#Motherhood Quotes

“Men are what their mothers made them.”

“Drawing ... is an innocent & engaging amusement, often useful, and a qualification not to be neglected in one who is to become a mother & an instructor.”

“We [women] have borne and bred and washed and taught, perhaps to the age of six or seven years, the one thousand six hundred and twenty-three million human beings who are, according to statistics, at present in existence, and that ... takes time.”

“Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.”

“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.”

“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”

“I've never hit a woman in my life. Not even my own mother.”

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

“I finally understand for a woman it ain't easy trying to raise a man.”

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

“For we think back through our mothers if we are women.”

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

“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”

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

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

“...mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain.”

“My mother was a woman. A black woman. A single mother. Raising two kids on her own. So she was dark skinned. Had short hair. Got no love from nobody except for a group called the Black Panthers. So that's why she was a Black Panther.”

“Alone of human beings the good and wise mother stands on a plane of equal honor with the bravest soldier; for she has gladly gone down to the brink of the chasm of darkness to bring back the children in whose hands rests the future of the years.”

“In middle school, my friends decided I was weird, and they didn’t like my hair. They ditched me and talked behind my back, which is cool — I’m over it. [laughs] One time I called them and said, “Hey, do you want to go to the Berkshire Mall?” They all gave me excuses and said no. So I go to the mall with my mom, and don’t you know, we run into all of them. Together. Shopping. My mom could see I was about to cry, so she said, “You know what? We’re going to the King of Prussia mall,” which was the mecca.”

“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.”

“The mother is the one supreme asset of national life; she is more important by far than the successful statesman, or business man, or artist, or scientist.”

“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.”

“You never hear of a mother cursing the child; she is forgiving, always forgiving.”

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

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

“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.”