Mom Quotes - Page 13

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

My mom will make me walk the dogs or take out the trash when I go home.

Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose.

I was discovered in Paris when I was there on a school trip at the age of 13. After that, my mom came in contact with Elite Amsterdam; then I started modeling.

We mothers are learning to mark our mothering success by our daughters' lengthening flight.

In fact, my mom always told me because I was the daughter of an Army officer born overseas in Paris, France, that under the Constitution she believed that I could never run for president.

Part of being human is that we can’t go back, we can only hope that if we come across that moment again we’ll do it the right way.

Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being.

My daily schedule is quite hectic, but I have to put my health first in order to be the best mom and wife I can be.

With God, every moment is the moment of beginning again.

I have a 16 year-old son, so I'm now a soccer mom. I stand on the sidelines and I hear the things parents are saying, so I want them to understand what it is their kids are feeling in any sports environment.

All that we are looking for in life - all the happiness, contentment, and peace of mind - is right here in the present moment.

Each day is a day that God has given us, and each moment of that day is in His hands.

Sometimes, in the deepest moments, there are no words. There is only food.

It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.

I live in, literally, the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I'd have to put back the Charmin. We still don't have a dishwasher. My mom has done all these gardens so now my house looks like the garden shack in the middle of Versailles.

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.

We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.

I told Grant Hill back there – I just got done playing against him – as a second grader I had a Pistons Grant Hill jersey. That was the first time I walked into a gym. That’s when I fell in love with the game. My mom, I think she just wanted to get me and my brothers out of the house for a few hours. When I walked into the gym, I fell in love with the game.

My dad never blew anything up, but he probably had friends who did. He and my mom have always preached that the pen is mightier than a Molotov cocktail.

My mom has this great skiing event in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, every year for a local charity.

Being a working mom is not easy. You have to be willing to screw up at every level.

Only the moment counts. It determines life.

We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can.

I think I would make a lousy stay-at-home mom. It just wouldn't suit me.