely at my law school graduation. Which acts made you more of a mother?Both, I realized. Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.
When you're pregnant, you can think of nothing but having your own body to yourself again, yet after having given birth you realize that the biggest part of you is now somehow external, subject to all sorts of dangers and disappearance, so you spend the rest of your life trying to figure out how to keep it close enough for comfort. That's the strange thing about being a mother: until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one.
Motherhood is a Sisyphean task. You finish sewing one seam shut, and another rips open. I have come to believe that this life I'm wearing will never really fit.
I cannot admit this out loud. In the first place, we are expected to be supermoms these days, instead of admitting that we have flaws. It is tempting to believe that all mothers wake up feeling fresh every morning, never raise their voices, only cook with organic food, and are equally at ease with the CEO and the PTA.
Being a mother gives you a singular sort of vision, a prism through which you can see your child with many different faces all at once. It is the reason you can watch him shatter a ceramic lamp, and still remember him as an angel.
The best place to cry is on a mother’s arms.
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Joel Madden
My mom always said that there would be haters. Not everyone can love ya.
Joely Fisher
I'm sure that my mom would have been happy with any path I chose.
Johann Christoph Arnold
I think motherhood is the noblest task of all, because you cannot do it at your convenience, or tailor it to suit your preferences. You have to be ready to give up everything when you take on this task: your time, restful nights, your hobbies, your pursuit of physical fitness, any beauty you may have had, and all of the private little pleasures you might have counted as a right, from late dinners and long soaks in the tub to weekend excursions and cycling trips…I’m not saying you can’t have any of these things, but you have to be ready to let them all go if you’re going to have children and put them first.
Johann Christoph Blumhardt
A mother, a real mother with a little child, thinks day and night about the welfare of the little one in her arms. A mother knows what dangers the child will have to encounter as he grows up. She does not let the father reassure her when he makes light of things and says that the children have to find their own way.A mother worries, for she carries the burden, and she often sees much deeper than the father just where the child is in danger.
John Kennedy Toole
Mothers got a hard road to travel, believe me.
John Steinbeck
Perhaps it takes courage to raise children.
Jojo Moyes
It's just that the thing you never understand about being a mother, until you are one, is that it is not the grown man - the galumphing, unshaven, stinking, opinionated off-spring - you see before you, with his parking tickets and unpolished shoes and complicated love life. You see all the people he has ever been all rolled up into one.I look at him and see the baby I held in my arms, dewing besotted, unable to believe that I'd created another human being. I see the toddler, reaching for my hand, the schoolboy weeping tears of fury after being bullied by some other child. I saw the vulnerabilities, the love, the history.
Joyce Carol Oates
The danger of motherhood. you relive your early self, through the eyes of your mother.
Julia Quinn
It's the curse of motherhood. You're required to love us even when we vex you.
Julia Roberts
My mom used to make everything. She had a great garden and composted and made everything from scratch - peanut butter, bread, jelly, everything. I don't know how she did it because all those things take time and love and labour. I only do half the stuff she does - but there's still time.
Julie B. Beck
Mothers who know do less. They permit less of what will not bear good fruit eternally. They allow less media in their homes, less distraction, less activity that draws their children away from their home. Mothers who know are willing to live on less and consume less of the world’s goods in order to spend more time with their children—more time eating together, more time working together, more time reading together, more time talking, laughing, singing, and exemplifying. These mothers choose carefully and do not try to choose it all.
Julius Erving
I came from a broken home, so my mom was a major influence in my life.
Kahil Gibran
Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.
Long ago you were a dream in your mother's sleep, and then she awoke to
give you birth.
Kaitlyn Greenidge
The only good poem I’ve ever written is you. A daughter is a poem. A daughter is a kind of psalm. You, in the world, responding to me, is the song I made. I cannot make another.
Kamand Kojouri
Babies cry at birth because it is the first time they experience separation from love.
Karen Fowler
My life has been shaped by the decision two people made over 24 years ago. They decided to adopt a child. They got me, and I got a chance at the kind of life all children deserve.
Karen Maezen Miller
The life of a mother is the life of a child: you are two blossoms on a single branch.
Kaoru Mori
Know the rules of child rearing!! Rule one: Physical strength! Rule two: Physical strength! There are no rules three or four, but rule five is physical strength!
Karen White
Being a mother is like being a gardener of souls. You tend your children, make sure the light always touches them; you nourish them. You sow your seeds, and reap what you sow.
Karl Lagerfeld
The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.
Kate Walsh
There are lots of different ways for women to be a mom in this culture.
Kate Winslet
Having children just puts the whole world into perspective. Everything else just disappears.
Katey Sagal
I'm a better mother if I'm also doing my work. Some women find a lot more satisfaction from doing the hardest job, which is being a mom. But I like my day job, so I juggle a lot.
Katherine Center
Because the truth was, there was a dark underbelly of terror to motherhood. You loved your children with such an overwhelming fierceness that you were absolutely vulnerable at every moment of every day: They could be taken from you. Somehow, you could lose them. You could stop at the corner to buy a newspaper when a drunk driver veered onto the sidewalk. You could feed your child an E. coli-tainted hamburger. You could turn your head for a second while one darted out into the street. The threats to your child were infinite. And the thing was, if any of your children's lives were ruined, even a little bit, yours wold be, too.
Kay Panabaker
I spend so much time with my parents. My mom and I were joined at the hip for five years. There was not one moment when I wasn't with her.
Kellan Lutz
I was blessed, because I come from a family where they knock you down before you float away. I have a lot of brothers who just make sure we have our feet on the ground, and my mom is a rock star. She is an amazing mother.
Kelly Corrigan
And it occurs to me that maybe the reason my mother was so exhausted all the time wasn’t because she was doing so much but because she was feeling so much.
Kerri Walsh
My mom is a constant in my life in so many ways.
Kevyn Aucoin
Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom.
Kim Hye-Jin
That child who sprang from my own flesh and blood is perhaps the creature I'm most distant from.
Kimberley Alecia Smith
As a mother I see the future in the present. Every little thing she does or says makes me form a hypothesis of how she will see life and treat others in 20 years. So I plan for how amazing she will be now. Instead of living my life I have to live hers. Some may not understand how important it is to be a parent. How present, efficient, selfless, and imaginative you must be. But I do. I only pray that this little face is stronger than I am and more successful for this world and the next. I chase her butterflies. She was created from scratch and presented as a gift from God. She will never roam free, unattended and unloved.
Kristen Wiig
I like to write and draw and paint, and my mom's an artist, so I think I get caught up in thinking, 'I'm afraid it's gonna be bad,' and it's hard for me to start sometimes.
Kristi Yamaguchi
I've realized how precious life is. When I was younger, I was more adventurous. I felt invincible. I was game for everything. As a mom, I don't want to get injured because then I can't take care of my kids.
Kristin Bauer van Straten
So much of our lives are defined by habit or what the guy next to us is doing, never wondering and knowing who and what we support with our actions, from the detergent Mom always used, to my favorite dish I make... A lot of my life is unexamined habit.
