~Sometimes, when I want to take on the world, I try to remember that it's just as important to sit down and ask my son how he's feeling or talk to him about life.~
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~Sometimes, when I want to take on the world, I try to remember that it's just as important to sit down and ask my son how he's feeling or talk to him about life.~
You sacrificed for us - you're the real MVP.
The films I've made for children have been my hardest work, my best, because kids deserve the best.
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
My mother was a reader, and she read to us. She read us Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when I was six and my brother was eight; I never forgot it.
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.
That best academy, a mother's knee.
My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy.
The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
The patience and the humility of the face she loved so well was a better lesson to Jo than the wisest lecture, the sharpest reproof.
The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants but when she resolutely holds him to the highest standards and is content with nothing less than his best.
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.
A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's.
My mother ... had a very deep inner spirituality that allowed her to rebuild her life. It's extraordinary that she had such a strong sense of self and such a commitment to the future and such a strong creative sense that she could build new worlds for herself and for us out of the total devastation in her life.
I tell my kids, 'I am thinking about you every other minute of my day.'
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.
Mother's love is bliss, is peace, it need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. If it is there, it is like a blessing; if it is not there it is as if all the beauty had gone out of life.
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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