Quotes about Motherhood
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
As a mother, the one thing that always goes through your head is, You're never enough. You never can be enough - or do enough - for your kids. It's a never-ending issue for me.
— Britney Spears
But the Night Mother is mother to all! It is her voice we follow! Her will! Would you dare risk disobedience? And surely... punishment?
— Cicero
Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.
— Margaret Atwood
I sang "O Holy Night" in a school choir. My mother came and listened to me and complimented me. So that was the high point. I cannot sing a note.
— Toni Morrison
What least makes a mother is biology.
— Oprah Winfrey
My mother's gifts of courage to me were both large and small. The latter are woven so subtly into the fabric of my psyche that I can hardly distinguish where she stops and I begin.
— Maya Angelou
It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?
— Mahatma Gandhi
Grandmam came back from that distance in time that separates grandmothers from their grandchildren and made herself a mother to me.
— Wendell Berry
In the beginning, Adam was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow - not Eve. Contrary to conventional wisdom, a mother's place is in the home!
— Ezra Taft Benson