Being A Mother Quotes - Page 8

• I tried to always include my children in everything that I did. I traveled with them, I brought them with me to work, I tried to balance it between work and being a mother as best as I could.

  Jill Stuart

  Mother, Children, Balance

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Acting is my calling. It is one of the things I was meant to do in this world, along with being a mother.

  Michael Hyatt

  Mother, Acting, Calling

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• I value so many people who have to work full time, definitely single mothers. Their work is the hardest work. I applaud it so much. I absolutely love being a mother. I love his milestones. I love his smile. I love that he's talking and making sentences and telling me he loves me. It's amazing.

  Molly Sims

  Mother, Love Is, Talking

  "Molly Sims on Fashion, Motherhood and Staying Healthy an Interview by Robert Piper". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I'm dedicating my time to going on tour and basically juggling music, modeling, and being a mother. Being a mother is obviously the most important.

  Karen Elson

  Mother, Important, Juggling

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• For me, being a mother made me a better professional, because coming home every night to my girls reminded me what I was working for. And being a professional made me a better mother, because by pursuing my dreams, I was modeling for my girls how to pursue their dreams.

  Michelle Obama

  Girl, Mother, Dream

  Address at 'Let Girls Learn' Joint Partnership Announcement, delivered 19 March 20105, Iikura Guest House Tokyo, Japan

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• Being a mother is the hardest job on earth. Women everywhere must declare it so.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Mother, Jobs, Hardest Job

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• I always wanted my mother to be Queen for a Day. I always used to watch that show that came on television.

  Stevie Wonder

  Mother, Queens, Watches

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It is hard directing. The hours are terrible and you have to sort of suspend your life when you're in production. So, being a mother is very hard. I can absolutely see why there are so few women directing, because it's physically a very demanding thing to do. Fathers can only do it because they have wives at home doing all the other stuff. I can only do it because I have a husband that helps with the kids at home

  Gurinder Chadha

  Mother, Husband, Father

  "It's A Wonderful Afterlife - Gurinder Chadha interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• It's because you're always fighting sentiment. You're fighting sentimentality all of the time because being a mother alerts you in such a primal way.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Mother, Fighting, Way

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• I couldn't have been a novelist without being a mother. It gives you a unique witness point of the growth of a personality. It was a kind of biological component for me that had to come first. My children gave this other window on the world.

  Carol Shields

  Mother, Children, Unique

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• Being a mother has absolutely forced me. You have to write things down and have systems for all of it. And then you set up systems and you realize they don't work.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Mother, Writing, Down And

  "Between Friends". Interview with Jenny Allen, www.goodhousekeeping.com. July 7, 2010.

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• I find being a mother harder than I though it was going to be. That is a tremendous revelation for me personally. Much more time, more care, more attention and more effort needs to be spent on care for the children. That will save the world at large.

  Marianne Williamson

  Mother, Children, Effort

  Source: www.douglasgillies.com

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• Being a mother is more exhausting than working, and sometimes I push myself too hard and burn myself out. I can appreciate how exhausting it must be for women who have to do everything themselves all the time.

  Salma Hayek

  Mother, Appreciate, Sometimes

  "Salma Hayek: My family values". Interview with Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2013.

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• Women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for not wanting to eat their cake and have it too.

  Margaret Mead

  Mother, Cake, Scolded

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• I find being a mother is a huge advantage. Of course, I'm probably a little more tired than I might be if I didn't have children, but I think they provide me the balance that I need to keep my mind off of lifting.

  Melanie Roach

  Mother, Children, Tired

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• Being a mother is the most fun job I've ever had.

  Ellen Pompeo

  Mother, Jobs, Fun

  People Magazine Interview (2010), as quoted in "Ellen Pompeo And Husband Chris Ivery Welcome Third Child" by Carly Ledbetter, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 29, 2016.

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• Being a mother is magical.

  Ellen Pompeo

  Mother

  "Ellen Pompeo: No Junk Food for Stella!". celebritybabies.people.com. May 6, 2010.

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• Being a mother is by far my greatest accomplishment.

  Isla Fisher

  Mother, Accomplishment, Greatest Accomplishment

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

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• If a child is not listening, don't despair. Time and truth are on your side. At the right moment, your words will return as if from heaven itself. Your testimony will never leave your children.

  Neil L. Andersen

  Mother, Children, Your Side

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• No woman who understands the gospel would ever think that any other work is more important or would ever say, "I am just a mother," for mothers heal the souls of men.

  Sheri L. Dew

  Mother, Men, Thinking

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• The bond between mothers and their children is one defined by love. As a mother's prayers for her children are unending, so are the wisdom, grace, and strength they provide to their children.

  George W. Bush

  Mother, Prayer, Children

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• Feeling the security and constancy of love from a spouse, a parent or a child is a rich blessing. Such love nurtures and sustains faith in God. Such love is a source of strength and casts out fear. Such love is the desire of every human soul.

  David A. Bednar

  Mother, Children, Blessing

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• If you try your best to be the best parent you can be, you will have done all that a human being can do and all that God expects you to do.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Mother, Parent, Trying

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• Homemaking is surely in reality the most important work in the world.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mother, Reality, Important

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• Who can justly measure the righteous influence of a mother's love? What enduring fruits result from the seeds of truth that a mother carefully plants and lovingly cultivates in the fertile soil of a child's trusting mind and heart? As a mother, you have been given divine instincts to help you sense your child's special talents and unique capacities.

  Richard G. Scott

  Mother, Children, Heart

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