Quotes About Expectations

a woman may be called a wife and mother for most of her life, while a man is called a husband and father only at his funeral.

Boys, don't try to find a woman as wonderful as your mother to marry because if you do, you'll stay single your whole lives.

When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he didn't think I would amount to anything. My mother also.

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

Being Elvis Presley's daughter is a whole lot of pressure. It's been a constant burden in my life.

They see me as being this Super Mom on TV who also can more than handle a difficult husband, and they assume I'm going to be just full of wisdom as a mother and wife myself.

Sometimes I'm afraid that my daughter might think that I get my hair done for a living.

If Terri was upset about how silly she would look, her mother was completely undone. Seems she wanted Terri in her full natural bloom, not with any blooming flower.

I was Hannah Montana's mother ... Where did I go wrong?

My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I'm 31-years-old, and I don't want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It's humiliating.

It's obvious that they're going to want Ali's daughter and Frazier's daughter to fight it out.

The doctor's name was Sylvia. I told her she'd have a problem with me because Sylvia was my mother's name.

If you try your best to be the best parent you can be, you will have done all that a human being can do and all that God expects you to do.

My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldnt understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer.

I find celebrity status difficult to bear when I am in the company of my mother.

My mother wanted me to be friends only with children she considered socially suitable.

On one thing professionals and amateurs agree: mothers can't win.

Mama seemed to do only what my father wanted, and yet we lived the way my mother wanted us to live.

Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones-otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues.

My mother told me, if you call yourself 'Little' Stevie Wonder, you'd better be as good as Little Willie John.

Mothers always think you are working either too hard or not hard enough.

We should be the natural home for young mothers. But we're not. Because too often we sound like people who think the only good mother is a married mother.

As a mother, the one thing that always goes through your head is, You're never enough. You never can be enough - or do enough - for your kids. It's a never-ending issue for me.

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