Hermann Hesse Quotes

I just know I have so much to teach my child. And I just feel kind of like, what would our world be without mothers? What would our world be without mother love? I don't think we'd have a world.

We need to recognize how difficult and important being a mother is.

I love babies. I also have this very deep desire to become a mother. I always thought that motherhood was my highest calling.

MOTHER (a word that means the world to me)

My heart really softens when I think about mothering because the greatest lessons that I've learned in life have been as a mother.

I believe that bringing a life into this world is the single most important thing a person can undertake, and it can also be the most challenging. I think as mothers we are all just trying our best.

I love the surprise element of being a mom.

Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.

I loved and protected my own children like a fierce mama bear, but one of them died anyway. It was a dark day when I realized that part of my responsibility in Casey's death was that I did not love all the children of the world in that same real, not abstract, way.

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

A mother, after all, is your entry into the world. She is the shell in which you divide and become a life. Waking up in a world without her is like waking up in a world without sky: unimaginable.

I feel my dad, I still feel his love, and I still love him. I would do anything to have him back, but half the reason that my life is good, has real, true value, is that he died. I would obviously rather have him alive, but he gave me so much in his death.

When I decide to become a mother I will just be that. That will be really important to me.

Like most women, I always dreamed of becoming a mother.

I love being a mother. I think it's so incredible.

My mother wanted to be a mother. That's the only thing she wanted from the bottom of her heart. She didn't want to be the number one actress - which she was - and she didn't want to be this great legend. All she wanted to be was a mother and she did but God took her away. So I always will empathise and sympathise with women.

Small things such as this have saved me: how much I love my mother — even after all these years. How powerfully I carry her within me. My grief is tremendous but my love is bigger. So is yours. You are not grieving your son’s death because his death was ugly and unfair. You’re grieving it because you loved him truly. The beauty in that is greater than the bitterness of his death.

That's the strange thing about being a mother: until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one

My children are most important to me. I'm a mother and I adore my children. I live for them.

the best compliment to a mother is to appreciate her little one.

When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth.

[On her father's death:] Gone was the person who had known me better than anyone else on earth and who had loved and admired me unconditionally since the day I was born.

The highest and noblest work in this life is that of a mother.