Top 100 As A Mother Quotes
#1. Children are touched by heaven - their every breath, every laugh, every touch a sip of water to the desert wanderer. I could not have known this as a child, but I know it as a mother, a truth I learned as my own heart grew, bent, danced, and broke for each of my children
Nadia Hashimi
#2. Power doesn't have to be on such a big scale for powerful things to occur. Within your own home, you can be a powerful woman as a mother, influencing your children's lives.
Jill Scott
#3. My mother taught me to be nice to everybody. And she said something before I left home. She said, 'I want you to always remember that the person you are in this world is a reflection of the job I did as a mother.'
Jason Segel
#4. Do not trade your birthright as a mother for some bauble of passing value. Let your first interest be in your home. The baby you hold in your arms will grow quickly as the sunrise and the sunset of the rushing days.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#5. I grew up with an extremely abusive father. As a mother, I wanted to protect my own children from exposure to violence. When I found out one of my daughters was in an abusive relationship, it broke my heart. Finally, she left him ?- but only after his abuse started spreading to the children.
Ginny Brown-Waite
#6. She stood in the mirror portrait very near Margaret, close next to her, good as a mother or a friend.
Ida Hattemer-Higgins
#7. I guess I define myself as a mother, a wife, kind of a nutty person. A good person.
Meredith Vieira
#8. As a mother would see her child, you should see the whole world as a beautiful place that God has created for you.
Nirmala Srivastava
#9. The feminists took me as a role model, as a mother. It bothers me. I am not interested in being a mother. I am still a girl trying to understand myself.
Louise Bourgeois
#10. Our mothers are our first teachers, and we teach others the same lessons we learn from them. As a child, when your mother believes in you, you believe in yourself, and when that happens, there is nothing you can't do. As a mother, that is the greatest gift we can give to a child.
Caroline Kennedy
#11. When I feel like I'm not doing what I am supposed to as a mother, I will torture myself. I don't know how to deal with it. I find some consolation in the fact that all mommies feel it. If there was a way to cure mommy guilt, I would bottle it and be a bazillionaire.
Angie Harmon
#12. From what I hear, it's a normal thing to feel guilty as a mother, especially when trying to fill the needs of a newborn along with maintaining what you had with your first child.
Jennie Finch
#13. There are so many quiet times you spend as a mother that aren't glorified but are a foundation for your kids. No matter what, there was always a thick safety net under this trapeze.
Tina Fey
#14. I'm very, very blessed. But my safety, my privacy, and my respect are three things that I feel like are trying to be taken away from me right now. As a mother I have to speak up and say something. I have to speak up.
Britney Spears
#15. As a mother, this was the most difficult prayer I had ever spoken in the silence of my thoughts, but in that instant I knew the greatest mercy I could pray for was not my son's safety, but for his death.
Sue Klebold
#16. There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother.
Henry Ward Beecher
#17. Plath was a feminist, in a broad sense of the term: she never undervalued herself or her work. She insisted that she be recognized as the talented writer she was even while her children were infants and she was spending more time as a mother and a wife than as a writer.
Linda Wagner-Martin
#18. When a woman births, not only is a baby being born but so is a mother.
How we treat her will affect how she feels about herself as a mother
and as a parent.
Be gentle. Be kind. Listen.
Ruth Ehrhardt
#19. He who look at a woman who is not his wife as a mother; wealth that is not his as dust and all the men as himself ... is a happy man. He, who sees all these things under a different light, is a blind.
Chanakya
#20. I have no end of failings as a mother, but I have always followed the rules.
Lionel Shriver
#21. Having seen my mom in community volunteer work my whole life and in Congress for 25 years, it is true as she often says that she sees her service as an extension of her role as a mother and a grandmother.
Christine Pelosi
#22. Everything I do as a mother builds on a foundation of love and compassion.
Amy Chua
#23. The language of Christianity is the language of substitution. It is not primarily the language of morals. God is not presented as a mother saying "eat all your vegetables". Instead, Christianity is about a one-sided rescue, that we didn't want and certainly didn't deserve, and he did it anyway.