Kristin Hannah
I am a mother and mothers don’t have the luxury of falling apart in front of their children, even when they are afraid, even when their children are adults.
Love is what remains when everything else is gone. This is what I should have told my children when we left Texas. What I will tell them tonight. Not that they will understand yet. How could they? I am forty years old, and I just learned this fundamental truth myself.Love. In the best of times, it is a dream. In the worst of times, a salvation. I am in love. There it is. I've written it down. Soon I will say it out loud. To him. I am in love. As crazy and ridiculous and implausible as it sounds, I am in love. And I am loved in return. And this-love-gives me the courage I need for today. The four winds have blown us here, people from all across the country, to the very edge of this great land, and now, at last, we make our stand, fight for what we know to be right. We fight for our American dream, that it will be possible again. Jack says that I am a warrior and, while I don't believe it, I know this: A warrior believes in an end she can't see and fights for it. A warrior never gives up. A warrior fights for those weaker than herself.It sounds like motherhood to me.
She had counted on a lifetime to teach her children what they needed to know, but she didn't have the gift of grace and time. Still, she had given them what mattered: they were loved and they knew it. Everything else was decoration. Love remains.
Kristin Kreuk
I took piano for many years. I kicked and screamed through all of my lessons, but my mom really insisted.
Kristina Riggle
I hope someday she meets just the right man and has babies - a whole passel of babies, more than I could have - so she understands how it kills me now that she won't let me hug her when she's in obvious distress.
L.R. Knost
It's not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It's our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless.
Lady Gaga
Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me.
Lance Conrad
I can imagine no heroism greater than motherhood.
Lara Flynn Boyle
I know that I'm getting the real deal with my mom. I know that she's telling it like it is. She's proud of me when I've earned it and she's disappointed in me when I've earned that. She's really my spectrum on where I am as a person.
Larisa Oleynik
I don't know that I have any role models now that are fixed. Definitely my mom - she's the coolest. She's worked really hard her whole life and I just think she's got a great attitude. Moms just know so much it's so silly.
If my mom reads that I'm grammatically incorrect I'll have hell to pay.
Leah Franqui
“My mother is the reason that I love you,” Bhim said simply. “She is the reason I know what love is.”
LeBron James
For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you'd would wake up times and hope that the next day you'd be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.
My mom and I have always been there for each other. We had some tough times, but she was always there for me.
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Leighton Meester
I look up to my mom. She's a beautiful woman.
Lenny Kravitz
People always accuse me of being motivational in a way, like it was a bad thing, but that's just how I was raised. My mom raised me in a positive environment, with lots of love in my heart, and that reflects in my music.
Leo Tolstoy
When Mother smiled, no matter how nice her face had been before, it became incomparably nicer and everything around seemed to brighten up as well.
The memories of home and of her children rose up in her imagination with a peculiar charm quite new to her, with a sort of new brilliance. That world of her own seemed quite new to her now so sweet and precious that she would not on any account spend an extra day outside it, and she made up her mind that she would certainly go back next day.
Leonardo DiCaprio
My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life.
My mother is a walking miracle.
Leroy Brownlow
Mother is the heartbeat in the home; and without her, there seems to be no heartthrob.
Leslie Banks
In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author... I was just a Mom in a state of panic, trying to enter a short story contest to win the prize money in order to keep the lights on in my home.
Leslie Bibb
My dad died when I was three so my mom had to raise four kids on her own, and I think there's a part of me that pulls upon having watched my mom do that our whole lives. She had to make it work.
Lily Aldridge
I love every second of being a mom.
Lin Yutang
Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.
Lindsay Ellingson
Growing up I always shopped at Victoria's Secret with my mom and saw Angels like Gisele and Karolina Kurkova in the windows.
Ling Ma
A boy, at best, can adore his mother, but a girl can understand her. When the doctor told me it was a girl, I thought, now I will be understood.
Lionel Shriver
...trying to be a good mother may be as distant from being a good mother as trying to have a good time is from truly having one.
Lisa Guerrero
I'm proud of what I look like. I'm proud that I look like my mom.
Lisa Leslie
I don't think I would have been able to stick with it and been proud of who I am and be feminine out on the court. I think I would have folded to the peer pressure if I didn't have my mom to encourage me to be me and be proud of how tall I am.
My mother was my role model before I even knew what that word was.
Lisa Loeb
I think a good mom is an awake mom. At least for me, I've always been a kinder, better person awake than sleep-deprived!
Lisa Scottoline
But the fact is, I'm not work-identified. I'm not a lawyer or a writer. I'm a mom, and I'm a woman, and that's the kind of people I want to see in books in the starring role.
Lisa See
In our country we call this type of mother love teng ai. My son has told me that in men's writing it is composed of two characters. The first means pain; the second means love. That is a mother's love.
Lisa Unger
Motherhood was an ever widening circle of good-byes.
Lisa Wingate
I wrote about the rush of love, the changing of a woman into a mother—a process that happened without conscious thought, as if the heart knew what the mind and body took time to learn. Love is the one thing that matters. That makes everything else matter. That makes everything worthwhile.
Liya Kebede
The world needs our mothers.
Liz Phair
I'm really happy to be a mom, and I'm proud of the phase I'm in.
Logan Marshall-Green
My mom introduced me to science-fiction.
Loni Anderson
My mom started smoking when she was 11. She went to the hill next door to try her first cigarette. She set the entire hill on fire, but it didn't deter her.
Why not share this as a heartwarming gift?
Loretta Lynn
Mommy smoked but she didn't want us to. She saw smoke coming out of the barn one time, so we got whipped.
Louise Erdrich
A newborn baby has a powerful effect on character. But so does a toddler. A child. A preteen. A teenager. A mother changes with every stage. Some stages are within a mother's skill set. Some stages are like being told to scale a cliff using a rope attached to nothing.
Luffina Lourduraj
She will even give upon herself and her dreams, but not on you and your dreams.
No place in this world is, as safe as my mother’s womb, and nobody in this world is, as loving as my mother.
M.L. Wang
I’ve never needed a sword to protect you—to raise you the way your father wanted. Caring for my family meant putting away the fighter, so I did.
Maggie O'Farrell
The women we become after children, she typed, then stopped to adjust the angle of the paper....We change shape, she continued, we buy low-heeled shoes, we cut off our long hair, We begin to carry in our bags half-eaten rusks, a small tractor, a shred of beloved fabric, a plastic doll. We lose muscle tone, sleep, reason, perspective. Our hearts begin to live outside our bodies. They breathe, they eat, they crawl and-look!-they walk, they begin to speak to us. We learn that we must sometimes walk an inch at a time, to stop and examine every stick, every stone, every squashed tin along the way. We get used to not getting where we were going. We learn to darn, perhaps to cook, to patch knees of dungarees. We get used to living with a love that suffuses us, suffocates us, blinds us, controls us. We live, We contemplate our bodies, our stretched skin, those threads of silver around our brows, our strangely enlarged feet. We learn to look less in the mirror. We put our dry-clean-only clothes to the back of the wardrobe. Eventually we throw them away.
