Quotes about Motherhood
A mom's hug lasts long after she lets go.
- Anonymous
A man's work is from sun to sun, but a mother's work is never done.
- Anonymous
A terrible thing it is to be a mother, and it bears a great endearment, and one common to all, so as to toil on behalf of their children.
- Euripides
The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated.
- Washington Irving
I signaled for him to lean down, and he did so. I then did the second most terrible thing a mother could do, in some ways worse than burying her beneath the stones. I breathed my daughter's last breath into his mouth. I gave her to him so that her spirit would belong to him and he could carry her with him, so that he could still be a man with a soul, even though he had lost everything else.
- Alice Hoffman
The worst thing in the world for a mother is to leave her child. She couldn't bring herself to remember you, because if she did she'd have to leave you behind.
- Alice Hoffman
There are those who insist that mothers are born with love for their children and place them before all other things, including their own needs and desires. This was not the case with us.
- Alice Hoffman
There are those who insist that mothers are born with love for their children and place them before all other things, including their own needs and desires.
- Alice Hoffman
The Olinka girls do not believe girls should be educated. When I asked a mother why she thought this, she said: A girl is nothing to herself; only to her husband can she become something. What can she become? I asked. Why, she said, the mother of his children. But I am not the mother of anybody's children, I said, and I am something.
- Alice Walker
I knew how much my mother loved me by her love and patience with my child.
- Alice Walker
A woman is a vehicle of life. Life has overtaken her. Woman is what it is all about-the giving of birth and the giving of nourishment.
- Joseph Campbell
I know a good woman who thinks that her son lost his life because he took to drinking water only.
- Henry David Thoreau