Quotes About Motherhood

As a mom, you just don't have time, so you get straight to the point.

I like to spend my time with my children.

As a working mum, it's really hard to find time in the day to just relax and take a break. I am constantly on the go.

I find it very difficult to be two different characters at the same time - actress and mother.

My kids can't watch ('Howard the Duck'). By the time I get in bed with the duck, they are, like, 'Turn it off, mom. You in bed with a duck is just pretty much a deal breaker.'

I was married when I wasn't quite 14 and had four babies by the time I was 18.

No woman can call herself free who cannot choose the time to be a mother or not as she sees fit.

A few months post-baby is not the easiest time to pull out your best yoga poses.

We've never been in a time where mothers - parenthood, but particularly motherhood - is so fetishized.

I don't even watch Fox News usually in the prime time hours because I'm home with my kids and that's more important to me.

I really love having lots of down time with my kids.

Siyaht?lar fakat Tanr? hiçbir çocuÄŸu annelerinin onlar? sevmeyeceÄŸi veya onlardan vazgeçeceÄŸi kadar siyah yapamaz, mümkün deÄŸil, dünyalar? verseler bir anne onlardan vazgeçmez.

Una di queste giovani madri non era che una ragazzina e mi fece male al cuore leggere quella sofferenza e pensare che scaturiva dall'animo di una bambina, un animo che non avrebbe dovuto ancora conoscere il dolore, ma soltanto la gioia del mattino della vita.

while Shiegra, the lioness, often crept stealthily into Necile's bower and purred softly as she lay beside the babe and fed it.

For a moment, it appeared that her foster mother would comfort her or pat her on the shoulder. Good girl, Liesel. Good girl. Pat, pat, pat. She did no such thing. Instead, Rosa Hubermann stood up, selected a wooden spoon, and held it under Liesel's nose. It was a necessity as far as she was concerned.

Society readily accepts that a father can't be expected to raise a child alone, without help; yet a mother is completely different. For a mother to claim she couldn't do it, well, that's unacceptable.

One day she would recall this very twilit evening and the sight of her children dancing on the shore and then... Yes, then she would wish she had stopped to hold their chubby hands and play tag along with them.

But she had the chance now to make things right, at least for her daughter. She may have done a lot of things wrong, but the decision to give up her child would be the one responsible, unselfish act of her life. It was the best thing she'd ever done. But it felt like the worst.

A woman saw those turtle tears and instinctively knew that the turtle mother wept for her children. A mother knew of all the predators that awaited her young, of the swift currents that might lead them astray, of the dazzle of dangerous lights, of the complicated nets that could entangle them and of the many years of solitary swimming. She wept because she could not protect them from their fate.

You don't have to say thank you. I'm your mother. It's my job. My pleasure.

Stop what you're doing and observe your children! Lovie wanted to say to the young mother. Quick, set aside your chores and turn your head. See how they laugh with such abandon? Only the very young can laugh like that. Look how they are giving you clues to who they are.

But now her children were grown-up and she felt every inch of the distance between them, stretching further over the years.

If now the all-mother sends forth her children without protection to a thousand threatening dangers, this can only be because she knows that if they fall they fall back into her womb, where they are safe; therefore their fall is a mere jest.

What was it that gave Ammu this Unsafe Edge? This air of unpredictability? It was what she had battling inside her. An unmixable mix. The infinite tenderness of motherhood and the reckless rage of a suicide bomber.