Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's.

MOTHER (a word that means the world to me)

When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth.

Children love their mothers. Especially with a boy child and his mother, there's a bond that's unbreakable. I love my mother to this day.

I love and appreciate the bonding time with Mason. Nursing is surprisingly one of my favorite things.

I love nursing my babies. It's such a special bond for me.

I felt so much closer to my mother after I had babies. It bonds a mother and daughter more.

Was it the act of giving birth that made you a mother? Did you lose that label when you relinquished your child? If people were measured by their deeds, on the one hand, I had a woman who had chosen to give me up; on the other, I had a woman who'd sat up with me at night when I was sick as a child, who'd cried with me over boyfriends, who'd clapped fiercely at my law school graduation. Which acts made you more of a mother? Both, I realized. Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.

I took her into bed with me and propped myself up with pillows against the headboard to let her nurse. As she nursed and the milk came, she began a little low contented sort of singing. I would feel milk and love flowing from me to her as once it had flowed to me. It emptied me. As the baby fed, I seemed slowly to grow empty of myself, as if in the presence of that long flow of love even grief could not stand.

...for, however all other feelings may be withered in a woman's nature, there is always one bright smiling spot in the maternal breast, and that is where a dearly-beloved child is concerned.

You know it's very important, the role of a mother... I don't know, but it's feminism to me to love your kids.

I can't think why mothers love them. All babies do is leak at both ends.

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

The first time you hold your baby in your arms, I mean, a sense of strength and love washes over you. It washed over me and I never thought that possible.

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

I love my mother. I reach out to my mother.

I have this dog named Marley, and it is a kind of love I had never known. I have a hard time believing Marley did not come from my body. I know that sounds insane, but I feel that connected to her. She made me realize I wanted to adopt children.

I'm one of those hovering mothers and I know it's really important to have an independent child, so I'm trying to back off, but it's hard. I love him so much, and he's so funny and cute to me.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

The first moment I saw my wife breastfeed our daughter minutes after birth, I was hit with a thunderbolt of understanding and awe for the miracle of it all, and I still feel that way.

There's no more important bonding thing than a mother doing the daughter's hair. We sit at our mother's knee and learn who we are.

The relationship between parents and children, but especially between mothers and daughters, is tremendously powerful, scarcely to be comprehended in any rational way.

When you have children love is always there in the best form.

It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.

I love children and I love family and I love that interaction. Because I had a really close relationship with my mother, I understand that deep powerful love, and it's so beautiful. To be a mother to a child is the most brilliant gift; it's gorgeous.