Quotes About Motherhood

When death takes your mother, it steals that word forever.

When you become a mother, you think less about yourself and care more about the world.

I want people to think about the connection between mothers and daughters. I like the idea of continuity of life and generations.

To mothers who are raising their children without a father in the home, I promise you that as you speak of Jesus Christ, you will feel the power of heaven blessing you.

In a lot of ways I was a generation ahead of my generation; I had a working mother wheneveryone else's mother was staying at home.

Daughters are supposed to be friends to their mothers in their old age.

My mother has become my daughter and I've become her guardian.

In a sense the physical connectedness that you feel with your children as a mother changes as they become independent.

My mother is the bravest human being I've ever come across.

One day treats us like a hireling nurse, another like a mother.

I never had children, never even thought I would have children. Now I have 152 daughters; expecting 75 more next year. That is some type of gestation period.

What least makes a mother is biology.

Niobe would have been called most blessed of mothers, had she not seemed so herself.

I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back.

To become a mother is to learn a whole language - to relearn it, perhaps, as it was the tongue to which we were born - and hence gain entrance to a forgotten world of comprehension.

I am a good and interested mother - which has surprised me.

It made me realize again how complicated being a mother is. You have 50 million heartbreaking moments, and 100 million beautiful, joyous ones.

One of my greatest anxieties as a mother is head injuries.

I like my body so much better after I had kids. Is that a crazy thing to say? I'm more womanly. I feel sexier.

How could I have been a wife, a mother and a singer? Who takes care of the piccolini when you go around the world? Your children would not call you Mama, but Renata.

There is an instinct in a woman to love most her own child - and an instinct to make any child who needs her love, her own.

As an expert, I can deal with complex problems. As a mother it is much, much harder.

No, my step-daughter just opened a theatre school for children, I have another daughter who works in the record industry and another who is going back to collage and I have two little ones at home.

Englishmen are not usually softened by appeals to the memory of their mothers.