Lorraine Toussaint Quotes

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.

It's [motherhood] the biggest on-the-job- training program in existence today.

Looking backwards, I look at my resume and I look at the things I've accomplished, but quite honestly there's just that word, 'Mother', I just saw it on the paper, and I that's the one that means the most to me.

Definitely being a mom changes your perspective on everything.

I love being a mom. That's the best job I've ever had. All the other stuff I love the same, but being a mom trumps all of it.

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 a good mom is an awake mom. At least for me, I've always been a kinder, better person awake than sleep-deprived!

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

Being a mom has made me a better person. It's made me more compassionate. It's just awesome. I think I was put here to be a mom.

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.

I'm so into momminess.

As we all know, there is no harder or more rewarding job than being a mom.

I haven't wanted to play a mother for a long time because I am one.

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.

I love every second of being a mom.

When you've got kids, you turn into Mom, and that's it.

Well, being a mom is the best job in the world.

I took being a mom very seriously.

My calling was to be a mom.

Motherhood: 24/7 on the frontlines of humanity. Are you man enough to try it?

If I should have a daughter, instead of "Mom," she's going to call me "Point B," because that way she knows that no matter what happens, at least she can always find her way to me.

I surely know that there is no role in life more essential and more eternal than that of motherhood.

I dig being a mother.

Sometimes, mothers say and do things that seem like they don't want their kids... but when you look more closely, you realize that they're doing those kids a favor. They're just trying to give them a better life.

When you go into mama-bear mode and have no choice but to just go with the flow, that's kind of when I realized...it put life into perspective. Just seeing my little girls and knowing I was going to experience life all over again - I'd be able to take them to the same things that my mom did - it was beautiful. When you become a mom, you gain this vulnerability that is so beautiful. Just the fact that I'm vulnerable but I'm never ashamed is so cool.