Best Quotes About Mother & Motherhood

Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.

Maxim Gorky

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I basically became a cheerleader because I had a very strict mom. That was my way of being a bad girl.

Sandra Bullock

Mommy smoked but she didn’t want us to. She saw smoke coming out of the barn one time, so we got whipped.

Loretta Lynn

My mother said to me, ‘If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.’ Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

Pablo Picasso

I wanted to escape so badly. But of course I knew I couldn’t just give up and leave school. It was only when I heard my mom’s voice that I came out of my hiding place.

Zhang Ziyi

What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.

Benjamin Spock

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

Erich Fromm

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

Quentin Crisp

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

Honore de Balzac

I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.

Norma Shearer

Biology makes us Mothers & Fathers, whats in the heart makes us Mom’s and Dad’s.

Kevin Heath

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

Milton Berle

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

Rudyard Kipling

Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.

Khalil Gibran

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

Robert Browning

Children are the anchors of a mother’s life.

Sophocles

Giving birth was easier than having a tattoo.

Nicole Appleton

My mom taught us the Serenity Prayer at a young age.

Toby Keith

I’d lose my mind if I heard my kid call the nanny Mommy.

Toni Braxton

I was always at peace because of the way my mom treated me.

Martina Hingis

My sisters and mom raised me to respect women and open doors for them.

Milo Ventimiglia

If my mom reads that I’m grammatically incorrect I’ll have hell to pay.

Larisa Oleynik

I’m a Mommy’s Girl – the strongest influence in my young life was my mom.

Susie Bright

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

Victor Hugo

I was a brownie for a day. My mom made me stop. She didn’t want me to conform.

Sandra Bullock

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

Meryl Streep

Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched.

Paul Harris

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one’s own Trojan horse.

Rebecca West