“I had always loved to write and my mom was my editor for my school papers.”
Mothers are the first teachers, the last phone call, and the voice in your head long after you have left home. These quotes capture the tireless, often thankless, always essential work of motherhood — and the love that fuels it.
“I'm really happy to be a mom, and I'm proud of the phase I'm in.”
“I had always loved to write and my mom was my editor for my school papers.”
“My mom was tough.”
“I grabbed my mom and I went to the couch and I said, 'Mom I want to ask Jesus to come into my heart.' And I got on my knee and I asked Jesus to come into my heart, forgive me of my sins, and make me a child of God.”
“I started cooking when I was about 10. I have memories like when I was 6 or 7 with my mom, and when I was 12 I started getting real serious about cooking.”
“A friend of my mom's was a casting director so, really as kind of a lark, I had a couple of acting jobs that had just enough exposure to give me the option to continue if I wanted to. I followed through with it.”
“I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.”
“President Obama's fight for rural America is personal. He was raised by a single mom and grandparents from Kansas. He hails from a farming state, Illinois.”
“My mom's hot. I mean she's old, but my mom's out of control.”
“The one thing my mom will let me get is a nice shoe sometimes.”
“When I was little, my mom tells me, I used to say things like, 'Mom do you hear the string section? Do you hear the string section?' And she would look at me and say, 'No honey, I don't know what you're talking about.'”
“Depending on what day of the week it is and what time of the month it is, I'm a good friend or not a good friend. I'm more or less a good mom or not a good mom, more or less a good mate or not a good mate. That's just life, whether or not you're public.”
“My mom is always telling me it takes a long time to get to the top, but a short time to get to the bottom.”
“There are days when I struggle with wanting to be a full-time, stay-at-home mom, and feeling guilty about that because I work.”
“My mom never taught me to be waiting for some prince on a white horse to swipe me off my feet.”
“Sunscreen is my number 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 tip. I'm a fanatic, partially because I live in L.A. and have fair skin and freckles, and partially because of my kids. My mom always made me wear sunscreen and I'm trying to be that mom for them.”