Inspirational Quotes About Mothers

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“Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.”
– Camillie Paglia

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

“Completeness? Happiness? These words don’t come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.”
– Anita Baker

“When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.”
– Margaret Sanger

“No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother’s love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over wastes of worldly fortunes sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star. ”
– Edwin Hubbell Chapin

“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

“Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in my field, since the payment is pure love.”
– Mildred B. Vermont

“The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.”
– Rajneesh

“If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother in the other, the whole world would kick the beam.”
– Lord Langdale

“Some mothers are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.”
– Pearl S. Buck

“If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been. ”
– Robert Brault

“A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother. ”
– Unknown

“The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men – from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes

“She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn’t take them along.”
– Margaret Culkin Banning

“An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.”
– Spanish Proverb

“If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands? ”
– Milton Berle

“Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.”
– John Lancaster Spalding

“Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.”
– Meryl Streep

“What are Raphael’s Madonnas but the shadow of a mother’s love, fixed in permanent outline forever?”
– Thomas Wentworth Higginson

“The formative period for building character for eternity is in the nursery. The mother is queen of that realm and sways a scepter more potent than that of kings or priests.”
– Unknown

“A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.”
– Washington Irving

“A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.”
– Victor Hugo

“Mommies are just big little girls.”
– Unknown

“A mom’s hug lasts long after she lets go.”
– Unknown

“A mother’s heart is a patchwork of love.”
– Unknown

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