Motherhood Quotes

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

  Milton Berle

  Funny, Mothers Day, Hilarious

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• We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Smile, Spiritual

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• Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Divinity, Mankind, Highest

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• 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

  Mother, Choices, Forgiving

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

  Maxim Gorky

  Mothers Day, Mom, Baby

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• Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

  Robert Browning

  Love, Life, Friendship

  Robert Browning (2014). “A Selection of Poems”, p.33, Cambridge University Press

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• 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

  Motivational, Family, Mom

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• It is the mothers not the warriors who create a people and guide their destiny.

  Luther Standing Bear

  Mother, Native American, Warrior

  Luther Standing Bear (2006). “Land of the Spotted Eagle”, p.11, U of Nebraska Press

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• Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Funny, Mom, Mother

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• The human heart was not designed to beat outside the human body and yet, each child represented just that - a parent’s heart bared, beating forever outside its chest.

  Debra Ginsberg

  Children, Heart, Parenting

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• Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

  Alice Walker

  Mom, Mother, Flawed

  Alice Walker (1997). “Possessing the Secret of Joy”, p.272, Simon and Schuster

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• The noblest calling in the world is motherhood. True motherhood is the most beautiful of all arts, the greatest of all professions. She who can paint a masterpiece, or who can write a book that will influence millions, deserve the plaudits and admiration of mankind; but she who rears successfully a family of healthy, beautiful sons and daughters whose immortal souls will exert influence throughout the ages long after paintings shall have faded, and books and statues shall have decayed or been destroyed, deserves the highest honor that man can give, and the choicest blessings of God.

  David O. McKay

  Beautiful, Daughter, Art

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• Motherhood is about raising and celebrating the child you have, not the child you thought you would have. It's about understanding that he is exactly the person he is supposed to be. And that, if you're lucky, he just might be the teacher who turns you into the person you are supposed to be.

  Joan Ryan

  Teacher, Children, Understanding

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  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

  Mothers Day, Beautiful, Mom

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

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• A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world.

  Agatha Christie

  Mothers Day, Mom, Daughter

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• A mother is the truest friend we have when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity.

  Washington Irving

  Mothers Day, Mom, Mother Daughter

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• Sometimes when you pick up your child you can feel the map of your own bones beneath your hands, or smell the scent of your skin in the nape of his neck. This is the most extraordinary thing about motherhood - finding a piece of yourself separate and apart that all the same you could not live without.

  Jodi Picoult

  Children, Pregnancy, Hands

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Perfect Match”, p.218, Simon and Schuster

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• By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Mothers Day, Mom, Mother And Son

  Gift from the Sea ch. 3 (1955)

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• Motherhood is, after all, woman's great and incomparable work.

  Edward Carpenter

  Mom, Incomparable

  Edward Carpenter (1948). “Love's coming of age; a series of papers on the relation of the sexes”

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• Being a mother is probably the hardest job in the world. I feel like, in a lot of ways, children come into the world to teach us.

  Mariah Carey

  Mother, Jobs, Children

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• A mother has far greater influence on her children than anyone else, and she must realize that every word she speaks, every act, every response, her attitude, even her appearance and manner of dress affect the lives of her children and the whole family.

  Nathan Eldon Tanner

  Mother, Children, Attitude

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

  Rebecca West

  Funny, Mother, Horse

  Letter on August 20, 1959. "Rebecca West: A Life". Book by Victoria Glendinning. Part 5, Chapter 8, p. 206, 1987.

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• Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind. It places her who honors its holy calling and service next to the angels.

  J. Reuben Clark

  Mom, Angel, Honor

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• There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood.

  James E. Faust

  Being A Mother, World, Greater Good

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• 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

  Mother, Running, Jobs

  Barbara Kingsolver (2009). “Pigs in Heaven: Novel, A”, p.25, Harper Collins

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