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Quotes About Motherhood

A mighty power and stronger Man from his throne has hurled,For the hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand that rules the world.
~ William Ross Wallace
No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love.
~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Even though mother's issues are not front page news they touch us all personally, some more than others and I believe passionately in the power of grassroots engagement.
~ Joan Blades
Give her a day, and then in return Momma gives you the other 364.
~ Will Rogers
Mothers are the only race of people that speak the same tongue.
~ Will Rogers
But mostly, when I look back, what I remember is not Mom rushing about; it's Mom sitting quietly in the center of the house, in the living room, under the swirling colors of a Paul Jenkins painting; there would be a fire in the fireplace and a throw over her lap, her hands sticking out to hold a book. And we all wanted to be there with her and Dad, reading quietly too.
~ Will Schwalbe
even the stay-at-home mothers subjected their kids to a kind of benign neglect back then.
~ Will Schwalbe
day, and we thank you for life and for all things. You are our mother. You feed us, you clothe us, you shelter us, and you comfort us. For this we thank you and honor you.
~ William Kent Krueger
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
woman marries, falls out of love with her husband after a time, and then if a male child arrives, shifts her passion from father to son. Something
~ William McBrien
The most difficult part of being a mother was to observe the mistakes of one's children: the foolish loves, the desperate solitude and alienation, the lack of will, the gullibility, the joyous and naive leaps into the unknown, the ignorance, the panicky choices and the utter determination.
~ David Bergen
What is a woman? Her brothers' sister, her father's daughter, Her husband's wife, her children's mother
~ David Elliott
How powerful is the influence of a mother! The bond between mother and child seems to be God-designed, the perfect union of potential and the power to make it spring forth. The simple, daily influences of prayer, persuasion, and promoting of godly values are the most powerful tools a mother can use to unleash the potential of her children.
~ David Jeremiah
God was conceived of a most pure Virgin ... it was fitting that the virgin should be radiant with a purity so great that a greater purity cannot be conceived.
~ Anselm of Canterbury
The womb is like an altar, it's the place where God continually comes into the world and does what only God can do...create.
~ Peter Kreeft
Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.
~ Helen Hunt Jackson
Abortion is murder in the womb...A child is a gift of God. If you do not want him, give him to me.
~ Mother Teresa
On her son Rene: Oh my God, when he's 20 years old what's going to happen to me? I'm gonna marry him.
~ Celine Dion
Don't poets know it Better than others? God can't be always everywhere: and, so, Invented Mothers
~ Edwin Arnold
This Great God, Like a mammy bending over her baby, Kneeled down in the dust Toiling over a lump of clay Till He shaped it in His own image.
~ James Weldon Johnson
I always say God should have given women one extra decade at least, especially if you want a family. You're trying to pack a lot in.
~ Christine Baranski
Our mothers put God first when they fill their highest mission within the walls of their own homes.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
God, my brain really goes to mush when I'm pregnant.
~ Kate Winslet
I'm proud of being a mother, a wife, a daughter, and a sister, and a lover and a friend We're all God's children.
~ Whitney Houston