Quotes About Transition

It's not just the making of babies, but the making of mothers that midwives see as the miracle of birth.

Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.

The night kissed the fading day With a whisper: "I am death, your mother, From me you will get new birth."

One word I had throughout the first year and a half of my mother's death was 'unmoored.' I felt that I had no anchor, that I had no home in the world.

People always ask me: 'When is the new Pele going to be born?' Never. My father and mother have closed the factory.

Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.

Mama, you taught me to do the right things / So now you have to let your baby fly / You've given me everything that I will need / To make it through this crazy thing called life

A mother's job... is very much to hold back the coming of manhood.

If the mother can't break the attachment, they say that the baby can't leave this world. For him to be happy in a good place you must send the child that you must send... and you must live.

When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else.

Suddenly she was here. And I was no longer pregnant; I was a mother. I never believed in miracles before.

Thou two-faced year, Mother of Change and Fate...

I have lovely memories of Los Angeles in the 1930s. I came down to live with my mother's cousin and they invited me to come and go to junior college for a year.

Mother my friends are no longer my friends And the games we once played have no meaning I've gone serious and shy and they can't figure why So they've left me to my own daydreaming.

I lost my mother when I was very young, and my father when I was in college.

When my mother and my grandmother died three months apart, I knew my world was over.

My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's when I was shipped to Los Angeles to live with an aunt.

I'm not sure I make old bones in parliament. It's an amazing experience to have had but I can't see myself being Mother of the House.

My mother couldn't have been happier when I said I was moving to New York.

Mother sighed with exasperation. "Look, there aren't any "people in charge of death". When you die you move to another part of London, that's all there is to it. Period.

When I was in second grade, my mother moved from Miami to this evangelical conservative environment in western North Carolina, two miles down the road from Billy Graham and his wife, Ruth.

My mom does not exist anymore, and I cannot see my mother in myself. To me, the word "mother" is the synonym for the words "parting" or "separation" or "farewell."

Once, I was my mother's daughter. Now I am my daughter's mother.

You [meaning mothers] said good-bye a little every day -- from the minute they left your body until they left your home.