Quotes about Being a Mother

Being a mother is hard and it wasn't a subject I ever studied. Votes: 5

There's a lot more to being a woman than being a mother, but there's a hell of a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect. Votes: 5

Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do Votes: 4

The best place to cry is on a mother's arms. Votes: 3

Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation. Votes: 3

The highest and noblest work in this life is that of a mother. Votes: 3

What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin. Votes: 3

Of all the roles I've played, none has been as fulfilling as being a mother. Votes: 3

I am doing what I love; acting is what I love best after being a mother. Votes: 3

There is no undertaking more challenging, no responsibility more awesome, than that of being a mother. Votes: 3

It makes me unhappy when brothers make babies and leave a young mother to be a pappy. Votes: 3

For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home. Votes: 3

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children. Votes: 3

The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter. Votes: 3

The work of a mother is hard, too often unheralded work. Please know that it is worth it then, now, and forever. Votes: 3

There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood. The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation. Votes: 3

The joy in motherhood comes in moments. There will be hard times and frustrating times, but amid the challenges there are shining moments of joy and satisfaction. Votes: 3

I love being a mother...I am more aware. I feel things on a deeper level. I have a kind of understanding about my body, about being a woman. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

The joy of motherhood comes in moments. ... Families need unstructured time when relationships can deepen and real parenting can take place. Take time to listen, to laugh, and to play together. Votes: 3

I don't know about changing my perspective, because motherhood is such a glorious blessing and I am very thankful for that. It is such a beautiful experience. I so strongly recommend it. It's bliss, love, and fulfillment of another level. Votes: 3

The rights of children as individuals begin while yet they remain the foetus...Whoever has read the 'Weekly' knows I hold abortion (except to save the life of the mother) to be just as much murder as the killing of a person after birth is murder. Votes: 3

Motherhood has completely changed me. It's just about like the most completely humbling experience that I've ever had. I think that it puts you in your place because it really forces you to address the issues that you claim to believe in and if you can't stand up to those principles when you're raising a child, forget it. Votes: 3

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts. Votes: 3

Being a mother is magical. Votes: 2

I like being a mother. Votes: 2

Being a mother makes everything more urgent. Votes: 2

Certainly, being a 'perfect' mother is unachievable. Votes: 2

Becoming a grandmother has felt like being a mother. Votes: 2

Being a mother is by far my greatest accomplishment. Votes: 2

It's really hard to balance work and being a mother. Votes: 2

My mother thought me being gay was a death sentence. Votes: 2

Just being a mother is making me a big, weepy mess. Votes: 2

I'm just afraid I'm gonna miss it all... being married... being a mother. Votes: 2

I was more secure being a mother than I was walking on a set. Votes: 2

I always wanted a child. Being a mother is the central thing in my life. Votes: 2

I'm happy going home early and working out and just being a mother and being a wife. Votes: 2

Being a mother is no longer a liability, and being a woman is no longer a pre-existing condition! Votes: 2

What I love most about Mother's Day is that I am acknowledged and honored for being a mother. Votes: 2

I love being a mother. I loved being a daughter, a sister, a wife. I love being a woman with men. I love having given birth. Votes: 2

I'm a great mother because of my intentions on being a great mother; I'm a good friend because I'm loyal; I'm a good daughter because I've hopefully made my mother proud; I'm a great human being because I accept that there's a spiritual being underneath it all. I've always been a woman of faith. Votes: 2

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat. Votes: 2

I dig being a mother... Votes: 0

I absolutely love being a mother. Votes: 0

Being a mother has made my life complete. Votes: 0

Being a mother is the role I'm most proud of. Votes: 0

Piece by piece, my mother is being stolen from me. Votes: 0

Last memory of my mother is her being dragged away Votes: 0

Being an only child, my mother reared me very carefully. Votes: 0

Being a working mother means that you are always disappointing somebody. Votes: 0

My mother is the bravest human being I've ever come across. Votes: 0

My ultimate joy and happiness is being a wife and mother. Votes: 0

I learned that being a mother takes a lot of energy. Votes: 0

Being a mother is the most fun job I've ever had. Votes: 0

I think being a mother is the cruelest thing in the world. Votes: 0

Being a mother by far is my favorite and most important career. Votes: 0

I admire my mother for being a single mum. It's ridiculously hard. Votes: 0

Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies! Votes: 0

Like the mother of the world, touch each being as your beloved child. Votes: 0

My mother was very family-oriented. And I do love being with my children. Votes: 0

I feel vulnerable to the astonishing beauty of being alive and to Mother Nature. Votes: 0

