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Quotes About Joy

There is nothing more precious than laughter
~ Frida Kahlo
Even more than the time when she gave birth, a mother feels her greatest joy when she hears others refer to her son as a wise learned one.
~ Thiruvalluvar, Thirukkural
I've been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything.
~ Vivien Leigh
A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do.
~ Lois Wyse
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
However motherhood comes to you, it's a miracle.
~ Valerie Harper
The joy in motherhood comes in moments. There will be hard times and frustrating times, but amid the challenges there are shining moments of joy and satisfaction.
~ M. Russell Ballard
To be a mother, a housewife, never cost me any sacrifice - I savored every minute of those years.
~ Indira Gandhi
You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.
~ Omar Khayyam
Happy as a clam, is what my mother says for happy. I am happy as a clam: hard-shelled, firmly closed.
~ Margaret Atwood
Christian wife! Follow in the footsteps of the ideal of all womanhood, the Blessed Mother of God; in joy and in sorrow, she will be your advocate at the throne of her Son.
~ John Vianney
Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life is a game, play it... Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
~ Mother Teresa
My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.
~ Mark Twain
The first gathering of salads, radishes and herbs made me feel like a mother about her baby - how could anything so beautiful be mine?
~ Alice B. Toklas
My mother is looking forward to it even more than me! I'll be showing her the bright lights of New York.
~ Tom Felton
Necessity may be mother of invention, but fun is the father.
~ Alex Faickney Osborn
A wise son makes a glad father, But a foolish son is the grief of his mother.
~ Solomon
As we know, our own mother bore us only into pain and dying. But our true mother, Jesus, who is all love, bears us into joy and endless living. Blessed may he be.
~ Julian of Norwich
My mother's greatest joy in life was to make people laugh. Although that is difficult to do right now, I know her final wish would be that we return to laughing soon.
~ Melissa Rivers
Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy.
~ Tina Fey
My wife has brought great beauty into my life. And my daughter has brought me nothing but joy. Those qualities were greatly lacking.
~ Christopher Meloni
I love being a mother. I loved being a daughter, a sister, a wife. I love being a woman with men. I love having given birth.
~ Jessica Lange
The father is the head of the home; the mother is the heart of the home; the children are the reward, the joy and the life of the home.
~ Angus Buchan