Drea De Matteo Quotes

You'll do anything for your child and that's what I'm doing.

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.

The one thing about being a parent is the ability to be selfless: To give up the things you want and need for the benefit of someone else.

To be a good father and mother requires that the parents defer many of their own needs and desires in favor of the needs of their children. As a consequence of this sacrifice, conscientious parents develop a nobility of character and learn to put into practice the selfless truths taught by the Savior Himself.

You do things for your kids you won't do for yourself.

I think that, being a mother, you would do anything for your children. Their pain is your pain; if they're in pain, you feel their pain.

I realized everything my mom had done for me: Anything we didn't have, she made sure we had.

My parents have sacrificed so much, more than any parents really should.

A human’s love. I couldn’t wish anything better for him. Animals protect what they know. They protect what they are bound to, but humans…humans have a greater capacity for sacrifice for those who live in their hearts. (Aristotle)

I look for the safety of my child. I don't really care about me.

My old man taught me a lot of stuff in his death that I don't even know if he would have been able to teach me had he been alive. And that was to never do stuff that can jeopardize the people you love and hurt them.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

He would take the blow so you didn't have to.

Out of love for His Father and for us, He allowed Himself to suffer beyond the capacity of mortal man. He told us some of what that infinite sacrifice required of Him.

Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.

There's something ancient and inevitable about this desire to do whatever you can to protect your child.

Spare all I have, and take my life.

My father is the man that, he will give you what he doesn't have, still. If he has 10 bucks and you need 10 bucks because you're sick or you don't have nothing to eat, he will give you 10 bucks. He will be at zero, but he will help you. That's the kind of man that my father is.

Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.

I love my children and I love my wife with all my heart. And I would die, die gladly, if that would make a better life for them.

Our parents deserve our honor and respect for giving us life itself. Beyond this they almost always made countless sacrifices as they cared for and nurtured us through our infancy and childhood, provided us with the necessities of life, and nursed us through physical illnesses and the emotional stresses of growing up.

Parenthood is such a lesson in self-sacrifice.

I know that a mother, no matter how impoverished or uneducated, will do anything to save her babies.

I would not hesitate for a nanosecond to step in front of a bullet, to do anything to give my life for my children.

I am a mother first. I will always be a mother, and I would die for my kids if need be.