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Quotes About Motherhood

The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.
~ Meryl Streep
There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.
~ Billy Sunday
I was a perfect housewife. Being a mother has always been the job I liked best. Absolutely.
~ Indira Gandhi
A female salmon lays three thousand eggs a year - and has yet to receive a Mother's Day card from one of them.
~ Joan Rivers
My mother's love was really not based on attachment. Her love was genuine love. To make me happy, not how I will make her happy.
~ Tenzin Palmo
But she named the infant "Pearl," as being of great price-purchased with all she had-her mother's only treasure!
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Like a mother who protects her child, her only child, with her own life, one should cultivate a heart of unlimited love and compassion towards all living beings.
~ Gautama Buddha
Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime...
~ William Shakespeare
I thought my mom's whole purpose was to be my mom. That's how she made me feel.
~ Natasha Gregson Wagner
Mama, you taught me to do the right things / So now you have to let your baby fly / You've given me everything that I will need / To make it through this crazy thing called life
~ Carrie Underwood
When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Give me a different set of mothers and I will give you a different world
~ Plato
I would much rather be known as the mother of a great son than the author of a great book or the painter of a great masterpiece.
~ Rose Kennedy
Who can put a pricetag on the influence of a mother?
~ L. Tom Perry
As a breastfeeding mother you are basically just meals on heels.
~ Kathy Lette
The central icon of Catholic Christianity is mother and child. That motif is so deep in not just our human experience but in our animal, biological past.
~ Robert Neelly Bellah
I have this vision that I'm really watching each one of my daughters start to become women, and mothers. And this is what's gonna save our planet.
~ Giancarlo Esposito
When an actress takes off her clothes onscreen but a nursing mother is told to leave, what message do we send about the roles of women?
~ Anna Quindlen
I gave birth to most of them MC's... So when it comes around to the month of May, Send me your royalty check for Mother's Day.
~ Roxanne Shante
Destruction of the embryo in the mother's womb is a violation of the right to live which God has bestowed upon this nascent life.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
When mothers know who they are and who God is and have made covenants with Him, they will have great power and influence for good on their children.
~ Julie B. Beck
My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their father died.
~ Mary Augusta Ward
In modern Britain the most dangerous place to be is in your mother's womb. It should be a place of sanctity.
~ Edward Leigh
Mothers of today have no greater opportunity and no more serious challenge than to do all they can to strengthen the home.
~ L. Tom Perry