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Quotes About Motherhood

My mother's gifts of courage to me were both large and small. The latter are woven so subtly into the fabric of my psyche that I can hardly distinguish where she stops and I begin.
~ Maya Angelou, Mom & Me & Mom
It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?
~ Mahatma Gandhi
All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother.
~ Abraham Lincoln
You can't know how much a mother loves.
~ Jessica Fortunato, Steam
When you feel neglected, think of the female salmon, who lays 3, 000, 000 eggs but no one remembers her on Mother's Day
~ Sam Ewing
Being a mother must be the saddest yet the most hopeful thing in the world, falling into a love that, once started, would never end.
~ Yiyun Li
Being a mother and grandmother is the best of the best in my life. My grandchildren multiply the joy my daughters bring me.
~ Alexandra Stoddard
Grandmam came back from that distance in time that separates grandmothers from their grandchildren and made herself a mother to me.
~ Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter
Then I became a mother and it just fills every space, that isn't filled with something else important. It's just like this incredible balloon that blows up and fills life up.
~ Thandie Newton
I'd rather be the protector than the protected. I'm naturally the protector - being a mother and having a famous family. You have to navigate when it's right to protect.
~ Solange Knowles
Being a mother of two myself - and two small girls - I think that single parenting is hard.
~ Sarah Clarke
I want to be more successful as a mother than I am in show business.
~ Celine Dion
In the beginning, Adam was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow - not Eve. Contrary to conventional wisdom, a mother's place is in the home!
~ Ezra Taft Benson
My mother never said to lose weight. Diets were never a big deal. My mom was always beautiful and voluptuous and curvy, and I always thought she was gorgeous.
~ Christina Hendricks
My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting' to do all the things that she would have wanted to have done.
~ Buck Owens
In between films I like to travel and hope to visit every continent before I become a mother.
~ Diane Kruger
My entire life changed when I became a mother - my priorities, my understanding, appreciation of life, and my relationship with God.
~ Kourtney Kardashian
I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.
~ Meryl Streep
My mother told me I was dancing before I was born. She could feel my toes tapping wildly inside her for months.
~ Ginger Rogers
Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I'm singing her music or not.
~ Nina Simone
I apply the same amount of dedication to being a mom as I do to my music...
~ Shakira
The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
~ G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
They do say breastfeeding is nature's lipo.
~ Ana Ortiz
You're either a really good hooker or a really good mom. That kind of conflicted nature is very much a part of being a woman.
~ Charlize Theron