Quotes on Mothering

Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words.

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born.

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

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

The great motherhood friendships are the ones in which two women can admit [how difficult mothering is] quietly to each other, over cups of tea at a table sticky with spilled apple juice and littered with markers without tops.

Motherhood is neither a duty nor a privilege, but simply the way that humanity can satisfy the desire for physical immortality and triumph over the fear of death.

When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.

A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

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

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.

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

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.

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

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.