Quotes About Motherhood

As she watched him, this tall young man with the new beard and the direwolf prowling at his heels, all she could see was the babe they had laid at her breast at Riverrun, so long ago.

Surely the Mother Above loved my children more. She took so many of them away from me.

No mother should outlive her children, and no captain should outlive his ship.

No mother loves all her children the same, not even the Mother Above.

Queen Visenya put a sword into her son's hand when he was three. Supposedly the first thing he did with the blade was butcher one of the castle cats.

As hard as birth can be, Brienne, what comes after is even harder. At times I feel as though I am being torn apart. Would that there were five of me, one for each child, so I might keep them all safe." - Lady Catelyn

For men the answer was always the same, and never farther away than the nearest sword. For a woman, a mother, the way was stonier and harder to know.

It was not just for herself that she feared now, but for her baby. He must have sensed her fright, for he moved restlessly inside her.

Robb got to his feet slowly and sheathed his sword, and Catelyn found herself wondering whether her son had ever kissed a girl in the godswood. Surely he must have. She had seen Jeyne Poole giving him moist-eyed glances, and some of the serving girls, even ones as old as eighteen . . . he had ridden in battle and killed men with a sword, surely he had been kissed. There were tears in her eyes. She wiped them away angrily.

It is simpler for her, Catelyn thought with a pang of envy. She was like a man in that. For men the answer was always the same, and never farther away than the nearest sword. For a woman, a mother, the way was stonier and harder to know.

Mevr. Cadzand feared for her son who, with his responsive nature, as sensitive as a hothouse plant, was more exposed. Fortunately religion is a means of protection, of diverting energies into other channels. Hans's mother was glad that they had cultivated his piety at the college and that she herself, with altars in the month of Mary, novenas, candles lit, rosaries recited and pilgrimages made, had further developed this faith, which keeps men safe through the fear of Hell.

It's funny, because I sometimes feel that I'm most creative when I'm pregnant.

I think it's very empowering to be able to have a career and to be a mother. It gives you an amazing sense of self.

said Mother vaguely.

God warns us not to love any earthly thing above Himself, and yet He sets in a mother's heart such a fierce passion for her babes that I do not comprehend how He can test us so.

I like life. It's something to do. Somewhere on this globe every 10 seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.

I'm a most lucky and thankful woman. Lucky and thankful for each morning I wake up. For three wonderful daughters and one son. For an understanding and very loving husband with whom I've shared fifty-two blessed years, all in good health.

The mother of all living.

There is none, In all this cold and hollow world, no fount Of deep strong, deathless love, save that within A mother's heart.

For the hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand that rules the world.

No matter how old a mother is, she still watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.

There's no such thing as a nonworking mother.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. He's more particular.