Rod Rosenbladt
#24. The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
G.K. Chesterton
#25. A father who sees his daughter leave in the arms of another man does not feel the same as a mother. It is heartrending for her, too. But it is not the same.
Claire Denis
#26. 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.
Cindy Crawford
#27. As a mother, you're the world almanac and the encyclopedia and the dictionary and the Bible, all rolled up together.
Chuck Palahniuk
#28. As a mother you have got to have a view for now and a view for the future.
Vanessa Redgrave
#29. Pregnancy seems designed to prepare you for life as a mother. You start making sacrifices nine months before the child is born, so by the time they put in an appearance you are used to giving things up for them.
Brett Kiellerop-Morris
#30. 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.
Alphonsus Liguori
#31. As a mother, I know that homosexuals cannot biologically reproduce children; therefore, they must recruit our children.
Anita Bryant
#32. As a mother, I love the Leapster handheld because it really delivers on educating children while they play. My daughter enjoys it because it's fun and touches on all of the activities she is interested in - videos, books and art.
Marcia Gay Harden
#33. As a mother I think you often get so caught up in trying to take care of everyone else that you forget to take care of yourself. But I'm a much better wife and mother when I take the time to take care of myself.
Mia Hamm
#34. I said 'Brian, no one is going to respect me as a mother after this.' He said, 'oh no, yes they will, this is a movie, don't worry about it.' But they're not.
Nia Long
#35. My purpose is to teach and demonstrate what is possible. To demonstrate love of God and good. Remember what my role is as a woman: to be ... good. My role as a mother: to teach, support and nurture my offspring. My role as a grandmother: to remind everybody - right where you are, God is.
Iyanla Vanzant
#36. So the I.F. is spying on Earth."
"Just as a mother spies on her children at play in the yard."
"Good to know you're looking out for us, Mummy.
Orson Scott Card
#37. I have made so many mistakes as a mother. But the one thing that I know I do is I make sure my children know how much I love them and they are absolutely secure in that.
Ayelet Waldman
#38. As a doctor, as well as a mother and a world citizen, I wish to practice the ultimate form of preventive medicine by ridding the earth of these technologies that propagate disease, suffering, and death.
Helen Caldicott
#39. I've seen my own kids go through their own ups and downs, and as a mother, you want to make it better.
JoBeth Williams
#40. The scripture comes gently, as a mother comes to her child, so that we who can scarcely crawl on the ground are not left alone in our weakness." (Augustine)
Bengt R. Hoffman
#41. I've been writing an ongoing letter to my children since they were born, full of recollections of their childhoods. I've filled two journals. It's a great thing to do as a mother - you forget a lot as you go along, but reading over what you've written brings all the memories back.
Tory Burch
#42. Among the other things I've learned as a mother, is that women continue to explain way too much.
Avital Norman Nathman
#43. By presenting a faithful and honest record of my experience as a mother, I hope to show both my readers and my children how truth can redeem even what you fear might be the gravest of sins.
Ayelet Waldman
#44. Let your children uplift your burdens and allow your role as a mother - to flourish and grow.
Eleesha
#45. I still like getting dressed up and having the opportunity to borrow beautiful dresses, but as a mother - and as somebody who's schedule isn't always my own - I don't shop a lot, or think about clothes a lot.
Sarah Jessica Parker
#46. God has such gladness every time he sees from heaven that a sinner is praying to Him with all his heart, as a mother has when she sees the first smile on her baby's face.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#47. The day I need a television puppet or clown to tell my children what's right and what's wrong, I'll bow out as a mother.
Elinor Smith
#48. What we owe future generations is the subject of growing debate by economists, philosophers, ethicists, public policymakers, and academics of all stripes. But for me as a mother, the moral implications are very clear. We owe them clean air and fresh water, a healthy planet and a secure future.
