Quotes on Being A Mom

To be a mother is a woman's greatest vocation in life. She is a partner with God. No being has a position of such power and influence. She holds in her hands the destiny of nations, for to her comes the responsibility and opportunity of molding the nation's citizens.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

I don't know what I would do in the world without [female friends] for advice, for comfort, for simply knowing that there is someone out there who knows me as I am, and loves me despite and because of it.

Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of her family.

My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.

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.

My favorite thing about being a mom is just what a better person it makes you on a daily basis.

It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

Is my mother my friend? I would have to say, first of all she is my Mother, with a capital 'M'; she's something sacred to me. I love her dearly...yes, she is also a good friend, someone I can talk openly with if I want to.

To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.

Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.

That best academy, a mother's knee.

Work for black women has been an important and valued dimension of Afrocentric definitions of black motherhood.

Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy.

It is a fundamental truth that the responsibilities of motherhood cannot be successfully delegated. No, not to day-care centers, not to schools, not to nurseries, not to babysitters.

The problem with the world is that we draw the circle of our family too small.