Motherhood Quotes

A sick child is always the mother's property; her own feelings generally make it so.

I live for my sons. I would be lost without them.

I've always felt there are two things a woman should never do after the age of thirty-five: stand in natural light and have a baby.

I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man, And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of a man.

Don't call me an icon. I'm just a mother trying to help.

There are great parents of small children - they keep their little hair in bows - but those parents are not always good parents of young adults. As soon as their children get up to some size, it's "Shut up, sit down, you talk too much, keep your distance, I'll send you to Europe!" My mom was a terrible parent of small children but a great parent of young adults. She'd talk to me as if I had some sense.

I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties.

No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.

On the way to the delivery room, I almost changed my mind about having a baby. I wouldn't have found it so hard to go ahead with it if I had realized that having a baby was the only way I could ever become a grandmother.

Women should be respected as well! Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn't women have their share? Soldiers and war heroes are honored and commemorated, explorers are granted immortal fame, martyrs are revered, but how many people look upon women too as soldiers?...Women, who struggle and suffer pain to ensure the continuation of the human race, make much tougher and more courageous soldiers than all those big-mouthed freedom-fighting heroes put together!

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.

My success and everything good that I have done, I owe to my mother.

All mothers are working mothers.

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.

In every form of womanly love something of motherly love also comes to light.

Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.

I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I'm a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself - all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.

At that moment he knew what his mother was thinking, and that she loved him. But he knew, too, that to love someone means relatively little; or, rather, that love is never strong enough to find the words befitting it. Thus he and his mother would always love each other silently. And one day she--or he--would die, without ever, all their lives long, having gone farther than this by way of making their affection known.

What least makes a mother is biology.

My mom was an executive at AT&T, a global account lady. I have no idea what she did. I just know she was never home and speaks several languages.

Mother cow is in many ways better than the mother who gave us birth.

I finally understand / for a woman it ain't easy tryin to raise a man / You always was committed / A poor single mother on welfare, tell me how ya did it / There's no way I can pay you back / But the plan is to show you that I understand / You are appreciated

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

Spend at least one Mother's Day with your respective mothers before you decide on marriage. If a man gives his mother a gift certificate for a flu shot, dump him.

If men had to have babies, they would only ever have one each.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.

A mother's love liberates.

This mother needs happy, reputable children, and that one needs unhappy ones: otherwise she cannot show her kindness as a mother.

By far the most common craving of pregnant women is not to be pregnant.

No ordinary work done by a man is either as hard or as responsible as the work of a woman who is bringing up a family of small children; for upon her time and strength demands are made not only every hour of the day but often every hour of the night.

I've never been pregnant, so I just feel God didn't mean for me to have kids so that everybody else's children could be mine.

Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman.

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

That is the injustice of a woman's lot. A woman has to bring up her children; and that means to restrain them, to deny them things they want, to set them tasks, to punish them when they do wrong, to do all the unpleasant things. And then the father, who has nothing to do but pet them and spoil them, comes in when all her work is done and steals their affection from her.

By no amount of agile exercising of a wistful imagination could my mother have been called lenient. Generous she was; indulgent never. Kind, yes, permissive, never. In her world, people she accepted paddled their own canoes, pulled their own weight, put their own shoulders to their own plows and pushed like hell.

It's not at all hard to reconcile the two things if you organize your time intelligently. Even when my sons were little, I was working.

My sons...I was crazy about my sons and I think I've done a super job in bringing them up.

I have often felt that I cheated my children a little. I was never so totally theirs as most mothers are. I gave to audiences whatbelonged to my children, got back from audiences the love my children longed to give me.

A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children." from chapter VIII of Les Miserables

The ideal of womanhood in India is motherhood - that marvellous, unselfish, all - suffering, ever - forgiving mother.

It's the three pairs of eyes that mothers have to have...One pair that see through closed doors. Another in the back of her head...and, of course, the ones in front that can look at a child when he goofs up and reflect 'I understand and I love you' without so much as uttering a word.

Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein.

The most ferocious animals are disarmed by caresses to their young.

Even as a dope fiend mama. You always was a black queen mama.

My mother was the one constant in my life. When I think about my mom raising me alone when she was 20, and working and paying the bills, and, you know, trying to pursue your own dreams, I think is a feat that is unmatched.

No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.

The term 'working mother' is redundant.

A mother would have been always present. A mother would have been a constant friend; her influence would have been beyond all other.

Mothers are not the nameless, faceless stereotypes who appear once a year on a greeting card with their virtues set to prose, but women who have been dealt a hand for life and play each card one at a time the best way they know how. No mother is all good or all bad, all laughing or all serious, all loving or all angry. Ambivalence rushes through their veins.

My mother didn't get home until about seven most nights and, yes, there was a sense of being very alone after school. She gave me all the proper guidance and influences, but physically, she just couldn't be there.

Motherhood isn't just a series of contractions; it's a state of mind. From the moment we know life is inside us, we feel a responsibility to protect and defend that human being.

I will never understand children. I never pretended to. I meet mothers all the time who make resolutions to themselves. 'I'm going to ... go out of my way to show them I am interested in them and what they do. I am going to understand my children.' These women end up making rag rugs, using blunt scissors.

My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.

Who can ever measure the benefit of a mother's inspiration?

The most important job in life is being a mom.

Mother's milk leads to everything.

My mom was a terrible parent of young children. And thank God - I thank God every time I think of it - I was sent to my paternal grandmother. Ah, but my mother was a great parent of a young adult.

I don't know why no one ever thought to paste a label on the toilet-tissue spindle giving 1-2-3 directions for replacing the tissue on it. Then everyone in the house would know what Mama knows.

That's the gift that a mother can give, to make everyone feel like they are the special one.