Leonor Varela
#49. I am a very strict mother, and as a mother, it's my responsibility to guide my kids and tell them to go how far and no further. There should be rules and guidelines for the kids, and they should know their limits.
Kajol
#50. In a word, the woman first exists as a mother, and the man first exists as a son.10
Erich Neumann
#51. Self-love is as protective as the Deity; Disenchantment is as perspicacious as a surgeon; Experience is as provident as a mother. Such are the theologic virtues of marriage.
Honore De Balzac
#52. I have always loved books, and as a mother, I wanted to share my passion for reading with my children.
Aerin Lauder
#53. I love family films. Of course, as a mother who has to watch so many movies, you really appreciate it when somebody makes a film that is for everybody - family entertainment that's really for the family, where everyone has a good time.
Salma Hayek
#54. You could have Charles Manson as a father and end up a saint; you could have Mother Theresa as a mother and end up a serial killer. At the end of the day, you define the person you become. Not a strand of DNA. Not the parents you didn't get to choose. You." I
Julie Johnson
#55. In a sense the physical connectedness that you feel with your children as a mother changes as they become independent.
Polixeni Papapetrou
#56. I'm a fighter as a mother. I'm fighting to be a mother, but I cannot say no to my passion because it's me, as well.
Juliette Binoche
#57. Your power as a woman, as a mother, is your medicine, and it saved you. Take your courage in that.
Jim Fergus
#58. As a mother, anyone who has a teenager can attest to being really excited when they have something positive to be putting their energy into. They have so much energy, and it can go in the wrong direction.
Lea Thompson
#59. As a mother love cherish and carry her baby within her womb,
as do i love cherish and carry my baby named God within my heart,
for all eternity.
Faruk H.T.
#60. I had loved her as a mother, and though she had put forth her best effort to love me as a son, a difference existed after she learned the truth from Delia. Yet I did not hold her responsible; how could I blame her for an inability to love the part of me that I, too, loathed?
Kathleen Grissom
#61. As a mother you are only as happy as your saddest child
Beth Moore
#62. Career is important, but nothing really supersedes my roles as a mother.
Halle Berry
#63. I want to be more successful as a mother than I am in show business.
Celine Dion
#64. 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.
Geri Halliwell
#65. There is an emptiness inside of me
a void that will never be filled. No one in your life will ever love you as your mother does. There is no love as pure, unconditional and strong as a mother's love. And I will never be loved that way again.
Hope Edelman
#66. Speaking as a mother of unborn generations, I'm against it.
Terry Pratchett
#67. You hear these yummy mummies talk about being the best possible mother, and they put all their effort into their children. I also want to be the best possible mother, but I know that my job as a mother includes bringing my children up so, actually, they can live without me.
Cherie Blair
#68. As a mother, you need to remember that a loving and compassionate God is one hundred percent aware of your child's situation.
Elizabeth George
#69. I just cleared the slate and thought of her as a mother and went from there.
Marg Helgenberger
#71. I am positive - determined to move forward with my life, bring up my babies, and do the best job I can as a mother, entertainer, and person.
Jennifer Lopez
#72. You make it sound as if I hit her. I did nothing to Edie!'
'Oh? You did nothing? The woman I found in your wake, stripped of all self-repsect, convinced that she was a failure as a mother and a lover: that wasn't your work? Because I think it was!
Eloisa James
#73. I'm so supported, and I'm so privileged. So many women today are single parents; I don't feel different. I think you get out of life what you put into it ... and Bluebell was a beautiful accident. I feel blessed to have her. I'm learning every day as a mother.
Geri Halliwell
#74. Anyone who met him today would say, *Soldier. Fighter.* They would want him on their team. As a mother she was willing to engage in pride over fear and to admit the possibility that his sacrifice was hers, too. His sacrifice was something she had been able to give her country.
