“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.”
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“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 ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.”
“I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.”
“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 to treat a lady respectfully.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Throughout my life, my mom has been the person that I've always looked up to.”
“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.”
“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?”
“I was a brownie for a day. My mom made me stop. She didn't want me to conform.”
“My mom always said that there would be haters. Not everyone can love ya.”
“I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.”
“The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born.”
“It's the moms of this nation - single, married, widowed - who really hold this country together. We're the mothers, we're the wives, we're the grandmothers, we're the big sisters, we're the little sisters, we're the daughters. You know it's true, don't you? You're the ones who always have to do a little more.”
“I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing 'Maria' from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring, I hang up.”