Charles Kingsley Quotes

She was absolutely my hero. She would do without if she could help somebody else. My mom showed the courage of the lion to keep her kids alive, and the sacrifices she made were incredible. I don't know if I would have been man enough to do what she did.

The good mother sayes not, Will you? but gives.

There is no love like a mother’s - she who carries the child that God knits in the womb, she who nourishes and guides, she who teaches and inspires, she who gives of her heart and soul and self for the good and the happiness of her children and her family.

I feel like the word 'mom' and 'supermom' should be synonymous. When you are a mom, you are a superhero.

Mildred Pierce was capable of great acts of love as a mother.

My mom sacrificed a lot for me.

To be a mother is a great treasure. Mothers, in their unconditional and sacrificial love for their children, are the antidote to individualism; they are the greatest enemies against war.

The amazing thing about becoming a parent is that you will never again be your own first priority. The gift of motherhood is the selflessness that it introduces you to, and I think that's really freeing... I think it allows you to put yourself in other people's shoes...the empathy that it slugs you with, being a mother. And I think it makes you a better storyteller.

Eric called Al's suicide brave, and he was wrong. My mother's death was brave. I remember how calm she was, how determined. It isn't just brave that she died for me; it is brave that she did it without announcing it, without hesitation, and without appearing to consider another option.

I think ultimately the film 'Room' is a kind of hymn to motherhood and to the everyday heroism of parents who find their smiles in terrible times.

A mother has, perhaps, the hardest earthly lot; and yet no mother worthy of the name ever gave herself thoroughly for her child who did not feel that, after all, she reaped what she had sown.

There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother.

A mother would never by choice sleep in a wet bed but she would gladly do so in order to spare the dry bed for her child.

Sometimes, mothers say and do things that seem like they don't want their kids... but when you look more closely, you realize that they're doing those kids a favor. They're just trying to give them a better life.

Heroes are people who rise to the occasion and slip quietly away.

My priorities had been changing before I had Addie but after she was born they changed completely. I don't count - my daughter sort of owns me.

You make sacrifices to become a mother, but you really find yourself and your soul.

My mom was the picture of the blue-collar mom: Two and three and four jobs to make sure that me and my sister never needed, that was her thing.

For me, Charles Xavier is a monk. He's like a selfless, egoless almost sexless force for the betterment of humanity and mortality.

Becoming a mother has been the best experience of my life, and I wouldn't trade it for anything.

Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.

My mum actually gave up work to look after my child, which is so touching.

Motherhood changed me because it is so fundamental what you're doing for another person. And you are able to do even though it takes a lot.

I love my mother. She's my first love. She has been through a lot and is a sole survivor.

My mother was a full-time mother. She didn't have much of her own career, her own life, her own experiences... everything was for her children. I will never be as good a mother as she was. She was just grace incarnate. She was the most generous, loving - she's better than me.