Liv Tyler Quotes

When I was growing up in New York City, my father was a taxi driver for a time.

My mother raised three children on her own and my dad was a doctor working 16 hours a day.

The '80s was all about this idea that women could have it all. You could have a career, and you could have a husband, and you could have children.

My daughter arrived when I was five months pregnant with my son. We adopted Melanie from Korea; she was 2 years old, almost 3. I always wanted to have a family. I had a good example because Melissa Hayden was a ballerina in our company, and she had two children and danced afterward, and Allegra Kent also did.

I was not a very good mother. I was always running out to do a movie or something. If I had to do it over, I would either have a career or children. I wouldn't do both unless I could work in my home. I spent 20 years feeling guilty, which is not a very nice emotion.

I was raised by a single mom. I spent most of my time in daycare.

I was the seventh child in a family of eight siblings. We lost our father very young, and my mother had pretty much single-handedly brought us up.

Sure Start transformed my life as a mum and allowed me to get back to work.

I gave my all to my career and later to my marriage and motherhood.

Being a working mother means that you are always disappointing somebody.

There was never any question with me as to which I would choose, my boy or my work. I had to have both.

I obviously love to sing, it's my passion, as is being a mom. Those are the two things that pretty much consume my every day and so I want to keep doing that as long as I can.

I am a proud mother - that's another reason I love doing any kind of animation. When my son was growing up, if he was watching something animated and I was in it, that was way cooler to him than seeing me in a movie.

I have always loved children. I've been fantasizing about motherhood since I was probably 2 ½. I loved to babysit my cousins, and nieces, you know.

It was by coincidence that I ended up opening my first shop in 1968, and I haven't stopped since. I now find myself trying to do everything. I couldn't live without creating my collections, without writing, drawing and reading. But I couldn't either live without being close to my children on a daily basis and also to my grandchildren, and to all the people I love. I guess I am like every woman today, one who juggles her work and family life.

Both my study of Scripture and my career in entertaining children have taught me to cherish them.

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

It was their mothers, long ago. Tibby noted with joy that all four of them were wearing jeans.

Adorable children are considered to be the general property of the human race. Rude children belong to their mothers.

I think one of the coolest things for my daughters is that they'll get to see their mom being a working mom. It's one of the things I'll be most proud of.

I rang my mother to thank her for giving birth to me and she said, "What choice had I? You were in there, how else were you going to get out?

One of the major ingredients for professional success in science is luck. Without this, forget it.

You can be a good mom and still work out, get your rest, have a career - or not. My mother encouraged me to find that balance.

Let's start off with my father being a mailman.

I beg of you, you who could and should be bearing and rearing a family: Wives, come home from the typewriter, the laundry, the nursing, come home from the factory, the cafe. No career approaches in importance that of wife, homemaker, mother -- cooking meals, washing dishes, making beds for one's precious husband and children. Come home, wives, to your husbands. Make home a heaven for them. Come home, wives, to your children, born and unborn. Wrap the motherly cloak about you and, unembarrassed, help in a major role to create the bodies for the immortal souls who anxiously await.