Jami Gertz Quotes

I can only hope to be 10 percent of the mom mine was to me. She encouraged me to be confident and enjoy life. That's what I want for my son.

I would never put my kids in front of the camera.

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Let every mother realize that she has no greater blessing than the children who have come to her as a gift from the Almighty; that she has no greater mission than to rear them in light and truth, in understanding and love.

I think the most important thing I have done in my life is to raise two boys.

I had such a great mom and I know that I'd never be that mom. I wouldn't want to bring a child into this world unless I could be.

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.

Being a mom has been my most important job to date, and I take my job very seriously, and I have a lot of fun doing it.

The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.

I never, ever used my son for publicity. He'll have his say one day if he wants it. He'll have the last word. He has time to defend himself.

If you're going to have kids, there's only one way to go. They have to know they're the most important things in your life, and once you're doing that, there's no way that you could not learn from them, because they just give you stuff constantly.

I want to live as private a life as I can because of our children.

My children are the most important thing in my life.

I never did allow anything to keep me from my kids. They're the most important part of my life.

Everything about my life is private, really. I'm not so sure that any of it has ever been public.

I felt I couldn't be a good mom anymore, but I didn't want my children to grow up without a mom. I felt I had to end our lives to protect us from any grief or harm.

One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad.

My children were the center of my life.

I'm a mother lion when it comes to protecting my children.

I'm a woman, a mother, a daughter, a sister. I'm a real person operating in the world. For me to discuss the most private thing feels wrong. It feels like I'm betraying myself and my children.

You know, motherhood is my favourite topic in my personal life and I won't shut up about it, but it's not something I want to discuss publicly just because of the amount of attention it draws to a small person who didn't choose to be exposed.

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

My two sons are the most important things in the world to my wife and I - they are what I build my world around.

It's the best thing ever - I love being a mom. This is my only child. My career was a priority earlier in my life, but now my son is definitely the priority.

As a devoted mother and private person, and with complete awareness that my daughter will one day be old enough to read the news about herself, I would only like to say that I will never, ever be commenting on the dissolution of my marriage.