My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.
My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.
Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.
That strong mother doesn't tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in.
It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.
I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.
My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.
It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion it is a joy of every moment.
When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.
Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working.
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque.
Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.
The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.
When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.
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.
Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.
Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.
I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.
I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born.
Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness.
It's the moms of this nation - single, married, widowed - who really hold this country together. We're the mothers, we're the wives, we're the grandmothers, we're the big sisters, we're the little sisters, we're the daughters. You know it's true, don't you? You're the ones who always have to do a little more.
If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing 'Maria' from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring, I hang up.