Motherhood Quotes
Motherhood Quote of the day
Mothers have need of sharp eyes and discreet tongueswhen they have girls to manage
Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don't do it - I would have made a terrible mother.
My most important title is still “mom-in-chief.” My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.
To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.
It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder, and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.
My mother's gifts of courage to me were both large and small. The latter are woven so subtly into the fabric of my psyche that I can hardly distinguish where she stops and I begin.
Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.
At a certain point in her life, she realises it is not so much that she wants to have a child as that she does not want not to have a child, or not to have had a child.
Have you any idea how many children it takes to turn off one light in the kitchen Three. It takes one to say What light and two more to say I didn't turn it on.
Poor woman! She probably thought change of air might agree with many of her children.
Motherhood is the only thing in my life that I've really known for sure is something I wanted to do.
Preston doesn't do well with trouble. But that's why I'm here. That's why my name is Mommy.
The day you call someone "Mother" is the day your pain is hers to bear, you burden hers to carry.
Be a full person. Motherhood is a glorious gift, but do not define yourself solely by motherhood. Be a full person. Your child will benefit from that.
A father is as much a verb as a mother.
It's true what they say, that a baby gives you a reason to live. But also, a baby is a reason that it is not permissible to die. There are days when this does not feel good.
But I realize now that the toughest choices, the ones that will haunt us for the rest of our lives, are ones that my mom is still sheltering me from.
Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?
She goes silent. Ashamed of herself as mothers are when they realize they have passed that point in life when they want more from their daughters than their daughters want from them.
When you have done all that you can do, A true Mother will always stick by you. You may think sometimes that she is rude. She has to be because this world can be crude.
The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
It is within your loving and welcoming arms that a new generation will arrive & be greeted.
For me, this baby was the most precious thing I had ever had. He was my treasure, my joy, my world, my everything now.
...Being a mother is like being a gardener of souls. You tend your children, make sure the light always touches them
Motherhood unwittingly molds us into all we are now, or are - destined to be.
Then too, motherhood is broken because in this place, to be a good mother is to give yourself completely. It is to erase yourself. This is what I refused to do.
Let the voices of all mothers be heard, as we come to honor the gift of Motherhood.
What’s got into me? Do I want children? Do I want to be a mamma, nursing and singing lullabies? Marriage plus pregnancy? And if my mother should emerge from my stomach just now when I think I’m safe?
I want to promise you / permanence, my constant orbit, but even continents / are revisions. I am only your diving bell in water / hemmed by shifting plates.
Don't compare yourself to other MOMS... We are all just winging it, just some hide it better than others.
You don't get your prebaby body back, ever, because you cannot go back to being a person who hasn't had a baby. Because you had a baby.
Loving someone as fiercely as my mom loves me must be like wearing your heart outside of your body with no skin, no bones, no nothing to protect it.
The danger of motherhood. you relive your early self, through the eyes of your mother.
Mothers with high ideals for child-rearing must pay the price for those ideals.
When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.
A mother's body remembers her babies-the folds of soft flesh, the softly furred scalp against her nose. Each child has it's own entreaties to body and soul.
I am so thankful to MOTHER for making my ordinary life extraordinary. MOTHER - Multiplied Opportunities Through Her Endless Reinvention.
Mother, you can still hold hold on but forgive, forgive and give for long as long as we both shall live, I forgive you, Mother.
Sin is a fact of life. It is the way we deal with it that changes ours.
I give praise and honor to the Holy one of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob for the blessing of motherhood.
Although the infertile are entitled to sour grapes, it's against the rules, isn't it, to actually have a baby and spend any time at all on that banished parallel life in which you didn't.
