Quotes about Motherhood

Mary thus learns that the Most High has ever borne a Son in his bosom, and that this Son has now chosen her bosom as dwelling-place.

I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about.

You can be a good mom and still work out, get your rest, have a career - or not. My mother encouraged me to find that balance.

My mother had heard the story of Hannah and Samuel, so she prayed that if God would give her a son, she would give that son to God. That was a perfectly appropriate thing for her to do, but as I observe, she did not have to tell me she had made such a promise. In particular, she did not have to tell me when I was six.

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the mother for the child.

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

The loveliest masterpiece of the heart of God is the heart of a mother.

There is an endearing tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that transcends all other affections of the heart.

Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.

There is no friendship, no love, like that of a mother for her child.

God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.

The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.