Top 71 Motherhood Parenting Quotes
#1. Through the grace shown to us in the gospel, there is something distinctly Christlike about a mother's love for her child.
Gloria Furman
#2. The greatest investment you can do in your life is in gaining time.
Pratik Patil
#4. You have to put your own oxygen mask before you put on others ... It's a good metaphor for parenting
Amanda Peet
#5. There is only one thing worse than a little baby who won't stop crying: it is a big baby who won't stop whining about it
Agona Apell
#6. In order for them to be the best they can be, my children need me to be the best version of me I can be. That means
taking charge of our lives, being strong even if I don't feel it,being brave and believing that I can make things better.
Charlotte Pearson
#7. You'll sacrifice for your child in ways you had never imagined. And they're not exciting and earth shattering ways, either. They're small, seemingly insignificant gestures that mean the world to them.
Heather McVea
#8. Now let's make Virginia Heffernan a man. Can you imagine the same kind of spittle-flecked rage directed at a busy working father who admits to feeding his kids Annie's Organic Mac & Cheese?
Emily Matchar
#9. The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
Dorothy Parker
#10. Mothers are the ultimate executives. Instead of raising profits they are raising humanity.
Virginia Burges
#11. The life of a mother is the life of a child: you are two blossoms on a single branch.
Karen Maezen Miller
#12. Out of all the things I do, I think being a mom is the most important and satisfying.
Michelle M. Pillow
#14. And since we're all adults here, let's be brutally honest-most babies are not actually attractive. In fact, they're weird and freakish looking. A large percentage of them are squinty-eyed and bald and their faces are all mushed toegther, kind of like Renee Zellweger pushed up against a glass window.
Joan Rivers
#15. Women are responsible for the people in the family having pants.
Heidi Julavits
#16. These girls probably use double negatives and watch "A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila" with their babies instead of reading Eric Carle.
Natalie Taylor
#17. The joy of motherhood comes in moments ... Families need unstructured time when relationships can deepen and real parenting can take place. Take time to listen, to laugh, and to play together.
M. Russell Ballard
#19. Reflection can be painful, but reflection can also be productive.
Charlotte Pearson
#20. There's not a lot I can fix for her anymore. Band-Aid and bedtime story days are almost over. This, I can fix with a simple Welcome.
Sarah Addison Allen
#21. I'm beginning to perceive motherhood as a long, slow letting go, of which birth is just the first step.
Sandra Steingraber
#22. (24/7) once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.
Jodi Picoult
#23. It's the curse of motherhood. You're required to love us even when we vex you.
Julia Quinn
#24. Our children want more than presents, that want our PRESENCE.
Heather Schuck
#25. I wondered how long it took for a baby to become yours, for familiarity to set in. Maybe as long as it took a new car to lose that scent, or a brand-new house to gather dust. Maybe that was the process more commonly described as bonding: the act of learning your child as well as you know yourself.
Jodi Picoult
#26. Once your baby arrives, the world is no more the same than you are. Because from our very bodies we add to the collective human destiny. Our deepest urge is always toward life, to wholeness and well being.
Claire Fontaine
#27. My greatest hope is to be a mother who loves Jesus with a deep and abiding affection that joyfully overflows to my children.
Melissa B. Kruger
#28. Talk to her about sex, and start early. It will probably be a bit awkward, but it is necessary.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#29. If something happened to Gillian, I'd rip the world down to save her, even if she spat in my face when I did. That's what parenthood means.
Seanan McGuire
#31. If she was liquid, she would drink her; if she was a gas, she would breathe her; if she was a pill, she would down her'; if she was a dress, she would wear her; a plate, she would lick her clean.
Maggie O'Farrell
#32. Yes it's true, you wake the child inside of you up because you're a Mom!
Sandra Chami Kassis
#33. The health of your future kids does not start with their birth - it starts with you, right now, well before you plan to impregnate your wife.
Pratik Patil
#34. No occupation in this world is more trying to soul and body than the care of young children. What patience and wisdom, skill and unlimited love it calls for. God gave the work to mothers and furnished them for it, and they cannot shirk it and be guiltless.
Isabella MacDonald Alden
#35. You don't need to be primary caregiver of your children to be of primary influence in their lives. What you do for them behind the scenes in your own unique way is what makes the true difference in the long run.
Miya Yamanouchi
#36. For a child, it is in the simplicity of play that the complexity of life is sorted like puzzle pieces joined together to make sense of the world.
L.R. Knost
#37. I would be the first to admit that my maternal instincts are not well developed
though in defense I must add that the raising of Ramses would have discouraged any woman.
Elizabeth Peters
#38. Increased responsibility for babies and young children has proved just as restrictive, if not more so, than sexism in the home or in the workplace.
Elisabeth Badinter
#39. Even with men doing more parenting than before, the majority of women are still left facing the well-rehearsed motherhood-versus-career dichotomy. But it's not a dichotomy; its a socially organized choice masquerading as a natural one.
