Quotes About Motherhood

Finding out I was pregnant was one of the most joyous moments in my life. I will never forget it.

I've never lived my life in the opinion of others. I believe I'm a good person. I believe I'm a good mom. But that's for my kids to decide, not for the world.

I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.

Even today, you get criticized if you're staying at home, because you're not doing enough with your life, but you get criticized for being a career woman because you're not raising your kids.

I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.

Me, Polly Garter, under the washing line, giving the breast in the garden to my bonny new baby. Nothing grows in our garden, only washing. And babies. And where's their fathers live, my love? Over the hills and far away. You're looking up at me now. I know what you're thinking, you poor little milky creature. You're thinking, you're no better than you should be, Polly, and that's good enough for me. Oh, isn't life a terrible thing, thank God?

No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother's love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over wastes of worldly fortunes sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star.

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Food, the stoking-up process, the keeping alive of an individual flame, the process that begins before birth and is continued after it by the mother, and finally taken over by the individual himself, who goes on day after day putting an assortment of objects into a hole in his face without becoming surprised or bored.

Who has not seen a frail, clinging-vine type of woman, who upon the death of her husband strainghtens up and becomes an oak, around which the growing children twine their lives, and are forever greatful for such a mother? But this strength would never have come out and developed had it not been for the tears that watered the vine and made it into an oak.

These women never cut the umbilical cord. We get raised by one woman, and then when we're ripe, we get turned over to another woman.

Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.

the noblest work a woman can do is training and rearing her children.

Some people ask if I regret not having a family. Not at all. Some women are cut out to be mommies. Some are superwomen with the stamina to do it all. I am not one of them. My elementary school math teacher was right: I would have been a lousy housewife. Instead I am lucky enough to work and interact with talented and stimulating people on a job where no day is ever the same as any other. And I get to touch thousands of people in some way.

Así como la suerte de un chico depende de la chica, la suerte de una madre depende de sus hijas.

Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do.

Mothers and daughters are closest, when daughters become mothers.

Adoption is when a child grew in its mommy's heart instead of her tummy.

Blessed is the fruit of thy womb.

Mommies are just big little girls.

It's not easy being a mother. If it were easy, fathers would do it.

Mother knows breast.

Breast milk is better than any udder milk!