Quotes about Motherhood
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
If every child might live the life predestined in a mother's heart, all the way from the cradle to the coffin, he would walk upon a beam of light, and shine in glory.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The Gita is not only my Bible and my Koran, it is more than that, it is my mother.
- Mahatma Gandhi
A mother's body remembers her babies-the folds of soft flesh, the softly furred scalp against her nose. Each child has it's own entreaties to body and soul.
- Barbara Kingsolver