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Quotes About Balance

I was a perfect housewife. Being a mother has always been the job I liked best. Absolutely.
~ Indira Gandhi
it is the liberty that is the mother, not the daughter, of order.
~ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Her heart is older than her head; yea, her emotion is the mother of her reason
~ Gelett Burgess
I have been fiercely private, in part because I could never understand how a journalist could be otherwise. I was also the mother of small children, and security concerns were paramount.
~ Jane Pauley
Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
~ Gloria Steinem
Mother Nature may be forgiving this year, or next year, but eventually she's going to come around and whack you. You've got to be prepared.
~ Geraldo Rivera
A mother who is obsessing about being thin and dieting and exercising is not going to be a very good mother.
~ Jane Fonda
A car is like a mother-in-law - if you let it, it will rule your life.
~ Jaime Lerner
My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother.
~ Broderick Crawford
I would much rather be a better mother or better human being than I would be a singer. Fortunately for me singing makes me a living.
~ Tanya Tucker
You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.
~ George Bernard Shaw
I think women who lead full lives are better mothers.
~ Jada Pinkett Smith
I don't remember my mother ever playing with me. And she was a perfectly good mother. But she had to do the laundry and clean the house and do the grocery shopping.
~ Patricia Heaton
It takes as much discipline to be a mother and a wife as it does to do anything else.
~ Suzanne Vega
My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner.
~ Poppy Z. Brite
People need to be cautious because anything built by man can be destroyed by Mother Nature.
~ Russel Honore
I'm a fighter as a mother. I'm fighting to be a mother, but I cannot say no to my passion because it's me, as well.
~ Juliette Binoche
On one thing professionals and amateurs agree: mothers can't win.
~ Margaret Drabble
When the people call Earth 'Mother,' they take with love and with love give back so that all may live.
~ Marilou Awiakta
My mother was pretty strict. I hated it, but maybe it made me a bit more sensible.
~ Mark Ronson
Becoming a mother has taught me to simply things and also to appreciate being at home more.
~ Shakira
If my father was the head of our house, my mother was its heart.
~ Irving Pichel
The term 'working mother' is redundant.
~ Erma Bombeck
Mothers always think you are working either too hard or not hard enough.
~ Peg Bracken