No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.
Erma BombeckMothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
AristotlePeople 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 HarrisHe 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.
John LennonI got the stern end of the stick. It was kind of that iron fist. I am who I am today because of my mother.
Kevin HartMy mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
Mark TwainThe greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
Mother TeresaWhen 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.
Michelle ObamaOnly God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.
Billy GrahamI always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life.
Vivienne WestwoodWhen 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.
Richard BransonHe knows my limitations and where I’m a good wife and a good mom.
Angelina JolieMy 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 JolieWe were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother – but… when she became our child, the affection came.
Emily DickinsonI’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.
Brene BrownMy 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 HitchensMy mother did not like children.
Karl LagerfeldActually, I didn’t start sweating until I had children.
Dave GrohlI 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 ObamaI like trying to get pregnant. I’m not so sure about childbirth.
George EliotI 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 BrownFor an Ethiopian mother, if you have a chubby kid, it means you’re doing something good.
The WeekndI 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 WinehouseI 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 MunroYes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
Alice WalkerMy 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.
Angelina JolieI have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I’m a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself – all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.
Maya AngelouThere’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 JolieI 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.
Angelina JolieAll that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
Abraham LincolnI was raised by strong women, and that DNA is in my daughter and wife.
Dwayne JohnsonMother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
William Makepeace ThackerayYou see, at the end of the day, my most important title is still ‚mom-in-chief.‘ My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.
Michelle ObamaI became the kind of parent my mother was to me.
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 FrostIt is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
Erma BombeckWithout 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 JoliePeople 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 JolieAny 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 KnowlesIf 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 AngelouIt’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 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.
Adam SandlerI 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 am tough, but deep inside my toughness, I like to let people know I’m an old-fashioned mama’s boy.
Mr. TMy momma didn’t clean up floors so I could be a thug… so I could wear my pants down.
Mr. TThere’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 BombeckWhen 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 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 PartonI had my first baby at twenty-one.
Alice MunroMy 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 WestwoodMy mother loved children – she would have given anything if I had been one.
Groucho MarxFor me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you’d would wake up times and hope that the next day you’d be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.
LeBron JamesRepublicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.
Dan QuayleMy 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 HartA 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.
Pope FrancisChildren 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 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 SandlerBeing 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 HepburnIt’s a great thing about being pregnant – you don’t need excuses to pee or to eat.
Angelina JolieWho in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.
Erma Bombeck