I always say I’m one of the toughest mama’s boys you’re ever gonna meet. And I say that to send a message to all the young thugs out there; that it’s nothing to be ashamed of to say you love your mother.

Black and brown pride have been taught in my household for a long time.

I do not think that I am a natural born mother… If I ever wanted to mother anyone, it was my father.

My 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.

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?

If 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.

My 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.

I got the stern end of the stick. It was kind of that iron fist. I am who I am today because of my mother.

When a father puts in long hours at work, he’s praised for being dedicated and ambitious. But when a mother stays late at the office, she’s sometimes accused of being selfish, neglecting her kids.

Children 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.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

I was raised by strong women, and that DNA is in my daughter and wife.

I am tough, but deep inside my toughness, I like to let people know I’m an old-fashioned mama’s boy.

If your mom cries a lot, you probably cry a lot. It’s what you learn.

It’s a great thing about being pregnant – you don’t need excuses to pee or to eat.

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

My 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.

If 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.

I like trying to get pregnant. I’m not so sure about childbirth.

My mother raised me with God. We were poor financially, but we were rich spiritually.

I’ve learned a lot since I was a new mother. My approach to struggle and shame now is to talk to yourself like you’d talk to someone you love and reach out to tell your story.

I 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.

People 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.

There’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.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

For an Ethiopian mother, if you have a chubby kid, it means you’re doing something good.

He didn’t come out of my belly, but my God, I’ve made his bones, because I’ve attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I’m so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

When I was four, my mother insisted I get out of the car and find my own way home. Although I got lost, I did find my way home. It taught me the value of independence at an early age.

He knows my limitations and where I’m a good wife and a good mom.

I 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.

Actually, I didn’t start sweating until I had children.

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.

I had a C-section, and I found it fascinating. I didn’t find it a sacrifice, and I didn’t find it a painful experience. I found it a fascinating miracle of what a body can do.

There’s something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she’s only measured water in it.

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.

Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.

Education commences at the mother’s knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

My 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.

A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the church in the hearts of those who pay so much attention to the scandals.

I was raised by a mother who told me I was great every day of my life.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

Any 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.

My mother was a full-time mother. She didn’t have much of her own career, her own life, her own experiences… everything was for her children. I will never be as good a mother as she was. She was just grace incarnate. She was the most generous, loving – she’s better than me.

Women 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.

While 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?

People 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.

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.

I became the kind of parent my mother was to me.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

My father wasn’t perfect. He had a temper. I took some of that. He would snap, but the older he got, he started calming down. He learned about life, but the thing that he taught my whole family was that family was the most important thing and, no matter what, if a family member needs you, you go and help them out; you get there.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

When 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.

I 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.

My mother fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56. She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold them in her arms. But my other children will never have the chance to know her and experience how loving and gracious she was.

My mother never cursed at home; my father never cursed at home. My father didn’t drink. Even though we were poor, we would say a blessing over the table. So that’s who I am.

My mother loved children – she would have given anything if I had been one.