Quotations about Motherhood (Part 7)

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.-- Honoré de Balzac

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.-- Rajneesh

The mother's heart is the child's school-room.-- Henry Ward Beecher

The patience of a mother might be likened to a tube of toothpaste - it's never quite all gone. -- Author Unknown

The strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.-- Barbara Kingsolver

The sweetest sounds to mortals givenAre heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven.-- William Goldsmith Brown

There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. -- Chinese Proverb

What took me by surprise is the way I feel when her face lights up when I walk into a room because I am her world and she is mine. Being a mother is like taking your heart out of your chest and watching it walk around.-- Author Unknown

When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.-- Pablo Picasso

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.-- Sophia Loren

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Quotations about Motherhood (Part 4)


It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.-- Erma Bombeck

It's so good to know that wherever you are, a Mom is with you in spirit and in love.-- Author Unknown

It was when I had my first child that I understood how much my mother loved me.-- From "For Mother - A Bouquet of Sentiments"

Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers and sisters, aunts and cousins, comrades and friends - but only one mother in the whole world.-- Kate Douglas Wiggin

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.-- William Makepeace Thackeray

Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.-- Marion C. Garretty

Mother - that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.-- T. DeWitt Talmage

Mother's love grows by giving.-- Charles Lamb

Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.-- Erich Fromm

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.-- Meryl Streep

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Quotations about Motherhood ( Part 1)

M-O-T-H-E-R

"M" is for the million things she gave me,
"O" means only that she's growing old,
"T" is for the tears she shed to save me,
"H" is for her heart of purest gold;
"E" is for her eyes, with love-light shining,
"R" means right, and right she'll always be,
Put them all together, they spell "MOTHER, "
A word that means the world to me. --Howard Johnson (c. 1915)

A boy's best friend is his mother.-- Joseph Stefano

A little girl, asked where her home was, replied, "where mother is." -- Keith L. Brooks

A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. -- Irish Proverb

A mother holds her children's hands for a while...their hearts forever. -- Author Unknown

A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie. -- Tenneva Jordan

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.
-- Washington Irving

A mother understands what a child does not say. -- Jewish proverb

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.-- Victor Hugo

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

A mother's love liberates. -- Maya Angelou


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