Quotes about Motherhood

The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants, but when she resolutely holds him to the highest standards and is content with nothing less than his best.

In the mother's smile, it dawns on him that there is a world into which he is accepted and in which he is welcome, and it is in this primordial experience that he becomes aware of himself for the first time.

Mary thus learns that the Most High has ever borne a Son in his bosom, and that this Son has now chosen her bosom as dwelling-place.

I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about.

You can be a good mom and still work out, get your rest, have a career - or not. My mother encouraged me to find that balance.

My mother had heard the story of Hannah and Samuel, so she prayed that if God would give her a son, she would give that son to God. That was a perfectly appropriate thing for her to do, but as I observe, she did not have to tell me she had made such a promise. In particular, she did not have to tell me when I was six.

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the mother for the child.

All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

The loveliest masterpiece of the heart of God is the heart of a mother.

There is an endearing tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that transcends all other affections of the heart.

Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.

There is no friendship, no love, like that of a mother for her child.