(76 quotes found)
“With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.”
Isadora Duncan
“Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness”
Thomas Jefferson
“Motherhood has relaxed me in many ways. You learn to deal with crisis. I've become a juggler, I suppose. It's all a big circus, and nobody who knows me believes I can manage, but sometimes I do.”
Jane Seymour
“I stand fearlessly for small dogs, the American Flag, motherhood and the Bible. That's why people love me.”
Art Linkletter
“In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.”
June Jordan
“He that hath a wife and children must not sit with his fingers in his mouth”
Proverb
“Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“The only thing that seems eternal and natural in motherhood is ambivalence”
Jane Lazarre
“Like a midwife, I make my living bringing new babies into the world, except that mine are new advertising campaigns.”
David Ogilvy
“I had a dozen years to act before starting a family then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value.”
Sissy Spacek
