Quotes about Motherhood
The greatest job that any mother will ever do will be in nurturing, teaching, lifting, encouraging and rearing her children in righteousness and truth. None other can adequately take her place.
— Gordon Hinckley
For those with the purity to see it, a nursing mother is one of the most precious, most beautiful, and most holy of all possible images of woman.
— Christopher West
The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.
— Henry Ward Beecher
There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.
— Billy Sunday
God picked a junior high girl [to be Jesus' mother]. Jesus was raised by a woman who today, we wouldn't even let her lead a bible study at a high school. But she could raise God.
— Mark Driscoll
Who can ever measure the benefit of a mother's inspiration?
— Charles Swindoll
My children love me. I'm like the mother they never had.
— Roseanne Barr
A mother would never by choice sleep in a wet bed but she would gladly do so in order to spare the dry bed for her child.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I tell my kids, 'I am thinking about you every other minute of my day.'
— Michelle Obama
The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones.
— Victor Hugo
He who made thee is made in thee. He is made in thee through whom you were made.... Give milk, O mother, to him who is our food; give milk to the bread that comes down from heaven.
— St. Augustine
Mothers, train up your children in righteousness; do not attempt to save the world and let your own family fall apart.
— Ezra Taft Benson