“Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy.” —Tina Fey
“There is such a special sweetness in being able to participate in creation.” —Pamela S. Nadav
“Having kids—the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings—is the biggest job anyone can embark on.” —Maria Shriver
“[Motherhood is] the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It’s huge and scary—it’s an act of infinite optimism.” —Gilda Radner
“In giving birth to our babies, we may find that we give birth to new possibilities within ourselves.” —Myla and Jon Kabat-Zinn
“There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.” —Jill Churchill
“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
“Grown don’t mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown. In my heart it don’t mean a thing.”—Toni Morrison
“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
“The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.”—James E. Faust
“Mother—that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.” —T. DeWitt Talmage
“No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother’s love.” —Edwin Chapin
“A mother understands what a child does not say.” —Jewish Proverb
“Motherhood: all love begins and ends there." —Robert Browning
“Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.” —Meryl Streep
“The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.” —Jessica Lange
“Motherhood has relaxed me in many ways. You learn to deal with crisis. I’ve become a juggler, I suppose. It’s all a big circus, and nobody who knows me believes I can manage, but sometimes I do.” —Jane Seymour
“Motherhood is wonderful, but it’s also hard work. It’s the logistics more than anything. You discover you have reserves of energy you didn’t know you had.” —Deborah Mailman
“Motherhood is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy.” —Barbara Walters
“Motherhood was the great equalizer for me; I started to identify with everybody.” —Annie Lennox
“Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.” —Harriet Beecher Stowe
“Mother is a verb. It’s something you do. Not just who you are.” — Cheryl Lacey Donovan
“The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.” —Elaine Heffner
“Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There’s no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving.” —Gail Tsukiyama
“A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dates all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.” ―Agatha Christie
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“If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?” —Milton Berle
“A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s.” —Princess Diana
“Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you.” —Louisa May Alcott
29. “A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.” —Honoré de Balzac
30.“There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
31. “Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.” —Ambrose Bierce
“A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.” —Dorothy Canfield Fisher
33. “A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.” —Victor Hugo
“A mother’s love liberates.” —Maya Angelou
“I know how to do anything—I’m a mom.” —Roseanne Barr
“Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.” —Marion C. Garretty
“Mother’s love grows by giving.” —Charles Lamb
“Motherhood is not for the faint-hearted. Frogs, skinned knees, and the insults of teenage girls are not meant for the wimpy.” —Danielle Steel
“One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters.” —George Herbert
“She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn’t take them along.” —Margaret Culkin Banning
“Women do not have to sacrifice personhood if they are mothers. They do not have to sacrifice motherhood in order to be persons. Liberation was meant to expand women’s opportunities, not to limit them. The self-esteem that has been found in new pursuits can also be found in mothering.” —Elaine Heffner
“Having children just puts the whole world into perspective. Everything else just disappears.” —Kate Winslet
“There is nothing as sincere as a mother’s kiss.” —Saleem Sharma
“The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.” —W.R. Wallace
“Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.” — Erich Fromm
“No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.” —Florida Scott-Maxwell
“Making a decision to have a child—it’s momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.” —Elizabeth Stone
“A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.” —Tenneva Jordan
“A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.” —Irish proverb
“If Mama ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy.” —Ferrell Sims
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“There are so many times you will feel you have failed, but in the eyes, heart and mind of your child, you are supermom.” —Stephanie Precourt
The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.” —Karl Lagerfeld
“In a child’s eyes, a mother is a goddess. She can be glorious or terrible, benevolent or filled with wrath, but she commands love either way. I am convinced that this is the greatest power in the universe.” —N.K. Jemisin
“He didn’t realize that love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark.” —J.K. Rowling
“Heaven is at the feet of Mothers.” —Arabic proverb
“A mother’s love endures through all.” —Washington Irving
“It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?” —Mahatma Gandhi
“We are born of love; love is our mother.” —Rumi
“For when a child is born the mother also is born again.” —Gilbert Parker
“There is nothing in the world of art like the songs Mother used to sing.” —Billy Sunday
“The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly—indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.” —Arianna Huffington
“My mom smiled at me. Her smile kind of hugged me.” —R.J. Palacio
“The best place to cry is on a mother’s arms.” —Jodi Picoult
64. “I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.” —Mitch Albom
“Compassion is like mother giving love to her children. Mother’s ways are higher than others, even when everyone rejects, mother accepts with her arms open and wide.” —Amit Ray
“I think in a lot of ways unconditional love is a myth. My mom’s the only reason I know it’s a real thing.” —Conor Oberst
“Successful mothers are not the ones that have never struggled. They are the ones that never give up, despite the struggles.” —Sharon Jaynes
“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
“In the end…I am the only one who can give my children a happy mother who loves life.” —Janene Wolsey Baadsgaard
“I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them.” —Phyllis Diller
““The hand that rocks the cradle usually is attached to someone who isn’t getting enough sleep.” —John Fiebig
“I’d like to be the ideal mother, but I’m too busy raising my kids.” —Anonymous
“Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.” —Oprah Winfrey
“A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.” —Emily Dickinson
“Call your mother. Tell her you love her. Remember, you’re the only person who knows what her heart sounds like from the inside.” —Rachel Wolchin
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