Sherri Shepherd Quotes

I want to be as healthy as I can because I'm a mom now.

I lost and I didn't die. I still had my health, family and people who loved me.

As I celebrate life, I can't help but think how young my mom was when she died of a heart attack at 53. My mom didn't get to meet her grandchildren, but I'm determined to watch mine grow up.

My dad died when I was three so my mom had to raise four kids on her own, and I think there's a part of me that pulls upon having watched my mom do that our whole lives. She had to make it work.

This is the hardest job I've ever had, being a mom, but it's the most rewarding job I've ever had.

I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.

And in that time, I lost my dad and had kids of my own. It was like, OK, I get it now. I know what fatherhood is all about. And you look at your parents differently.

I've got over so much. Mum wouldn't want anything to come into my life that would make me fragile again.

I always dedicate my goals to my mum. I lost her a couple of years ago. She was my biggest supporter and is always with me.

What mom cares about most is that I'm happy, healthy and enjoying my life.

I've seen so many women in my family, so many mothers, that have lost children in the war in such absurd ways. I wonder how they do it. How do they keep living? How do they keep smiling?

I think losing your mother at such a young age does end up shaping your life massively. Of course it does, and now I find myself trying to be there and give advice to other people who are in similar positions.

I love being a mom and having two kids. But I've had two C-sections, and I have suffered enough. That's my favourite mantra when it comes to motherhood.

Ever since my husband expired, I've been even more careful in bringing up my kids, and stayed away from work.

the Lord gives good many things twice over; but he don't give ye a mother but once.

One thing I did have under my belt was, my mother lost her mother when she was 11. She mourned her mother her whole life and made my grandmother seem present even though I never met her. I couldn't imagine how my mom could go on but she did, she took care of us, she worked two jobs and had four children. She was such a good example of how to conduct oneself in a time of grief. When I lost my husband, I tried to model myself as much as I could on her.

I can tell my children that they don't need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer.

She was alive, and they were dead. She had to try to make her life big. As big as she could. She promised Bailey she would keep playing.

I have an incredible role model in my mom. She was a single mother raising two kids in New York.

I'm like any working mom.

So I'm still doing my best to stay in shape and hope that opportunity will come back to me.

I have worked so hard since I was 15 years old, all because I wanted to be a mom.

I'm obsessed with being a mom.

After my husband John Lennon passed away, I tried to smile for my health.

The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.