Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

Nobody can raise your kids like you can yourself.

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.

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

I was a perfect mother.

I took being a mom very seriously.

I do think that there's an art form to parenting, and I have nothing but admiration for those who do it well.

There is no undertaking more challenging, no responsibility more awesome, than that of being a mother.

He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

The only thing that I can do is know that I have great confidence in raising children and being a great mother.

Fortunately, when you're a mom, the responsibility of caring for your child can keep you going.

We take our children everywhere we go. I don't believe in having them and then leaving them to someone else to bring up.

I think motherhood is just about instinct.

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

But for me, I knew that if I had a baby, I would have to take care of that baby, and I wouldn't have been happy with a nanny taking care of my baby and walking into the room and having my child run across the room to another woman.

You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of a family. Just do your job right and your kids will love you.

Parenting takes a lot of creativity, and I embrace it fully.

It took a long time for me to get into 'I'm taking care of kids,' and what that means.

I, as a mom, wanted to be really present for my son in the first couple of years, because I know that those years are very important for a kid. So I decided not to work during that period.

A mother plays a very important role in every child's life.

Our mom did her best to provide for us growing up.

Parenting is more than a numbers game: it's a question of whether people are equipped for the toughest job they will ever be asked to do.

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

Definitely being a mom changes your perspective on everything.

A lot of writing about being a mother is not so much writing about the kids themselves. They become placeholders for the shift that happens when you're suddenly in charge of other people.

Shee spins well that breedes her children.