55 Amazing Motherhood Quotes and Sayings
In this post, you will find amazing motherhood sayings.
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Short Motherhood Sayings
“The phrase ‘working mother’ is redundant.” —Jane Sellman
“Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.” —Barbara Kingsolver
“Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.” —Robert Browning
“Motherhood changes everything.” —Adriana Trigiani
“A mother’s arms are made up tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.” —Victor Hugo
“Motherhood is heart-exploding, blissful hysteria.” —Olivia Wilde
“Mom; a son’s first love and a daughter’s first role model.” —Unknown
“A boy’s best friend is his mother.” —Joseph Stefano
“Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.” —Harriet Beecher Stowe
“Motherhood is a forever love story. Treasure every precious moment.” —Vicki Reece
“Mothers are all slightly insane.” —J.D Salinge
“With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.” —Isadora Duncan
“Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy.” —Tina Fey
“There is eternal influence and power in motherhood.” —Unknown
“If pregnancy were a book they would cut out the last two chapters.” —Nora Ephron
“There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.” —Jill Churchill
“Being a mom is worth every stretch mark, wrinkle, and sleepless night.” —Unknown
“The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.” —H.W. Beecher
“Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.” —Meryl Streep
“Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing.” —Ricki Lake
“Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.” —Thomas Jefferson
“Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.” —Oprah Winfrey
“A mother understands what a child does not say.” —Jewish proverb
Motherhood Sayings
“That’s what motherhood is: you’re working; you’re doing 25 different jobs, and you’re not getting paid.” —Melissa Peterman
“There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood. The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.” —James E. Faust
“Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.” —Meryl Streep
“Having children just puts the whole world into perspective. Everything else just disappears.” —Kate Winslet
“To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.” —Maya Angelou
“Some mothers are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.” —Pearl S. Buck
“It is not until you become a mother that your judgement slowly turns to compassion & understanding.” —Erma Bombeck
“In the heart of a mother you will find no space for hatred or anger when it comes to her child.” —Unknown
“Grown don’t mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown. In my heart it don’t mean a thing.” —Toni Morrison
“Only mothers can think of the future-because they give birth to it in their children.” —Maxim Gorky
“The hand of a bride becomes the hand of a mother. Ever so gently she cares for her precious child. Bathing, dressing, feeding, comforting—there is no hand like mother’s. Nor does its tender care diminish through the years.” —Thomas S. Monson
“Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn’t interest you, don’t do it – I would have made a terrible mother.” —Katharine Hepburn
“She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn’t take them along.” —Margaret Culkin Banning
“Pregnancy and motherhood are the most beautiful and significantly life-altering events that I have ever experienced.” —Elisabeth Hasselbeck
“I believe the choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is.” —Oprah Winfrey
“A mother holds her childs hands for only a little while, but she holds their hearts for a lifetime.” —Unknown
“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
“A mother is she who can take all the place of other but her place is not taken by anyone.” —Unknown
“There are few things more powerful than the faithful prayers of a righteous mother.” —Boyd K. Packer
“A mother thinks about her CHILDREN day and night. Even if they are not with her, and will love them in a way they will never understand.” —Unknown
“Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all.” —Oliver Wendell Holmes
“The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.” —Jessica Lange
“Motherhood was the great equaliser for me; I started to identify with everybody.” —Annie Lennox
“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
“I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.” —Mitch Albom
“A Mother’s dream is to raise up a child who will grow up and be a blessing to the entire world.” —Unknown
“Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in my field, since the payment is pure love.” —Mildred B. Vermont
“If you have a mom there is nowhere you are likey to go where a prayer has not already been.” —Unknown
“If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother in the other, the whole world would Kick the beam.” —Henry Bickersteth
Top Ten Motherhood Sayings
Here you will find top ten motherhood sayings selected by our team.
- “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
- “Motherhood is a forever love story. Treasure every precious moment.” —Vicki Reece
- “Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.” —Thomas Jefferson
- “That’s what motherhood is: you’re working; you’re doing 25 different jobs, and you’re not getting paid.” —Melissa Peterman
- “There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood. The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.” —James E. Faust
- “Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.” —Robert Browning
- “There are few things more powerful than the faithful prayers of a righteous mother.” —Boyd K. Packer
- “Having children just puts the whole world into perspective. Everything else just disappears.” —Kate Winslet
- “To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.” —Maya Angelou
- “A mother thinks about her children day and night. Even if they are not with her, and will love them in a way they will never understand.” —Unknown