We school ourselves to stop saying 'shit' and 'damn' and learn to say 'my goodness' and 'heavens above.' We give up smoking, we color our hair, we search the vistas of parks, swimming-pools, libraries, cafes for others of our kind. We know each other by our pushchairs, our sleepless gazes, the beakers we carry. We learn how to cool a fever, ease a cough, the four indicators of meningitis, that one must sometimes push a swing for two hours. We buy biscuit cutters, washable paints, aprons, plastic bowls. We no longer tolerate delayed buses, fighting in the street, smoking in restaurants, sex after midnight, inconsistency, laziness, being cold. We contemplate younger women as they pass us in the street, with their cigarettes, their makeup, their tight-seamed dresses, their tiny handbags, their smooth washed hair, and we turn away, we put down our heads, we keep on pushing the pram up the hill.
M.L. Stedman
Such a mysterious business, motherhood. How brave a woman must be to embark on it.
Magic Johnson
God blessed me with two unbelievable parents, and I am just like both of them. I have the smile and charisma of my mother and the big heart of my mom, because she wants to save the world and help the world, so I am just like her.
Mahatma Gandhi
It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?
Mandy Moore
I want to go to college to study journalism. I want to speak French fluently, to travel. My mom was a journalist and it's in my blood.
Margaret Atwood
No mother is ever, completely, a child's idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as well. But despite everything, we didn't do too badly by one another, we did as well as most.
What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams. We deny them an existence of their own, we make them up to suit ourselves - our own hungers, our own wishes, our own deficiencies.
Margaret Sanger
When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.
Margot Kidder
We didn't have movies in this little mining town. When I was 12 my mom took me to New York and I saw Bye Bye Birdie, with people singing and dancing, and that was it.
Marguerite Duras
Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we’ve ever met.
Marguerite Kelly
Motherhood brings as much joy as ever, but it still brings boredom, exhaustion, and sorrow too. Nothing else ever will make you as happy or as sad, as proud or as tired, for nothing is quite as hard as helping a person develop his own individuality especially while you struggle to keep your own.
Maria Semple
You know how your brain turns to mush? How it starts when you’re pregnant? You laugh, full of wonder and conspiracy, and you chide yourself, Me and my pregnancy brain! Then you give birth and your brain doesn’t return? But you’re breast-feeding, so you laugh, as if you’re a member of an exclusive club? Me and my nursing brain! But then you stop nursing and the terrible truth descends: Your good brain is never coming back. You’ve traded vocabulary, lucidity, and memory for motherhood. You know how you’re in the middle of a sentence and you realize at the end you’re going to need to call up a certain word and you’re worried you won’t be able to, but you’re already committed so you hurtle along and then pause because you’ve arrived at the end but the word hasn’t? And it’s not even a ten-dollar word you’re after, like polemic or shibboleth, but a two-dollar word, like distinctive, so you just end up saying amazing? Which is how you join the gang of nitwits who describe everything as amazing.
Maria Shriver
Having kids — the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings — is the biggest job anyone can embark on.
Marilynne Robinson
She knew better than to waste that time. There isn't always someone who wants you singing to him or nibbling his ear or brushing his cheek with a dandelion blossom. Somebody who knows when you're being silly, and laughs and laughs. So long as he was little enough to carry, she could hardly bring herself to put him down.
Marina Carr
I don’t think the world should assume that we are all natural mothers. And it does. I don’t think it’s such a big thing anymore, but the idea that you sacrifice everything for your children—it’s a load of rubbish. It leads to very destructive living and thinking, and it has a much worse effect on children than if you go out and live your own life. You’re meant to adore your children at all times, and you’re not meant to have a bad thought about them. That’s facism, you know, and it’s elevating the child at the expense of the mother. It’s like your life is not valid except in fulfilling this child’s needs. What about all your needs, your desires, your wants, your problems? They’re going to come out anyway, so it’s better they’re acknowledged straight off. Having said that, I really do believe that children have to be protected. They have to be loved. Somewhere between the two, I think, something needs to be sorted out. The relationship between parent and child is so difficult and so complex. There’s every emotion there. We mostly only acknowledge the good ones. If we were allowed to talk about the other ones, maybe it would alleviate them in some way.
Marion Jones
My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life.
Mariska Hargitay
I think because I became a mom later in life, everything in life means more.
I want to be a fun mom. Not a gasping for air mom.
Marissa Mayer
You can be good at technology and like fashion and art. You can be good at technology and be a jock. You can be good at technology and be a mom. You can do it your way, on your terms.
Mark Twain
My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.
Mark Udall
Some of the best times I've spent in Colorado have been in the backcountry with my mom and siblings, and more recently, with my own kids. That is why I'm concerned to see today's kids spending more time browsing the Internet than exploring nature.
Mark Wahlberg
As far as I'm concerned, there's no job more important on the planet than being a mom.
Marla Gibbs
I never thought I was a great mom. I always worked. I fell in love with my children as they got older.
Marlee Matlin
There is nothing better than being a parent. It is the most challenging job one could ever ask for. I love being a mom and I love being a friend to my children as well.
Marlo Thomas
When I was growing up, my mother was always a friend to my siblings and me (in addition to being all the other things a mom is), and I was always grateful for that because I knew she was someone I could talk to and joke with, and argue with and that nothing would ever harm that friendship.
Martina Hingis
I was always at peace because of the way my mom treated me.
Martina McBride
That's the hardest thing about being a mom. You want to be cool, and you want them to like you all the time, but you can't always have that. You're gonna have times where you have to say no, and you won't be the most popular person in the house.
Mary Cheney
I'm probably a little more like my dad. But because of my mom, I never saw being a woman as being an impediment to being able to do something.
Mary J. Blige
I wish I had an extra day with my mom sometimes.
Marion C. Garretty
A mother’s love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.
Mary Lynn Rajskub
I told my agents that I didn't want to go on the audition. But as that was happening I called my mom, who has been watching the show from the beginning, and my mom said, 'It's the coolest show. You have to go.'
Matt Lauer
My dad was Jewish. My mom is not. So I was not raised anything.
Maurice Sendak
Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad. Kids lead a very private life. And I was a typical child, I think. I was a liar.
Maxim Grosky
Only mothers can think of the future because they give birth to it in their children.
Maya Angelou
A mother’s love liberates.
In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.
My mother's gifts of courage to me were both large and small. The latter are woven so subtly into the fabric of my psyche that I can hardly distinguish where she stops and I begin.
Maya Rudolph
There are days when I wonder why my mom couldn't be here to see this.
Meg Cabot
My original inspiration was my mom: a few years after the death of my dad, she started dating one my teachers!
Melanie Roach
I'm looking forward to being a mom and a wife and a business owner.
I've been a pretty selfish mom and a very unselfish athlete for about three years now and it's time to put my family first. It's probably time to move on.
