Patricia McCormick Quotes

For now, for this year, I need to be a good mother.

The family is the school of duties - founded on love.

When you love somebody, and they have a child, you love their child. You just accept it as a part of who they are, and you care about them and theirs.

I love my boys very much. I want only the best for them and am committed to being a devoted father.

Parenthood is such a lesson in self-sacrifice.

I like looking after my family.

Being a parent has been such a wonderful privilege for me. My kids make me laugh and cry, but there are definitely more laughs. They really do give my life meaning.

Being a mum means you have a very real stake in the future of our country.

A baby is the biggest blessing and responsibility to have.

When you have kids you sometimes have to do things you don't want to but every single thing I do is for my family.

My first and most important job is being a mommy.

As a father, you become more responsible.

At the end of the day, I have a son.

I realised that being a mother is similar to being an entrepreneur. You set up a system that is your family and you invest... you take risks and you actually have the most important job of rearing up the future of not just your family or an individual, but of the entire world. That is a tough and risky job.

Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.

Your life doesn't belong to you, it belongs to the people that love you

If you become a father, you're not doing things for yourself anymore. You're thinking about someone else. And that is not a burden.

A long past vividly remembered is like a heavy garment that clings to your limbs when you would run.

Give love to your children, to a wife or husband, to a next-door neighbour.

It's nice to have people who will feel guilty for you.

A babe is a mother's anchor.

Where is home? I've wondered where home is, and I realized, it's not Mars or someplace like that, it's Indianapolis when I was nine years old. I had a brother and a sister, a cat and a dog, and a mother and a father and uncles and aunts. And there's no way I can get there again.

I loved my baby dolls when I was a kid. I used to pray with them and say good night to each and every one of them because I didn't want their feelings to get hurt. I remember having that connection with my baby dolls.

Arsenal will always have a place in my heart and that is the same for so many other people too. There's a strong sense of 'family' at the Club and it is why those people that leave so often find their way back, to be around that feeling and I believe that even when you go a bit of you never leaves Arsenal anyway, that is how it has been for me. I'm just so glad that I've been able to be part of the story of the football club.

My chest got this weird feeling, like when you stare into the eyes of a little baby and the baby looks back up at you and you can feel how pure and innocent it is, so much that it makes your stomach feel empty - probably 'cause you realize you used to be pure like that, too, and now you're not.