My Mom Quotes

In the sheltered simplicity of the first days after a baby is born, one sees again the magical closed circle, the miraculous sense of two people existing only for each other.

I think one of the political problems we have in this country is the perspective that all soccer moms think alike, all African-Americans think alike.

None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter.

Girls like to be played with and rumpled a little too sometimes.

Motherhood is heart-exploding, blissful hysteria.

This is your moment. Own it.

Married and divorced, three beautiful daughters, two in college. The other one is 16, lives with her mom. I'm 46, I've worked for the Post Office for 18 years, seven facilities in three states.

If you're reading something from a Nobel Prize-winning physicist next to some guy in his underwear writing in his basement, or his mom's basement, on text, it looks like it's equally plausible.

To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure, I care not - there is no weakness in that.

I knew 'Mars Needs Moms! ' would be a movie seconds after the title came to mind. Similarly, I also knew that my daughter would be calling me a dork as a default term of endearment eventually.

The difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull: At some point, a pit bull does stop whining.

My step-mom would tell me that she would get complaints from adults that I stared too much at them.

I wanted to stay close enough so mom could see me play - where I could go home if I needed to.

I notice that if there are some times I've been stressed, because I'm human and stress about things, that affects your kids. So you have to make sure you're a happy mom so they can be happy.

Mom, thank you. Mr. Palmer, my father I never had, thank you for teaching me what it is to be a man.

I always wanted to be a young mom, but generations of women have worked so hard so we can have a career and wait to have children. So I say carpe diem - take advantage of that.

My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting to do all the things that she would have wanted to have done.

I lost my mother two years ago to cancer. But the greatest gift she gave to me was showing me how to be a wonderful and loving mom to my two sons, even now that they are grown men.

I cannot tell you how much I owe to the solemn word of my good mother.

Realizing you're not anything special to the kids is always a great sort of reminder that you're just a regular person. A regular embarrassing old mom.

I'm not a regular mom, I'm a cool mom.

A Modern Mom to me is not always someone that juggles a career and family. A Modern Mom is a woman who takes care of herself on the inside and the outside.

I'm a nice, happily married wife and mom and I live in Connecticut.

It's the job that I take most seriously in my life and I think it's the hardest job.

That's a big deal for kids, when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee with mom. They react differently on the next day when you say: 'Sit down and shut-up!'

Every family is different. I am mom and I am dad and I'm going to do my best. You should be proud, walk through life saying I have the coolest family. I am part of a modern family.

If you want the truth, I will tell you the truth: Friend, listen: the God whom I love is inside.

Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.

Any mom who tells you that she does it effortlessly is not telling the truth.

I know first-hand the challenges that come with being an on-the-go mom, and I am constantly looking for great products that fit into my busy schedule. I've tried every goop and elixir known to man.

Funny, how moms can tell you what to do no matter how old or big you are.

In Hollywood, you play a mom, and the next thing you know, you're on 'The Golden Girls.' They age you so fast.

So thank you for reminding me about the importance of being a good mom and a great volunteer as well.

A mom reads you like a book, and wherever she goes, people read you like a glowing book review.

I know not every mom is a secret KGB spy, but every mom has this whole other life. Every dad and every person has this whole other life.

Have you ever had a single moment's thought about my responsibilities?

Rest easy, real mothers. The very fact that you worry about being a good mom means that you already are one.

My mother was the source from which I derived the guiding principles of my life.

All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.

This heart, my own dear mother, bends, With love's true instinct, back to thee!

In my family, Mom can lead the sports activities, no problem! Except football - that, my husband does.

Mom raised us to believe that every lie puts something out there in the world that's inevitably going to come back and bite you in the petunia.

Moms Mabley said you have to say good things about the dead. I say, 'He's dead. Good.'

Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.

When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi, Mom!

My desire, my passion, was to help moms with practical encouragement.

I have written about 10 books, all just practical encouragement for moms.

I hate using this term [miracle]. I'm a man of science. I'm a doctor. I don't use this word. But he said, it's a miracle your mom's alive.

Ellen had long ago stopped being embarrassed by temper tantrums. She flipped it and wore it like a badge of honor. A temper tantrum was a sign that a mom said no when it counted.

Like the oxytocin you get as a mom makes you forget everything constantly. And I'm a totally different person after having a kid.