Motherhood Quotes - Page 17

• When a mother asked her small child how he fell out of bed, he answered, "Because I wasn't in far enough." Let me just say in passing that it has been my experience that most people who fall out of the Church do so because they were not in far enough.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Mother, Children, Fall

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• O son, thou hast not true humility, The highest virtue, mother of them all; But her thou hast not know; for what is this? Thou thoughtest of thy prowess and thy sins Thou hast not lost thyself to save thyself.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Mother, Humility, Son

  Alfred Lord Tennyson (1851). “The Poetical Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson”

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• You must wake and call me early, call me early, mother dear; To-morrow'll be the happiest time of all the glad New Year,- Of all the glad New Year, mother, the maddest, merriest day; For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be queen o' the May.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Mother, New Year, Queens

  'The May Queen' (1832)

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• "Have you done your homework?" my mother would ask. "I'll do it later." "You will do it now, young man. I don't want you winding up on the third shift at Flagg-Utica." Flagg-Utica was a local textile plant. Somehow, I never could figure how failing to read three chapters in my geography book about the various sorts of vegetation to be found in a tropical rain forest had anything to do with facing a life as a mill hand. But with enough guilt and fear as catalysts, you can read anything, even geography books and Deuteronomy.

  Lewis Grizzard

  Mother, Fear, Rain

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• O neglectful Nature, wherefore art thou thus partial, becoming to some of thy children a tender and benignant mother, to others a most cruel and ruthless stepmother? I see thy children given into slavery to others without ever receiving any benefit, and in lieu of any reward for the services they have done for them they are repaid by the severest punishments.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Mother, Art, Nature

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1906). “Note Books: Arranged and Rendered Into English, with Introd”

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• Motherhood implies from the beginning a special openness to the new person: and this is precisely the woman's 'part'. In this openness, in conceiving and giving birth to a child, the woman 'discovers herself through a sincere gift of self'.

  Pope John Paul II

  Children, Self, Giving

  John Paul II, Brooke Williams Deely (2014). “Pope John Paul II Speaks on Women”, p.154, CUA Press

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• We do not diminish the value of what women or men achieve in any worthy endeavor or career -- we all benefit from their achievements -- but still recognize that there is not a higher good than motherhood and fatherhood in marriage. There is no superior career, and no amount of money, authority or public acclaim can exceed the ultimate rewards of family.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Men, Careers, Fatherhood

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

  Rachel Held Evans

  Christian, Calling, Highest

  Rachel Held Evans (2012). “A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband 'Master'”, p.180, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.

  John Dryden

  Mother, Eye, Men

  John Dryden, George Rapall Noyes (1950). “The poetical works of Dryden”

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• So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science the offspring, to divulge the hidden causes of things.

  Johannes Kepler

  Life, Mother, Ignorance

  "Somnium". Book by Johannes Kepler, 1620-1630.

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• I never went to school beyond the 3rd grade, but my mother taught me the difference between right and wrong.

  Joe E. Lewis

  Mother, School, Differences

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• My mother was given to a typical question: "We have always done this. Why should we do anything else?" But my wife's typical question was "We have always done this. Why don't we do it another way or, better still, why not do something else?"

  John D. Rockefeller

  Mother, Wife, Typical

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• We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.

  Jane Austen

  Mother, Wife, Mourning

  Letter to Cassandra Austen, 17 May 1799

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• Young women you will be the ones who will provide the example of virtuous womanhood and motherhood. You will continue to be virtuous lovely praiseworthy and of good report. You will also be the ones to provide an example of family life in a time when families are under attack, being redefined and disintegrating. You will understand your roles and your responsibilities and thus will see no need to lobby for rights.

  Elaine S. Dalton

  Responsibility, Rights, Lovely

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• Motherhood is an essential, difficult, and full-time job. Women who do not wish to be mothers should not have babies.

  Edward Abbey

  Mother, Baby, Jobs

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.44, RosettaBooks

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• Necessity, the mother of invention.

  George Farquhar

  Mother, Philosophical, Invention

  "The Twin Rivals". Book by George Farquhar, 1702.

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• Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat.

  George Eliot

  Heat, Force, All Things

  George Eliot (1858). “Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.224

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• Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Expression, Abuse, Morality

  Herbert Marcuse (1971). “An Essay on Liberation”, p.8, Beacon Press

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• Behind all these men you have to do with, behind officers, and government, and people even, there is the country herself, your country, and . . . you belong to her as you belong to your own mother. Stand by her, boy, as you would stand by your mother.

  Edward Everett Hale

  Mother, Country, Boys

  Edward Everett Hale, Hsuan L. Hsu, Susan Kalter (2010). “Two Texts by Edward Everett Hale: "The Man Without a Country" and Philip Nolan's Friends”, p.32, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.

  Edmund Burke

  Mother, Fear, Safety

  Edmund Burke (1816). “The Speeches of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke in the House of Commons and in Westminster Hall: In Four Volumes”, p.62

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• Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.

  Dorothy Parker

  Friendship, Mother, Pregnancy

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• If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress.

  David Rockefeller

  Mother, Father, Progress

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• For most of us, when our 'dreams' - I use the word with reservations - came true, and marriage and motherhood became a reality, the romcoms, like horoscopes, swiftly lost their allure.

  Mariella Frostrup

  Dream, Reality, Use

  "Why we're still seduced by the romcom" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2011.

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• Happiness is a choice. You grieve, you stomp your feet, you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.

  Lucy Lawless

  Happy Birthday, Happiness, Grieving

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• And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention.

  Aristotle

  Mother, Invention, Creator

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