Edwin Arnold Quotes

Gilbert put his arm about them. 'Oh, you mothers!' he said. 'You mothers! God knew what He was about when He made you.

This is motherhood for you,' said my own mother. 'Going through life with your heart outside your body.

My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.

I think that, being a mother, you would do anything for your children. Their pain is your pain; if they're in pain, you feel their pain.

Before I was a mother, when I played characters that were mothers, I used my imagination, of course.

My mother wanted to be a mother. That's the only thing she wanted from the bottom of her heart. She didn't want to be the number one actress - which she was - and she didn't want to be this great legend. All she wanted to be was a mother and she did but God took her away. So I always will empathise and sympathise with women.

A mother is a story with no beginning. That is what defines her.

[Motherhood is] the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It's huge and scary-it's an act of infinite optimism.

The hand of a bride becomes the hand of a mother. Ever so gently she cares for her precious child. Bathing, dressing, feeding, comforting-there is no hand like mother's. Nor does its tender care diminish through the years.

Motherhood is more than bearing children...It is the essence of who we are as women.

I'm a mother, so I instantly identified with what that would be like and the horror of that.

You instantly become less selfish. You can't be the biggest person in the world anymore-they are. [Motherhood] really grounds you.

A good mother is protective but not over-protective. She's patient, she's affectionate, she's playful, but above all she is supportive.

I've always wanted to be a mom. I had a great relationship with mine. I'm ready to pass on to my child all the great love that my mom had for me.

I hope, what I hope the most is to be more successful as a mother than in show business, because to be a mother is the most difficult I will ever have to do.

Motherhood is the greatest thing I've ever done in my life.

To become a mother is to learn a whole language - to relearn it, perhaps, as it was the tongue to which we were born - and hence gain entrance to a forgotten world of comprehension.

He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

My husband taught me so much about being a father. No matter what any of our children do, my husband will always believe in them, love them and accept them.

Becoming a mother is the best thing that's happened to me.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

Pregnancy is a very creative phase for me.

I think a beautiful quality that's a biological, hormonal imperative for women, whether they have children or not, is that we're built to be empathic. For me, it was finally being maternal in an appropriate way instead of trying to mommy ex-boyfriends.

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.

I got a lot of empathy from my mother growing up, and I think it prevented me from ever really just writing people off.