Motherhood Quotes · Page 53

“Unfeeling thing that I was, the sensibilities of the maternal heart were Greek and Hebrew to me.”

— Charlotte Brontë

“(Georgie) Two hundred years later and it's exactly the same thing. You want to spend every single moment with your children and…

— Nancy Woodruff

“My heart filled with Nick's smile, with the look of sheer adoration he gave me as he lugged the bucket. In the…

— Lisa Wingate

I know it has not been easy as I've tried to navigate the challenges of juggling my career and motherhood.

— Ketanji Brown Jackson

Assumption is the mother of the screw-up.

— Angelo Donghia

In spite of the pangs of travail, the longing for motherhood remains the most powerful instinct in woman.

— Joseph Hertz

The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.

— James Fenton

Once in royal David's city Stood a lowly cattle shed, Where a Mother laid her Baby In a manger for His bed:…

— Cecil Frances Alexander

After Birth is a fast-talking, opinionated, moody, funny, and slightly desperate account of the attempt to recover from having a baby. It…

— Lydia Davis

It's interesting, I had absolutely no maternal instinct. I'm much more interested in young people now.

— Holland Taylor

All of [motherhood] surprised me. It surprised me from the very first second I saw Jack. I'd believed that my pregnancy was…

— Meg Ryan

However motherhood comes to you, it's a miracle.

— Valerie Harper

I think motherhood has made issues all feel much more urgent than they did before. So it didn't necessarily change how I…

— Jessica Valenti

“All great human deeds both consume and transform their doers. Consider an athlete, or a scientist, or an independent business creator. In…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“And I always say that to the children: “You are the greatest thing I ever did in my life!”

— Dave Isay

Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

My precious little baby I have loved you from the start You are a tiny miracle Laying closely to my heart

— Anonymous

“Birth unites women in the power of oneness; the extraordinary gift we deeply share as mothers. Belly dance for birth reflects this…

— Maha Al Musa

I wanted to talk to a lot of women about their experiences along the path to motherhood - or along the path…

— Sheila Heti

“A Mother Has the Best of all Smiles; She is a Wonderful Friend, Lover & Adviser.”

— Agu, Jaachynma N.E

What culture worth the name would deny women the right to safe motherhood? What value system would send young people ignorant into…

— Nafis Sadik

When the hounds of Spring are on winter's traces, The mother of months in meadow or plain Fills the shadows and windy…

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

“Midlife isn’t a crisis. It’s a comeback.”

— Bree Penfold

All womanhood is hampered today because the world on which it is emerging is a world that tries to worship both virgins…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

Motherhood has completely changed me. It's just about like the most completely humbling experience that I've ever had. I think that it…

— Diane Keaton