Being a mother was too important to me to risk running out of time. Votes: 0

Sometimes being a good mother gets in the way of being a good person. Votes: 0

I think over the years, being a mother, I've matured in so many ways. Votes: 0

Marriage and being a mother are absolutely crucial to my happiness and my life. Votes: 0

I kind of like the position of being the fair-haired savior of my mother Votes: 0

Being a mother is probably the most important thing in my life right now. Votes: 0

If they would all sleep all the time she wouldn't mind being their mother. Votes: 0

Being sent away to school was no different from my biological mother giving me away. Votes: 0

Being a mother is the hardest job on earth. Women everywhere must declare it so. Votes: 0

[My mother] was busy being a homemaker and was not an activist by any means. Votes: 0

My child has done nothing wrong apart from being born to a mother like me Votes: 0

I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given. Votes: 0

A garden is a love song, a duet between a human being and Mother Nature. Votes: 0

Being a king, emperor, or president is mighty small potatoes compared to being a mother. Votes: 0

One of the best things my mother passed on to me was being an efficient multitasker. Votes: 0

My mother was against me being an actress - until I introduced her to Frank Sinatra. Votes: 0

One should not google oneself. My mother lets me know when I'm being followed by paparazzi. Votes: 0

Gene Simmons planned on being a success the moment he launched himself out of his mother's womb. Votes: 0

Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I've ever done. Votes: 0

I feel like being on Broadway will convince my mother that my theater degree was worth it. Votes: 0

Becoming a mother has taught me to simply things and also to appreciate being at home more. Votes: 0

I was a perfect housewife. Being a mother has always been the job I liked best. Absolutely. Votes: 0

My mother and father could not handle even me being gay. We never talked about it, really. Votes: 0

Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child. Votes: 0

As a child, my mother had instilled in me a feeling of being born for a purpose. Votes: 0

I have not met one living being that has not been the mother of all the rest. Votes: 0

I really felt the growth of myself as a human being, as a person [becoming a mother]. Votes: 0

My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man. Votes: 0

Being a mother is the most amazing thing that has ever happened to me in my life. Votes: 0

But she named the infant "Pearl," as being of great price-purchased with all she had-her mother's only treasure! Votes: 0

It is strange to hear your mother talk about being human because, honestly, it's too easy to forget. Votes: 0

I always knew that food and wine were vital, with my mother being Italian and a good cook. Votes: 0

I fully intend to make amends and get back to being a good mother, wife, daughter, and friend. Votes: 0

I'm just a regular mother who's trying to save lives and be the best human being I can be. Votes: 0

Being a mother of two myself - and two small girls - I think that single parenting is hard. Votes: 0

I absolutely love being a mother. It's been a blessing. It's fun and it's hard, but it's absolutely amazing. Votes: 0

Nobody ever told you that being a mother is all about making what seemed like thousands of tiny decisions. Votes: 0

Real Womanhood isn’t a function of becoming a great mother, but of being loved by your Great Father. Votes: 0

Yes, men are pigs. Except your brother, of course. He's actually a decent human being. Almost a woman. -Jillian's mother Votes: 0

Eventually I want to be a full-time mother who works occasionally - and being an actor you have that freedom. Votes: 0

The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being rooted. Votes: 0

A widow, the mother of a family, and from her heart she produces chords to which my whole being responds. Votes: 0

Being a mother of two little girls, it was an absolute nightmare for me to teach them about sexual abuse. Votes: 0

My last son is leaving to go to college; my grandchildren are being born. My mother is living with me. Votes: 0

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one. Votes: 0

Marriage is a walk in the park compared to being a single mother or father. I'll take that walk later. Votes: 0

I was certainly typecast for a while on television because I was always being cast as the compassionate mother or whatever. Votes: 0

Being a publicist is like management in a lot of ways - you're their friend, you're their mother, you're their confidante. Votes: 0

Being Lutheran, Mother believed that self-pity is a deadly sin and so is nostalgia, and she had no time for either Votes: 0

The mother's love for her child is very strong in Korean society - almost on the borderline of being an obsession. Votes: 0

Apprenticeship is one of the dearest roles of childhood, not just watching Dad or Mother, but being taught a hands-on trade. Votes: 0

Being a mother is quite tiring. There's not much time to do anything. You just rush around and it's hard work. Votes: 0

It's pretty hard being a tennis player and Mother Theresa at the same time and that's just the way it is. Votes: 0

The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt very French. Votes: 0

I wanted to explore this idea that the bogey man in the closet is scary, but being a mother is scarier. Votes: 0

A mother who is obsessing about being thin and dieting and exercising is not going to be a very good mother. Votes: 0

I love making movies, but I was ready to rationalize being only a mother if my career never got back on track. Votes: 0

