Best Motherhood Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 27

“The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.”

Inspirational Work Careers Miracle Motherhood Happy Encouraging Servant Leadership You Make Me Happy

“There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.”

Love Trying May Christ Danger Sake Motherhood Devotion Try Again Devotion To God

Author:Mother Teresa

“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.”

Source: Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero

“I do think that despite my best efforts to resist it, I am now a grown-up. It's due to lots of very difficult decisions that you make over a long period of time - about motherhood, wifehood, and work, and all the things that one has to make decisions about.”

Thinking Long Difficult Decision Effort Periods Dues Motherhood Despite Being A Mom Best Effort Long Periods Of Time Difficult Decisions

Author:Emma Thompson

“The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.”

“My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.”

Source: Twain: Wit and Wisecracks

“Necessity is the mother of taking chances.”

Inspirational Mother Fear Chance Business Risk Motherhood Take A Chance Chances Are Taking Risks Risk-taking Chance And Risk Give Me A Chance Risks And Taking Chances Necessity Is The Mother Of Invention Enough Chances

Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“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.”

Writing May Children Self Seems Speak Family Deeper Motherhood

Author:Anne Tyler

“There is a lot of healing going on. Really! More people are vegetarians, more are in the green movement, more of us are tearing down the old paradigms and embracing same-sex marriage, single motherhood, men raising babies.”

People Men Sex Healing Movement Baby Green Motherhood Vegetarian Paradigm Single Motherhood Green Movement

Author:Iyanla Vanzant

“My sisters and mom raised me to respect women and open doors for them.”

Mother Doors Mom Raised Motherhood My Sister Sisterhood Respect Women

Author:Milo Ventimiglia

“A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.”

“Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.”

I Can Mother Mom Motherhood Flawed Greatest Gifts

Book:Possessing the Secret of Joy

Source: Possessing the Secret of Joy

“And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.”

Mother Family Creativity Creative Flower Letters Parenting Motherhood Seeds Grandmother Sparks Mothering Great Mother Mother And Grandmother Creative Spark

Book:Everyday Use

Source: Everyday Use

“How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.”

Knows Seems Mother Names Simple Inspiring Motherhood Judaism

Author:Alice Walker

“The balancing act of motherhood and a career, and being a wife, is something that I don't think I'll ever perfect, but I love the challenge of it.”

Thinking Challenges Perfect Careers Wife Motherhood Being A Mom Balancing Act

Author:Kerri Walsh

“My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque.”

Men Life Needs Giving Success Used Mother Faith Rewards Motherhood Awards Stubborn

Author:Denzel Washington

“My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.”

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Author:George Washington

“Mothers are the necessity of invention.”

Mother Motherhood Invention Mother Care

Author:Bill Watterson

“When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.”

“Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.”

Funny Mother Humorous Horse Motherhood Trojans Trojan Horse

Author:Rebecca West

“Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.”

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Author:Erma Bombeck

“Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.”

Inspirational Humans Hope Given Human Beings Positive Despair Motherhood Recovery Uplifting Hard Times Encouraging Difficult Times Hope And Despair Uplifting In Hard Times Help With Depression

Author:Elie Wiesel

“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.”

“Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.”

“Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.”

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

Motherhood Natasha

Author:Natalie Wood

“God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.”

Said Body Artist Religion Nature Philosopher Motherhood Gods Will Mysterious Grandchildren Falling Water

Author:Frank Lloyd Wright

“Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.”

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Book:Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life

Source: Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life

“...motherhood should be like driving a car -- you should have to pass a test before you can do it legally.”

Should Can Do Car Should Have Tests Motherhood Driving You Can Do It

Book:Hope Was Here

Source: Hope Was Here

“Sometimes when you pick up your child you can feel the map of your own bones beneath your hands, or smell the scent of your skin in the nape of his neck. This is the most extraordinary thing about motherhood - finding a piece of yourself separate and apart that all the same you could not live without.”

Source: Perfect Match

“guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine”

Wine Guilt Motherhood Grapes

Author:Fay Weldon

“Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain.”

Life Feels Done Whole Feelings Running Pain Spiritual Belief Fear Bears Depression Motherhood Whole Life Mistaken Can Not

Author:Khalil Gibran

“The mother...swinging the children by pulling on a length of string, while at the same time she kept and eye on them with that protective watchfulness, half animal, half angelic, which is the quality of motherhood.”

Children Eye Mother Animal Half Quality Motherhood Length Strings Pulling Protective Angelic Watchfulness

Author:Victor Hugo

“What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.”

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Book:Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist

Source: Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist

“Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.”

Source: Professor At The Breakfast Table

“Through the blur, I wondered if I was alone or if other parents felt the same way I did - that everything involving our children was painful in some way. The emotions, whether they were joy, sorrow, love or pride, were so deep and sharp that in the end they left you raw, exposed and yes, in pain. The human heart was not designed to beat outside the human body and yet, each child represented just that - a parent's heart bared, beating forever outside its chest.”

“The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.”

Source: Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words

“This is motherhood for you,' said my own mother. 'Going through life with your heart outside your body.”

Heart Said Body Mother My Own Motherhood Your Body

Book:Certain Girls: A Novel

Source: Certain Girls: A Novel

“It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.”

Inspiration Motherhood Aids Fallen Assistance Calcutta

Author:Mother Teresa

“When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out.”

“It is said that life begins when the fetus can exist apart from its mother. By this definition, many people in Hollywood are legally dead.”

People Life Said Mother Hollywood Definitions Motherhood Fetus

Author:Jay Leno

“Conventionality is not morality.”

Wisdom Fun Morality Motherhood Conventionality

Author:Charlotte Bronte

“If you're like us -mothers with an attitude problem- you may be getting increasingly irritable about this chasm between the ridiculous, honey-hued ideals of perfect motherhood in the mass media and the reality of mothers' everyday lives.”

Ifs May Problem Reality Mother Perfect Attitude Media Mass Ideals Everyday Motherhood Ridiculous Honey Everyday Life Mass Media Chasms Attitude Problem

Author:Susan J. Douglas

“I think that poetry is perfect for women raising children, with just bits of time and such need to connect to other women out of the isolation of motherhood.”

Thinking Needs Children Bits Perfect Motherhood Isolation Poetry Is Raising Children

Author:Francesca Lia Block

“The great motherhood friendships are the ones in which two women can admit [how difficult mothering is] quietly to each other, over cups of tea at a table sticky with spilled apple juice and littered with markers without tops.”

Two Difficult Tables Motherhood Cups Tea Apples Juice Mothering Cups Of Tea Sticky Markers

Author:Anna Quindlen

“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.”

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Author:David O. McKay

“I think once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.”

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Author:Jodi Picoult

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

Ifs Knows Children Mother Gone Motherhood

Book:The girl from the coast: a novel

Source: The girl from the coast: a novel

“Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.”

Source: A Selection of Poems

“How can it be a large career to tell other people's children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one's own children about the universe? How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone, and narrow to be everything to someone? No; a woman's function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute. I will pity Mrs. Jones for the hugeness of her task; I will never pity her for its smallness.”

People Children Universe Three Careers Minutes Tasks Function Motherhood Pity Broads Smallness

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

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