Quotes About Responsibility

My mother was pretty strict. I hated it, but maybe it made me a bit more sensible.

The little boy who goes to the store and forgets what his mother sent him for, will probably grow up to be a congressman.

Primary (the LDS Church's Sunday school for children) is where you go to do with somebody else's mother the things you would do with your own mother if she weren't so busy teaching Primary.

I have the same bedroom I've always had. It's clean and tidy when I get home, and after two or three days it gets messy and my mother nags me.

I spent most of my adult life as someone's mother and the rest of my life trying to make sure that children are safe. So this to me is - we wrote Hell Is For Children in 1979.

Your mother doesn't own you. Your father doesn't own you. You own you.

My mother gave up a good part of her career to look after me.

Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills.

Marriages are failing, and mothers are raising their children alone. Many women would rather remain alone than marry a man who can't contribute anything to the family's income.

Mothers, train up your children in righteousness; do not attempt to save the world and let your own family fall apart.

If thy daughter marry well, thou hast found a son; if not, thou hast lost a daughter.

I wasn't put on this earth to be housekeeper to my own child or to anyone else for that matter.

There is no greater name for a leader than mother or father. There is no leadership more important than parenthood.

A woman must combine the role of mother, wife and politician.

[My favorite thing about motherhood is] that it's made me grow into a woman finally, and I finally grew up, thank God.

I'm a mother, and my life is very full.

I believe that bringing a life into this world is the single most important thing a person can undertake, and it can also be the most challenging. I think as mothers we are all just trying our best.

My daughter is wonderful and incredibly well behaved. I am very lucky. She will always be my priority.

Now, we've made the revolutionary discovery that children have two parents. A decade ago even the kindly Dr. Spock held mothers solely responsible for children.

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

My mother did what many men do. She left.

As my mother says, your forties are when you finally pay for your past mistakes, the cigarettes and sunburns, the Big Macs and smooth-talking men. She may be right.

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.

One of my daughters is a competitive jumper, we live with horses, we have stables on our property. But I don't ride. I observe, and I worry.