Ellen Barkin Quotes

I think once you're a mother to one, you're a mother to them all.

I love children and I love family and I love that interaction. Because I had a really close relationship with my mother, I understand that deep powerful love, and it's so beautiful. To be a mother to a child is the most brilliant gift; it's gorgeous.

A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.

You think you know what love is - until you have a child and discover that unconditional mother love.

It doesn't matter if a child comes to you or through you. That love is still the same. You are still a mother.

I have two kids, and anyone who has a kid in order to feel loved is going to be in trouble because kids are first and foremost all about themselves. They'll say they love you, but 10 seconds later they'll turn on you.

...for, however all other feelings may be withered in a woman's nature, there is always one bright smiling spot in the maternal breast, and that is where a dearly-beloved child is concerned.

I love my real mom and dad; I love them both equally.

Children are to be born into a family where the parents hold the needs of children equal to their own in importance. And children are to love parents and each other.

There comes a moment as a parent when you realize you will no longer be the center of your child's universe.

Parents are your teachers until a certain point, and if they don't give you love, you'll go somewhere else to find it.

All I know is that once you have children, you put them before anything you're feeling or going through. Today, my daughter walked into the room and I said, 'I love you, baby,' and she said, 'Well, I don't like you,' and I said to my wife, 'The meaner she is to me, the more I love her.'

I always say, you never know how much your parents loved you until you have a child to love.

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.

I have four boys and one girl. My daughter is my only little girl and I just love her to death. I can't even fix my mouth to tell her 'no' for anything.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

It has been tough being a mother of two daughters without a co-parent because I think I was a child myself, as my mother was.

I'm a mother myself, and sometimes mothers get a bad rap just because they've tried to do their job. Some people have more of a knack for it than others do, but almost all of it falls to, 'My mother's suffocating me.' Whatever.

Children like their mothers especially to be standing still and watching them, even if they are sleeping. At least that's how I felt. There's nothing wrong with the self-interest of children; it's just the way they are.

Being a mother is hard and it wasn't a subject I ever studied.

The greatest love I believe... the greatest love I have is for my children, but I think the greatest love probably universally is a mother's love for a child.

As a parent, your biggest fear is having our child not loved.

I don't know what my mom feels toward me or where the viciousness is coming from, but I just know that when I have kids, I will protect them. I would do anything for my kids and for my family. I know that.

I am really bad at being a mom. I think it's hard for me to be a mom. I do my best. I am not the poster child for being a mother, I will say that. I wish I was.

The greatest gift a parent can give a child is unconditional love. As a child wanders and strays, finding his bearings, he needs a sense of absolute love from a parent. There's nothing wrong with tough love, as long as the love is unconditional.