25 Quotes About Being a Godparent

Being a Godparent comes with a certain level of expectations and responsibilities. Not only are you responsible for their spiritual growth as they get older, but you may certainly stand next in line in case something happens to the parents. This is a serious position to many. Here is a look at some of the best quotes about being a godparent to encourage you.

“After being so bad I could hear the angels singing.”

“After years of watching my parents -I always assumed marriage meant loving someone so much that you were blind to everything and everyone else. And when your eyes were finally opened you’d hate that person so much that all you wanted was to see them hurt, no matter what it cost.”

“Always a godmother, never a mother. That sucks. I’ve got to get me one of those little accessories.”

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”

“But being quiet and meditating on sound is something completely different and will be discovered very soon by a lot of people who feel that the visual world doesn’t reach their soul anymore.”

“‘Granted’ is about a lively young woman who does a fairy godmother a good turn and is given a wish as her reward.”

“Her godmother simply touched her with her wand, and, at the same moment, her clothes were turned into cloth of gold and silver, all decked with jewels.”

“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.”

“I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.”

“I love being reminded that existence itself is all about the tangling of souls.”

“I love writing on trains. The joy of being a writer is it’s all in your head; you don’t need materials apart from the laptop. It’s like taking your work home with you, so you can feel grounded in your own insane writerly realities wherever you are.”

“I mean there are tons of reasons. Well first of all. I write my own record. I don’t take other people’s materials. And I have a job which is being Willa Ford on top of getting back in the studio and writing and recording.”

“I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.”

“I’m not sure I would be a good godmother. I have read about it, and I found that the godmother’s position is to take care of the morals of the child. I don’t know how good I would be at that.”

“I’ve been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything.”

“Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I’m most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.”

“Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I’m most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.”

“My deceased grandmother on my mom’s side was a real fairy godmother, who lived to be 102 and who I always feel is looking after me.”

“People called me the godmother of punk, but I never name myself anything.”

“Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over.”

“The idea that somebody else is going to swoop down and play the fairy godmother role is pretty unlikely, so why not take care of yourself?”

“There was this lynx at a zoo that was called Tove, and that I totally fell in love with. It was my dear godmother who decided to call me Tove Lo, after that lynx. It stuck.”

“Through the bars he had laid eyes on a face like glass, somebody who could not lie without it being obvious. And he had seen a way of using that very fact to tell the greatest of lies.”

“Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain… To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices – today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.”

“Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed…It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a human being denied individuality.”

One of the biggest questions to consider when choosing a Godparent of your child is whether they need to be religious or not.