No one ever laid out the sequence of events that led to my mother being prosecuted and imprisoned for alleged welfare fraud. Votes: 0

Being a father ... I can't help feeling that, by comparison with being a mother, being a father is a rather abstract business. Votes: 0

My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland. Votes: 0

My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland Votes: 0

Being a mother, singer and actress is a definite juggling act, but I don't think I would be comfortable any other way. Votes: 0

I think being a mother helps keep your feet on the ground. There's very little dignity in parenthood. It's a great leveller. Votes: 0

India must protect her primary industries even as a mother protects her children against the whole world without being hostile to it. Votes: 0

Acting is my calling. It is one of the things I was meant to do in this world, along with being a mother. Votes: 0

Being a mother is no longer a liability, and being a woman is no longer a pre-existing condition! That's what change looks like. Votes: 0

Being a father or a mother is not only a great challenge, it is a divine calling. It is an effort requiring consecration. Votes: 0

Being a wife and a mother is very gratifying, but it's not a creative expression and that's something I need to be happy. Votes: 0

Being a mother comes first for me. Before my husband, before this surrogacy crusade, before myself. I don't see myself as particularly strong. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Being a mother and grandmother is the best of the best in my life. My grandchildren multiply the joy my daughters bring me. Votes: 0

My mother didn't teach me lessons about being Chinese as strongly as she did the notion of who I was as a female. Votes: 0

I'm working 18 hour days and I'm feeling guilty not being able to be there when all those times I want to be mother. Votes: 0

My mother once told me she thought hell would be nothing more than being given a glimpse of God--then having it taken away, forever. Votes: 0

Being the only girl in the world who can say that her mother was Britain's first woman Prime Minister is honour enough for me. Votes: 0

Touch is the mother of the senses. Not only are women more sensitive when they touch, but they're also more sensitive to being touched. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I actually got a nice surprise about being a mother because I expected it to be harder and to have to make more adaptations. Votes: 0

Being a mother is a noble status, right? Right. So why does it change when you put 'unwed' or 'welfare' in front of it? Votes: 0

You get to Alcatraz by being the worst of the worst. Unless you're me. I came here because my mother said I had to. Votes: 0

I'm not really single. I mean I am, but i have a son. Being a single mother is different from being a single woman. Votes: 0

As scary as it was being raised by one Jewish mother, I have to feel for my kids because they have two Jewish mothers. Votes: 0

With being a mother, I feel like you choose how you spend your time so much more carefully - which is a good thing. Votes: 0

As a mother, I always have something better to be doing. I love work still, but I'm less tolerant of my time being wasted. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I see a lot of damage to Mother Earth. I see water being taken from creeks where water belongs to animals, not to oil companies. Votes: 0

That's a journey I've been on for many years. I mean, being a working mother, realizing that I have to make and find my balance. Votes: 0

My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family. Votes: 0

The wife's Mother said, ‘When you're dead, I'll dance in your grave.’ I said: ‘Good, I'm being buried at sea’. Votes: 0

If I, being a mother of two, can win a medal, so can you all. Take me as an example and don`t give up, Votes: 0

It has been tough being a mother of two daughters without a co-parent because I think I was a child myself, as my mother was. Votes: 0

I am a historian. With the exception of being a wife and mother, it is who I am. And there is nothing I take more seriously. Votes: 0

The things that are important to me - being a mother, a businesswoman, an activist - are all things that were borne out of great passion. Votes: 0

I have found being a mother has made me emotionally raw in many situations. You heart is beating outside your body when you have a baby. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My mother has been moved out of intensive care and into a private room where she is being kept comfortable. Thank you for your continued support. Votes: 0

My first words, as I was being born [...] I looked up at my mother and said, 'that's the last time I'm going up one of those. Votes: 0

From the time I can remember my mother kept me in church. I think my first recollection of any place, being anywhere was in a church. Votes: 0

I'm not sure I make old bones in parliament. It's an amazing experience to have had but I can't see myself being Mother of the House. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Above the titles of wife and mother, which, although dear, are transitory and accidental, there is the title human being, which precedes and out-ranks every other. Votes: 0

Jamie' is what my mother gave me, and that takes the onus off of being big. Somebody thinks, 'Oh, Jamie - how threatening can he be? Votes: 0

I would much rather be a better mother or better human being than I would be a singer. Fortunately for me singing makes me a living. Votes: 0

I actually think 'Sex and the City' helped share how complicated it all is, to be a wife, a mother, and working, and a sexual being. Votes: 0

My mother never warned me not to do this or that for fear of being hurt. Of course I got hurt, but I was never afraid. Votes: 0

The mother is the most precious possessions of the nation, so precious that society advances its highest well-being when it protects the functions of the mother. Votes: 0

