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Quotes About Motherhood

Always a godmother, never a mother. That sucks. I've got to get me one of those little accessories.
~ Courteney Cox
Basic Instincts It's the way mother birds build nests, and build them high enough to elude
~ T. D. Jakes
Don't let's go to the dogs tonight, For mother will be there.
~ A. P. Herbert
As we know, our own mother bore us only into pain and dying. But our true mother, Jesus, who is all love, bears us into joy and endless living. Blessed may he be.
~ Julian of Norwich
My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor.
~ Antonia Fraser
Every time you drink a glass of milk or eat a piece of cheese, you harm a mother. Please go vegan.
~ Gary L. Francione
We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.
~ F. H. Bradley
And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago - by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me.
~ Michelle Obama
My mother's one idea was to sacrifice her life to her children and she had done nothing else since the death of my father. We wished that she had married again instead.
~ Peggy Guggenheim
I'd had my daughter when I was a teenager - I took my daughter to college with me.
~ Loni Anderson
The kind of power mothers have is enormous.
~ Angela Carter
My daughter teases me once in a while saying, Remember when you used to be my mother and you had black hair?
~ Loni Anderson
You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of the family.
~ Ethel Waters
The unborn baby, though enclosed in the womb of its mother, is already a human being, and should not be robbed of the life which it has not yet begun to enjoy.
~ John Calvin
A father may turn his back on his child, … . but a mother's love endures through all.
~ Washington Irving
Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy.
~ Tina Fey
With three boys in the house, my mother was always on us when growing up about keeping our faces clean, washing behind our ears, and brushing our teeth. So I still take my morning routine seriously.
~ Cam Newton
Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues - faith and hope.
~ Charles Dickens
No daughter and mother ever live apart, no matter what the distance between them.
~ Christie Watson
Soup not only warms you and is easy to swallow and to digest, it also creates the illusion in the back of your mind that Mother is there.
~ Marlene Dietrich
I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.
~ Elizabeth Taylor
I love being a mother. I loved being a daughter, a sister, a wife. I love being a woman with men. I love having given birth.
~ Jessica Lange
Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein.
~ Victor Hugo
The greatest job that any mother will ever do will be in nurturing, teaching, lifting, encouraging and rearing her children in righteousness and truth. None other can adequately take her place.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley