Alessandra Ambrosio Quotes

When you become a mother, it's a common thing that you just want to put every ounce of your being into your child, which is a very beautiful experience.

I think you really have to become a parent to understand what you will endure to be there for your kids.

Being a mother is the best thing that ever happened to me. Before you have your first baby you are a girl and then you become a mother. There is no transition into being a woman; you literally become a mum and being a mum means you always love someone else more than yourself and it is an unexplainable situation.

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

When you become a parent, it blows you open in ways that you never thought possible in terms of a level of love that I know I never thought I could possibly have.

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.

Before you have children, you mostly think about the world in terms of yourself. And when you become a parent, the focus shifts to somebody else.

Parenthood is such a lesson in self-sacrifice.

I think my mother characters have changed a lot since Sasha was born, just because I understand what a hard job it is now, and I'm coming at it from another angle - like you just love and care about this person so much, and just want to protect them from everything.

This baby comes out of you and there's no handbook. They hand you this child and say, 'Don't kill it. Feed it, clothe it and shelter it.' I never knew what that kind of love was. I remember looking at my daughter for the first time and wondering if that's the way my father looked at me.

There's nothing like a love for our children. I love being a papa, and that's the truth.

When you have children it completely shifts your focus; they become the most passionate love of your life.

Being a father taught me patience. And it taught me vulnerability. You don't realize how vulnerable you are when you love something else more far more than yourself.

Having children is not for everyone, but I think it's a beautiful lesson in it not being all about me anymore. It's a relief, in a way. It's like, this is her story now, and I'm her mom. It's a nice shift.

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

This is motherhood for you,' said my own mother. 'Going through life with your heart outside your body.

Oh, my God. I want to be a mother, and I anticipate loving my children quite fiercely. I think about it all the time, though it's a silly thing to think about because the kind of mother I'll be depends on the kind of children I have. I can't wait to meet them.

I have three sons, and I think we're both fierce protectors of our children.

My priorities had been changing before I had Addie but after she was born they changed completely. I don't count - my daughter sort of owns me.

You bring children into the world. You love them with heart and soul.

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

It's weird to say, but every time I look at my daughter and I see this little living breathing thing that came from me, that represents all of the hopes and dreams that I would want for her, I see a miracle.

Even more than we want good love for ourselves, we want it for our children, those vulnerable satellites of our hearts that we send, unsteady, into the world.

I remember looking at my daughter for the first time and wondering if that's the way my father looked at me. I could cry, because she's everything to me. I feel so blessed to be taught so much by her.

When you become a parent, it's not all about you anymore.