Motherhood Quotes

I am, for the most part, who I am because my good mother was who she was.

Mother, you can still hold hold on but forgive, forgive and give for long as long as we both shall live, I forgive you, Mother.

Ain’t nothing worse to a mama than losing her baby—

Alcohol was like a fun cousin I visited every once in a while but never planned a trip around.

For me, adoption was grief in reverse.

She brushed the tears from their faces and sang them a melancholy lullaby. Her obvious devotion to her daughters pulled at my heart strings, making my chest ache with longing for my own mother.

The greatest investment you can do in your life is in gaining time.

To profoundly understand a baby, you must first be a mother.

A loving mother makes sacrifices for peace and laughter to reign in her home and family.

Motherhood is a blissful chain...I have a mother - my precious gift...I am a mother - the best of my kind!

A Godly mother's seed of faith yields a bounty of faithfulness.

A wholesome mother knows the software to delete, download, upgrade and upload for the best results.

An excellent mother knows she has the beautiful life, and she is a big time programmer.

A virtuous mother sows and sows seeds of greatness with great life in mind.

A mother's job is not complete till she has taught and imbibed God's Words, and principles into her kids.

We all know what we have to do what the inkling provokes us. We have to do the right thing. We have to make that extra push out of bed, or off the sofa. We must just do it.

I have stretch marks on my heart.

Make room for who you are by knowing who you’re not.

It is a mother's noble conceit to believe she has the power to take her child's suffering and do it for him.

I think she was too tired to play anymore, she was in a hurry to get to Heaven so she didn't wait, why didn't she wait for me?

Don't be afraid of the dark.

Motherhood is a predicament. How to live fully inside of it with any grace?

Through the grace shown to us in the gospel, there is something distinctly Christlike about a mother's love for her child.

This isn’t how things were supposed to happen. I was supposed to be me. Not this.

My existence began the day you were created and was realized the day we met.

I stumble and fall.I weep and struggle to rise.My mom feels it all.

I've always looked at America like a foster mother doing it only for the check. At any minute, I just knew she'd be ready to give up on me.

(24/7) once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.

Mother is water.

Papi, I don't know what to do anymore." Lourdes begins to cry. "No matter what I do, Pilar hates me.""Pilar doesn't hate you, hija. She just hasn't learned to love you yet.

If I measure each day by my list, the days are not always very good, but when I look at each day like it is their day too, because it is their day, well, then most days are better. A lot better.

Be a full person. Motherhood is a glorious gift, but do not define yourself solely by motherhood. Be a full person. Your child will benefit from that.

A father is as much a verb as a mother.

I would be the first to admit that my maternal instincts are not well developed--though in defense I must add that the raising of Ramses would have discouraged any woman.

As parents we're meant to help each other out and build each other up.

What is success, after all, but doing what you really want to do?

Women are responsible for the people in the family having pants.

The health of your future kids does not start with their birth—it starts with you, right now, well before you plan to impregnate your wife.

The reason any person yaks excessively is because his communication is not being adequately acknowledged. He just keeps trying to be heard.

There's not a lot I can fix for her anymore. Band-Aid and bedtime story days are almost over. This, I can fix with a simple Welcome.

Mothers are the ultimate executives. Instead of raising profits they are raising humanity.

Mothering you is the first thing of consequence I have ever done.

Maggie had learned a long time ago that each day with a child was filled with two kinds of battles: those that won the war, and those that did not.

If something happened to Gillian, I'd rip the world down to save her, even if she spat in my face when I did. That's what parenthood means.

Reflection can be painful, but reflection can also be productive.

Life will never be the same again. Life will be better.

Yes it's true, you wake the child inside of you up because you're a Mom!

Got anything to eat?" I asked."You know where the gas station is, " said my incredibly nurturing and maternal mother.

Motherhood is still the great unknown. For some, it brings incomparable happiness and enriches their identity. Others manage as best they can to reconcile contradictory demands.

For a majority of women it remains difficult to reconcile increasingly burdensome maternal responsibilities with personal fulfillment.