When I'm in the gym, I'm in the gym, and that is my focus. But when I'm not in the gym, I'm enjoying being a mom and taking care of those responsibilities .. They really do provide me with the balance that I need to be a more complete athlete.
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Melanie Shankle
Real motherhood is different. It's better and it's messier and it's more complicated. It will break your heart and make you laugh harder than you ever imagined. You find yourself alternating between feeling like your friends talked you into some sort of pyramid scheme so you could share in their misery and thinking this is the most fulfilling thing you've ever done in your life.
God gives us these raw, little people, and we have to form them and mold them and teach them how to operate in society. And if we get a glimpse of all the ugliness that lies right beneath our own polished surface? Well, then, there's a humbling lesson too. It's those moments when I realize I have to extend grace to Caroline as she figures these things out by trial and error in the same way God lavishes me with mercy, even as I make the same mistakes over and over again.
Meryl Streep
Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.
Mia Hamm
I make a lot of mistakes, too, and I'm constantly re-evaluating how I'm doing things and trying to be better every day, whether it's as a mom or taking care of myself.
Mia Wasikowska
My mom used to have a lot of European cinema playing in the house, so I'd catch bits and pieces of films.
Michael Bergin
I wanted to marry a girl just like my mom.
Michael Chang
I'm a competitive person and it is in my nature to try hard in every match I play. The only time I'm not competitive is when I'm playing against my mom.
Michael Jordan
My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.
Michael Patrick King
My mom would be leaving the house and she'd say, 'Don't you pull out all of the old dresses in the attic and put on a show again!' And the door would close, and that's exactly what I'd do. The show was calling me!
Michael Phelps
Even in high school, I'd tell my mom I was sick of swimming and wanted to try to play golf. She wasn't too happy. She'd say, 'Think about this.' And I'd always end up getting back in the pool.
I had so many offers after 'True Blood' for things that were someone in the same vein, but nowhere near Alan Ball's vision. Or something that was over-the-top and fantastical. And I've always wanted to play the regular, working-class mom, and I've never really had the chance to do that.
Michelle M. Pillow
Out of all the things I do, I think being a mom is the most important and satisfying.
Michelle Obama
As a mom, I know it is my responsibility, and no one else's, to raise my kids. But we have to ask ourselves, what does it mean when so many parents are finding their best efforts undermined by an avalanche of advertisements aimed at our kids.
It wasn't so long ago that I was a working mom myself. And I know that sometimes, much as we all hate to admit it, it's just easier to park the kids in front of the TV for a few hours, so we can pay the bills or do the laundry or just have some peace and quiet for a change.
My most important title is still “mom-in-chief.” My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.
Michelle Trachtenberg
I have many valentines. My mom and my sister and my directors. I got calls from all of them. And my friends. I respect what Valentine's Day stands for because it is about love.
Michelle Zauner
To be a loving mother was to be known for a service, but to be a lovely mother was to possess a charm all your own.
I could almost feel in the embrace that my concerns had been her concerns, my pain had been her pain.
Mike Krzyzewski
The person who has inspired me my whole life is my Mom, because she taught me commitment. She sacrificed.
Throughout my life, my mom has been the person that I've always looked up to.
Mike Shinoda
I grew up painting and playing piano so when I was a little kid I thought I was going to be an artist or a painter but my mom had me taking piano lessons for about 10-12 years as a young kid.
Mila Kunis
My mom and my dad wanted my brother and I to have a better life, you know, better education, better jobs. It was probably harder, much, much harder, for my parents. When you're a kid, you can learn a language much more easily I learned English in less than a year.
Mildred B. Vermont
Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs since the payment is pure love.
Miley Cyrus
My mom always tells me that imperfections equal beauty. All of us are imperfect.
My mom is always telling me it takes a long time to get to the top, but a short time to get to the bottom.
Mindy McCready
I'm a mom first.
I'm not blaming my mom for my life because I am responsible for me, and nobody can change me or ruin me easier than I can.
My mom and I have always had issues.
Mitt Romney
My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all - the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be, and much less about what we would do.
Molly Shannon
Losing my mom at such a young age had a profound effect on my life.
Molly Sims
My mom FedExes a red velvet cake she makes from scratch to me every birthday.
Monica Potter
As a mom, I understand how important it is to ensure kids start their day right and always make sure my kids have a nutritious breakfast. One in five U.S. children live in homes where food is not always available, which is why I partnered with Kellogg's on their 'Share Your Breakfast' campaign, which provide breakfasts to kids in need.
Well, I am not really a conventional mom at all. Like, I had my kids really young. I had Danny when I was 18 or 19 and then Liam when I was 23 and Molly, I had when I was a little older.
Natasha Calis
When I was seven, I asked my mom if I could be on TV, and she said if I really wanted to, I could. I got an agent and booked my first audition.
Ne-Yo
I probably wouldn't be singing if not for Michael Jackson. When I started singing, I didn't like my tone until my mom put me on to Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder, so listening to the way they used their instrument helped me get more comfortable with my own.
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Nikola Tesla
My mother was an inventor of first order and would, I believe, have achieved great things had she not been so remote from modern life and its multifold opportunities.
Nina Arianda
I was into opera as a kid - I'd play 'Carmen' and sing and dance. My mom signed me up for a theater group before preschool, and I never looked back.
Norah Jones
My mom and I have always been very close. She is my best friend. She had to make a lot of sacrifices early on in my life to make sure I got to do what I wanted to do.
Octavia Spencer
I was always a closet lover of acting. My mom was very practical. She never, ever restricted our dreams, always told us we could do or be anything. Then I said, 'Maybe I want to be an actor'. And she said, 'Maybe not that'.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all.
Oprah Winfrey
Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
Oscar Wilde
Every woman becomes their mother. That's their tragedy. And no man becomes his. That's his tragedy.
P. J. Harvey
My mom is a sculptress.
Pablo Picasso
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.
Padma Lakshmi
I never Tweet about my daughter. Never. I just want to be respectful of her privacy. My job as a mom is to know when to open my mouth and when not to.
I'm an immigrant kid who came to America from India when I was very young and grew up in New York City with a single mom and really was influenced by all of those immigrant cultures bumping up against each other.
Pamela Anderson
I'm a soccer mom. I'm T-ball, soccer, karate, homework, keeping them on their schedules. I love being the snack mom, when I get to bring the cut oranges. I have one of those coolers with wheels. I'm at every game, every practice, sitting on my blanket. I love it.
Patina Miller
Oh, my mom. She's one of my biggest fans.
Patricia Heaton
I spend as much time with my kids as any mom who stays home. I only work during the hours they're at school, but there is always the sense of trying to catch up with all their stuff and not only organize my work life but also their school lives.
Patricia Richardson
They see me as being this Super Mom on TV who also can more than handle a difficult husband, and they assume I'm going to be just full of wisdom as a mother and wife myself.
Patrick J. Adams
So, from a very young age, my mom tells me that I wanted to be Michael J. Fox. I didn't want to be an actor. I just wanted to be Michael J. Fox for awhile. And then, I realized that he was an actor, so I pursued that.
