Quotes About Mothers

I hope you enjoy this compilation of quotes about mothers. I chosen ones that I particularly like for various reasons; some really get you thinking and reflecting on your own life as a mother, some give you a boost because you remember how important your role is, and some are possibly a bit contraversial!

Inspiring Quotes About Mothers

“The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world." ~W.R. Wallace

"God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers."~Jewish Proverb

“No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love.” ~Edwin Chapin

"When I pick up one of my children and cuddle them, all the strain and stress of life temporarily disappears. There is nothing more wonderful than motherhood and no one will ever love you as much as a small child." ~Nicola Horlick

"A mother's love is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, and it never fails or falters, even though the heart is breaking." ~Helen Steiner Rice

"The strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws."~Barbara Kingsolver

Interesting Quotes About Mothers

"A mother holds her children's hands for a while...their hearts forever."~Author Unknown

"As a parent you try to maintain a certain amount of control and so you have this tug-of-war ... You have to learn when to let go. And that's not easy." ~Aretha Franklin

“Mothers are instinctive philosophers.” ~Harriet Beecher Stowe

"The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth." ~Goldie Hawn

"Before becoming a mother I had a hundred theories on how to bring up children. Now I have seven children and only one theory: Love them, especially when they least deserve to be loved."~Kate Samperi

“Mother is the one we count on for the things that matter most of all.”~Katherine Butler Hathaway

A mother understands what a child does not say.~Jewish proverb

"Adorable children are considered to be the general property of the human race. Rude children belong to their mothers." ~Judith Martin

"Children seldom misquote you. They more often repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said." ~Mae Maloo

"Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions -- requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs -- there was no attention given to preparation for this office." ~Elizabeth Cady Stanton

"It is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings." ~Ann Landers

"There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: One is roots.The other is wings." ~Hodding Carter, Jr.

"Love your children with all your hearts, love them enough to discipline them before it is too late...Praise them for important things, even if you have to stretch them a bit. Praise them a lot. They live on it like bread and butter and they need it more than bread and butter."~Lavina Christensen Fugal

“No influence is so powerful as that of the mother.”~Sarah Josepha Hale

Thought-provoking Quotes About Mothers

“Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.” ~Sophocles

"All the earth, though it were full of kind hearts, is but a desolation and a desert place to a mother when her only child is absent." ~Elizabeth Gaskell

A mother's love liberates.~Maya Angelou

"If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent." ~Bette Davis

"A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest."~Irish Proverb

"Our children are not going to be just "our children" - they are going to be other people's husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren."~Mary S Calderone

Possibly Contraversial Quotes About Mothers!

"All mothers are working mothers."~Author Unknown

"Any mother could perform the jobs of several air traffic controllers with ease."~Lisa Alther

"If at first you don't succeed, do it the way your mother told you to."~Author Unknown

"Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother."~Beverly Jones

"Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention." ~Margaret Mead

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

"If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much." ~Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

"The outside world doesn't have a lot to offer. You have to make your own heaven in your own home." ~Bette Midler

"Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and pediatric visits may also be done by fathers...but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do." ~Erica Jong

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