Quotes About Commitment

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

Dad never ceased to remind my mother of his love for her.

Mother is not a title. Mother is a verb. It is not who you are. It's what you do.

What can I do to provide for my children that's really significant? The answer is to love their mother unconditionally.

Before my mother died, she made me promise to do everything that could be done to make sure my father was not left alone after she was gone.

Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.

The trouble with marriage is that, while every woman is at heart a mother, every man is at heart a bachelor.

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.

Moms are as relenless as the tides. They don't just drive as to practice, they drive us to greatness

It makes me unhappy when brothers make babies and leave a young mother to be a pappy.

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

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

Whatever the era...one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.

Whenever I get married, it will be a Bengali wedding. If I won't have a Bengali wedding, my mother won't come. She has warned me. So, I am going to have a Bengali wedding for sure.

I'd run over Russ Grimm's mother to win the Super Bowl, too.

Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.

My priorities had been changing before I had Addie but after she was born they changed completely. I don't count - my daughter sort of owns me.

Whatever binds us most, whatever is dearest to us, that is what we should offer the Lord. Doesn't a mother give her child whatever she thinks is the best?

When I did make the decision to focus on acting, I think my mother was just relieved for me that I had finally started to focus.

It takes as much discipline to be a mother and a wife as it does to do anything else.

It's the job that I take most seriously in my life and I think it's the hardest job.

I am a historian. With the exception of being a wife and mother, it is who I am. And there is nothing I take more seriously.

I view my wife as my lover, and we have a bond that goes beyond words like wife or girlfriend or mother.

One day it was about getting married that mother talked with me, and I said I was so glad that when you didn't like being married, or got tired of your husband, you could get Unmarried.