Quotes About Motherhood

A mother needs to be in the home even when the kids aren't. A messy house sends a coded message to children: "I'm not loveable. Otherwise Mother would dust.

There's a common saying that everybody deep at heart loves their mother, except sometimes we decide our actual mothers don't measure up. And so we look for a replacement.

The way I see it," she began, "your mother's devoted her whole life to you kids." She said "you kids" in precisely the same tone I would have used for "you infestation of cockroaches

I lost my daughter at 21. I had to give her up because I was broke, no place to take her, no money to take her. That was very traumatic.

Any man that has had a mother, has a sister, wants to be a father will find this [movie Bad Moms] incredibly eye opening and hysterical and funny.

We all carry our mothers inside us.

Sorry is the fool who ever underestimates my mother.

I have to keep reminding myself that I am their mother. Sometimes we are sitting at home and I feel like we are waiting for our mom to come home.

People often ask me when there's going to be a Mrs. Zach Braff. It's a confusing question sometimes because many people don't realize that my mother is named Mrs. Zach Braff.

Well o' course she's feelin' dandy! She's the mother o' God for the love o' Pete!

I think once you're a mother to one, you're a mother to them all.

Mother' is not an identity one can just try on for size.

I am an average mother in almost every way, so yes, much to my regret, I do yell at my children.

I hate being away even for a day. But I'm happiest when I'm working and have my own things going on, so it ultimately makes me a better mother and wife.

Every working mother struggles with the BlackBerry, knowing the boss can call.

When I had my daughter, Louisanna, two and a half years ago, I started recording every funny or sweet thing she said or did on my phone.

There's a kind of intimacy that happens between a mother and an only child. Which only gets more intimate when it's between a mother and only daughter.

This weird pressure that mothers are put under, like this idea that if you can't breastfeed, you're not doing something properly, or if you choose not to.

But one on earth is better than the wife; that is the mother.

I most want to be remembered for being as great a mother to James and Lennon as my mum was to me and my brother Jamie.

Mothers remember a child's first words, and quote them in tones usually reserved for Byron.

I see lots of differences between Australians and Americans - but as mothers, I think were pretty much alike!

I feel sexier than ever after becoming a mother.

Of the many rights of ladies, the best should be to be considered a mother.