Motherhood Quotes
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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.
Neil L. Andersen
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The software program for motherhood is impossible to fully download into the male brain. You give them two tasks and they're like, 'I have to change the baby and get the dry cleaning?'
Allison Pearson
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I lost my mom to breast cancer, and then I lost my father three years later. I thought, 'What am I waiting for?' Motherhood has been the greatest gift of my life.
Connie Britton
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War may make a fool of man, but it by no means degrades him; on the contrary, it tends to exalt him, and its net effects are much like those of motherhood on women.
H. L. Mencken
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I didn't have my first child until I was 40. I actually learned about motherhood from management.
Carol Bartz
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My favorite thing about motherhood is that it's made me grow into a woman finally, and I finally grew up, thank God.
Nicole Polizzi
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As a Christian, my highest calling is not motherhood; my highest calling is to follow Christ.
Rachel Grace Held
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Other than motherhood, the eight years that I spent at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, I have incredibly fond memories of. It's a beautiful place, with four seasons up in Wisconsin. And really wonderful people.
Laurel Clark
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I also think the women's movement has unintentionally contributed to the dishonoring of motherhood. It happened because we made such a big deal about our right to go out into the world.
Marianne Williamson
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My doctor told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.
Wilma Rudolph
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I didn't really inhabit myself until I was in my 30s. And motherhood is an epic event. You can't help but be altered by it - and it is important to be.
Anne-Marie Duff
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Motherhood is the greatest thing Ive ever done in my life.
Sara Rue
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Acting and modelling are good, but motherhood is what it's all about.
Jerry Hall
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There's a feeling sometimes in motherhood that you're alone in what you're going through, and none of us are alone. We're all going through the same thing.
Antonia Eugenia Vardalos
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Motherhood is the most challenging as well as the utmost satisfying vocation in this world.
Nita Ambani
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Photography is not cute cats, nor nudes, motherhood or arrangements of manufactured products. Under no circumstances it is anything ever anywhere near a beach.
Walker Evans
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The center of my life is my kids, I woke up at 3 in the morning with four kids with jet lag and two babies. I put myself together for a few hours and go out. And then I go home. This is my job.
Angelina Jolie
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Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat.
George Eliot
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Motherhood is an especially powerful experience because it involves learning under high-stakes conditions, which is just the sort of learning that drives change in the brain.
Katherine Ellison
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There's this idea that motherhood is as American as apple pie, but yet we don't support it with any government assistance.
Frankie Shaw
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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.
William Trevor
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Single motherhood is a reality for a lot of women in my age group and the time difficulties in their lives are universal.
Nicholas Sparks
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Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat; it turns timidity into fierce courage, and dreadless defiance into tremulous submission; it turns thoughtlessness into foresight, and yet stills all anxiety into calm content; it makes selfishness become self – denial, and gives even to hard vanity the glance of admiring love.
George Eliot
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Motherhood runs its own way and is measured with another watch that, unfortunately, we can't control.
Monica Cruz