
Being a father or a mother is not only a great challenge, it is a divine calling. It is an effort requiring consecration. —
James E. Faust

I'm not sure I make old bones in parliament. It's an amazing experience to have had but I can't see myself being Mother of the House. —
Louise Mensch

Being a mother makes everything more urgent. —
Marianne Williamson

As a mother, I always have something better to be doing. I love work still, but I'm less tolerant of my time being wasted. —
Cindy Crawford

Being single isn't a terminal disease."
"Try telling that to my mother. —
Alexandra Potter

But given everything I do know, no matter how hard it is, how lonely or stressful, still, I would not want to leave this earth without being a mother. —
Kelly Corrigan

The things that are important to me - being a mother, a businesswoman, an activist - are all things that were borne out of great passion. —
Elizabeth Taylor

Trying to be a good mother may be as distant from being a good mother as trying to have a good time is from truly having one. —
Lionel Shriver

And it came to Daisy out of the blue. Her mother was a human being. How rarely she saw it. —
Mark Haddon

Real Womanhood isn't a function of becoming a great mother, but of being loved by your Great Father. —
Ann Voskamp

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted. —
Mother Teresa

The girls put their wits to work, and - necessity being the mother of invention - made whatever they needed. —
Louisa May Alcott

My mother once told me she thought hell would be nothing more than being given a glimpse of God
then having it taken away, forever. —
Glen Duncan

On 'Far North,' we were always aware of being at the whim of mother nature. She's the biggest star in the film. —
Michelle Yeoh

That's the strange thing about being a mother: until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one —
Jodi Picoult

My ultimate joy and happiness is being a wife and mother. —
Melissa Etheridge

One should not google oneself. My mother lets me know when I'm being followed by paparazzi. —
Ginnifer Goodwin

Being a mother and grandmother is the best of the best in my life. My grandchildren multiply the joy my daughters bring me. —
Alexandra Stoddard

The one to whom nothing was refused, whose tears were always wiped away by an anxious mother, will not abide being offended.
- De Ira 2.21.6 —
Seneca.

I don't beat myself up any more about going to work. It doesn't mean I'm being a bad mother just because I want to go and do my job sometimes. —
Kate Winslet

I like being a mother. —
Amanda Abbington