Meghan Daum
#40. Motherhood:
The most exhausting, emotional, rewarding
and life-enhancing journey a woman can take.
Charlotte Pearson
#41. Too many times I'd left him reaching for me, from a babysitter's arms. "Am I still a mother?" I asked myself ... What parts of the day could I cut out and still give him enough? Paul never asked himself that. He thought he was a great dad.
Mona Simpson
#42. Prioritise self-care & incorporate a MINIMUM of 60 mins 'ME TIME' into your daily routine.
YES THERE ARE enough hours in the day.
NO EXCUSES.
Miya Yamanouchi
#43. Love had still seemed like such a paltry thing in the face of all my doubts then, much the way it felt now. David had worries my love couldn't touch, fears my love couldn't easily dispel. My love seemed like a well-worn blanket instead of the titanium shield I needed.
Andrea Lochen
#44. I had three children while doing a show, as demanding as 'Good Morning America,' so this is - you know, it's almost like I'm less daunted about motherhood, and parenting at this point in time. And I think I'm just much more fit and healthy than I was 20-years-ago.
Joan Lunden
#45. I snap and storm around and then spend long nights thinking of the most damaged adults I know and wondering if my particular brand of maternal fuckups are how they ended up like that.
Kelly Corrigan
#46. My rugrats give me gifts that say "#1 Mom" on them and I'm like, bwhahahahaha, joke's on you, I'm more like the #1,297,279 Mom. But they truly think I'm the best mom on earth. And that's all that matters.
Karen Alpert
#47. At first parenthood was as I had expected, exhausting, sometimes heinous, and occasionally divine. I held my children close enough to feel them breathe, laugh, swallow.
Kelly Corrigan
#48. Breasts are a scandal because they shatter the border between motherhood and sexuality.
Iris Marion Young
#49. Indra believed that the birth of each of her sons had been accompanied by a sign... With Sarva, overnight her cascading black hair showed a thick clutch of grey. He was the child she would struggle most with.
Rohini Mohan
#50. My parents hated me. All I ever heard was, "Why can't you be like your cousin Shelia? Why can't you be like your cousin Shelia?" Shelia had died at birth.
Joan Rivers
#51. Be a full person. Motherhood is a glorious gift, but do not define yourself solely by motherhood. Be a full person. Your child will benefit from that.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#52. Leah: I want those gubs Mommy.
Kate: They're not 'gubs' they're 'gloves'
Aaden and Leah try and say gloves
Leah: Gloves!
Kate: Good job!
Aaden: Gubs!
Kate: No
Kate Gosselin
#53. Your proudest moment is to watch your egg not just function, but to achieve on her own.
Joan Rivers
#54. Mothering you is the first thing of consequence I have ever done.
Kelly Corrigan
#55. Having a kid is like an industrial revolution of the emotions. Suddenly you can mass produce worry, and guilt.
S.K. Tremayne
#56. Let go of your daughter with grace and you'll find her calling on you with joy.
Cheryl Barker
#57. With children the clock is reset. We forget what came before
Jhumpa Lahiri
#58. The danger of motherhood. you relive your early self, through the eyes of your mother.
Joyce Carol Oates
#59. My earliest childhood memory was watching my parents loosen the wheels on my stroller.
Joan Rivers
#60. Throughout history, the most brutal cultures have always been distinguished by maternal-infant separation.
Antonella Gambotto-Burke
#62. If I measure each day by my list, the days are not always very good, but when I look at each day like it is their day too, because it is their day, well, then most days are better. A lot better.
Ashlee Gadd
#63. One day his fingers will grow knobby, he will start to sag. I pray to the goddesses, the gods, the eggs, the clouds, the trees. I pray to the wind that he will grow old and die well.
Jessica Bates
#64. Maggie had learned a long time ago that each day with a child was filled with two kinds of battles: those that won the war, and those that did not.
Sydney Strand
#65. But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run.
Barbara Kingsolver
#66. I hope someday she meets just the right man and has babies - a whole passel of babies, more than I could have - so she understands how it kills me now that she won't let me hug her when she's in obvious distress. (The Life You've Imagined)
Kristina Riggle
#67. Now I know I'll never be numb again. A mother is condemned to feel everything forever. And I'm finally afraid, condemned to fear everything forever. But that makes sense: feel someone else's pain, feel someone else's everything.
And he's my baby, so everything's okay.
Kristin Hersh
#68. Twelve "shame categories" have emerged from my research: Appearance and body image Money and work Motherhood/fatherhood Family Parenting Mental and physical health Addiction Sex Aging Religion Surviving trauma Being stereotyped or labeled
Brene Brown
#69. Look Beyond Motherhood and Parenting; Focus on the uniqueness of every Child.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#70. It's not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It's our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless.
L.R. Knost
#71. Remember that every child and every parent has a completely unique and special rela- tionship. That child knows his dad and loves his dad. Our job is to watch that communication, to nurture it, and to support the parents in their heart-to-heart relationships with their children
Vimala McClure
