Sometimes it's difficult to put all the feelings about pregnancy and becoming a parent into words... thankfully, some people have already done it for you! Here are some of my favorite quotes about pregnancy, childbirth and parenting.
-- Mary Mason
Life is always a rich and steady time when you are waiting for something to happen or to hatch.
-- E.B. White, Charlotte's Web
Life is tough enough without having someone kick you from the inside.
-- Rita Rudner
Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
-- Elizabeth Stone
There is only one pretty child in the world and every mother has it.
-- Chinese Proverb
Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever-fresh and radiant possibility.
-- Kate Douglas Wiggin
To be pregnant is to be vitally alive, thoroughly woman, and undoubtedly inhabited.
-- Anne Buchanan & Debra Klingsporn
Before you were conceived I wanted you. Before you were born I loved you. Before you were here an hour I would die for you. This is the miracle of Mother's Love.
-- Maureen Hawkins
Whenever I held my newborn baby in my arms, I used to think that what I said and did to him could have an influence not only on him but on all whom he met, not only for a day or a month or a year, but for all eternity - a very challenging and exciting thought for a mother.
-- Rose Kennedy
The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
-- Jill Churchill
If you have never been hated by your child you have never been a parent.
-- Bette Davis
We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.
-- Roy L. Smith
There are three reasons for breast-feeding: the milk is always at the right temperature; it comes in attractive containers; and the cat can't get it.
-- Irena Chalmers
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings.
-- Hodding Carter, Jr.
When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out.
-- Erma Bombeck
Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he's really in trouble.
-- Dennis Fakes
In pregnancy, there are two bodies, one inside the other. Two people live under one skin.... When so much of life is dedicated to maintaining our integrity as distinct beings, this bodily tandem is an uncanny fact.
-- Joan Raphael-Leff
Babies are such a nice way to start people.
-- Don Herrold
Life is a flame that is always burning itself out, but it catches fire again every time a child is born.
-- George Bernard Shaw
To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.
-- Josh Billings
Raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare.
-- Ed Asner
A new baby is like the beginning of all things-wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities.
-- Eda J. Le Shan
Think of stretch marks as pregnancy service stripes.
-- Joyce Armor
I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.
-- Madonna
You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.
-- John Plomp
You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around - and why his parents will always wave back.
-- William D. Tammeus
Pregnancy is a kind of miracle. Especially so in that it proves that a man and woman can conspire to force God to create a new soul.
-- Robert Anton Wilson
The only time a women wishes she was a year older is when she’s expecting a baby.
-- Mary Marsh
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg
Babies are always more trouble than you thought - and more wonderful.
-- Charles Osgood
Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
-- Jesse Jackson
Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.
-- Bill Cosby
If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it. I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle.
-- Vincent van Gogh
People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one.
-- Leo J. Burke
Insanity is hereditary - you get it from your kids.
-- Sam Levenson
Being a mother, as far as I can tell, is a constantly evolving process of adapting to the needs of your child while also changing and growing as a person in your own right.
-- Deborah Insel
Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it.
-- Marshall McLuhan
A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men.
-- Martin Fraquhar Tupper
If a child is to keep his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.
-- Rachel Carlson
"Sometimes", said Pooh, "the smallest things take up the most room in your heart."
-- Winnie the Pooh
Every child begins the world again.
-- Henry David Thoreau
A woman can learn a lot from holding a new baby. It is life beginning again — sweet possibilities! No problem in the world is big enough to be remembered.
-- Susan McOmber
The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.
-- Benjamin McLane Spock
A person soon learns how little he knows when a child begins to ask questions.
-- Richard L. Evans
When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. You are connected to your child and to all those who touch your lives. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
-- Sophia Loren
When babies look beyond you and giggle, maybe they're seeing angels.
-- Eileen Elias Freeman
No one knows how children will turn out; a great tree often springs from a tender plant.
-- Norwegian proverb
The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants.
-- Shakespeare
The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.
-- Frank A. Clark
Don't demand respect as a parent. Demand civility and insist on honesty. But respect is something you must earn - with kids as well as with adults.
-- William Attwood
It was the tiniest thing I ever decided to put my whole life into.
-- Terri Guillemets
If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.
-- Lawrence Housman
If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?
-- Milton Berle
If your baby is beautiful and perfect, never cries or fusses, sleeps on schedule and burps on demand, an angel all the time, you're the grandma.
-- Theresa Bloomingdale
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
-- Harold Hulbert
It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.
-- Joyce Maynard
I looked on childrearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully interesting and challenging as any honourable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.
-- Rose Kennedy
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
-- Henry Ward Beecher
Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
The best thing to spend on your children is your time.
-- Louise Hart
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