Motherhood Quotes · Page 15

A mother holds her children's hands for a short while, But their hearts forever...

— Melchor Lim

“Motherhood isn't soft and cozy and sweet; it's selfish ferocity, red in tooth and claw.”

— Rosamund Lupton

“And the question is always "When are you going to have kids?" Rather than "Do you want to have kids?”

— Caitlin Moran

A mother is she who can take all the place of other but her place is not taken by anyone.

— Anonymous

Maternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence.

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“These girls probably use double negatives and watch "A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila" with their babies instead of reading Eric…

— Natalie Taylor

My own cabaret is constantly evolving with what is occurring in my own life, so motherhood is a natural addition to it.

— Susan Egan

I know a lot and have written a lot and have thought a lot about motherhood.

— Anna Quindlen

Being a mother is the most rewarding blessing in the world. Just knowing you can love someone so much and get that…

— Anonymous

Ladies, [motherhood] is a full-time job. Do not kid yourself that you can be a dental receptionist and a mother; that you…

— Alistair Begg

You young men need to know that you can hardly achieve your highest potential without the influence of a good women, particularly…

— Russell M. Nelson

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

I had a dozen years to act before starting a family then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a…

— Sissy Spacek

When God thought of mother, He must have laughed with satisfaction, and framed it quickly - so rich, so deep, so divine,…

— Henry Ward Beecher

To be a mother is a woman's greatest vocation in life. She is a partner with God. No being has a position…

— Spencer W. Kimball

“Once home where she could cry, no tears came. Only thoughts weighted with sorrow. Never to initiate life. Never to feel life…

— Monica Starkman

The great constructive energies of the child ... have hitherto been concealed beneath an accumulation of ideas concerning motherhood. We used to…

— Maria Montessori

“The motherhood to which every Christian woman is called is making disciples of all nations. We all must labor, prayerfully expectant that…

— Gloria Furman

I was aware, in those early days of motherhood, that my behaviour was strange to the people who knew me well. It…

— Rachel Cusk

“Motherhood is both a beautiful dance and a brutally gut-wrenching exercise in self- control. As much as we want to jump in…

— Kate Battistelli

“All the ways in which women become mothers of some sort. Is motherhood inescapably entwined in female life, a story every woman…

— Cherise Wolas

“Lavinia has seen this happen, seen how, one day, a girl will raise her head to listen, as if for the first…

— Bernice Morgan

“It is an oyster, with small shells clinging to its humped back. Sprawling and uneven, it has the irregularity of something growing.…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“The civil law, as well as nature herself, has always recognized a wide difference in the respective spheres and destinies of man…

— Joseph P. Bradley

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.

— Honore de Balzac

Motherhood is far better than I expected. I love it with all of my heart.

— Ayesha Curry

Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives.

— Romola Garai

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

— Sheila Heti

“It was Serena who'd said that motherhood was much too hard and, when you got right down to it, perhaps not worth…

— Anne Tyler

I love babies. I also have this very deep desire to become a mother. I always thought that motherhood was my highest…

— Zazie Beetz

“Moms never get out of the kid business. Last time I checked, motherhood had no expiration date.”

— Lisa Scottoline

“(Georgie) I hated going to the playground EVERYDAY. If someone had only told me it wouldn't last forever”

— Nancy Woodruff

“But the Wild is the Wild, and motherhood is motherhood, at all times fiercely protective whether in the Wild or out of…

— Jack London

Motherhood and marriage are the best bits of my life now. Who would have thought I would be enjoying that?

— Rebecca Loos

Your proudest moment is to watch your egg not just function, but to achieve on her own.

— Joan Rivers

Motherhood is a joy! I have dreamed about being a mother since I was 12 years old, and there's nothing disappointing about it.

— Evangeline Lilly

Motherhood is not for the faint-hearted. Frogs, skinned knees, and the insults of teenage girls are not meant for the wimpy.

— Danielle Steel

I am not beautiful. My mother once called me an ugly duckling. But,listed separately, I have a few good features.

— Audrey Hepburn

I didn't wander into motherhood or nonmotherhood unconsciously, recklessly. I gave it due consideration.

— Sheila Heti

Mothers, train up your children in righteousness; do not attempt to save the world and let your own family fall apart.

— Ezra Taft Benson