Mom Quotes
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"The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children."
"More people are leaving TV behind to read my books than ever before. In the last year alone I gained over two readers (three, to be exact). So I’d like to take a moment and say thanks mom, dad, and kidnap victim I keep chained in the basement."
"How’s my mom? My mother’s well, like a painting—a Motherwell."
"Some people say—not to my face, mind you—that I’m a cowardly son of a bitch. And that is simply not true. My mom is not a bitch."
"Girls like guys to be a challenge. It gives them some mold to fit in how they act. Like a mom. What would a mom do if she couldn't fuss over you and make you clean your room? And what would you do without her fussing and making you do it? Everyone needs a mom. And a mom knowns this. And it gives her a sense of purpose. You get it?"
"My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education."
"I want to be a mom who listens."
"I am proud of my kids, but I also want to make my mom proud of me. I'm still a momma's girl at the heart of the situation."
"Sometimes I do envision just being a stay at home mom but not working isn't an option for me currently."
"There are days when I struggle with wanting to be a full-time, stay-at-home mom, and feeling guilty about that because I work."
"I got my first tattoo when I was 16 years old and I went with my mom to get it done - she has a bunch too so we're tattoo buddies now."
"I think because I became a mom later in life, everything in life means more."
"My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays."
"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."
"Many of my books come from what if questions that I can't answer, things that I'm worried about as either a woman, a wife, a mom, an American."
"My dad sold encyclopedias and my mom worked in a factory office."
"I used to do skits for my mom... and I was always entertaining as a kid."
"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."
"I took piano for many years. I kicked and screamed through all of my lessons, but my mom really insisted."
"When I was 10 years old my mom used to play Tupac while she cleaned the house."
"I hear my friends and my mom tell me I'm special, but honestly, I still don't get it."
"Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children."
"That strong mother doesn't tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in."
"It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding."
"I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars."
"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."
"Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me."
"Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother."
"My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled."
"My mother taught me to treat a lady respectfully."
"I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage."
"Being a mother is hard and it wasn't a subject I ever studied."
"It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion it is a joy of every moment."
"I'm a Mommy's Girl - the strongest influence in my young life was my mom."
"Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working."
"How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names."
"Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up."
"My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque."
"Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand."
"The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection."
"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."
"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."
"Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials."
"What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?"
"Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children."
"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."
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