M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.”
“Motherhood is a blissful chain...I have a mother - my precious gift...I am a mother - the best of my kind!”
“Motherhood is a choice you make every day, to put someone else's happiness and well-being ahead of your own, to teach the hard lessons, to do the right thing even when you're not sure what the right thing is... and to forgive yourself, over and over again, for doing everything wrong.”
“Motherhood is a constant battle of wanting to go to bed early so you can catch up on sleep and wanting to stay awake so you can enjoy some peace and sanity!”
“Motherhood is a dream. It really is absolutely amazing.”
“Motherhood is a gift from God designed to empty our selfish desires completely and teach us fully how to live this life in service to others.”
Source: A TALK WITH GOD TODAY: SPIRITUAL GROWTH IN 4 WEEKS
“Motherhood is a great honor and privilege, yet it is also synonymous with servanthood. Every day women are called upon to selflessly meet the needs of their families. Whether they are awake at night nursing a baby, spending their time and money on less-than-grateful teenagers, or preparing meals, moms continuously put others before themselves.”
“Motherhood is a greater predictor of wage inequality than gender is. It's enormous.”
“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 a predicament. How to live fully inside of it with any grace?”
Source: The Oldest Boy: A Play in Three Ceremonies
“Motherhood is a Sisyphean task. You finish sewing one seam shut, and another rips open. I have come to believe that this life I'm wearing will never really fit.”
Source: House Rules: A Novel
“Motherhood is about raising and celebrating the child you have, not the child you thought you would have. It's about understanding that he is exactly the person he is supposed to be. And that, if you're lucky, he just might be the teacher who turns you into the person you are supposed to be.”
“Motherhood is all-encompassing, and in a way, as the mother, you're the star of the household.”
“Motherhood is always an act of courage.”
“Motherhood is an amazing feeling, and if you get to relive those special moments while working, it works as an icing on the cake. Kids have always been close to my heart, and working with them is a pleasure for me.”
“Motherhood is an essential, difficult, and full-time job. Women who do not wish to be mothers should not have babies.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“Motherhood is beautiful. Everything [my son] does makes me so happy.”
“Motherhood is both a beautiful dance and a brutally gut-wrenching exercise in self-
control. As much as we want to jump in and solve every one of our children’s problems, we must
now sit on the sidelines, letting them learn to live without us. And as they begin to learn, we learn
something too. We learn to pray without ceasing. And we learn God has an Act II just for us.
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Raising children to be capable adults is one of the most amazing, agonizing, beautiful,
and painful things we will ever do. We celebrate our children’s independence while mourning
their departure. In fact, if we grieve their going, we most likely did it right.
I had no idea of the surprises God had in store for me, and He has them for you, too.”
Source: The After Party of the Empty Nest: Mom is Not Your Only Name
“Motherhood is given the brush-off in our society. 'Oh, I'm just a mom,' you hear women say. 'Just' a mom? Please! Being a mom is everything. It's mentorship, it's inspirational, it's our hope for the future.”
“Motherhood is heart-exploding, blissful hysteria.”
“Motherhood is like Albania- you can't trust the descriptions in the books, you have to go there.”
“Motherhood is like planting a garden; you tend and toil not to create the greatest bloom, but to keep the weeds and pests from destroying your crop.”
Source: Daddy's Little Girl
“Motherhood is meant to overwhelm us. It’s meant to slow us down and remind us of what matters most. It’s meant to expand us in
order to make room for the children we’re (briefly) given to guide. It’s meant to reshape us into fuller, more well-rounded women. It reminds us of our interdependency, shows us where we still need to grow, and
strengthens our capacity to connect from the heart.”
Source: Motherwhelmed
“Motherhood is more than bearing children...It is the essence of who we are as women.”
“Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind.”
“Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind. It places her who honors its holy calling and service next to the angels.”
“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.”
“Motherhood is not a dirty word.”
Source: Reclaiming Femininity: Saving Women's Traditions & Our Future
“Motherhood is not a hobby, it is a calling. You do not collect children because you find them cuter than stamps. It is not something to do if you can squeeze the time in. It is what God gave you time for.”
“Motherhood is not for the faint-hearted. Frogs, skinned knees, and the insults of teenage girls are not meant for the wimpy.”
“Motherhood is not what was left over after our Father blessed His sons with priesthood ordination. It was the most ennobling endowment He could give His daughters, a sacred trust that gave women an unparalleled role in helping His children keep their second estate. As President J. Reuben Clark Jr. declared, motherhood is ‘as divinely called, as eternally important in its place as the Priesthood itself.’”
“Motherhood is so honorable a thing that nothing - no convention - can possibly make it dishonorable; and from the standpoint of the right of the child . . . the unmarried mother should be granted by society the same reverence and regard as the married mother.”
“motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power.”
Source: On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978
“Motherhood is the greatest potential influence either for good or ill in human life. The mother's image is the first that stamps itself on the unwritten page of the young child's mind. It is her caress that first awakens a sense of security; her kiss, the first realization of affection; her sympathy and tenderness, the first assurance that there is love in the world.”
“Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing.”
“Motherhood is the greatest thing Ive ever done in my life.”
“Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.”
“Motherhood is the most challenging as well as the utmost satisfying vocation in this world.”
“Motherhood is the most dangerous and awesome relationship possible. ... The parent/child blood relationship is one-sided and irrevocable and enduring. And it is all rather humbling.”
“Motherhood is the one thing in all the world which most truly exemplifies the God-given virtues of creating and sacrificing. Though it carries the woman close to the brink of death, motherhood also leads her into the very realm of the fountains of life and makes her co-partner with the Creator in bestowing upon eternal spirits mortal life.”
“Motherhood is the only school that teaches us about genuine love.”
“Motherhood is the only thing in my life that I've really known for sure is something I wanted to do.”
“Motherhood is the second oldest profession in the world. It never questions age, height, religious preference, health, political affiliation, citizenship, morality, ethnic background, marital status, economic level, convenience, or previous experience.”
Source: Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession
“Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.”
“Motherhood is this sort of "curtain lifting" of tremendous power that we have individually as women. It's tremendously freaky to have a human being grow inside your body and eventually turn into a human being, and then birth that human being, and then have them be separate from you. Those things are scary. It's also really, really scary to face the idea of losing a child and losing someone you love more than you've loved anything before. All of those things are innately really terrifying, and what it does to me is bring me to a direct kind of confrontation with my human vulnerability.”
“Motherhood is when eating chicken soup; the kids get the chicken and you get the soup and you would still feel happily stuffed.”
“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.”
“Motherhood is, after all, woman's great and incomparable work.”
Source: Love's coming of age; a series of papers on the relation of the sexes
“Motherhood is... difficult and... rewarding.”
“Motherhood isn't just a series of contractions; it's a state of mind. From the moment we know life is inside us, we feel a responsibility to protect and defend that human being.”
Source: Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist