Quotes About Nurturing

I was more of the kind of babysitter that liked holding the baby, sort of playing Mom, and then putting the baby to bed and watching TV while eating everything in their kitchen.

Motherhood is a dream. It really is absolutely amazing.

My favorite thing about being a mom is just what a better person it makes you on a daily basis.

I'm a lioness. I have four cubs. I'm a mom. I want to take care of my kids and protect them.

The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.

All mothers are rich when they love their children. There are no poor mothers, no ugly ones, no old ones. Their love is always the most beautiful of joys.

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.

Furnish an example, stop preaching, stop shielding, don't prevent self-reliance and initiative, allow your children to develop along thier own lines.

I really learned it all from mothers.

I love being a mom. That's the best job I've ever had. All the other stuff I love the same, but being a mom trumps all of it.

Ma-ma does everything for the baby, who responds by saying Da-da first.

You are your child's keeper until she's mature enough to keep herself.

Who is getting more pleasure from this rocking, the baby or me?

I would like to have a family someday, and I can't wait to be a stay-at-home mom.

There is nothing I love more than my role as a mom.

Every morning, I wake up trying to be the best mom and the best role model for my kids in a healthy diet and active lifestyle.

My mom has made it possible for me to be who I am. Our family is everything. Her greatest skill was encouraging me to find my own person and own independence.

I can only hope to be 10 percent of the mom mine was to me. She encouraged me to be confident and enjoy life. That's what I want for my son.

When I was a little girl, rocking my little dolls, I remember thinking I would be the world's best mom, and so far I've done it.

In the sheltered simplicity of the first days after a baby is born, one sees again the magical closed circle, the miraculous sense of two people existing only for each other.

In a nutshell, I am a mom, a grandma, and a midwife.

I'd like to have and adopt children. I think I'd be a great mom, honestly. I don't think I'll have any problem giving them all the love in the world. Discipline will be the hard part.

I learned a lot from my Mom. My favorite lesson: remember there is no such thing as a certain way to parent and to remember that you are learning along with your child - it's ok to make mistakes.

That's what motherhood is: you're working; you're doing 25 different jobs, and you're not getting paid.