Quotes about Motherhood
but with his mother there's no question of liking him they're not even in a way separate people he began in her stomach and if she gave him life she can take it away and if he feels that withdrawal it will be the grave itself.
- John Updike
God pardons like a mother who kisses the offense into everlasting forgetfulness.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
- Carol Burnett
I was told I had a two per cent chance of getting pregnant, so I say she's a two per cent baby.
- Nicole Kidman
There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and, of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Much of the ill-tempered railing against women that has characterized the popular writing of the last two years is a half-hearted attempt to find a way back to a more balanced relationship between our biological selves and the world we have built. So women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for not wanting to eat their cake and have it too.
- Margaret Mead
Despise not yourselves, ye women; the Son of God was born of a woman.
- St. Augustine
All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother.
- Abraham Lincoln
These concerns (for orphan children in India and elsewhere in the world) are very good, but often these same people are not concerned with the millions that are killed by the deliberate decision of their own mothers. And this is what is the greatest destroyer of peace today, Abortion...For the pregnant women who don't want their children, give them to me.
- Mother Teresa
I do not understand what makes mothers think they are walking-talking thermometers.But I think somewhere during the process of giving birth and changing diapers, they actually begin to belive they have this supernatural sense.
- Melody Carlson
When I get up and work out, I'm working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It's just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.
- Michelle Obama
When she first felt her son's groping mouth attach itself to her breast, a wave of sweet vibration thrilled deep inside and radiated to all parts of her body; it was similar to love, but it went beyond a lover's caress, it brought a great calm happiness, a great happy calm.
- Milan Kundera