Being A Mom Quotes - Page 7

• Being a singer is all about me. About ego. Being a mom is all about being selfless - two different worlds.

  Gwen Stefani

  Mom, Two, Ego

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• 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.

  Jewel

  Mom, Want, Rich

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• To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.

  Marilyn French

  Family, Mom, Mother

  Marilyn French (2013). “Her Mother's Daughter: A Novel”, p.1070, Open Road Media

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• Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no roots.

  Crystal Eastman

  Motherhood, Equality, Roots

  Crystal Eastman (1978). “Crystal Eastman on women and revolution”, Oxford University Press

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• Even prior to marriage and motherhood, it's always been about prioritising and focusing on what you can commit to. That's been my approach to every aspect of my life, be it my relationships or my professional commitments.

  Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

  Commitment, Motherhood, Life Is

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• Being a mom is hard, I think a lot of working moms feel that way.

  Gwen Stefani

  Mom, Thinking, Way

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• In the next election, I'm voting for your mom to be the next God.

  David Levithan

  Mom, Voting, Next

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.158, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Being a mom, it feels like I did something so powerful and amazing. It's such a gigantic blessing, and a confirmation that the Creator exists. And all of that has made me feel sexier and stronger. I call it 'lava in my spine.'

  Jill Scott

  Mom, Powerful, Blessing

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• The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

  Clarence Darrow

  Inspirational, Life, Children

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• Motherhood is neither a duty nor a privilege, but simply the way that humanity can satisfy the desire for physical immortality and triumph over the fear of death.

  Rebecca West

  Mom, Mother, Humanity

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• No one in the world can take the place of your mother. Right or wrong, from her viewpoint you are always right. She may scold you for little things, but never for the big ones.

  Harry S. Truman

  Family, Mom, Mother

  Harry S. Truman (1995). “The Wit & Wisdom of Harry Truman: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

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• It's the three pairs of eyes that mothers have to have...One pair that see through closed doors. Another in the back of her head...and, of course, the ones in front that can look at a child when he goofs up and reflect 'I understand and I love you' without so much as uttering a word.

  Erma Bombeck

  Mom, Mother, Children

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• There was never a great man who had not a great mother.

  Olive Schreiner

  Mom, Mother, Women

  The Story of an African Farm pt. 2, ch. 4 (1883) See Proverbs 129

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• I shall never forget my mother, for it was she who planted and nurtured the first seeds of good within me. She opened my heart to the lasting impressions of nature; she awakened my understanding and extended my horizon and her percepts exerted an everlasting influence upon the course of my life.

  Immanuel Kant

  Mom, Mother, Heart

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• Mother's love grows by giving.

  Charles Lamb

  Family, Mom, Mother

  Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb (1838). “The Poetical Works of Charles Lamb”, p.196

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• My mother used to say, 'He who angers you, conquers you!' But my mother was a saint.

  Elizabeth Kenny

  Mom, Mother, Wisdom

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• The only mothers it is safe to forget on Mother's Day are the good ones.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Family, Mom, Mother

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.35, BookBaby

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• In the sheltered simplicity of the first days after a baby is born, one sees again the magical closed circle, the miraculous sense of two people existing only for each other.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Mom, Mother, Baby

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2010). “Gift from the Sea”, p.59, Random House

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• Okay, using the dreaded middle name is not the best way to forge a bond.

  Adam Brody

  Mom, Mother, Names

  "Fictional character: Seth". "The O.C."/ "The Distance", www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawn mower, snowblower and vacuum cleaner.

  Ben Berger

  Inspirational, Funny, Hilarious

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• The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated.

  Washington Irving

  Family, Mom, Mother

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• That best academy, a mother's knee.

  James Russell Lowell

  Family, Mothers Day, Mom

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• Don’t get me wrong. Being a mom is no picnic. Raising the kids is the mother’s responsibility. It’s a thankless, solitary job, like sheriff or Pope.

  Stephen Colbert

  Mom, Mother, Jobs

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• TV family sitcoms have always been about fathers who know best and mothers who are so enchanted with everything they do. I wanted to be the first mom to be a mom on TV. I wanted to sent out a message about how us women really feel.

  Roseanne Barr

  Mom, Mother, Father

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's superfun being a mom, but it's hard too.

  Gwen Stefani

  Mom, Hard

  "September Cover Girl: Gwen Stefani" by Derek Blasberg, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 7, 2012.

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