Patrick Rothfuss
My mom once lost track of me at the zoo and when she found me I was lecturing a man about the difference between dromedary and Bactrian camels. I was about 3 1/2.
Patsy Cline
If I made a list of the people I admire, Mom would probably fill up half of it. She could do anything and everything.
Patti Smith
My mom loved rock 'n roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around.
Patti Stanger
I really want to adopt a child... I want to be called 'Mom.' It really is the most beautiful word in the English language.
Paul Feig
Ever since I was a little kid, I've felt comfortable in a suit. It all started when my mom bought me a three-piece Pierre Cardin suit. I wore that thing everywhere. Eventually I realized I was going to be the kid who got beat up in school, but I kept wearing it.
Paul Harris
Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched.
Paul McCartney
Looking back, I think I was always musical. My dad was very musical, and I think my mom was musical.
Paul Walker
I think my mom put it best. She said, 'Little girls soften their daddy's hearts.'
Paula Poundstone
My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said, 'Mom, they weren't trying to teach you how to swim.'
Peter Guber
My mom used to tell me stories at night, read books to me - and I read 'em over and over and over again. And you know what I learned from that? I went back and looked at everything - Why do I like reading the same stories over and over and over again? What, was I some kind of nincompoop? No - the narrative gave me connection with my mom.
Peter Orszag
My mom is a very warm, typical sort of Jewish-mother type. And my dad has a somewhat, um, different personality.
Petra Ecclestone
My mom came from such humble beginnings and especially my dad as well. He didn't go to university.
Princess Diana
A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s.
Proverbs
A mother is clothed with strength and dignity, laughs without fear of the future. When she speaks her words are wise and she gives instructions with kindness.
Queen Latifah
I think I'd be a great mom, honestly. I don't think I'll have any problem giving them all the love in the world. Discipline will be the hard part.
My mom will make me walk the dogs or take out the trash when I go home.
Rachael Ray
Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother's, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to do the same.
I live in, literally, the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I'd have to put back the Charmin. We still don't have a dishwasher. My mom has done all these gardens so now my house looks like the garden shack in the middle of Versailles.
I work too much to be an appropriate parent. I feel like a bad mom to my dog some days because I'm just not here enough. I just feel like I would do a bad job if I took the time to literally give birth to a kid right now and try and juggle everything I'm doing.
My mom, who's been in the restaurant business for 40 years, is the number-one influence in my life. But I look up to a lot of people in the industry. Tops on my list is Mario Batali. My mom and Mario taught me the same lesson: Food is love.
Rainey Qualley
I always was drawn to the performing arts. I started dancing when I was two. I sang, loved to act, and loved going to visit my mom on-set. But she wanted me to have a normal childhood, so I wasn't really allowed to pursue acting till I got older.
Rainn Wilson
My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men are what their mothers made them.
Randy Susan Meyers
In the end, mothers are always right. No one else tells the truth.
Rashida Jones
I pretty much borrow my entire beauty regime from my mom.
Ray Lewis
My mom calls me an older soul because, growing up, she taught me stuff real early. Now I spend most of my time chasing wisdom, chasing understanding.
Reba McEntire
My family, you know, are all still, you know, very close. We're all still very close. Mom and Daddy are still alive. So, what more can you ask for? Your kids are healthy.
Rebecca Lobo
In third grade, I was taking tap-dance lessons, and about six weeks before the recital I wanted to quit. My mom said, 'No, you're going to stay with it.' Well, I did it, and I was bad, too! But my parents never let their kids walk away from something because it was too hard.
Rebecca Romijn
Being a mom makes me feel whole and like I understand the meaning of life.
Rebecca West
Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.
Rebecca Woolf
Thus far the mighty mystery of motherhood is this: How is it that doing it all feels like nothing is ever getting done.
Reed Markham
Mothers can look through a child’s eyes and see tomorrow.
Reese Hoffa
At first I could not believe what I was reading. I got up from my seat and walked away, talking to myself that I may have found my mom.
When you have lost people like I lost my birth mom at a young age and you remember the whole process of losing her, you want to grab on to something that makes you whole.
Regina King
A Modern Mom to me is not always someone that juggles a career and family. A Modern Mom is a woman who takes care of herself on the inside and the outside.
I learned a lot from my Mom. My favorite lesson: remember there is no such thing as a certain way to parent and to remember that you are learning along with your child - it's ok to make mistakes.
Revathi Sankaran
If I were asked to define Motherhood. I would have defined it as Love in its purest form. Unconditional Love.
A mother's love is instinctual, unconditional, and forever.
Richard J. Codey
Postpartum depression is a very real and very serious problem for many mothers. It can happen to a first time mom or a veteran mother. It can occur a few days... or a few months after childbirth.
Richard LaGravenese
When I was young, I had two older sisters, and since I was the youngest in my family, my mom took me around with her all the time. I was forever with her when she was having coffee in the middle of the afternoon with her three sisters. And they would talk about men. I absorbed a lot of that.
Richelle E. Goodrich
I am, for the most part, who I am because my good mother was who she was.
You were formed inside a borrowed womb—a nourishing safe haven for months—then delivered through painful effort and sacrifice by a woman willing to give you the precious gift of life. That truth alone deserves your gratitude and respect.
Mothers give us life, love, and the heartfelt inclination to cry no matter how old we get.
A mother is a child's first looking glass into the world.
Thank you, Mom, for the way you managed yourself during the childish, mean, selfish, insensitive, irresponsible, unreasonable, hateful moments I put you through. From your example I learned to be patient, positive, kind, selfless, sympathetic, reliable, sensible, and loving. You have my endless appreciation.
My mother does not own my hands, though she works hard to train them. My mother does not own my eyes, though she frequently directs their focus. My mother does not own my mind, though she yields great influence upon it. My heart, however, she owns completely, for it was hers the day I was born.
I stumble and fall. I weep and struggle to rise. My mom feels it all.
Ricky Martin
Every family is different. I am mom and I am dad and I'm going to do my best. You should be proud, walk through life saying I have the coolest family. I am part of a modern family.
Ricky Skaggs
I always had a standard of, back when I was doing the country music I always told people I would never record a song that I wouldn't sit down and sing in front of my mom and dad.
Rico Rodriguez
For as long as I've been acting, I have been very lucky to be paired with really great actresses playing my mom.
Naturally, people are curious about how my real mom feels about me having a TV mom.
Rima Fakih
My mom was diagnosed with breast cancer when I was 13 and it was something we weren't really aware of as a family.
Robert Brault
A mom forgives us all our faults, not to mention one or two we don’t even have.
Robert Browning
Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
Robert Griffin III
I'm a military kid, both parents in the military - Mom did 12 years, Dad did 21, served in two wars. So discipline is something that was huge.
Rodney Atkins
I was a sickly baby, and after two sets of adoptive parents took me home, they returned me to the orphanage because of a serious respiratory infection. But as they say, the third time's a charm, because my mom and dad adopted me and took me into their home where I was raised in a family full of love.
