Gordon B. Hinckley Quotes

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

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

I like being a mother.

I always wanted to be a mother first.

Bringing up children always has a bigger role for the mother.

The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes them a mother - which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician.

I have always loved children. I've been fantasizing about motherhood since I was probably 2 ½. I loved to babysit my cousins, and nieces, you know.

The greatest job that any mother will ever do will be in nurturing, teaching, lifting, encouraging and rearing her children in righteousness and truth. None other can adequately take her place.

A dutiful mother is someone who follows every step her child makes...And a good mother is someone whose child wants to follow her.

Shee spins well that breedes her children.

Mothers ought to bring up and nurse their own children; for they bring them up with greater affection and with greater anxiety, as loving them from the heart, and so to speak, every inch of them.

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.

I've always wanted to have kids. I do think I would be a great mom.

I love my children, but I don't really want to talk about them. I'm not that much of a freakish middle-aged mother, I'm just very lucky, and there isn't much more to say. I'd like not to be constantly expected to be a spokesman for things that are part of the natural rhythm of a woman's life.

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

I always assumed that, like my mother before me, one day I would have children. When I was 5, my fantasy was to have a hundred dogs and a hundred kids.

My sister has three kids so I've spent a lot of time around children and I've always really liked them and wanted my own. It's cool because you think all babies are the same but they aren't at all. They all have such different personalities. It's crazy.

Being a mother is the most fun job I've ever had.

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.

The first principle of child-rearing is to choose a good mother.

I'm not a goody-two-shoes. I'm just a father with four children.

The most important seed I can sow in this life is my children, and the love and knowledge that I can bestow upon them and the help I can give them.

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

Being a mother was too important to me to risk running out of time.