Motherhood Quotes

I stand fearlessly for small dogs, the American Flag, motherhood and the Bible. That's why people love me.

Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.

It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.

Work for black women has been an important and valued dimension of Afrocentric definitions of black motherhood.

And it occurs to me that maybe the reason my mother was so exhausted all the time wasn’t because she was doing so much but because she was feeling so much.

Photography is not cute cats, nor nudes, motherhood or arrangements of manufactured products. Under no circumstances it is anything ever anywhere near a beach.

A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.

I never knew motherhood could be so truly gratifying until I had Natasha.

My life was once whiskey, tears and cigarettes... now it's snot, tears and a color of poop. Bliss. I do miss the whiskey, though.

I'm beginning to perceive motherhood as a long, slow letting go, of which birth is just the first step.

Motherhood is a hallowed place because children aren’t commonplace. Co-laboring over the sculpting of souls is a sacred vocation, a humbling privilege. Never forget.

Motherhood is like Albania- you can't trust the descriptions in the books, you have to go there.

If they would all sleep all the time she wouldn't mind being their mother.

Motherhood is a dream. It really is absolutely amazing.

Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.

When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.

It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.

Motherhood is the only thing in my life that I've really known for sure is something I wanted to do.

Perhaps there will come a time when...an unmarried mother will not be despised because of her motherhood...and when the right of the unborn to be born will not be denied or interfered with.

I believe it is by divine design that the role of motherhood emphasizes the nurturing and teaching of the next generation.

Motherhood is neither a duty nor a privilege, but simply the way that humanity can satisfy the desire for physical immortality and triumph over the fear of death.

The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.

Mothers are all slightly insane.

A mother knows what her child's gone through, even if she didn't see it herself.

Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.

The only way to break the cycle of unwed motherhood, fatherless children, poverty, crime, and welfare is to recognize that welfare causes more problems than it cures.

The joy of motherhood: what a mother experiences when all her children are in bed

I won't lie to you, fatherhood isn't easy like motherhood.

Such a mysterious business, motherhood. How brave a woman must be to embark on it.

But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run.

I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or so who are neither.

The joy of motherhood comes in moments. ... Families need unstructured time when relationships can deepen and real parenting can take place. Take time to listen, to laugh, and to play together.

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.

My biggest goal for the future is motherhood.

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood.

Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.

Your children teach you so much. It's a real mirror of yourself.

A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.

Motherhood is beautiful. Everything [my son] does makes me so happy.

As a Christian, my highest calling is not motherhood; my highest calling is to follow Christ.

Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.

A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.

Motherhood is wonderful, but it's also hard work. It's the logistics more than anything. You discover you have reserves of energy you didn't know you had.

I've always been so apathetic. I figured, OK, maybe the world is going to fall down around me. Now I want to make a better world... that's motherhood.

I discovered, quite early in motherhood, that the longest and most painful deliveries occur when you give birth to stepchildren.

I dig being a mother.

Motherhood is the most challenging as well as the utmost satisfying vocation in this world.

Motherhood has relaxed me in many ways. You learn to deal with crisis. I've become a juggler, I suppose. It's all a big circus, and nobody who knows me believes I can manage, but sometimes I do.