Mom Quotes - Page 19

• My mom had four kids, one with special needs. She had a full-time job, and she still came home and made dinner for us every night, from scratch. It was amazing.

  Eva Longoria

  Inspiring, Mother, Jobs

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• There's something that just happens to you when you have a baby, and you look at their little eyes for the first time when you're holding them. They've been safe inside your belly for almost 10 months, and now they're in your arms. Intuition kicks in, where you will do anything for them and you have all the tools inside of you to take care of them.

  Hilary Duff

  Mother, Baby, Eye

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• Having children just puts the whole world into perspective. Everything else just disappears.

  Kate Winslet

  Inspiring, Mother, Children

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• Over the years, I learned so much from mom. She taught me about the importance of home and history and family and tradition. She also taught me that aging need not mean narrowing the scope of your activities and interests or a diminution of the great pleasures to be had in the everyday.

  Martha Stewart

  Inspiring, Mother, Mean

  "My Mother’s Legacy" by Martha Stewart, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 1, 2009.

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• Motherhood is heart-exploding, blissful hysteria.

  Olivia Wilde

  Inspiring, Mother, Heart

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

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• I would say that my mother is the single biggest role model in my life, but that term doesn't seem to encompass enough when I use it about her. She was the love of my life.

  Mindy Kaling

  Inspiring, Mother, Love Of My Life

  "Lena Dunham Hilariously, Candidly Interviews Mindy Kaling". Interview with Lena Dunham, www.rollingstone.com. November 11, 2013.

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• If I've learned anything as a mom with a daughter who's three, I've learned that you cannot judge the way another person is raising their kid. Everybody is just doing the best they can. It's hard to be a mom.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Inspiring, Daughter, Mother

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• She drove me to ballet class...and she took me to every audition. She'd be proud of me if I was still sitting in that seat or if I was watching from home. She believes in me and that's why this [award] is for her. She's a wonderful mother.

  Elisabeth Moss

  Inspiring, Mother, Believe

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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, Mother, Dream

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• We used to sing along to Judy Garland and Ella Fitzgerald records together. She had the most amazing voice ... She's always encouraged me, and she's still that person who, when things look dire, lifts me up and reminds me of who I am and that we all have a capacity for greatness.

  Sheryl Crow

  Inspiring, Mother, Greatness

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• I like my body so much better after I had kids. Is that a crazy thing to say? I'm more womanly. I feel sexier.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Inspiring, Mother, Crazy

  "Motherhood Quotes from the Pages of ELLE". www.elle.com. May 11, 2012.

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• I don't think of myself as a terribly confident person. But I have a survival mechanism that was instilled in me by my mother.

  Naomi Watts

  Inspiring, Mother, Thinking

  "Motherhood Quotes from the Pages of ELLE". www.elle.com. May 11, 2012.

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• It's been a huge joy, this experience of being a mom ... I don't know how to articulate it yet, because it is so fresh.

  Claire Danes

  Inspiring, Mother, Joy

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• [My favorite thing about motherhood is] that it's made me grow into a woman finally, and I finally grew up, thank God.

  Nicole Polizzi

  Inspiring, Mother, Thank God

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• Being a mother is hard and it wasn't a subject I ever studied.

  Ruby Wax

  Mother, Subjects, Hard

  "Happy and Crappy Days As a New Mom" by Chelsey Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 13, 2014.

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• Did Superman really want to save the world, or did he just feel like he had to? Would he much rather be a farmer? Maybe. Would he much rather be hanging out with his dad and his mom and his dog? Probably.

  Gerard Way

  Dog, Dad, World

  "The Superhero" by Dan Martin, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2007.

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• I'm a nice middle-class girl in real life, and I'm a mom and a grandma, and I usually play sweet characters.

  Jacki Weaver

  Girl, Sweet, Real

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

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• I feel like at the Olympics I gave the best performance of my life and I wasn't rewarded for that as an athlete. Yes, my fans and my mom were happy about it, but I didn't win that gold medal.

  Johnny Weir

  Athlete, Winning, Gold

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• No mother wants to hear her son say he's gay. Those two words rip the picture of a daughter-in-law and grandchildren into pieces. I felt sorry for my mom and wanted her to know everything was going to be all right. But then she said, 'I don't really care, Johnny, as long as I know that you are going to be happy.'

  Johnny Weir

  Daughter, Mother, Sorry

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• Never say anything on the phone that you wouldn't want your mother to hear at your trial.

  Sydney Biddle Barrows

  Mother, Phones, Say Anything

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• I remember being seven and asking my mom if I was as pretty as Monique [my best friend in grade school]. And with all the love in the world, my mom looked at me and said, 'Oh, honey, you're so funny.' So, she doesn't lie to me...she answers the question by not answering and instead tells me what she thinks is my greatest strength.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Mother, Lying, School

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• Financial hardships were rough on us, even though Mom had a good job at G.M.

  Ryan White

  Jobs, Financial Hardship, Good Job

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• My mom was a waitress, and my dad was a plumber who worked for the City of San Clemente fixing mains breaks, so not too glamorous.

  Shaun White

  Dad, Cities, Fixing

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• My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.

  Rainn Wilson

  Play, Actresses, Theater

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. November 17, 2010.

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• I know I'm talented, but I wasn't put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family.

  Amy Winehouse

  Mother, Wife, Looks

  "Amy Winehouse remembered on what would have been her 30th birthday" by Katie Hind, www.mirror.co.uk. September 13, 2013.

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