It’s a great thing about being pregnant – you don’t need excuses to pee or to eat.
Angelina JolieWe’re in the last days, man – I truly, in my heart, believe that. It’s written. I could go on with biblical situations and things my grandma told me. But it’s about being at peace with myself and making good with the people around me.
Kendrick LamarWhen I get up and work out, I’m working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It’s just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.
Michelle ObamaHe knows my limitations and where I’m a good wife and a good mom.
Angelina JolieThere’s something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she’s only measured water in it.
Erma BombeckChildren need to get a high-quality education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice system, and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We want them to learn not only reading and math but fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment, and civic duty.
Colin PowellI always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life.
Vivienne WestwoodWhile I believed deeply in my husband’s vision for this country… and I was certain he would make an extraordinary President… like any mother, I was worried about what it would mean for our girls if he got that chance. How would we keep them grounded under the glare of the national spotlight?
Michelle ObamaAfter momma gave birth to 12 of us kids, we put her up on a pedestal. It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her.
Dolly PartonBeing a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn’t interest you, don’t do it – I would have made a terrible mother.
Katharine HepburnPeople wonder aloud about whether I am an okay mother. That is obviously painful because it’s so important to me. It’s hard to hear that people think I’m not a capable mother and a good person, that they just think I’m nuts.
Angelina JolieI was raised by a mother who told me I was great every day of my life.
Adam SandlerThere was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.
Eleanor RooseveltIt may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?
Mahatma GandhiIt’s like, remember who you always were, where you came from, who your parents were, how they raised you. Because that authentic self is going to follow you all through life, so make sure that it’s solid so it’s something that you can hold on and be proud of for the rest of your life.
Michelle ObamaMy mother raised me with God. We were poor financially, but we were rich spiritually.
Mr. TActually, I didn’t start sweating until I had children.
Dave GrohlI was brought up to believe that the worst thing you could do was ‚call attention to yourself,‘ or ‚think you were smart.‘ My mother was an exception to this rule and was punished by the early onset of Parkinson’s disease.
Alice MunroBecause I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.
Margaret AtwoodRepublicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.
Dan QuayleMothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
AristotleWomen have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.
Coco ChanelWe were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother – but… when she became our child, the affection came.
Emily DickinsonI 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.
Adam SandlerI think many people in my community had very different kinds of mothers: they had mothers who acquiesced in the system of male and white-supremacist domination, and my mother never did. She just could not do it. It just wasn’t in her.
Alice WalkerFor an Ethiopian mother, if you have a chubby kid, it means you’re doing something good.
The WeekndWithout Cambodia, I may never have become a mother. Part of my heart is and will always be in this country. And part of this country is always with me: Maddox.
Angelina JolieI am tough, but deep inside my toughness, I like to let people know I’m an old-fashioned mama’s boy.
Mr. TI can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes about my relationship with my own body.
Brene BrownI love our daughters more than anything in the world – more than life itself. And while that may not be the first thing that some folks want to hear from an Ivy-league-educated lawyer, it is truly who I am. So for me, being Mom-in-Chief is, and always will be, job number one.
Michelle ObamaNo mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.
Ronald ReaganWho in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.
Erma BombeckI like trying to get pregnant. I’m not so sure about childbirth.
George EliotAny other woman who has to go to work and pick up the kids and make dinner – that’s way harder than what I have to do.
Beyonce KnowlesMy momma didn’t clean up floors so I could be a thug… so I could wear my pants down.
Mr. TOnly God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.
Billy GrahamI 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. I love what I do, but it’s not where it begins and ends.
Amy WinehouseMy mom, she was a very, very soft woman. It was hard for her to yell or even curse. But when it came to fighting for her kids, she found a strength she didn’t always know she had.
Angelina JolieMy first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.
Michelle ObamaMy mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
Mark TwainThe influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness, and industry.
Billy GrahamI’ve never lived my life in the opinion of others. I believe I’m a good person. I believe I’m a good mom. But that’s for my kids to decide, not for the world.
Angelina JolieI was raised by strong women, and that DNA is in my daughter and wife.
Dwayne JohnsonIf a woman can, by careful selection of a father and nourishment of herself, produce a citizen with efficient senses, sound organs and a good digestion, she should clearly be secured a sufficient reward for that natural service to make her willing to undertake and repeat it.
George Bernard ShawThere’s people constantly asking you for something on set, so the multi-tasking of motherhood transfers very well to being a director. And I think you’re compassionate.
Angelina JolieMy kids are coming up in a different time then me. Interracial couples are of the norm. With me, it’s about making sure my kids understand the importance of education and having opportunities that I didn’t. My goal as a parent is to make sure they don’t take what they have for granted.
Kevin HartMy children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their own characters and were very strong-minded. I gave them a lot of freedom when they were still very young. The one thing they got from me is morals. They would never betray anyone. They are really good people.
Vivienne WestwoodIf you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England – you couldn’t have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.
Maya AngelouA mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
Robert FrostBlack and brown pride have been taught in my household for a long time.
Kendrick LamarMy greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.
Maya AngelouLive so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.My mother loved children – she would have given anything if I had been one.
Groucho MarxPeople who work for me know that family comes first. And I’m fortunate to have a family that is very supportive of the work I do, so I don’t have to live two separate lives.
Kamala HarrisI was a grade B housewife, maybe a B minus. But when I got time to write, I would be unable to finish a sentence. I had anxiety attacks. Partly it was a way of personifying the situation because I couldn’t breathe. I was surrounded by people and by duties. I was a housewife and the children’s mother, and I was judged on how I performed those roles.
Alice MunroI had my first baby at twenty-one.
Alice MunroMy mother never made me do anything for my brothers, like serve them. I think that’s an important lesson, especially for the Latino culture, because the women are expected to be the ones that serve and cook and whatever. Not in our family. Everybody was equal.
Dolores HuertaMy children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.
Christopher HitchensMother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
William Makepeace Thackeray