Motherhood Quotes - Page 34

• The joy of motherhood: what a mother experiences when all her children are in bed

  Barbara Johnson

  Mother, Children, Joy

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• When I pick up one of my children and cuddle them, all the strain and stress of life temporarily disappears. There is nothing more wonderful than motherhood and no-one will ever love you as much as a small child.

  Nicola Horlick

  Mom, Mother, Children

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• guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine

  Fay Weldon

  Wine, Guilt, Grapes

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• The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. It anguishes him so much he must get rid of it. He has no peace until then. Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written. If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is worth any number of old ladies.

  William Faulkner

  Mother, Dream, Art

  In Paris Review Spring 1956, p. 30

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• If you didn’t have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn’t be morality but with consciousness that you have it.

  Roger Penrose

  World, Morality, Consciousness

  "Secrets of the Old One". "Groks Science" with Frank Ling, grokscience.wordpress.com. January 18, 2009.

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• Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. But here again, because there is nothing to sell, there is a very general disposition to regard a married woman's work as no work at all, and to take it as a matter of course that she should not be paid for it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Country, Matter, Married

  "The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism". Book by George Bernard Shaw (Chapter 8), 1928.

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  [Motherhood is] the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It's huge and scary-it's an act of infinite optimism.

  Gilda Radner

  Mom, Mother, Inspiration

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• No power on earth compares to a mother's tender prayers.

  Edwin Arnold

  Mother, Prayer, Earth

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• Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Educational, Knowledge

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• ~I think what surprised me the most about motherhood, as sentimental as it sounds, is how much I love my kids. I mean, I just can't believe it. It's like a whole new dimension in emotion that I've never experienced.~

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Believe, Pregnancy, Mean

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• Once you become a mother, your heart is no longer yours...My daughter is the greatest thing I'll ever do in my life.

  Kim Basinger

  Daughter, Mother, Heart

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• 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.

  Anna Quindlen

  Two, Apples, Tea

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• The joy of motherhood comes in moments. ... Families need unstructured time when relationships can deepen and real parenting can take place. Take time to listen, to laugh, and to play together.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Mother, Real, Play

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• Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Mom, Mother, Arches

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• Mothers are the rocks of our families and a foundation in our communities. In gratitude for their generous love, patient counsel, and lifelong support, let us pay respect to the women who carry out the hard work of motherhood with skill and grace, and let us remember those mothers who, though no longer with us, inspire us still.

  Barack Obama

  Mother, Gratitude, Hard Work

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• My mom always said that there would be haters. Not everyone can love ya.

  Joel Madden

  Funny, Hater, Mom

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• All those cliches, those things you hear about having a baby and motherhood - all of them are true. And all of them are the most beautiful things you will ever experience.

  Penelope Cruz

  Beautiful, Baby, Being A Mom

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• However motherhood comes to you, it's a miracle.

  Valerie Harper

  Inspirational, Adoption, Miracle

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• A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi... has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Mother, Baby, Children

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• 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.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.74, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Both of my parents got to see me host Carson, thank God. That's all anyone wants: to have their parents see they're going to be all right in life.

  Joan Rivers

  Parenting, Thank God, Want

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• I haven't spoken to my mother-in-law for eighteen months-I don't like to interrupt her.

  Ken Dodd

  Mother, Law, Months

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• The woman who creates and sustains a home, and under whose hands children grow up to be strong and pure men and women, is a creator second only to God.

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Strong, Children, Growing Up

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• Many perfumes promise to lure men to women. None of them smell of motherhood. None of them proclaim the wearer to be tidy, thrifty, and sensible.

  Janette Rallison

  Men, Smell, Promise

  Janette Rallison (2010). “My Fair Godmother”, p.3, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• 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.

  David O. McKay

  Mother, Children, Kissing

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