Motherhood Quotes

“Give me a different set of mothers and I will give you a different world”

“A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.”

“And because I love this lifeI know I shall love death as wellThe child cries out whenFrom the right breast the motherTakes it away, in the very next momentTo find in the left oneIts consolation.”

“As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.”

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

“Any sane person would have left long ago. But I cannot. I have my sons.”

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

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

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

“A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's.”

“Being a mother is the hardest job on earth. Women everywhere must declare it so.”

“All mothers are working mothers.”

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

“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.”

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

“All I ever learned at my mother's knee was what a bony knee looked like.”

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

“Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.”

“To play down mothering as small is to crack the very foundation on which greatness stands.”

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

“Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.”

“What least makes a mother is biology.”

“Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.”

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

“Women been gittin' pregnant ever since Eve ate that apple.”