Being A Mother Quotes - Page 6

• I was a perfect housewife. Being a mother has always been the job I liked best. Absolutely.

  Indira Gandhi

  Mother, Jobs, Perfect

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• I think that being a mother, you would do anything for your children. Their pain is your pain; if they're in pain, you feel their pain.

  Molly Shannon

  Mother, Children, Pain

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've always wanted to have the ability to do what I want to do. And there are so many things that I want to do because I love acting, I love directing, I love producing, I love being a mother, I love being a wife. If I had to choose one, just would put me in the crazy house.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Mother, Crazy, Love Is

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• Being a mother has made my life complete.

  Darcey Bussell

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• I told my kids I just want three words on my tombstone, if I have one. I'll probably be cremated. One is "woman." I'm very comfortable in that role. I've loved being a woman, I've loved being a mother, I've loved being a grandmother. I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Mother, Atheist, Tombstone

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• Motherhood is heart-exploding, blissful hysteria.

  Olivia Wilde

  Inspiring, Mom, Mother

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm proud of being a mother, a wife, a daughter, and a sister, and a lover and a friend We're all God's children.

  Whitney Houston

  Daughter, Mother, Children

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• It's with a heavy heart that I have decided that I can't relocate. I have two babies under 4. Being a mother and wife comes first, and I just cannot uproot my children and separate the family by moving away. I will miss this job desperately and wish everyone the absolute best.

  Alyssa Milano

  Mother, Baby, Jobs

  "‘Mistresses’ Season 3 Spoilers: 7 Things To Know About Alyssa Milano's Exit Before Premiere". www.ibtimes.com. June 17, 2015.

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• My mom is a hard worker. She puts her head down and she gets it done. And she finds a way to have fun. She always says, 'Happiness is your own responsibility.' That's probably what I quote from her and live by the most.

  Jennifer Garner

  Inspiring, Mom, Mother

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• You instantly become less selfish. You can't be the biggest person in the world anymore-they are. [Motherhood] really grounds you.

  Keri Russell

  Inspiring, Mom, Mother

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• I think being a mother is the cruelest thing in the world.

  Nella Larsen

  Mother, Thinking, World

  Nella Larsen (2010). “The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and The Stories”, p.227, Anchor

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• There ought to be a hall of fame for mamas / Creation's most unique and precious pearl / And heaven help us always to remember / That the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world

  Glen Campbell

  Inspiring, Mom, Mother

  Song: The Hand That Rocks The Cradle, 2003

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• 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

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Baby, Missing

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• Being a mother is like trying to hold a wolf by the ears,” Gram said. “If you have three or four –or more – chickabiddies, you’re dancing on a hot griddle all the time. You don’t have time to think about anything else. And if you’ve only got one or two, it’s almost harder. You have room left over – empty spaces that you think you’ve got to fill up.

  Sharon Creech

  Mother, Thinking, Two

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• My mom is my hero. [She] inspired me to dream when I was a kid, so anytime anyone inspires you to dream, that's gotta be your hero.

  Tim McGraw

  Inspiring, Mom, Mother

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• I love being a mother. My children fill me up in many ways, and inspire me in many ways, but I need a partner in my life and I think most people feel that way.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Mother, Children, Love Is

  "Madonna on Younger Men, Missing 'Certain Things' About Marriage" by Lauren Effron, abcnews.go.com. January 12, 2012.

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• Being a mother is probably the hardest job in the world. I feel like, in a lot of ways, children come into the world to teach us.

  Mariah Carey

  Mother, Jobs, Children

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• I dig being a mother.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Mother, Motherhood

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• When that mama worry takes ahold of a woman you can't expect no sense from her. She'll do or say anything at all and you just better hope you ain't in her way. That's the Lord's doing right there. He made mothers to be like that on account of children need protecting and the men ain't around to do it most of the time. Helping that child be up to the mama. But God never gives us a task without giving us the means to see it through. That mama worry come straight from Him, it make it so she can't help but look after that child.

  Hillary Jordan

  Mother, Children, Mean

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• Being a kind, emperor, or president is mighty small potatoes compared to being a mother. Commanding an army is little more than sweeping a street compared with training a boy or girl. The mother of Moses did more for the world than all the kinds that Egypt ever had. Oh, you wait until you reach the mountains of eternity, then read the mothers' names in God's Hall of Fame.

  Billy Sunday

  Girl, Mother, Army

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• But I think half the battle is figuring out what works for you, and I am much better at being a mother than I ever would have been as a lawyer. I sometimes wonder if it is just me, or if there are other women who figure out where they are supposed to be by going nowhere." - My Sister's Keeper

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Thinking, Battle

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• When you're pregnant, you can think of nothing but having your own body to yourself again; yet after giving 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 her 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.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Baby, Thinking

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong - to belong to my mother. And in return - I wanted my mother to belong to me.

  Gloria Vanderbilt

  Mom, Mother, Soul

  Gloria Vanderbilt (1986). “Once Upon a Time: A True Story”, Fawcett Books

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• It makes me happy to work. And it makes me a better mother to be a happy person.

  Cheryl Hines

  Mother, Make Me Happy, Happy Person

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Being a mother adds another emotional dimension, a feel for children that I didn't have before I had one. They were a pain before.

  Julie Walters

  Mother, Children, Pain

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