Mom Quotes - Page 39

• Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.

  Jane Welsh Carlyle

  Mother, Time, Loss

  Jane Welsh Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle (1887). “Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle”

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• I tell my kids, 'I am thinking about you every other minute of my day.'

  Michelle Obama

  Mother, Kids, Thinking About You

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• My mom always complains about my lack of a boyfriend. Well, next time she asks, I'm going to tell her I'm dating two different guys-Mr Duracell and Mr Energizer.

  Michelle Landry

  Funny, Cute, Boyfriend

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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, Mother, Children

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

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• No influence is so powerful as that of the mother.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Daughter, Mother, Powerful

  Kathleen Ann Lawrence, Abigail Adams, Sarah Josepha Buell Hale, Louisa May Alcott, Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1989). “The Domestic Idiom: The Rhetorical Appeals of Four Influential Women in Nineteenth-century America”

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• A good mother is worth hundreds of schoolmasters.

  George Herbert

  Mother, First Day Of School, Happy Mothers Day

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• If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.

  Laurence Housman

  Marriage, Mothers Day, Baby

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

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• Never being number one in your list of priorities and not minding at all.

  Jasmine Guinness

  Numbers, Priorities, Lists

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• I've always wanted to be a mom. Because I want to give a kid all of the magical gifts my mom gave me, such as love and friendship.

  Jennifer Love Hewitt

  Kids, Parenting, Giving

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• My mom was [a hippie]. We weren't allowed sugar cereal. We weren't allowed processed foods - except Van de Kamp's fish sticks. We never locked the front door.

  Jessica Biel

  Mother, Hippie, Cereal

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

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• I have an amazing mother who's a real tough cookie. She taught me not to get emotional about [sexism in Hollywood], just be really practical and objective. Later, in the privacy of my own home, maybe I'll bawl or break some dishes, but you just have to keep going. It's not about fighting, it's about educating.

  Zoe Saldana

  Mother, Real, Home

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

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• ~Before you have kids, when you're on a plane and there's a screaming kid, all you can think is, Give me earplugs! As soon as I became a mom, though, I got it. You find yourself asking, 'What can I do? You want me to hold him?' Because you think about the time your kids was screaming, and there was the one parent who looked at you and smiled. And that compassion was everything.~

  Mariska Hargitay

  Kids, Parenting, Thinking

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• ~I've never met a 2-year-old who is terrible. I'm so cool with every stage my daughter goes through. I just think she's amazing. I hope she's not looking at me thinking, Mom, are the terrible 30s coming on with you?~

  Katie Holmes

  Daughter, Parenting, Thinking

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• ~As a working mother high heels don't really fit into my life anymore - but in a totally wonderful way. I would much rather think about my son than myself.~

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Mother, Son, Parenting

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• ~I'm really clear about my priority in life - it's being a mom ... I love doing films, but I wouldn't like to do that more than I'd like to be my daughter's mother.~

  Teri Hatcher

  Daughter, Mother, Parenting

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• ~As a mom, you have to look at how much time you're spending with your kids. There is nothing you will regret more in your life - nothing - than not being present for your children.~

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Children, Regret, Kids

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• ~Sometimes, when I want to take on the world, I try to remember that it's just as important to sit down and ask my son how he's feeling or talk to him about life.~

  Angelina Jolie

  Inspiring, Mother, Son

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• My mother was a reader, and she read to us. She read us Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when I was six and my brother was eight; I never forgot it.

  Stephen King

  Mother, Brother, Inspiration

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• When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.

  Nancy Friday

  Relationship, Mother Daughter, Appreciation

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• Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.

  Khalil Gibran

  Beautiful, Mother, Parenting

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• You may have tangible wealth untold:
  Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold.
  Richer than I you can never be
  I had a Mother who read to me.

  Strickland Gillilan

  Mothers Day, Reading, Mother And Son

  Strickland Gillilan, “The Reading Mother”

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• My mom [has] always been my hero. Watching her experience something like breast cancer was pivotal, I think in my whole family's life and experience. She is one strong lady.

  Emma Stone

  Inspiring, Mother, Strong

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• Babies are such a nice way to start people.

  Don Herold

  Relationship, Baby, Nice

  "Bewitched: Santa Comes to Visit and Stays and Stays". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1969.

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• My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia

  Barry Humphries

  Funny, Friendship, Mother

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• It's really one of my all-time favorite things to do. To go out and really see the kids and visit the moms who are in these programs because I think I really get to see what happens on the ground and connect with them about what changes are that happen in their lives because of some of the giving that we're able to do.

  Melinda Gates

  Change, Kids, Thinking

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