I most want to be remembered for being as great a mother to James and Lennon as my mum was to me and my brother Jamie. Votes: 0

Gratefulness is not just saying "thank you." It's acting. It is being yourself. A mother is grateful, shows gratefulness by mothering, a scientist by doing science. Votes: 0

I was very sensitive. I liked everything that touched fantasy and beauty. I dreamed of being a ballerina, but Mother said I was too big, too long. Votes: 0

My mother encouraged me and was very great about me being gay, but she always encouraged me to follow my musical dreams, which I'm very grateful for. Votes: 0

That was the fun of acting, being a blank canvas you could transform into the character - Indian princess, 20s vamp, Mother Courage, Oxford don, 94-year-old wife. Votes: 0

Though I was a mother at 21, being a grandmother makes the whole thing absolutely normal and gorgeous. The relief, the joy of being a grandmother is wonderful. Votes: 0

I'm just living my life and I'm being the best mother that I can and showing that on 'Teen Mom' because that's what that show is about. Votes: 0

My mother is so full of joy and life. I am her child. And that is better than being the child of anyone else in the world. Votes: 0

Remakes, in general, are a result of necessity being the mother of invention. They can't open movies consistently and break through the advertising clutter that's out there. Votes: 0

I would have been a terrible mother because I'm basically a very selfish human being. Not that that has stopped most people going off and having children. Votes: 0

Being a working mommy is something I've always wanted to be. My mother is my biggest role model and she showed me how to do it right. Votes: 0

I went almost naked to see that my mother was kept decent and treated as a human being for the first time in all of her life. Votes: 0

Out of everything - out of the money and the gift bags - the most important thing to me is just my mother and father being happy. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I love being a mother; I hate being a housewife - the cooking, the laundry - because it takes away time I could be with my kids. Votes: 0

In such misfortunes my Mother was of an heroic spirit, in suffering patiently when there was no remedy, and being industrious where she thought she could help. Votes: 0

I was not being mean. Mean was her mother giving her the name Bernice Woodward.Ryals, R.K.. Cursed (The Thorne Trilogy Book 1) (Kindle Locations 66-67). . Kindle Edition. Votes: 0

Being a mother is complicated because its not just a paternal culture making demands on you; its those internal demands and expectations that women have and are self-generated. Votes: 0

Being a mother is complicated because it's not just a paternal culture making demands on you; it's those internal demands and expectations that women have and are self-generated. Votes: 0

I don't know if there's any change more significant that a human being can make than that of a woman becoming a mother. There's no change more dramatic. Votes: 0

I have a history of eating disorders but, as a mother, you think of being an example to your child. I'm so much more balanced than I was. Votes: 0

Mothering your man is not sexy for you or for him. If you want your man to "start being a man", start being his lover not his mother. Votes: 0

I never stop being a mother and I never stop being an artist. You understand? Which is probably why my kids are so creative, because it's not separated. Votes: 0

I don't think I would have been a good mother. Being a parent brings immense responsibility. It's a Herculean task. It would be almost too much for me. Votes: 0

She made him think of his mother, of his nurse, of all things kind and comforting, besides having the attraction of not being his mother or his nurse. Votes: 0

Eve had one advantage over all the rest of her sex. In his wildest moments of rage Adam never could accuse her of being 'just like her mother! Votes: 0

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you. Votes: 0

Helmer: "Before all else you are a wife and a mother." Nora: "That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being." Votes: 0

It's okay to be proud of your good English. But don't be proud of being poor at your Mother tongue. Only the scum of the earth do that. Votes: 0

Ideas of value always shun verbosity, being foreign to confusion and fantasy. Timely silence, then, is precious, for it is nothing less than the mother of the wisest thoughts. Votes: 0

Unusually for an Indian man of his generation, my father, being aware of my mother's intellectual abilities, encouraged her to go abroad by herself to obtain a Ph.D. Votes: 0

The fact of simultaneously being Christian and having as my mother tongue Arabic, the holy language of Islam, is one of the basic paradoxes that have shaped my identity. Votes: 0

[My mother] would have me smothered like the Princes in the Tower if I showed any inclination for being an artist. She thought all artists little better than lunatics. Votes: 0

My mother is a special education teacher but also an artist, and my father an advertising executive. They are about as wacky as you can get without being alcoholics. Votes: 0

Our father died when we were very young, so our mother raised six kids. We saw the world filtered through her eyes, being a minority woman raising six kids. Votes: 0

Our father died when we were very young, so our mother raised six kids. We saw the world filtered through her eyes, being a minority woman raising six kids. Votes: 0

I adore acting; it's in my blood - quite literally - but I can honestly say the most creative thing in the world for me is being a mother. Votes: 0