Pregnancy Quotes - Page 8

• Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Love, Hurt, Heart

  Rita Mae Brown (2009). “Riding Shotgun”, p.151, Bantam

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• Nah... I mean, I'm already pregnant, so what other kind of shenanigans could I get into?

  Diablo Cody

  Teenager, Mean, Shenanigans

  "Juno". www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• if you love two people at the same time, choose the second. Because if you really loved the first one, you wouldn't have fallen for the second.

  Johnny Depp

  Love, Relationship, Two

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

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• Pregnancy humbles husbands. After an initial rush of male pride they quickly recognise the minor role that nature had assigned them in the drama of reproduction.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Husband, Drama, Pride

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• When a woman gives birth her waters break and she pours out the child and the child runs free.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Funny, Uplifting, Running

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Sexing the Cherry”, p.4, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Of course I can do this. I'm pregnant, not brain-damaged. My condition doesn't change my personality.

  Christine Feehan

  Funny, Uplifting, Personality

  Christine Feehan (2012). “Christine Feehan Ghostwalkers Novels 6-9”, p.1230, Penguin

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• Alexia had found pregnancy relatively manageable, up to a point. That point having been some three weeks ago, at which juncture her natural reserves of control gave way to sentimentality. Only yesterday she had ended breakfast sobbing over the fried eggs because they looked at her funny. The pack had spent a good half hour trying to find a way to pacify her. Her husband was so worried he looked to start crying himself.

  Gail Carriger

  Husband, Eggs, Yesterday

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• But I am, personally, not a gambler. I wouldn’t spend £1 on the lottery, let alone take a punt on a pregnancy. The stakes are far, far too high. I can’t agree with a society that would force me to bet on how much I could love under duress.

  Caitlin Moran

  Duress, Force, Stakes

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• We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out.

  Gregory Maguire

  Funny, Uplifting, Baby

  Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• Love can make even nice people do awful things.

  Jude Deveraux

  Love, Nice, People

  Jude Deveraux (2012). “An Angel For Emily”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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• I have such respect for women who go through pregnancy multiple times. I thought it was beautiful being pregnant. The aftermath is brutal.

  Christina Applegate

  Beautiful, Women, Aftermath

  "Christina Applegate On Eating Well, Surviving Cancer And Finding Joy". Interview with Amy Spencer, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 26, 2012.

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• Piglet: "How do you spell 'love'?" Winnie the Pooh: "You don't spell it...you feel it."

  A. A. Milne

  Love, Relationship, Piglet

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• Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.

  Billie Holiday

  Love, Turns, Turn Off

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• If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.

  Laurence Housman

  Marriage, Mothers Day, Mom

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

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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, Mean, Kids

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• Thank God my parents had an abundance of patience.

  Lexa Doig

  Patience, Parent, Thank God

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• Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.

  George Canning

  Business, Mistake, Failure

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• When men and women fail to form stable marriages, the result is a vast
  expansion of government attempts to cope with the terrible social needs that result.
  There is scarcely a dollar that the state and federal government spends on social
  programs that is not driven, in large part, by family fragmentation: crime, poverty,
  drug abuse, teen pregnancy, school failure, mental and physical health problems.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Marriage, School, Men

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• The solution [to a crisis pregnancy] is not to kill the innocent baby but to deal with the mother's values and her attitudes toward life.

  Jesse Jackson

  Mother, Baby, Attitude

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• One great thing about getting old is that you can get out of all sorts of social obligations just by saying you're too tired.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Stupid, Tired

  "It's Bad for Ya". Comedy album by George Carlin, 2008.

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• Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.

  Lisa Alther

  Funny, Mothers Day, Mom

  Lisa Alther (2010). “Other Women”, p.36, Open Road Media

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• A baby is like the beginning of all things: wonder, hope a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its earth to concrete, babies are almost the only remaining link in nature, with the natural world of living things from which we spring.

  Eda LeShan

  Inspiring, Dream, Baby

  Eda J. LeShan (1967). “The Conspiracy Against Childhood”, New York : Atheneum

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• Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we're pushing out our babies.

  Louise Erdrich

  Inspiring, Baby, Strong

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• There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Intuition, Mastery, Morality

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• Having a little inflation is like being a little pregnant.

  Leon Henderson

  Littles, Economics, Inflation

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