Quotes on Motherhood


Share these cute quotes and words on motherhood with the new Mom. Becoming a Mother is a wonderful thing but there are times when they need support and encouragement. The quotations ands sayings here are ones that should inspire and make them smile.

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. Rajneesh

Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in my field, since the payment is pure love. Mildred B. Vermont

A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people,
promptly announces she never did care for pie. Tenneva Jordan

No one who traces the history of motherhood, of the home, of child-rearing practices will ever assume the eternal permanence of our own way of institutionalizing them. Jessie Bernard

Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions -- requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs -- there was no attention given to preparation for this office. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. Honoré de Balzac

She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along. Margaret Culkin Banning

Motherhood is priced of God, at price no man may dare to lessen or misunderstand. Helen Hunt Jackson

If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands? Milton Berle

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. Aristotle

All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother. Abraham Lincoln

Becoming a mother makes you the mother of all children. From now on each wounded, abandoned, frightened child is yours. You live in the suffering mothers of every race and creed and weep with them. You long to comfort all who are desolate. Charlotte Gray

Making the decision to have a child-it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. Elizabeth Stone

Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother. Lin Yutang

Mother's arms are made of tenderness, and sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein.
Victor Hugo

Motherhood - What a glorious career! Author Unknown

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine, desert us when troubles thicken around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts. Washington Irving

Motherhood brings as much joy as ever, but it still brings boredom, exhaustion, and sorrow too. Nothing else ever will make you as happy or as sad, as proud or as tired, for nothing is quite as hard as helping a person develop his own individuality especially while you struggle to keep your own. Marguerite Kelly, Elia Parsons

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more cute quotes on motherhood:

Motherhood is neither a duty nor a privilege, but simply the way that humanity can satisfy the desire for physical immortality and triumph over the fear of death. Rebecca West

Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent. Barbara Ehrenreich

Nothing else will ever make you as happy or as sad, as proud or as tired, as motherhood. Elia Parsons

Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? - It is you, my mother. Thomas Carlyle

The world of motherhood: a wonderful place where you could spend all day just watching the precious little creature who has entered your life. Polly Blair