Motherhood Quotes - Page 32

• The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.

  Honore de Balzac

  Art, Self, Denial

  "Letters of Two Brides". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1841-1842.

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• Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Business, Successful, Men

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• The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Mom, Mother, War

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• A miracle is really the only way to describe motherhood and giving birth. It's unbelievable how God has made us women and babies to endure and be able to do so much. A miracle, indeed. Such an incredible blessing.

  Jennie Finch

  Baby, Blessing, Giving

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• Of all the roles I've played, none has been as fulfilling as being a mother.

  Annette Funicello

  Mom, Mother, Roles

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• I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Mother, Wife, Lovely

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• My mom is definitely my rock.

  Alicia Keys

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Mom

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• Throughout my life, my mom has been the person that I've always looked up to.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Mom, Mother, Persons

  "Mike Krzyzewski on The American Dream". www.achievement.org.

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• You're not famous until my mother has heard of you.

  Jay Leno

  Inspirational, Mother, Children

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• Motherhood is the only thing in my life that I've really known for sure is something I wanted to do.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Being A Mom, Wanted, Known

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.

  Ann Oakley

  Fitness, Mother, Humorous

  Ann Oakley (1974). “Woman's work: the housewife, past and present”, Vintage

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• My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

  Pablo Picasso

  Confidence, Mother, Encouragement

  "Life with Picasso" by François Gilot, (p. 60), 1964.

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• Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.

  Ayn Rand

  Gun, Reality, Opposites

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.966, Penguin

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• My mother was a personal friend of God's. They had ongoing conversations.

  Della Reese

  Mom, Mother, Ongoing

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• If they would all sleep all the time she wouldn't mind being their mother.

  Kate Atkinson

  Mother, Sleep, Mind

  Kate Atkinson (2010). “Case Histories: (Jackson Brodie)”, p.34, Random House

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• All Americans believe that they are born fishermen. For a man to admit a distaste for fishing would be like denouncing mother-love or hating moonlight.

  John Steinbeck

  Love, Mother, Hate

  John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.116, Penguin

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• Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.

  John Milton

  Mother, Art, Eye

  Paradise Regained bk. 4, l. 240 (1671)

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• A mother has, perhaps, the hardest earthly lot; and yet no mother worthy of the name ever gave herself thoroughly for her child who did not feel that, after all, she reaped what she had sown.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Mother, Children, Names

  Henry Ward Beecher (1870). “Familiar Talks on Themes of General Christian Experience”, p.363

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• When God thought of mother, He must have laughed with satisfaction, and framed it quickly - so rich, so deep, so divine, so full of soul, power, and beauty, was the conception.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Beauty, Mother, Soul

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush the angry winds and waves, balance the extremes of heat and cold, of rain and drought, that peace, harmony and beauty may reign supreme.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Beauty, Mother, Peace

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage (1887). “History of Woman Suffrage”

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• Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.

  Angela Carter

  Life, God, Mother

  Angela Carter (2015). “The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise in Cultural History”, p.7, Hachette UK

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• She was not, herself, hugely in favour of motherhood in general. Obviously it was necessary, but it wasn't exactly difficult. Even cats managed it. But women acted as if they'd been given a medal that entitled them to boss people around. It was as if, just because they'd got the label which said "mother," everyone else got a tiny part of the label that said "child".

  Terry Pratchett

  Mother, Children, Cat

  "Carpe Jugulum". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1998.

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• 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.

  Sally Field

  Success, Mom, Our Society

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• I'm beginning to perceive motherhood as a long, slow letting go, of which birth is just the first step.

  Sandra Steingraber

  Letting Go, Long, Firsts

  Sandra Steingraber (2012). “Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood”, p.229, Da Capo Press

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• Pregnancy and motherhood are the most beautiful and significantly life-altering events that I have ever experienced.

  Elisabeth Hasselbeck

  Beautiful, Pregnancy, Being A Mom

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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