Quotes About Nurturing

This mother needs happy, reputable children, and that one needs unhappy ones: otherwise she cannot show her kindness as a mother.

Career is important, but nothing really supersedes my roles as a mother.

Every mother I've ever met, pretty much without exception, is doing the best job she can ever do.

If I don't have a mother, I'll let music be my mother.

A mother needs to be in the home even when the kids aren't. A messy house sends a coded message to children: "I'm not loveable. Otherwise Mother would dust.

The way I see it," she began, "your mother's devoted her whole life to you kids." She said "you kids" in precisely the same tone I would have used for "you infestation of cockroaches

You can't help but feel a little bit like a mother to the younger cast members.

I think once you're a mother to one, you're a mother to them all.

The most powerful teaching a child will ever receive will come from concerned and righteous fathers and mothers.

I most want to be remembered for being as great a mother to James and Lennon as my mum was to me and my brother Jamie.

Mothers remember a child's first words, and quote them in tones usually reserved for Byron.

Of the many rights of ladies, the best should be to be considered a mother.

Kids are anchors of mothers' life

Mothers hold close, fathers let go. Maybe that's the way of the world.

The best thing a mother can give her child is a happy and fulfilled mom. There are many paths to happiness and fulfillment--follow your heart and choose your own way.

Motherhood is all-encompassing, and in a way, as the mother, you're the star of the household.

I get crazy upset when I feel mothers or babies are not getting the loving care they need.

While some mothers sing lullabies to their children, my mother read me poetry. And to this day, I associate my strongest and most insistent feelings with words lyrically organized on a page.

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

A mother is beyond any notion of a beginning. That's what makes her a mother.

When you become a mother, you think less about yourself and care more about the world.

I'm raising my daughter with her grandparents in the picture, and that feels good.

I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet.

I never had children, never even thought I would have children. Now I have 152 daughters; expecting 75 more next year. That is some type of gestation period.