Brian Welch Quotes

My mother gave up a good part of her career to look after me.

There are a lot of sacrifices a mother makes when she's raising a child by herself. I saw it when I was growing up, watching all my mother did for me. But it wasn't until recently that I fully understood the price she paid because of how we had to struggle.

There’s an old Arab saying … Let one hundred mothers cry, but not my mother – but better my mother than me.

I am just trying to live for my kids. It is all about my kids now. I love them endlessly.

I am possessive and protective of my babies. Their happiness means more to me than anything else on this world. I love them more than I would ever have thought was possible.

Everything I do is for my children.

My baby is obviously more important than anything else.

I bought my mom a car for Christmas. I don't even own my own car.

I will be O.K. without football. I want to fight for the people who won't be O.K.

There is good and there is bad, and then there are mothers.

I'm just the sister of the future Prince, and my children come first. I work my schedule around them.

I've seen my mother struggling, everything that she did to raise me and my brothers and my sisters, and I know the anger that she went through.

My relationship with my kids is the one sad area of my life.

For me, the only thing I had to look forward to was the ring because my personal life wasn't doing that great, so my fake life was what I was holding onto.

The number one thing in my whole life is my children, and I want to be there for them.

My first full-time radio job at 21, I was there for only a couple of months before I was hospitalized. I wrote a resignation letter. My dad wouldn't give the letter to my boss at the time.

I always say I broke my mom's heart when I left. I don't know if that's what any mom wants for her kid, just thinking about how hard it is trying to make it in this business.

I would give my life up if I could have a boy.

I would never put myself before my mom.

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

I am really bad at being a mom. I think it's hard for me to be a mom. I do my best. I am not the poster child for being a mother, I will say that. I wish I was.

In the event of an oxygen shortage on airplanes, mothers of young children are always reminded to put on their own oxygen mask first, to better assist the children with theirs. The same tactic is necessary on terra firma. There's no way of sustaining our children if we don't first rescue ourselves. I don't call that selfish behavior. I call it love.

I would go to work on the show and I felt awful every day, that's not the way it was. ... I felt like some kind of prostitute or something. If I feel so bad, why keep on showing up to this place? I'm going to Africa. The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching.

As a parent you have to do some renunciation.

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