There's a book called 'The Shack' - it had a lot to do with me coming full circle, meeting my birth mother. Awhile back, my birth mom and my adopted mom came to my show together, and it was pretty surreal.
When you're adopted, no matter what, you've got issues with unconditional love. And you find out you're the product of the worst situation for a young girl to be in and start her life, and I'm so grateful that my birth mom made the decision she made. She came from a rough situation.
Rodney King
I'm a religious person. I remember my mom told me: 'Vengeance belongs to God. It's up to him to wreak vengeance.' It's hard for me to get to that point, but that's the work of God.
Roma Downey
What is free time? I'm a single mother. My free moments are filled with loving my little girl.
Ronnie Dunn
My mother smokes me out. We'll get these long periods of me thinking I'm too busy to call her up or e-mail her, and she'll send me something. My mom's a real whiner. I love her to death, but she always sends me these 'woe is me' things. I think she might be Jewish. I'm not sure. She's Baptist-Jewish, which is a double whammy.
Rory McIlroy
My mom and dad worked very hard to give me the best chance in - not just in golf but in life. You know, I was an only child, you know, my dad worked three jobs at one stage. My mom worked night shifts in a factory.
Roseanne Barr
I know how to do anything, I'm a mom.
Ruben Studdard
I grew up in the '80s, and there was no bigger group than New Edition in R&B. I broke my piggy bank so me and my mom could go to a New Edition concert together.
Ruby Wax
Being a mother is hard and it wasn't a subject I ever studied.
Rudyard Kipling
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
Rumi
We are born of love; love is our mother.
Ryan Lochte
No matter what, like, I couldn't - I could break a world record, get an Olympic gold medal, and my mom would be, like, you could have done better. But you looked pretty. That's what she says all the time.
Ryan White
AIDS can destroy a family if you let it, but luckily for my sister and me, Mom taught us to keep going. Don't give up, be proud of who you are, and never feel sorry for yourself.
I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere.
Ryne Sandberg
My mom was at every single game I played as a kid, rain or shine.
Saleem Sharma
There is nothing as sincere as a mother’s kiss.
Sally Mann
I struggle with enormous discrepancies: between the reality of motherhood and the image of it, between my love for my home and the need to travel, between the varied and seductive paths of the heart. The lessons of impermanence, the occasional despair and the muse, so tenuously moored, all visit their needs upon me and I dig deeply for the spiritual utilities that restore me
Sally Rooney
I suppose I think that having a child is simply the most ordinary thing I can imagine doing. And I want that- to prove that the most ordinary thing about human beings is not violence or greed but love and care. To prove it to whom, I wonder. Myself, maybe.
Sam Rockwell
I saw things at an early age because my mom was a theater actress. I did a play with her when I was 10 years old.
Samuel Smiles
Whilst writing all this, I have had in my mind a woman, whose strong and serious mind would not have failed to support me in these contentions. I lost her thirty years ago [I was a child then]--nevertheless, ever living in my memory, she follows me from age to age. She suffered with me in my poverty, and was not allowed to share my better fortune. When young, I made her sad, and now I cannot console her. I know not even where her bones are: I was too poor then to buy earth to bury her! And yet I owe her much. I feel deeply that I am the son of woman. Every instant, in my ideas and words [not to mention my features and gestures], I find again my mother in myself. It is my mother's blood which gives me the sympathy I feel for bygone ages, and the tender remembrance of all those who are now no more. What return then could I, who am myself advancing towards old age, make her for the many things I owe her? One, for which she would have thanked me--this protest in favour of women and mothers.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A mother is a mother still, the holiest thing alive.
Sandra Bullock
I was a brownie for a day. My mom made me stop. She didn't want me to conform.
Sandra Vischer
The woman who is my best friend, my teacher, my everything: Mom.
Santigold
My mom's collard greens. No one else in the world can make them like hers. I'm not just saying that because she's my mom. She's got some Mississippi secret. I could seriously eat them every day.
Sara Blakely
When I was 7, I came up with the idea of 'charm socks.' My mom would take me to buy bags of plastic charms, we would sew them on frilly white socks, and I sold them at school.
Sara Paxton
The rule with my mom was that the only way that I could be an actress when I was young was that I continued to go to public school and get straight A's in all my classes.
Sarah Addison Allen
Motherhood is hard enough without judgement from others who don't know the whole story.
Motherhood, true motherhood, was what went on when no one else could see.
Sarah Michelle Gellar
Everything I am is because of my mom.
Sarah Payne Stuart
‘You’re only as happy as your least happy child,’ is the best description of motherhood I have ever read.
Sarah Polley
My mom died of cancer when I was really young. I'm not someone who tries to work out their own stuff with a role, but I think that happened despite my best efforts to keep myself separate from it.
Sarah Strohmeyer
A mother is a mother from the moment her baby is first placed in her arms until eternity. It didn't matter if her child were three, thirteen, or thirty.
Saskia de Brauw
I think it would be a lot easier if I said, 'I feel like a dude,' but I was raised by a southern mom, so I know how to put on lipstick and walk in heels and rock that look. It's exactly that juxtaposition that confuses people.
Savannah Guthrie
I’m a person of faith. It feels like the greatest embrace from God that I can imagine, to get to have a baby.
Schuyler Fisk
Part of the reason that I moved to Los Angeles is that even though my mom introduced me to all kinds of music, I really wanted to work on having my own identify, on being who I am and doing what I do, and seeing how people responded.
Scott Baio
If I lived alone, Mom'd never sleep because she wouldn't know I was okay.
Scott Brooks
I believe this with all my heart: The greatest coach of all time in my eyes is my mom. She's instilled in me a toughness and a perseverance and just a never-quit mentality, and I thank her every day for providing me, for what she sacrificed her life for.
Scott McClellan
I remember my mom saying to me that what your friends do is one thing, but what you do could be on the front page of the paper.
Scott Speedman
I didn't really know what I wanted to do, and then I got this call from a casting director in Los Angeles. She remembered me from something years before, and she called my mom wanting me to audition for this thing.
Serena Williams
I’ve conquered a lot of things. Blood clots in my lungs – twice. Knee and foot surgeries. Winning grand slams being down match point, to name just a few, but I found out by far the hardest is figuring out a stroller.
Shailene Woodley
There's been times when I've had heartbreaking moments and I'm like, 'I can't believe you said that,' or 'I can't believe you did that'. And it hurts, it still hurts, and it'll always hurt, but I've never had somebody that I truly cared about just walk out on me, whether it was a boyfriend, or an aunt, mom or dad.
Shania Twain
Fortunately, when you're a mom, the responsibility of caring for your child can keep you going.
Shaun Alexander
You know when everyone's watching, your mom and dad, your friends in high school who thought they were better than you. You get your chance to get in the spotlight and shine.
Shaun White
My mom was a waitress, and my dad was a plumber who worked for the City of San Clemente fixing mains breaks, so not too glamorous.
