Does anyone have a good quote about motherhood?

Answer 1

"Becoming a mother is like having your heart live outside of your body for the rest of your life."

Answer 2

only about mothers

The worst feature of a new baby is its mother's singing.
Kin Hubbard quotes
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You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you Can't Fool Mom.
Captain Penny's Law quotes
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Only mothers can think of the future-because they give birth to it in their children.
Maxim Gorky

Answer 3

"without children evreyone was sad and depressed. you do not want a childless world, because without children there is no happiness, joy, laughter, just sadness."

i heard that quote in a holocaust video. they were interviewing a woman on what happened after her sister went to Auschwitz and how her family reacted along with the community on the loss of the communities children.

Answer 4

What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
- Henry Ward Beecher

And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.
- Bible, Genesis (ch. III, v. 20)

The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.
- Bible, Judges (ch. V, v. 7)

Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.
- Bible, Proverbs (ch. XXXI, v. 28)

[Milton] calls the university "A stony-hearted step-mother."
- Augustine Birrell, Obiter Dicta

A mother is a mother still,
The holiest thing alive.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Three Graves (st. 10)

If pregnancy were a book they would cut out the last two chapters.
- Nora Ephron

The mother says to her daughter: Daughter bid thy daughter, to her daughter, that her daughter's daughter is crying.
[Lat., Mater ait natae die natae filia natum
Ut moneat natae plangere filiolam.]
- see Rev. J. Greswell, Account of Runcorn (p. 24)

The mother said to her daughter, "Daughter, bid thy daughter tell her daughter that her daughter's daughter hath a daughter."
- George Hakewill (Hokewell), Apologie
(bk. III, ch. V, sec. 9)

There is none,
In all this cold and hollow world, no fount
Of deep, strong, deathless love, save that within
A mother's heart.
- Mrs. Felicia D. Hemans, Siege of Valencia
(sc. Room in a Palace of Valencia)

Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.
- Thomas Jefferson

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy

If I were hanged on the highest hill,
Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!
I know whose love would follow me still,
Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!
- Rudyard Kipling, Mother O' Mine

There was a place in childhood that I remember well,
And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales did tell.
- Samuel Lover, My Mother Dear

A woman's love
Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak,
And by its weakness overcomes.
- James Russell Lowell, Legend of Brittany
(pt. II, st. 43)

The bravest battle that ever was fought;
Shall I tell you where and when?
On the maps of the world you will find it not;
It was fought by the mothers of men.
- Joaquin Miller (pseudonym of Cincinnatus Hiner Miller),
The Bravest Battle--Mothers of Men

Fostering mother.
[Lat., Alma mater.]
- Old Saying,
applied by students to the university where they have graduated

They say man rules the universe,
That subject shore and main
Kneel down and bless the empery
Of his majestic reign;
But a sovereign, gentler, mightier,
Man from his throne has hurled,
For the hand that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that rules the world.
- William Stewart Ross (used pseudonym Saladin),
a poem in "Woman: Her Glory, her Shame, and her God", vol. II, p. 420 (1894)

That it should come to this,
But two months dead, nay, not so much, not two,
So excellent a king, that was to this
Hyperion to a satyr, so loving to my mother
That he might not beteem the winds of heaven
Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth,
Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him
As if increase of appetite had grown
By what it fed on, and yet within a month--
Let me not think on't; frailty, thy name is woman--
A little month, or ere those shoes were old
With which she followed my poor father's body
Like Niobe, all tears, why she, even she--
O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason
Would have mourned longer--married with my uncle,
My father's brother, but no more like my father
Than I to Hercules.
- William Shakespeare, Hamlet Prince of Denmark
(Hamlet at I, ii)

Answer 5

Anne Frank:
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Answer 6

"raising a child is like being pecked to death by a chicken" words on a small sign held by a neon pink painted ceramic chicken the kids gave me for christmas

Answer 7

when my son tells me I'm a mean mom my fav comeback is.... I'm the meanest mom you'll ever have... not necessarily a good quote about motherhood but I like it...

Answer 8

My favorite "A mother holds her childs hands for only a little while, but she holds their hearts for a lifetime."

You can find a ton here : http://mothersday.about.com/od/entertainment/a/motherhood_quot.htm

http://www.webmomz.com/quotes-about-motherhood.shtml

Answer 9

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

"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


"When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts" - Sophia Loren

Answer 10

The most effective form of birth control I know is spending the day with kids.