motherly role Quotes

Mothers don't let your daughters grow up to be models unless you're present.

It needs more than ever to be stressed that the best and truest educators are parents under God. The greatest school is the family. In learning, no act of teaching in any school or university compares to the routine task of mothers in teaching a babe who speaks no language the mother tongue in so short a time. No other task in education is equal to this. The moral training of the children, the discipline of good habits, is an inheritance from the parents to the children which surpasses all other. The family is the first and basic school of man.

I think it's really important for every mother to find their own way.

Girls like guys to be a challenge. It gives them some mold to fit in how they act. Like a mom. What would a mom do if she couldn't fuss over you and make you clean your room? And what would you do without her fussing and making you do it? Everyone needs a mom. And a mom knowns this. And it gives her a sense of purpose. You get it?

A woman can produce what no man can: a child.

I've wanted to be a parent for a really long time, and I'm going to make sure I'm doing everything I can to be present in her life, to be her mother. I don't want to be absent from her life.

A mother's role is God-ordained. Mothers are to conceive, bear, nourish, love, and train. They are to be helpmates and are to counsel with their husbands.

A mother is a story with no beginning. That is what defines her.

I realize that I was being the kind of parent that I thought my daughter needed. I was a good role model for her on what a working mom can do.

Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers...but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.

True motherhood is the noblest call of the world, and we look with sorrow upon the practice here in our own United States of limiting families, a tendency creeping into our own Church.

I am no mother, and I won't be one.

No, we can't be friends. You're my mom. You're what i talk to my friends about.

I am sorry if I am going to disappoint women who feel that becoming a mother completes you. I don't feel I am any less of a woman for not having a child.

[My mother] was the strength of our family, and I didn't realize that until I got a little bit older.

You go from thinking of yourself as primarily an individual to suddenly being a mother, first and foremost.

Motherhood is more than bearing children...It is the essence of who we are as women.

Being a daughter is only half the equation; bearing one is the other.

My most important inspirational job that I do is raising those kids. That's my job. And that's where my ambition goes. But I have a life. I'm not only their mother. I'm still who I was before, I just don't get to be it all the time.

We have a nanny in the house, but there are always times when one of my kids does something bad or wrong, and they'll listen to me more than they do the nanny. So I think it's important to set up that boundary of respect for them at a young age, so they will know, 'I better listen to Mommy.'

My daughters depend on me for a lot more than food, clothing and shelter. They depend on me as an example of how to go on.

I think I'm a really hands-on mom.

It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son - and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.

The mother is the early care giver and primary source of identification for all children.... A daughter continues to identify with the mother

I was certainly typecast for a while on television because I was always being cast as the 'compassionate mother' or whatever.