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She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along.
Sep 10, 2025
I had such high expectations of myself. I was going to be the best mother, the best housewife, the best entertainer, the best nurse, you know - what it was, I was going to be the best. And I could never live up to my expectations.
I'm just living my life and I’m being the best mother that I can and showing that on Teen Mom because that's what that show is about.
Modern women are just bombarded. There's nothing but media telling us we're all supposed to be great cooks, have great style, be great in bed, be the best mothers, speak seven languages, and be able to understand derivatives. And we don't really have women we're modeling after, so we're all looking for how to do this.
When you're in the thick of raising your kids by yourself, you tend to keep a running list of everything you think you're doing wrong. I recommend taking a lot of family pictures as evidence to the contrary.
My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.
[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.
He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark.
Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.
Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What's that supposed to mean? In my heart it don't mean a thing.
Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.
But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run.
The best place to cry is on a mother's arms.
The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.
Most mothers kiss and scold together.
Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.
A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.
Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.
The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.
Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them.
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.
By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
I gotta go to the bathroom," Emby mumbles. "You should have thought of that before you left," says Hayden, putting on his best mother voice. "How many times do we have to tell you? Always use the potty before climbing into a shipping crate.
I could tell it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.
There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.
A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
The moment a child is born, the mother is also born.
The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
A mother is the truest friend we have when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity.
Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it
Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is too precious, do not destroy it. Life is life, fight for it.
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.
That best academy, a mother's knee.
It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.