Motherhood Quotes · Page 19

Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.

— Margaret Mead

We've never been in a time where mothers - parenthood, but particularly motherhood - is so fetishized.

— Meghan Daum

There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother…

— Miguel de Cervantes

Motherhood is filled with magical little moments that bring you immense joy.

— Namrata Shirodkar

“Motherhood was a physical act as much as an emotional one. It took every part of you.”

— J. Courtney Sullivan

"Honour thy father and thy mother" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness

— Aeschylus

Once you become a mother, your heart is no longer yours...My daughter is the greatest thing I'll ever do in my life.

— Kim Basinger

No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“Sadie heard her inside cleaning up the kitchen and wondered what dreams Betty's mother had for herself, if all mothers had them,…

— Karen Brown

The balancing act of motherhood and a career, and being a wife, is something that I don't think I'll ever perfect, but…

— Kerri Walsh

Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the law to say there are moments in the day…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Motherhood is the most beautiful, exciting thing, and there's nothing that I feel like I can't accomplish while having children in my…

— Hayden Panettiere

“She felt a lump form in her throat, and she swallowed hard. She wouldn't have this-the swollen ankles and pink cheeks and…

— Sarah Pekkanen

My mother went to Radcliffe, and rather than just trying to get rich, she wanted to be a teacher and taught for…

— Ben Affleck

“And when she [her daughter] one day turns on me and calls me a Bitch in front of Hollister, Give me the…

— Tina Fey

“--what's really unique about maternal anxiety today is our belief that if something goes wrong with or for our children, it's a…

— Judith Warner

For boys, the family was the place from which one sprang and to which one returned for comfort and support, but the…

— Gerda Lerner

Our male-dominated culture tends to define success in terms of wealth, fame, power, the reaction of others. Women are fed a version…

— Catherine Mayer

We also knew we definitely wanted to infuse into the narrative the relation of women at different ages with motherhood, their relationship…

— Rania Attieh

“HERE’S THE THING about motherhood. It exhausts you and thrills you. It kicks you in the butt, and the very next second…

— Julianne MacLean

It is the modern feminists who are the real male chauvinists, lusting for reproductive freedom (sexual irresponsibility) like playboys and demanding empowerment,…

— Peter Kreeft

“When someone dies they can be any age you remember can't they ' she asked. As I tried to think of a…

— Rosamund Lupton

For me and movies - and it is kind of similar to motherhood and raising your children - I always feel like…

— Suzanne Todd

Women have full equality with men before the Lord. By nature, the roles of women differ from those of men. This knowledge…

— James E. Faust

“Being mom is one of my favorite things. It makes my day watching my kids grow and accomplish things in their lives.”

— Amanda Penland

“One very important key to maintaining our daily sanity is a simple scheduling tactic I call Putting Things the Hell Off.”

— Ian Frazier

I haven't spoken to my mother-in-law for eighteen months-I don't like to interrupt her.

— Ken Dodd

Mothers should negotiate between nations. Mothers of fighting countries would agree: Stop this killing now. Stop it now

— Yoshikani Taki

[My favorite thing about motherhood is] that it's made me grow into a woman finally, and I finally grew up, thank God.

— Nicole Polizzi

I can't help but be a different person now that I've had kids. That really does change your whole perspective on life…

— Jennifer Lopez

I have no maternal instinct whatsoever. Motherhood holds no interest for me.

— Helen Mirren

“A mother has the best of all smiles; she is a wonderful friend, lover and adviser.”

— Agu Jaachynma N.E

“JESUS CHRIST, WHO OPPOSES GOOD to evil, is our true Mother. We have our being from him, where the foundation of motherhood…

— Lisa E. Dahill

“They lay together like a word and a comma, asleep within an unfinished sentence.”

— Patricia Storace

“Always, always, always love your mother. No one else will ever love you like she does.”

— Ibn Jeem

I surely know that there is no role in life more essential and more eternal than that of motherhood.

— M. Russell Ballard

“When the whole world made me think that, I can't do it, Thanks for making me, believe that, I can do it.”

— Luffina Lourduraj

I am not always a hands-on mother, but the feelings of motherhood are the same.

— Rituparna Sengupta

O men with sisters dear, O men with mothers and wives, It is not linen you 're wearing out, But human creatures'…

— Thomas Hood

I think my positivity, strength, and maternal instincts came from my momma.

— Jenna Dewan Tatum