Quotes about Motherhood
The loveliest materpiece of the heart of God is the love of a Mother.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
If anyone does not believe that Holy Mary is the Mother of God, such a one is a stranger to the Godhead.
— Gregory of Nazianzus
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?
— Sojourner Truth
It moves one's heart to think: Nine months before I was born there was a woman who loved me deeply. She did not know what I was going to be like, but she loved me because she carried me in her womb.
— Oscar Romero
He was created of a mother whom He created. He was carried by hands that He formed. He cried in the manger in wordless infancy. He, the Word, without whom all human eloquence is mute.
— St. Augustine
What son would not bring his mother back to life and would not bring her into paradise after her death if he could?
— Francis de Sales
Every baby saved, every mother helped to choose life is a step in the right direction.
— Alveda King
As we know, our own mother bore us only into pain and dying. But our true mother, Jesus, who is all love, bears us into joy and endless living. Blessed may he be.
— Julian of Norwich
Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy.
— Tina Fey
Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues - faith and hope.
— Charles Dickens
All that I am my mother made me.
— John Quincy Adams