Quotes About Balance

Sometimes the weekend gets hijacked by work, but as my mother would say, this is the right problem.

People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Nature's memory is long and she will not let them forget indefinitely.

I chose to be a working wife and mother. Why should I compromise on either?

Feeling good about yourself and your life is very important. I'm a happy woman, happy with my husband, my daughters, my grandchildren. We all get along quite well, and that keeps me centered.

Liberty, Not the Daughter but the Mother of Order.

Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.

Children should have a balanced start in life: a mother and a father. I think that's the only reason to get married.

Like any working mother I find it hard to have a social life. But my kids are so well adjusted. There isn't a brat bone in their body so I haven't done anything that bad.

Once you become a mother, you always have a guilt trip. You always try to do the best, but you feel you can always be better.

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

I am very career minded, and I think my personality is more suited to America. I am a working mum.

At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.

The best combination of parents consists of a father who is gentle beneath his firmness, and a mother who is firm beneath her gentleness.

Somehow I am really relaxed within the chaos of having a baby - and anyone who's a mother knows it's very hard to relax, because there is so much to do and worry about!

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 love being a mother. My children fill me up in many ways, and inspire me in many ways, but I need a partner in my life and I think most people feel that way.

A poignant paradox is that sometimes the very desire to be a good mother or father will lead the parent to mistake duty for love.

(mother)" She used to tell me to get my nose out of my book and go get some fresh air.

Motherhood has relaxed me in many ways. You learn to deal with crisis. I've become a juggler, I suppose. It's all a big circus, and nobody who knows me believes I can manage, but sometimes I do.

I don't like the word 'businesswoman.' Perhaps 'committed mother' would be the best description.

In traditional agriculture, the soil is the mother. She's the mother who gives, to whom you must give back.

Wife-Mother-Actress-Author The world will remember.

The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.

The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.