Motherhood Quotes To Show Appreciation To Your Mother
Here are motherhood quotes that show how incredible motherhood is. Well, at least to most people.
Author’s pick
- “The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.” Honore De Balzac
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2. “Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing.” Ricki Lake
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3. “Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same.” Pearl Buck
4. “Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention.” Margaret Mead
5. “If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?” Milton Berle
6. “No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.” Margaret Sanger
8. “I am a mother and mothers don’t have the luxury of falling apart in front of their children, even when they are afraid, even when their children are adults.” Kristin Hannah
9. “There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.” Jill Churchill
10. “We have rules around the house. I always say if you’re not yelling at your kids, you are not spending enough time with them.” Reese Witherspoon
11. “Once you are a mother, you’re always a mother. It’s like riding a bike you never forget.” Taraji P Henson
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12. “Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind.” Howard W. Hunter
13. “Be a full person. Motherhood is a glorious gift, but do not define yourself solely by motherhood. Be a full person. Your child will benefit from that.” Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
14. “A mother is a mother from the moment her baby is first placed in her arms until eternity. It didn’t matter if her child were three, thirteen, or thirty.” Sarah Strohmeyer
15. “Motherhood is learning about strengths you didn’t know you had and dealing with fears you didn’t know existed.” Linda Wooten
16. “I gave you life, but really you gave me nine.” Unknown
17. “When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.”
18. “Being a mama can be tough, but always remember in the eyes of your child, no one does it better than you.” Unknown
19. “Grown don’t mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown. In my heart, it doesn’t mean a thing.” Toni Morrison
20. “No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother’s love.” Edwin Chapin
21. “There is nothing as sincere as a mother’s kiss.” Saleem Sharma
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22. “Mothers, food, love and career, the four major guilt groups.” Unknown
23. “I don’t want to sleep like my baby, I want to sleep like my husband.” Unknown
24. “My kid is turning out to be exactly like me. Well played, karma! Well played.” House Wife Plus
25. “I used to have functioning brain cells, but I traded them in for children.” Unknown
26. “The quickest way for a mother to get a child’s attention is to sit down and look comfortable.” Unknown
27. “It seems unfair that the people who really want to go to bed have to put to bed the people who really don’t want to go to bed.” Unknown
28. “A mother is never needed more than when she’s in the shower, going to the bathroom or about to eat something.” Unknown
29. “When I say, ‘I’m just going to the toilet,’ my kids hear, ‘Family meeting assemble in the bathroom now!”
30. “It all starts with a late period, and then you aren’t on time for anything ever again.” Unknown
31. “Planning a night out with your other mom friends and realizing that none of you is free until June 30, 2050.” Unknown
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32. “Motherhood healed me, in ways that I did not know before, and in places I had no idea needed healing.” Unknown
33. “There’s nothing like your mother’s sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears.” Sophie Kinsella
34. “Successful mothers are not the ones that never struggled. They are the ones that never give up despite the struggles.” Sharon Jaynes
35. “Being a mother is not about what you gave up to have a child but what you gained from having one.” Unknown
36. “Supermom wasn’t a bad job description. The pay was lousy if you were talking about real money. But the payoff was priceless in so many other ways.” Roxanne Henke
37. “God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.” Rudyard Kipling
38. “Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.” Meryl Streep
39. “To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colours of a rainbow.” Maya Angelou
40. “I believe the choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is.” Oprah
41. “There is such a special sweetness in being able to participate in creation.” Pamela S. Nadav
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42. “Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy.” Tina Fey
43. “There are places in the heart you don’t even know exist until you love a child.” Anne Lamott
44. “A baby arrives, and just like that everything changes. The world gets bigger, the heart grows fuller, and life means more.” Unknown
45. “Motherhood is the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It’s huge and scary it’s an act of infinite optimism.” Gilda Radner
46. “During labour, let your voice be strong and unhindered. Women have been silenced in the birth room for too long.” Lauralyn Curtis
47. “The biggest surprise, which is also the best, is that I didn’t know I would love motherhood as much as I do.” Deborah Norville
48. ” Motherhood is more awesome than I ever thought it could be and harder than I ever would have imagined.” Sarah Williams
49. “New mothers generally need to lower their expectations.” Anonymous
50. “You’re always going to wonder if you’re doing things wrong, but that’s what it means to be a mom, to care so much about someone else that you just want to be as perfect as possible.” Naya Rivera
51. “New mothers enter the world of parenting feeling much like Alice in Wonderland.” Anonymous
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52. “A mother continues to labour long after the baby is born.” Lisa Jo Baker
53. “You’re doing a great job, mom, even when you don’t feel like it.” Anonymous
54. “A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.” Amy Tan
55. “My daughter introduced me to myself.” Beyonce Knowles.
56. “No one told me I would be coming home in diapers, too.” Chrissy Teigen
57. “I found out by far the hardest is figuring out a stroller.” Serena Williams
58. “You never understand life until it grows inside of you.” Sandra C. Kassis
59. “The sweet smell of a baby must be one of the best smells in the whole world.” Anonymous
60. “Having a baby is like falling in love again, both with your husband and your child.” Tina Brown
61. “Birth matters. It brings us into being, on many levels.” Ananda Lowe
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62. “Nothing in life will ever make you as happy, as sad, as exhausted, or as incredibly proud as motherhood.” Unknown
63. “In giving birth to our babies, we may find that we give birth to new possibilities within ourselves.” Myla and Jon Kabat-Zinn
64. “I see myself as a mom first. I’m so lucky to have that role in life. The world can like me, hate me or fall apart around me and at least I wake up with my kids and I’m happy.” Angelina Jolie
65. “A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.” Agatha Christie
67. “Having kids feel like that first seventh-grade crush that overwhelms every molecule in your body, but it’s permanent.” Kristen Bell
68. “There is nothing like a newborn baby to renew your spirit and to buttress your resolve to make the world a better place.” Virginia Kelley
69. “Having children just puts the whole world into perspective. Everything else just disappears.” Kate Winslet
70. “If I look back at everything I’ve done in life, you’ve easily the best thing I’ve ever created.” Unknown
71. “For a mother is the only person on earth who can divide her love among 10 children and each child still have all her love.” Unknown
Mother To Child Quotes
72. “Some things are infinite. There is no biggest number, no farthest star and no end to my love for you.” Unknown
73. “Mother is her son’s first god. She must teach him the most important lesson of all – how to love.” T. F. Hodge
74. “The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.” Henry Ward Beecher
75. “Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.” Erich Fromm
76. “All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his. Oscar Wilde
77. “I listen to my mother, and that keeps me out of trouble. I’m a good son.” Mr T
78. “I know you have your own life, his mother said to his voicemail. I was just hoping to be part of it for a few hours.” Maggie Stiefvater
79. “Mother gives her hand to a son only for a while, and she presents him her heart for life.” Unknown
80. “Let your boys test their wings. They may not be eagles, but that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t soar free.” C.J. Milbrandt
81. “A mother’s love is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, it never fails or falters, even though the heart is breaking.” Helen Steiner Rice.