Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.

My purpose is to teach and demonstrate what is possible. To demonstrate love of God and good. Remember what my role is as a woman: to be... good. My role as a mother: to teach, support and nurture my offspring. My role as a grandmother: to remind everybody - right where you are, God is.

First of all, as a man the most important thing you have in your life now is your child that you're carrying. That's it. Everything else comes second; personally, for me, other than your relationship with God and your wife.

My mother was a churchgoing lady, so I always heard about God at home.

What I really wanted to do, actually, was stay home and be a mom and have some more kids.

I was the oldest of five children, each about a year apart, and my mother, bless her heart, had her hands full.

Family has always been the most important thing in my life. The only real goal that I ever had was to be a good mother.

The Lord has directed, Bring up your children in light and truth. To me, there is no more important human effort. Being a father or a mother is not only a great challenge; it is a divine calling. It is an effort requiring consecration. President David O. McKay (1873-1970) stated that being parents is the greatest trust that has been given to human beings.

Our homes need to be more Christ-centered. We should spend more time at the temple and less time in the pursuit of pleasure. We should lower the noise level in our homes so that the noise of the world will not overpower the still, small voice of the Holy Ghost. One of our greatest goals as parents should be to enjoy the power and influence of the Holy Ghost in our homes.

God hears a mother's prayer.

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.

But I do believe that a woman's truest place is in a home, with a husband and with children, and with large freedom, pecuniary freedom, personal freedom, and the right to vote.

I just ultimately wanted to be a mother. I love children.

I love performing, but I never really liked show business. My success is my family. I want to be more successful as a mother.

Now, I am thrilled to be a wife and mother, and I hope to be as good of a mother as my own mother, Carole.

Becoming a mother is the best thing that's happened to me.

I'm happy going home early and working out and just being a mother and being a wife.

A few years ago, I decided I wanted to be home with my family.

I wouldn't rule out L.A. life, but I love England. I have a lovely house and nice garden, I walk my kids to school - family is most important to me.

My ultimate joy and happiness is being a wife and mother.

We're very open and outspoken about our faith and our beliefs. We also talk about our doubts, our moments of insecurities. We talk about it all day, how we're inspired by God. We recognize little miracles every day, and that's how we're raising our daughter.

For me it's always God, family, and then my work.

As a father of six kids and as a man who's been transformed by the power of the gospel, I would never just let my kids flounder and just sort of try to figure out their own way through life when I know that I've got the best guide on the planet - God and His word.

And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?

God has taken care of me, and mother dear has taken care of me, too. All my life.