A Russian child asked his mother : "does God know we don't believe in Him?" — Yip Harburg Copy Share Image
When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The notion that the maternal wish and the activity of mothering are instinctive or biologically predestined is baloney. — Betty Rollin Copy Share Image
The future woman must have a life work and economic independence. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
I'm a dad twice over, but I'll never feel like I know what I'm doing. My wife took to motherhood like a… — Jon Cryer Copy Share Image
My mom told me, 'don't grow up too quickly; once you're an adult, you're an adult.' — Camilla Belle Copy Share Image
What's going to be funny is when they think Mom and Dad are a little bit cool, because right now, we're not… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
I had a dozen years to act before starting a family then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a… — Sissy Spacek Copy Share Image
In the life of husband and wife together, fatherhood and motherhood represent such a sublime "novelty" and richness as can only be… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“The beauty of the sea is that it never shows any weakness and never tires of the countless souls that unleash their… — Zeina Kassem Copy Share Image
... the physical and domestic education of daughters should occupy the principal attention of mothers, in childhood: and the stimulation of the… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
“motherhood seemed like a very long game of Whac-A-Mole to her—that crazy game at the arcade where you had to keep whacking… — Elizabeth LaBan Copy Share Image
When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
“I remind mothers everywhere of the sanctity of your calling. No other can adequately take your place. No responsibility is greater, no… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“Something must have happened, your mother speculated. In her mind a woman with no child could only be explained by vast untrammeled… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body. In such a world… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I have a whole new perspective on pregnancy and motherhood now that I'm experiencing it. Just because it's so hard and so… — Colleen Ballinger Copy Share Image
“If an imaginative boy has a sufficiently rich mother who has intelligence, personal grace, dignity of character without harshness, and a cultivated… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“I'd wrestled against the inner voice of my mother, the voice of caution, of duty, of fear of the unknown, the voice… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Father Wolf looked on amazed. He had almost forgotten the days when he won Mother Wolf in fair fight from five other… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“I remember the sift that occurred after Abby was born - there'd been the great big before, where dying grandparents and natural… — Deb Calleti Copy Share Image
“Someday you'll understand. You'll have your own children, and they'll mean more to you than the world. A wife has to defend… — David Walton Copy Share Image
I struggle with enormous discrepancies: between the reality of motherhood and the image of it, between my love for my home and… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
“A mother's job is not complete till she has taught and imbibed God's Words, and principles into her kids.” — Agu Jaachynma N.E Copy Share Image
It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“For Mormon women, however, motherhood is an identity, rather than a role.” — Nicole Hardy Copy Share Image
“I would keep her, and raise her, and love her, even if she had to teach me how to do it.” — Vanessa Diffenbaugh Copy Share Image
You make mistakes as a parent. Then you wish you hadn't said that, or you wish you hadn't told them how to… — Jennifer Connelly Copy Share Image
I just think motherhood made me better, I think it rejuvenates you as a person, mind, body and spirit, and I think… — Nelly Furtado Copy Share Image
It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“An industrious mother is an initiator of a good course; always charting new course for her loved ones.” — Agu Jaachynma N.E Copy Share Image
“When you go into labor you see that you are not the captain of the ship. You are the ship. There is… — Karen Maezen Miller Copy Share Image
I am she, O most bucolical juvenal, under whose charge are placed the milky mothers of the herd. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“A virtuous mother sows and sows seeds of greatness with great life in mind.” — Agu Jaachynma N.E Copy Share Image
I never knew motherhood could be so truly gratifying until I had Natasha. — Natalie Wood Copy Share Image
Of the two lots, the woman's lot of perpetual motherhood, and the man's of perpetual babyhood, I prefer the man's. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Even though it leaves me sleep deprived, I love every bit of motherhood. — Neha Dhupia Copy Share Image
People have this idea of motherhood, the same way they have an idea of women as we reach a certain age. — Janelle James Copy Share Image
“Motherhood is when eating chicken soup; the kids get the chicken and you get the soup and you would still feel happily… — Sandra Chami Kassis Copy Share Image
