Quotes about Motherhood

How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers!

How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers!

While they were there, the time came for her Child to be born.

But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart.

A woman has pain in childbirth because her time has come; but when she brings forth her child, she forgets her anguish because of her joy that a child has been born into the world.

Women, however, will be saved through childbearing, if they continue in faith, love, and holiness, with self-control.

She was pregnant and crying out in the pain and agony of giving birth.

Mothers, stay close to your daughters. Earn and deserve their love and respect. Be united with their father in the rearing of your children. Do nothing in your life to cause your daughters to stumble because of your example.

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

All artists are mothers. To be an artist is to be a creator, whether of a symphony or a supper or a painting or a person. Motherhood is the primary art, the art of creating (procreating) people.

I wrote about the rush of love, the changing of a woman into a mother—a process that happened without conscious thought, as if the heart knew what the mind and body took time to learn. Love is the one thing that matters. That makes everything else matter. That makes everything worthwhile.

There's something magical about that time when your babies are small, when you're the center of their world, the person they love the most.