Shawn Johnson
I have a chaperone everywhere I go - my mom.
Something my mom taught me when I was little is that everything happens for a reason.
Shay Mitchell
I grew up in a predominantly Caucasian neighborhood, but my mom is Filipino-Spanish and my dad is Irish.
Sherri Shepherd
My mom passed away at 41 from diabetes. And I'm 42, thank you. I didn't want to do that to my son. So any time I was at the gym, that thing that helped me do that last squat was my son calling some other woman mommy. And that would just give me that extra oomph to do that last squat. I want to be around for him.
Wigs have always been a part of my life and have become a staple accessory in my closet. I can remember being a little girl and hearing all the commotion in my house from my mom, aunts and grandmother when picking out their wigs for the day. It was such a good time for them and part of their everyday beauty routine.
Shia LaBeouf
My mom is at my house every day, and she nags me about everything, especially hygiene.
My mom is the backbone not just of my family but of many families.
Shonda Rhimes
Being a mother is not a job. Stop throwing things at me. I'm sorry but it is not. I find it offensive to motherhood to call being a mother a job. Being a mother isn't a job. It's who someone is. It's who I am. You can quit a job. I can't quit being a mother. I'm a mother forever. Mothers are never off the clock, mothers are never on vacation. Being a mother redefines us, reinvents us, destroys and rebuilds us. Being a mother brings us face-to-face with ourselves as children, with our mothers as human beings, with our darkest fears of who we really are. Being a mother requires us to get it together or risk messing up another person forever. Being a mother yanks our hearts out of our bodies and attaches them to our tiny humans and sends them out into the world, forever hostages.
Sophia Loren
When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
Shuler Hensley
My Mom is a ballet director, so I had this idea in me that classical training is the best foundation for anything you do, so I wanted to get a classical background and voice.
Soleil Moon Frye
I wanted to be an astronaut and wanted to go to space camp, but then I found out that I was too short to become an astronaut. My mom really made me believe that if I worked hard enough and if I really wanted to do it, I could do it.
My mom always made sure I lived my life as a regular kid.
Sophia Loren
When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
Sophie Kinsella
There's nothing like your mother's sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears.
Soren Kierkegaard
When the child must be weaned, the mother too is not without sorrow at the thought that she and the child are separated more and more, that the child which first lay under her heart and later reposed upon her breast will be so near to her no more.
Soulja Boy
When I was 10 years old my mom used to play Tupac while she cleaned the house.
Spanish Proverb
An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest.
Spencer W. Kimball
No matter what you read or hear, no matter what the difference of circumstances you observe in the lives of women about you, it is important for you Latter-day Saint women to understand that the Lord holds motherhood and mothers sacred and in the highest esteem. He has entrusted to his daughters the great responsibility of bearing and nurturing children.... There is divinity in each new life.
Sprague Grayden
If you just stay away from junk, and stick with what your mom taught you, you're eating pretty healthy.
St. Therese of Lisieux
The loveliest masterpiece of the heart of God is the heart of a mother.
Stephanie Mills
It's the best thing ever - I love being a mom. This is my only child. My career was a priority earlier in my life, but now my son is definitely the priority.
Stephen Colbert
No, my mom kind of led me toward acting. She wanted to be an actress when she was younger. That made me interested in it when I was a kid, because she and I are very close.
Stephen Graham Jones
An elk mother, cornered, will slash with her hooves and tear with her mouth and even offer the hope of her own hamstrings, and if none of that works, she'll rise again years and years later, because it's never over, it's always just beginning again.
Stephen King
That was the hurtful part of motherhood, not being able to fix what you couldn’t understand.
Steven Pressfield
The artist and the mother are vehicles, not originators. They don't create the new life, they only bear it. This is why birth is such a humbling experience. The new mom weeps in awe at the little miracle in her arms. She knows it came out of her but not from her, through her but not of her.
Stevie Nicks
It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people.
Stevie Wonder
If love is as sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.
Sue Monk Kidd
Mother seemed happiest when making and tending home, the sewing machine whistling and the Mixmaster whirling. Her deepest impulse was to nurture, to simply dwell; it had nothing to do with ambition and achievement in the world... How had I come to believe that my world of questing and writing was more valuable than her dwelling and domestic artistry?...I wanted to go out and do things--write books, speak out. I've been driven by that. I don't know how to rest in myself very well, how to be content staying put. But Mother knows how to BE at home--and really, to be in herself. It's actually very beautiful what she does... I think part of me just longs for the way Mother experiences home.
Susan J. Douglas
There is also the ceaseless outpouring of books on toilet training, separating one sibling's fist from another sibling's eye socket, expressing breast milk while reading a legal brief, helping preschoolers to "own" their feelings, getting Joshua to do his homework, and raising teenage boys so they become Sensitive New Age Guys instead of rooftop snipers or Chippendale dancers. Over eight hundred books on motherhood were published between 1970 and 2000; only twenty-seven of these came out between 1970 and 1980, so the real avalanche happened in the past twenty years. We've learned about the perils of "the hurried child" and "hyperparenting," in which we schedule our kids with so many enriching activities that they make the secretary of state look like a couch spud. But the unhurried child probably plays too much Nintendo and is out in the garage building pipe bombs, so you can't underschedule them either. Then there's the Martha Stewartization of America, in which we are meant to sculpt the carrots we put in our kids' lunches into the shape of peonies and build funhouses for them in the backyard; this has raised the bar to even more ridiculous levels than during the June Cleaver era.
Suzy Kassem
Let us also acknowledge that the hearts which suffer the most from our wars are those of mothers. Their vital voices have been left out of the political equation for too long. An Iraqi or American mother cries the same as an Israeli or Afghan mother. The eyes of a mother who has suffered the loss of a child can destroy the soul of anyone who gazes upon them.
Stuart Appleby
I didn't really get into golf until I was about 14. My mom and dad were taking lessons from a pro an hour and a half from our farm in Cohuna, Australia. When they got home, I'd ask my mom to explain everything they learned - drills and all.
Sue Atkins
There is no such thing as a perfect parent. So just be a real one.
Susan Gale
Mothers are like glue. Even when you can’t see them, they’re still holding the family together.
Susie Bright
I'm a Mommy's Girl - the strongest influence in my young life was my mom.
Sylvester Stallone
I made some truly awful movies. 'Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot' was the worst. If you ever want someone to confess to murder just make him or her sit through that film. They will confess to anything after 15 minutes.
T.F. Hodge
Mother is her son's first god; she must teach him the most important lesson of all - how to love.
Tara Conklin
Better was largely irrelevant when it came to mothering because the entire enterprise relied on the presumption that one day, sooner than you thought, your child would become an entirely self-reliant, independent person who made her own decisions. That child wouldn't necessarily remember the Halloween costumes you made from hand six years running. Or maybe she did, but she resented you for it because she'd wanted store-bought costumes just like all her friends. It didn't matter how great a mother you tried to be; eventually every child walked off into the world alone.
