Joys Of Motherhood Quotes:

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.

- Agatha Christie

topic: Family, Crush, Mom, I Love My Mother, Joys Of Motherhood

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.

- Rajneesh

topic: Mom, Mother, Children, Mom And Daughter, I Love My Mother

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

- Gaspard Mermillod

topic: Relationship, Mother, Joys Of Motherhood, Just A Mom, Being A Mother

Motherhood is a choice you make every day, to put someone else's happiness and well-being ahead of your own, to teach the hard lessons, to do the right thing even when you're not sure what the right thing is... and to forgive yourself, over and over again, for doing everything wrong.

- Donna Ball

topic: Motherhood, Choices, Forgiving, Joys Of Motherhood, Being A Mother

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

- Barbara Kingsolver

topic: Family, Mom, Mother, Joys Of Motherhood, Special Mother

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

- Meryl Streep

topic: Mom, Mother, Essentials, Mom And Daughter, Joys Of Motherhood

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.

- Washington Irving

topic: Family, Mom, Mother, Mother Son, Mom And Daughter

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

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Family, Mothers Day, Mom, Mom And Daughter, Joys Of Motherhood

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

- Erma Bombeck

topic: Family, Mom, Mother, Joys Of Motherhood, Judgment Of Others

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

- Princess Diana

topic: Mom, Mother, Comforting, Mom And Daughter, Joys Of Motherhood

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

- Honore de Balzac

topic: Family, Mothers Day, Mom, Joys Of Motherhood, Special Mother

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

- Sophia Loren

topic: Mother, Children, Thinking, Mom And Daughter, I Love My Mother

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

- Maya Angelou

topic: Mom, Mother, Fall, Joys Of Motherhood, Inspirational Mom

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

- Oprah Winfrey

topic: Inspirational, Mom, Mother, Mom And Daughter, Joys Of Motherhood

That best academy, a mother's knee.

- James Russell Lowell

topic: Mom, Mother, Knees, Mom And Daughter, Joys Of Motherhood

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.

- George Washington

topic: Mothers Day, Beautiful, Appreciation, Mother Son, Son And Daughter

I tell my kids, 'I am thinking about you every other minute of my day.'

- Michelle Obama

topic: Mom, Mother, Kids, Joys Of Motherhood

Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no roots.

- Crystal Eastman

source: Crystal Eastman (1978). “Crystal Eastman on women and revolution”, Oxford University Press

topic: Motherhood, Equality, Roots, Joys Of Motherhood, Economic Independence

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

- Helen Hunt Jackson

source: Helen Hunt Jackson (1877). “Verses”, p.11

topic: Mothers Day, Mom, Mother And Daughter, Joys Of Motherhood, Special Mother

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

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Funny, Mothers Day, Mom, Mom And Daughter, Joys Of Motherhood

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

- Pearl S. Buck

topic: Love, Family, Mom, Mom And Daughter, I Love My Mother

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

- Jackie Kennedy

source: Interview with NBC News Correspondent Sander Vanocur at Hyannis Port, Mass., October 1, 1960.

topic: Children, Motherhood, Parenting, Joys Of Motherhood, Single Parent

She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along.

- Margaret Culkin Banning

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Mom, Children, Home, Joys Of Motherhood, Just A Mom

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.

- Sophia Loren

topic: Family, Mothers Day, Mom, Mom And Daughter, Happy Children

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.

- Mark Twain

topic: Mom, Mother, Heart, Joys Of Motherhood, Slender

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

- Jodi Picoult

topic: Mom, Mother, Arms, Joys Of Motherhood, Being A Mother

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

- Milton Berle

topic: Funny, Hilarious, Mom, Mom And Daughter, Joys Of Motherhood

But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run.

- Barbara Kingsolver

topic: Running, Jobs, Kids, Joys Of Motherhood, Being A Mother

The joy of motherhood: what a mother experiences when all her children are in bed

- Barbara Johnson

topic: Mother, Children, Joy, Joys Of Motherhood

The joys of motherhood are not excessively apparent during the first few weeks of a baby's life.

- Vera Brittain

topic: Baby, Motherhood, Joy, Joys Of Motherhood

The joy of motherhood comes in moments. ... Families need unstructured time when relationships can deepen and real parenting can take place. Take time to listen, to laugh, and to play together.

- M. Russell Ballard

topic: Mother, Real, Play, Joys Of Motherhood