Lea Carpenter
#75. 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
#76. I wrote what I did because as a woman, as a mother, I was oppressed and broken-hearted with the sorrows and injustice I saw, because as a Christian I felt the dishonor to Christianity - because as a lover of my county, I trembled at the coming day of wrath.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#77. Women, I think we can feel like we need to do it all and be it all. What's important is that we do the best we can, and just make time for yourself because when you do make time for yourself, you give back more as a mother; you give back more to your work.
Miranda Kerr
#78. As an expert, I can deal with complex problems. As a mother it is much, much harder.
Rosalind Wiseman
#79. Go forth in peace, for you have followed the good road. Go forth without fear, for he who created you has made you holy, has always protected you, and loves you as a mother. Blessed be you, my God, for having created me.
Clare Of Assisi
#80. I actually made an effort to reject acting, to shove it out of my body, because I didn't want my kids to have an actress as a mother-to have, like, a silly person.
Lisa Kudrow
#81. and the wind gathered the leaves as a mother gathers her children and blew them irrevocably, lovingly, into the haunted wildness
Elliot Mabeuse
#82. Working from home as a mother is the worst of everything. You don't have clear boundaries. The kids can get used to you going to work; they can't get used to you ignoring them. And work sometimes gets the message you're not as committed.
Karen Finerman
#83. My heart really softens when I think about mothering because the greatest lessons that I've learned in life have been as a mother.
Michele Bachmann
#84. I thought if my son was now eighteen years old and he was tempted to join the fight and take the burden of protecting his family - because it's always tempting especially for young men - what would I do as a mother to stop him?
Nadine Labaki
#85. When I look at female characters, I want to recognize myself in them: my trials, my tribulations as a mother, as a lover, as a daughter.
Vera Farmiga
#86. You transition as a mother from literally just pulling a booger out of that person's nose whenever you see one until at some point they assert: "No, I'm a person. You can't fix my underpants on the subway."
Tina Fey
#87. I voted for every woman who has to leave a baby too soon, who has to downgrade her career, or who is made to feel invisible in her role as a mother.
Erin Passons
#88. Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way, that had caused me a long time ago to give up all hope of ever feeling good about having had her as a mother.
Anne Lamott
#89. I strongly believe as a mother, as does my husband, that there are certain contributing factors that lead to autism and some of it is very much the chemicals in our environment and in our food,
Kelly Preston
#90. Mildred Pierce was capable of great acts of love as a mother.
Kate Winslet
#91. It was my duty as a mother to invade your privacy and search your room. I'm just glad you weren't hiding an illegal drug.
S.A. Tawks
#92. I only look at her as a mother, and she doesn't succeed in being that to me.
Anne Frank
#93. I'm Nancy Pelosi, but my grandchildren call me Mimi. For me, politics is an extension of my role as a mother and a grandmother. For the Democratic women of the House, our work is not about the next election, but rather the next generation.
Nancy Pelosi
#94. As a mother, I work hard every day and I expect that work to be recognized and appreciated. Because I work for and with human beings, sometimes they're grateful and sometimes they aren't.
Margaret Heffernan
#95. The whole island is spotted with derelict cottages and abandoned churches like this one. They sit in pastures as invisible to the Irish as a mother is to a teenage girl.
Skyler White
#96. Golconda remained a city where the wind was like velvet, where the sun was made of radium, and the sea as warm as a mother's womb.
Anais Nin
#97. There is nothing as sincere as a mother's kiss.
Saleem Sharma
#98. Everything changes as a mother. Yes, work has changed. The projects that I choose are even more important to me now. The world he's growing up in and the kind of stimulus that is out there; they are so precious and I'd do anything to protect him.
Jennifer Connelly
#99. She had been bullied and tormented by Leena for a long time and she wasn't going to take it anymore. She was tired of being pushed around. She wanted to be strong for herself and be the type of person who her daughter would've wanted to have as a mother.
Valenciya Lyons
#100. Many persons grow insensibly attached to that which gives them a great deal of trouble, as a mother often loves her sick and ever-ailing child better than her more healthy offspring.
Charles Mackay
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