Mother Quotes - Page 223

World Health Day is an opportunity to highlight the problem, but above all, to stimulate action. It is an occasion to call on all partners - governments, international donors, civil society, the private sector, the media, families and individuals alike - to develop sustainable activities for the survival, health and well-being of mothers and children. On this World Health Day, let us rededicate ourselves to that mission.

I probably spend more time with my kids than the average stay-at-home mother.

I have always been grateful that my Russian mother and father came to this country to give me a better chance, and I have had a better chance.

My mother has always been the social glue holding the family together.

Mother does not exist, like water that has given life to a flower and then disappeared. Mothers live somewhere after giving birth to us.

Our mothers who have gone are buried in our bodies. It can be said that we were born with dead mothers in our body.

There's no doubt that becoming a mother was the greatest thing I'll ever do

My grandmother taught me, you believe in a politician, you get out there and work for them. So, that`s what I`ve been doing.

When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else.

And you receivers - and you are all receivers - assume no weight of gratitude, lest you lay a yoke upon yourself and upon him who gives. Rather rise together with the giver on his gifts as on wings; For to be overmindful of your debt, is to doubt his generosity who has the free hearted earth for mother, and God for father.

Moms are, in my opinion, the wonders of the universe. They can leap tall buildings in a single bound, they can go where no person has gone before, and they can somehow get toddlers to eat. The problem is that mothers are also some of the most stressed people on the planet. There's just so much to do and not enough of them.

You have a mother?" Only when I said it did I realize what a silly question it was! For heaven's sake! Gideon raised one eyebrow. "What did you expect?" he asked, amused. "You thought I was an android put together by Uncle Falk and Mr. George?

The balancing act of motherhood and a career, and being a wife, is something that I don't think I'll ever perfect, but I love the challenge of it.

I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. My family was not nationally known as being a literary family, though my mother and my mother's side of the family in general were interested in literature.

The tourist business is a trap, it is a tained honey; Man clearly should have stayed in bed, and not invented money.

My mother used to say, "When you can learn to laugh at yourself, a lot of healing comes from that."

The older I get the more I can see How much he loved my mother and my brother and me And he did the best that he could And I only hope when I have my own family That everyday I see a little more of my father in me.

My mother is very emotional as well, but my dad is more of the guts of the family. He was the main preacher, so he kind of had this little Pentecostal flair, but they are born-again.

People love the idea of a good girl gone bad, thinking that my parents were so strict and disowned me, but that actually wasn't the case. Even though they don't necessarily agree with some of the things I do, they love me as their daughter. That's always been their perspective.

At about 40, the roles started slowing down. I started getting offers to play mothers and grandmothers

When something disappointing happened, my mother would remind me not to let that become my focus. There's still so much to be grateful for.

Every woman has a mother, and every woman will have an issue with that mother and things that mother did or didn't do. It just depends on how you choose to process the lessons that you learned from your own mother.

My mother is Italian and my dad's Irish. In my family, we're expressive. Nobody holds back.

When Lila was born, "I felt like, now I've got a partner in crime".

Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.