1,337 Quotes About Motherhood

Not accustomed to entertaining angels, are we?” he asked.

The man smiled. "Harry is unique, for he was born with a special gift of sight, with eyes able to see things that are unseen. He has talents to move matter by the sound of his voice.

Sie kaufte ihm ein Brötchen, für sich selbst einen Cappuccino im Pappbecher, und schob die Kinderkarre Richtung Fischerspark, reihte sich ein in den Treck der Ottensenser Vollwert-Mütter, die jeden Tag aus ihren Altbauwohnungen strömten, um ihren Nachwuchs zu lüften, die Einkäufe aus dem Bio-Supermarkt im Netz des Testsieger-Buggys, den Kaffeebecher in der Hand und im Fußsack aus reiner Schafwolle ein kleines Kind, das irgendetwas Durchgespeicheltes aus Vollkorn in der Hand hielt.

The journey of motherhood centers on being the person God has chosen out of all humanity and space and time to care for these souls, these beings who will exist for all eternity.

The love between man and woman is a voluntary pact in which the one who falls short is only guilty of perfidy, but when a woman has become a mother her duty is greater because nature has entrusted the human species to her. If she fails then she is a coward, unworthy and infamous.

She was their mother, their mum, their life line.

No one could decrypt a mother better than her own children, who had shared her body and therefore knew all of her secrets, anxieties, shortcomings, and buttons to push. Estefania feared nothing more than the betrayal of someone she accommodated and gave life to with her scarce resources.

What is a child but two strands of data ploughing into each other in the dark cosmos of a woman's body

But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns. She may be an ignorant creature, degraded by the system that has brutalized her from childhood; but she has a mother's instincts, and is capable of feeling a mother's agonies.