Emily Deschanel Quotes

I know that is what I was put on Earth to do - to be a mother.

I hope, what I hope the most is to be more successful as a mother than in show business, because to be a mother is the most difficult I will ever have to do.

I think birth and motherhood are not things that you're trained to do. You might have a good example in your own mum, but nobody teaches you how to be a really great mum.

I was aware, in those early days of motherhood, that my behaviour was strange to the people who knew me well. It was as though I had been brainwashed, taken over by a cult religion. And yet this cult, motherhood, was not a place where I could actually live. Like any cult, it demanded a complete surrender of identity to belong to it.

There is no theoretical study of motherhood. You know, before I became a mother, I did play a mother, but I was like - I was more thinking of my own mother. I was doing my mother.

I was a perfect mother.

I'm a parent. I'm a mother.

I took being a mom very seriously.

I love being a mother. I think it's so incredible.

I just know I have so much to teach my child. And I just feel kind of like, what would our world be without mothers? What would our world be without mother love? I don't think we'd have a world.

I taught school in the early days of my manhood and I think I know something about mothers. There is a thread of aspiration that runs strong in them. It is the fiber that has formed the most unselfish creatures who inhabit this earth. They want three things only; for their children to be fed, to be healthy, and to make the most of themselves.

It is a fundamental truth that the responsibilities of motherhood cannot be successfully delegated. No, not to day-care centers, not to schools, not to nurseries, not to babysitters.

I never turned down a mother role.

Becoming a mother is the best thing that's happened to me.

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.

I love motherhood. I certainly wasn't aware of any mothering instincts until I had babies. I wasn't a person who desperately wanted to have kids, but you don't get it until you do it, and, suddenly, this nurturing instinct exists.

My career choice was to be a mother.

Sometimes, if you don't have kids yourself, it's assumed you won't understand or know how to play a mom, which is kind of silly if you think about it.

I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until you're a mother.'

Being mum is a number one job. That takes priority.

I am scared of becoming a mother.

Being a mother adds another emotional dimension, a feel for children that I didn't have before I had one. They were a pain before.

I think motherhood is just about instinct.

Motherhood is the most challenging as well as the utmost satisfying vocation in this world.

When I decide to become a mother I will just be that. That will be really important to me.