Touching Quotes About the True Meaning of Motherhood

“When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.”

“Being a mama can be tough, but always remember in the eyes of your child, no one does it better than you.”

“Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; a mother’s secret hope outlives them all.”

“If I look back at everything I’ve done in life, you’re easily the best thing I’ve ever created.”

“Having children just puts the whole world into perspective. Everything else just disappears.”

“My mother’s love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.”

“To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.”

“I believe the choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is.”

“Whether your pregnancy was meticulously planned, medically coaxed, or happened by surprise, one thing is certain—your life will never be the same.”

"He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark."

"We are born of love; love is our mother."

"The best place to cry is on a mother's arms."

"Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children."

"Life doesn't come with a manual, it comes with a mother."

"When you look into your mother's eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth."

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

"A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take."

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

"A child’s first teacher is its mother."

"Mothers hold their children's hands for a short while, but their hearts forever."

"The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

"I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life."

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

"Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing."

"Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws."

"Motherhood changes everything."

"Men are what their mothers made them."

"If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?"

"For when a child is born the mother also is born again."

"There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing."

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"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother."

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

"A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories."

"Motherhood: All love begins and ends there."

"Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life."

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

"You don't take a class; you're thrown into motherhood and learn from experience."

"Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials."

"I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars."

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