Being A Great Mother Quotes

#1. What is important is any amount of breast milk that can be given to the baby is better than none, and breastfeeding is one of the many challenges along the way of being a great mother.

Simko Pharm. D., Lauren

#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.

Lauren London

#3. The only thing that I can do is know that I have great confidence in raising children and being a great mother.

Cheryl Tiegs

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

Dan Rather

#5. Charlotte sighed inwardly. She knew her mother was serious when she started referring to shellfish. What did that mean, anyway? What's so great about the world being your oyster? Does that mean it's really hard to open, and when you do, you have something slimy and gross on the inside?

Anne Ursu

#6. When I asked my mother where babies came from, she thought I said rabies. She said you get them from being bitten by a dog. The next week, a woman on my block gave birth to triplets ... I thought she'd been bitten by a Great Dane.

Woody Allen

#7. It's a perfect moment to quietly meditate on the cosmic Great Mother who can inspire us all; the divine, feminine Spirit of nurturance known as The Goddess, so revered in ancient times and being rediscovered by women today.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

James E. Faust

#9. But the Spirit was not limited to doing surprising and extraordinary things. He was present in the Old Testament period in giving civil rule and government ... moral virtues ... physical strength ... and intellectual abilities.

John Owen

#10. 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.

Elton John

#11. Pay attention to what you wish you were doing when you're doing something else.

Joyce Rachelle

#12. Farewell" is not the word that you would like to hear from your mother as you are being led to the dungeon by 2 oversize mice in black hoods.
Words that you would like to hear are "Take me instead, I will go to the dungeon in my sons place." There is a great deal of comfort in those words.

Kate DiCamillo

#13. All the geography, trigonometry, and arithmetic in the world are useless unless you learn to think for yourself. No school teaches you that. It's not on the curriculum.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#14. I think that, when you play a mother, whether you play a bad mother or a not so great mother or an amazing mother, being a mother is already so complicated. It's already three-dimensional, automatically, no matter what the role is, because you're playing a mother.

Eva Mendes

#15. I gave him my code name. 'This is Mr. Slow Death.

Charles Bukowski

#16. Other people are joyous, like on the feast of the ox, like on the way up to the terrace in the spring. I alone am inert, giving no sign, like a newborn baby who has not learned to smile.

Laozi

#17. Real Womanhood isn't a function of becoming a great mother, but of being loved by your Great Father.

Ann Voskamp

#18. Time is a super-imposition on the eternal now by thought.

Pat Crowley

#19. Before modern feminism, stories of female ambition were silenced or erased; even now, they are told with apology ("Yes, it's a great honor to be a Nobel Prize laureate, but really, what I love best is staying home and being a mother to Kevin and Annie").

Harriet Lerner

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

Frances O'Grady

#21. My mother was a Bloomsbury figure: a great friend of TS Eliot, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell. My grandmother, Mary Hutchinson, gave her life to works of art, being an admirer of Matisse and Giaometti, whom I collected as a young man because of her.

Jacob Rothschild

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

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#23. Forecasting Armageddon has become trendy of late, with a great deal of attention being given to an interpretation of the Mayan Calendar suggesting that Mother Earth is destined for doom in December of 2012.

Seth Shostak

#24. There is no power like oratory. Caesar controlled men by exciting their fears, Cicero by ... swaying their passions. The influence of the one perished; that of the other continues to this day.

Henry Clay

#25. My parents would always have us, as many times as we could, sit together for dinner and talk about what was happening in our lives, and so we created a great recipe where I could be completely honest with my mother and to an extent my father, being an attorney.

Ryan Seacrest

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

Elizabeth Taylor

#27. Did you consider anything like the Infected?' Simon had asked.

'Not quite. But some of our other contingency plans might help us out with this particular mission.

A. Ashley Straker

#28. The gift of mental power comes from God, Divine Being, and if we concentrate our minds on that truth, we become in tune with this great power. My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible.

Nikola Tesla

#29. 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.

Patsy Kensit

#30. How His electing grace and predestined purpose can stand beside His love for the world and desire that the gospel be preached to all people, still holding them responsible for their own rejection and condemnation, is a divine mystery.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#31. Non-Indian writers usually say "Great Spirit," "Mother Earth," "Two-Legged, Four-Legged, and Winged." Mixed-blood writers usually say "Creator, "Mother Earth," "Two-Legged, Four- Legged, and Winged." Indian writers usually say "God," "Mother Earth," "Human Being, Dog, and Bird."

Sherman Alexie

#32. To be a mother is the greatest vocation in the world. No being has a position of such great power and influence. She holds in her hands the destiny of nations, for to her is necessarily committed the making of the nation's citizens.

Hannah Whitall Smith

#33. I'm a big Sarah Michelle Gellar [Buffy the Vampire Slayer] fan. Huge. I love her. She's gorgeous. I see her Maybelline ads, and I'm like, 'How can she be that pretty?'

Kirsten Storms

#34. My father had always identified himself as a writer to my mother when they met. When they met, he was writing this great novel, there was no doubt about it. Part of why she left him was this delusion of greatness and identifying it very directly with being an artist.

Nick Flynn

#35. mostly I saw her efforts to induct me into adulthood much as a calf might see its mother's explanations of veal: I was being recruited into the great death march of biology - be born, reproduce, die.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#36. So thank you for reminding me about the importance of being a good mom and a great volunteer as well.

George W. Bush