Quotes about Motherhood

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.

But the Night Mother is mother to all! It is her voice we follow! Her will! Would you dare risk disobedience? And surely... punishment?

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.

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.

What least makes a mother is biology.

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.

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?

Grandmam came back from that distance in time that separates grandmothers from their grandchildren and made herself a mother to me.

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!

Motherly love - putting the care of children before every other consideration - is the ultimate intelligence of nature.

The goodness of the mother is written in the gaiety of the child.

How powerful is the influence of a mother! The bond between mother and child seems to be God-designed, the perfect union of potential and the power to make it spring forth. The simple, daily influences of prayer, persuasion, and promoting of godly values are the most powerful tools a mother can use to unleash the potential of her children.