Christie Rampone Quotes

My mom had four kids, one with special needs. She had a full-time job, and she still came home and made dinner for us every night, from scratch. It was amazing.

My kids are more precious to me than anything. I'm with them all day, and I write all night.

My mother raised three kids on her own, so I was taught that to be a working mom was a good thing.

My mother was a real tough cookie. She raised the three of us, and she worked at the same time.

I missed a lot of important milestones in my children's lives to pursue this sport.

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

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

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

I'm a working mom. I've been working since I was 14 years old.

I'm a mom first.

My singing is really important to me, but when children come along they'll be my main focus. I'd never put my career in front of my babies - it'd be a case of fitting jobs around them.

When I'm in the gym, I'm in the gym, and that is my focus. But when I'm not in the gym, I'm enjoying being a mom and taking care of those responsibilities .. They really do provide me with the balance that I need to be a more complete athlete.

It takes as much discipline to be a mother and a wife as it does to do anything else.

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

I dedicated almost 12 years to the music industry before having children.

My children are the focal point of my life. I was asking for a little more time to spend with them.

My mom has always been a huge inspiration. She was a single mom raising two kids in New York. Now that is full-on all the time.

Sometimes I think, 'Why should I work out when I can spend time with my kids?' I feel guilty doing something for me.

I walked out of the show business in 1968 because I thought that would be good for the family. It took me some time to decide but I wanted to spend more time with my wife and two daughters who were always beside me. I wanted to do everything I could for them.

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

I was a single mom that raised two bright, beautiful, and compassionate girls.

A career is a career, but you're a mother until you die.

My mother worked at the telephone company during the day and sold Tupperware at night. Evenings, she took classes when she could at University of Maryland's University College, bringing me along to do homework while she studied to get the degree she hoped would offer her and me greater opportunities.

I burnt myself out of skating. I was ready to focus on being a mom.

I took a long period off to be a mom.