Motherhood

As I was (attempting to) clean the bedroom, I came across a book that I'd been given of quotes about Motherhood. I think it's timely to share some of them:

Motherhood brings as much joy as ever, but it still brings boredom, exhaustion, and sorrow too. Nothing else ever will make you as happy or as sad, as proud or as tired, for nothing is quite as hard as helping a person develop his own individuality especially while you struggle to keep your own. - Marguerite Kelly & Elia Parsons

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. - William Makepeace Thackeray

Motherhood is the biggest on-the-job training scheme in the world. - Erma Bombeck

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. - Sophia Loren

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers. - Edgar Watson Howe

Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. - Elizabeth Stone

There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one. - Jill Churchill

They say that man is mighty
He governs land and sea;
He wields a mighty scepter
O'er lesser powers that be;
And the hand that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that rules the world. - William Ross Wallace