Hi Mama! Are you also pregnant during Covid-19 and in need of some inspiration? That’s great! Because today I’ve decided to gather the best pregnancy and motherhood quotes I’ve found lately.
Feel free to use them on your baby’s album or as social media captions. And if you find other quotes you love, please do share those in the comments section below!
Creating life is quite something, hein? Nothing has inspired me more than the idea of having a tiny human being in constant transformation inside my womb. I bet you know exactly what I mean.
Nothing is worth more than this day. – J. W. Goethe
I’ll love you forever, I’ll like you for always. As long as I’m living, my baby you’ll be. – Robert Munsch
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. – Kahlil Gibran
When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments: tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become. – Louis Pasteur
What’s done to children, they will do to society. – Karl Menninger
Pregnancy defined is: getting company inside one’s skin. – Maggie Scarf
Once you bring life into this world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world. – Elie Weisel
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. – Theodore Hesburgh
Children are travelers newly arrived in a strange country; we should therefore make conscience not to mislead them. – John Locke
There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. – English proverb
One of the obvious facts about grown-ups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child. – Randall Jarrell
The Hebrew word for “parents” is horim, and it comes from the same root as moreh, teacher. The parent is, and remains, the first and most important teacher that the child will ever have. – Rabbi Kassel Abelson
Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life. – Muriel Spark
The illusions of childhood are necessary experiences: a child should not be denied a balloon because an adult knows that sooner or later it will burst. – Marcelene Cox
Never try to make your son or daughter another you; one is enough! – Arnold Glasow
Children are natural mimics – they act like their parents in spite of every attempt to teach them good manners. – anonymous
Definition: fairy tale, n. A horror story to prepare children for newspapers. – Ambrose Bierce
Listen to little children carefully and you will learn great things. – G. Weinberg
Who takes the child by the hand takes the mother by the heart. – German Proverb
Whatever you are, be a good one. – William Makepeace Thackeray
People who say they sleep like a baby usually don’t have one. – Leo J. Burke
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 adults. – William Attwood
Let your children go if you want to keep them. – Malcom Forbes
One of the virtues of being very young is that you don’t let the facts get in the way of your imagination. – Sam Levenson
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything grows rounder and wider and weirder, and I sit here in the middle of it all and wonder who in the world you will turn out to be. – Carrie Fisher
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
You never understand life until it grows inside of you. – Sandra C. Kassis
Pregnancy is the only time when you can do nothing at all and still be productive. – Evan Esar
“What if I fail?” “Oh, but my darling, what if you fly?” – Erin Hanson
Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one. – Jane Howard
Whether your pregnancy was meticulously planned, medically coaxed, or happened by surprise, one thing is certain – your life will never be the same. – Catherine Jones
We have a secret in our culture, and it’s not that birth is painful. It’s that women are strong. – Laura Stavoe Harmi
The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new. – Osho
A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made. – Sammy Davis Jr.
Whether you’re embarking on the motherhood journey yourself or you are just looking for inspiration, I hope you’ve enjoyed these meticulously selected pregnancy and motherhood quotes.