Children Quote by Kelly Corrigan

“I went into motherhood with some pretty romantic notions about what being a mom would be like. I certainly thought that raising kids would…

— Debra Sansing Woods

“Parenthood is shit, snot, slime, fear, tears, spit, and spills. It’s as intense as combat, which is to say hours of tedium relieved by…

— Scott Simon

“you're my first born child, and the person who first showed me the miracle of this love a mother has for her child. ”

— Elizabeth Noble

“In those days my mother was given to the exasperating and mysterious habit of having babies.”

— James Baldwin

“As I grew into womanhood my confusion at the world became more apparent. I was taking comfort in behaviours that were familiar, not bathing,…

— Jane Hersey

“I had long since wished that they would have been born with a dictionary sized how-to guide in my placenta. It would have been…

— Anna Aquino

“Good and bad, he was taken for granted; she was much more lenient to him than to any of the children. She welcomed the…

— Kathleen Thompson Norris

“While Motherhood is not perfect, we have the opportunity to share many beautiful and perfect moments with our children everyday. We just need to…

— Debra Sansing Woods

“We were already mothers then, some by heart and some by womb. We rocked grandbabies left in our care and taught the neighborhood kids…

— Brit Bennett

“We women have something of the mother in us that makes us rise above smaller matters when the mother-spirit is invoked; I felt this…

— Bram Stoker

“But just as no one really knows what it is like to be a mother until she holds her first child, no one who…

— Gregg Olsen

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

— J. Courtney Sullivan