“I want to be a loving mom.”
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 grew up in the '80s, and there was no bigger group than New Edition in R&B. I broke my piggy bank so me and my mom could go to a New Edition concert together.”
“I want to be a loving mom.”
“The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born.”
“I was class mom at the preschool one year and I was pretty much asked not to do that again!”
“Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched.”
“My mom and I were super tight. I think she really wanted me to be an artist, you know? She used to like to tell people she wanted to be Beethoven's mother. That was her thing. She wanted to be the mother of this person.”
“We didn't have movies in this little mining town. When I was 12 my mom took me to New York and I saw Bye Bye Birdie, with people singing and dancing, and that was it.”
“There is nothing I love more than my role as a mom.”
“A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom did to him. And then you gotta get rid of all that macho crap that they pick up from beer commercials. And then there's my personal favorite, the male ego.”
“I look up to my mom. She's a beautiful woman.”
“Mom ran the house, so we grew up Portuguese.”
“In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis.”
“We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.”
“I wanted to be a 150% entrepreneur and a 150% mom, and I found that I was having a very hard time doing both. I was about 75% and 75% - still better than 100%, but not what I was accustomed to at work.”
“My mom was a diabetic. Her sister was a diabetic, so I was already a candidate.”
“The one thing my mom will let me get is a nice shoe sometimes.”