T-Bone Burnett
I naturally wanted to be saved, so when I came home I told my mom I wanted to be confirmed. That's the way I related to it, being raised an Episcopalian. I went to Dallas and got confirmed.
Taraji P. Henson
Once you're a mom, always a mom. It's like riding a bike, you never forget.
Tarsem Singh
I've been an atheist since I was nine years old. And my mom is really religious, so we have a strange relationship. But if my mother was right, what would be the reason that the gods could let anything bad happen in the world?
Taryn Manning
I would go visit my mom on Sundays, and my brother was working on stuff. I'd go in there and sing a little melody, then we started working with words and the next thing you know it was just born organically without really trying.
Taylor Swift
For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.
My mom and I have always been really close. She's always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn't have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.
What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of 'CSI' and 'Grey's Anatomy' episodes with pints of ice cream.
Tenneva Jordan
A mother is a person who, seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.
Teri Hatcher
I feel like I'm a stay-at-home mom, which I was for the five years before this. She's absolutely been my focus. That's the choice I made. Desperate Housewives is perfect for me. I get to go back to work and still be able to take my daughter to school and pick her up.
Thomas Friedman
My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to the loan she got through the GI Bill.
Thomas Kincade
I remember my mom had a big collection of copies of Saturday Evening Post magazines, and that was really my introduction to those great illustrators.
Tia Mowry
Before becoming a mom, I never knew how good I had it to just spend time at a spa for a few hours. Now, those days are far and between. So when I have an hour, it's all about the mani and pedi.
Tiffani Amber Thiessen
My mom always taught me to be sweet and polite and cross my legs because it's what the guys like. Actually, they like a raunchy girl once in a while.
Tiger Woods
My mom was tough.
Tim Allen
Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.
Tim Heidecker
My dad is a very quick-witted, sarcastic, dry, humorous guy, whereas my mom's very silly, and that side of the family is very musical.
Tim Scott
As a small business owner for the last 15 years, when I think of what truly changed my life, it was my faith, a strong family, my mom did a really, really good job of encouraging me in very clear and discernible ways.
Tina Fey
Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy.
Theodore Harris
There ought to be a hall of fame for mamas, creation's most unique and precious pearls
Toby Keith
My mom taught us the Serenity Prayer at a young age.
Tom Hardy
Being an only child, I didn't have any other family but my mom and dad really, since the rest of my family lived quite far away from London.
Toni Braxton
I'd lose my mind if I heard my kid call the nanny Mommy.
Toni Morrison
The best thing she was, was her children.
Tony Visconti
Our last jam session was this past Christmas. Dad played his harmonica, mom sang in English and Italian, and I played guitar. I'm so happy that we could share that musical experience for one last time.
Tori Amos
I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.
Tracee Ellis Ross
Because of my unique experience as my mom's child, the beginning of my journey was more about me trying to figure out who I was on my own. My mom is one of the greatest moms and so supportive of all my siblings and of all of us being who we are, and not who she wanted us to be.
I'm extremely blessed to have the extraordinary mother that I have, and I don't mean Diana Ross, I mean the mother. My mom paved a road that didn't exist, as did Oprah.
Travis Barker
My mom passed away a day before high school started, and her dream was for me to be a full rock and roll guy, and play drums in a band.
Trey Anastasio
When I was growing up in New Jersey, my mom would regularly take my sister and I into the city to see shows. I have many fond memories of standing in the half-price ticket line in Times Square and going to matinees.
Tricia Helfer
Sometimes, if you don't have kids yourself, it's assumed you won't understand or know how to play a mom, which is kind of silly if you think about it.
Trisha Yearwood
I finished high school, moved to Nashville for college, and set out to break into the music business. Every night when I called home with news of my experiences, my mom and dad would encourage me to keep taking those small steps.
When you're sick, nobody takes care of you like your mom.
Ty Segall
My dad is a lawyer and my mom is an artist. So growing up was exactly what it sounds like - strict household but a lot of creativity. They are so psyched that I get to make music for a living. My parents rule.
Tyra Banks
My mom never taught me to be waiting for some prince on a white horse to swipe me off my feet.
Uma Thurman
I've learned that every working mom is a superwoman.
Unknown
A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.
Unknown
A mother is your first friend, your best friend, your forever friend.
Unknown
A mother’s hug lasts long after she lets go.
Unknown
Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.
Unknown
To the world, you are a mother, but to your family, you are the world.
Valerie Bertinelli
I'm a full-time mom right now and a part-time actress.
Valerie Jarrett
I care so passionately about improving the quality of life for women and girls, not just here in the United States, but internationally as well. I am a single mom and I raised a daughter who is now a young adult.
Vanessa Carlton
But my mom was a pianist, and she taught piano out of her house. I was just so excited, being a little kid and having all these other kids come to my house twice a week. I thought it was a big party.
My mom would give me a piece to play, but I wouldn't do any theory because when it came time to do it I would sneak back upstairs and watch TV. So, I had these kind of nonchalant lessons for years, then it just started soaking in.
Vanessa Mae
For example, I loved English and history at school. I would have loved to have done a degree in either. But my Mom said I didn't have time for university.
Vanessa Williams
I think there's a time to work, and everyone has to kind of adjust. And then there's a time to relax, and be the mom or take the kids on vacation when you need to wind down. So it's a matter of planning, and being able to map out your year or your week or let's start with the day. It is just being multi-tasking and being available.
Victor Cruz
My mom lived by herself with two kids. Sacrifice was the name of the game at our house.
My mom was dying for me to write a book, she was my biggest advocate.
Victor Hugo
A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
Victoria Justice
I'd say that if you had a strained relationship with your mom, for whatever reason, the best thing to do is be open with each other, talk it over, try and work it out somehow as opposed to just putting a wall up and pushing them away.
Vince Gill
The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing.
Vinny Guadagnino
My house has always been like everyone's house. You walk in, you're a part of the family, no matter who you are, what celebrity status you are, everyone is treated the same - with love from my mom.
Wayne Brady
My mom didn't let me play video games growing up, so now I do. Gaming gives me a chance to just let go, blow somebody up and fight somebody from another dimension. It's all escapism.
will.i.am
My mom's discipline worked out perfectly. I wouldn't change a thing.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
Yul Vazquez
When I was a child it was very clear what I was allowed to see and what I was not allowed to see and there was no discussion or option or negotiation. Whatever my mom said, that's what went down.
Zack Snyder
My mom always encouraged me, it was never weird. She'd look at 'Heavy Metal' and go 'Woo-hoo!'
Zayn Malik
Our parents are obviously proud, but they're still trying to get used to the fact that we're in a band. I have a feeling my mom would actually like One Direction if I wasn't in it!
Zhang Ziyi
I wanted to escape so badly. But of course I knew I couldn't just give up and leave school. It was only when I heard my mom's voice that I came out of my hiding place.
Zoe Kazan
My hero is Michelle Williams, who I grew close to when we did 'Meek's Cutoff.' She's an extraordinary actor and mom.
Zosia Mamet
My mom was onstage when she was pregnant with me.
