Quotes on Mothering

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

That best academy, a mother's knee.

My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see.

What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do

Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What's that supposed to mean? In my heart it don't mean a thing.

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.

A mother's love is something that no one can explain — It is made of deep devotion and of sacrifice and pain. It is endless and unselfish and enduring, come what may, For nothing can destroy it or take that love away. It is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, And it never fails or falters even though the heart is breaking.

A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's.

My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.

Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

There's a story behind everything..but behind all your stories is always your mother's story..because hers is where yours begins.

Women without children are also the best of mothers,often, with the patience,interest, and saving grace that the constant relationship with children cannot always sustain. I come to crave our talk and our daughters gain precious aunts. Women who are not mothering their own children have the clarity and focus to see deeply into the character of children webbed by family. A child is fortuante who feels witnessed as a peron,outside relationships with parents by another adult.

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