Mother is a verb. It’s something you do. Not just who you are.
Cheryl Lacey Donovan
A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dates all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.
Agatha Christie
Motherhood brings you to your knees in a way that doesn’t leave room for you to judge others. It makes you see that there’s no ideal — a constant struggle, constantly compromising, but ultimate love.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Mother’s love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.
Marion C. Garretty
Having kids — the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings — is the biggest job anyone can embark on.
Maria Shriver
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
Tag: Mother’s Day
Quotes May 08, 2022
Quotes May 09, 2021
“My mother is a walking miracle.”
Leonardo DiCaprio
“Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn’t know you had.”
Linda Wooten
“Mothers possess a power beyond that of a king on his throne.”
Mabel Hale
“There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother.”
Sara Josepha Hale
“A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.”
Cardinal Mermillod
“A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.”
Honore de Balzac
“Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs since the payment is pure love.”
Mildred B. Vermont
“When you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.”
Mitch Albom
“There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.”
Jill Churchill
“A mother’s love is everything. It is what brings a child into this world. It is what molds their entire being. When a mother sees her child in danger, she is literally capable of anything. Mothers have lifted cars off of their children and destroyed entire dynasties. A mother’s love is the strongest energy known to man.”
Jamie McGuire
“Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.”
Lisa Alther
“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
“An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest.”
Spanish Proverb
“A mom forgives us all our faults, not to mention one or two we don’t even have.”
Robert Brault
“We have a secret in our culture, and it’s not that birth is painful. It’s that women are strong.”
Laura Stavoe Harm
“It’s not easy being a mother. If it were, fathers would do it.”
The Golden Girls
“When your mother asks, ‘Do you want a piece of advice?’ it’s a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.”
Erma Bombeck
“The phrase ’working mother’ is redundant.”
Jane Sellman
“I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then, I want to move in with them.”
Phyllis Diller
“If evolution really works, how come mothers have only two hands?”
Milton Berle
“Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me.”
Lady Gaga
“I can imagine no heroism greater than motherhood.”
Lance Conrad
“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.”
Michael Jordan
“There is no role in life that is more essential than that of motherhood.”
Elder M. Russell Ballard
“Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“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
“Mom, I love you, even though I’ll never accept your friend request.”
Unknown
“Motherhood is the exquisite inconvenience of being another person’s everything.”
Unknown
“A mother is your first friend, your best friend, your forever friend.”
Unknown
“Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.”
Unknown
“A mother’s hug lasts long after she lets go.”
Unknown
Quotes May 13, 2018
If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do matters very much.
Jackie Kennedy
My favorite thing about motherhood is the outpouring of love that is non-judgmental and beautiful. My daughter just makes me happy, and she motivates me to be a kid again.
Christina Milian
The regret of my life is that I have not said ‘I love you’ often enough.
Yoko Ono