Mothers, train up your children in righteousness; do not attempt to save the world and let your own family fall apart. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
I happen to find motherhood a very natural state, but I know a lot of other people don't. — Natascha McElhone Copy Share Image
"Reverence for parents" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
“It's tough being AWESOME all the time, but the kids need someone to look up to!” — Comic Strip Mama Copy Share Image
“...motherhood is the thing in a woman's life that catches her by total and complete surprise.” — Melanie Shankle Copy Share Image
When you create a soul, plant the seeds of love with your thoughts, words, and actions . The soul flourishes among the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The joys of motherhood are not excessively apparent during the first few weeks of a baby's life. — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
I didn't have my first child until I was 40. I actually learned about motherhood from management. — Carol Bartz Copy Share Image
The palm on your fevered brow, the soft kisses when you need them most, the grip that steadies you on rocky roads,… — Sunita Sharma Copy Share Image
“God save me ere I have any babies. They are grabby, clingy creatures who steal your figure and always want a ribbon… — J. Anderson Coats Copy Share Image
I'm somebody who, if I went to the grocery store, and one of them wasn't with me, I would feel guilty. I… — Pamela Adlon Copy Share Image
“I went into motherhood with some pretty romantic notions about what being a mom would be like. I certainly thought that raising… — Debra Sansing Woods Copy Share Image
It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to… — Phyllis Diller Copy Share Image
it used to be almost the first question (just after 'Can you type?') in the standard female job interview: 'Are you now,… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Anyone who's ever had the misfortune of seeing me interact with house pets knows I have a wickedly strong paternal instinct bordering… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
A traveling show visited a country town and one of the acts was advertised as a striptease. A small boy begged his… — Art Linkletter Copy Share Image
“Then she rushes to pick up Asha from school, where she is known only as "Asha's mom" by the other mothers, who… — Shilpi Somaya Gowda Copy Share Image
The home is under siege. So many families are being destroyed...If anyone can change the dismal situation into which we are sliding,… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“Babies are soft. Anyone looking at them can see the tender, fragile skin and know it for the rose-leaf softness that invites… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Motherhood, to be sure, receives a great deal of sentimental adulation, but only if it is committed in accordance with rules which… — Suzanne La Follette Copy Share Image
“Progress is hardly ever dramatic; in fact, it is usually very slow. As every parent and teacher knows, education is never a… — Johann Christoph Arnold Copy Share Image
“Real motherhood is different. It's better and it's messier and it's more complicated. It will break your heart and make you laugh… — Melanie Shankle Copy Share Image
The only love that can't be compared to any type of love is the love of our children, there's no conditioning, no… — Cindy Garza Copy Share Image
Before motherhood, I had a feeling that unmarried women are the strongest. However, that changed after my son was born. — Navya Nair Copy Share Image
“Motherhood is a vocation like any other. It should be freely chosen, not imposed upon woman.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Motherhood for her had always been a conflict between proper concern and far too much worry.” — Stuart Nadler Copy Share Image
If you aren't nurturing your self, what kind of mother can you be, anyway? — Sandra Scofield Copy Share Image
It made me realize again how complicated being a mother is. You have 50 million heartbreaking moments, and 100 million beautiful, joyous ones. — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
...motherhood should be like driving a car -- you should have to pass a test before you can do it legally. — Joan Bauer Copy Share Image
“Mother, you can still hold hold on but forgive, forgive and give for long as long as we both shall live, I… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Motherhood doesn’t suit me, she once confessed to Budur, drunk. I don’t have the stomach for not knowing what comes next.” — Hala Alyan Copy Share Image
Being a young mother doesn't mean that my life is over. It simply means that my life starts a little early. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Motherhood. It was hard to get lost in anything else completely when children were 3 years old. — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
There was a place in childhood that I remember well, And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales did tell. — Samuel Lover Copy Share Image
As all mothers know, children travel faster than kisses. The speed of kisses is, in fact, what Doctor Fallow would call a… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
To give life another being, what a gift! When he finally was placed into my arms, I looked into his precious eyes… — Gisele Bundchen Copy Share Image
I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
For millions of girls around the world, motherhood comes too early. Those who bear children as adolescents suffer higher maternal mortality and… — Esther Duflo Copy Share Image
