Motherhood comes to us in different ways. Through biology or adoption, or some other way, women all over the world have become a part of motherhood since the beginning. Here are beautiful, funny, observant, and all around good quotes about motherhood. And don’t forget to share with us in the comments which quote is your favorite, or what other quotes about motherhood you would add!
- The quickest way for a parent to get a child’s attention is to sit down and look comfortable.” – Lane Olinghouse
- “Being a mother has made me so tired, and so happy,” – Tina Fey
- “Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work.” – C.S. Lewis
- “The most precious jewels you’ll ever have around your neck are the arms of your children.” – Unknown
- No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother’s love.”– Edwin Hubbell Chapin
- “Becoming a mother makes you realize you can do almost anything one-handed.” – Unknown
- “The days are long, but the years are short.”– Gretchen Rubin
- “Mothers hold their child’s hand for a moment and their heart for a lifetime.” – Unknown
- “May your coffee be stronger than your toddler.” – Unknown
- “All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Men are what their mothers made them.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.”– Mother Teresa
- “Life doesn’t come with a manual. It comes with a mother.” – Unknown
- “Nothing is lost until your mother can’t find it.” – Unknown
- “The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.” – Unknown
- “We used to want it all. Now we just want to pee alone.” – Unknown
- “A mother understands what a child does not say.” – Unknown
- “There is no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.” – Jill Churchill
- “Successful mothers are not the ones that have never struggled. They are the ones that never give up, despite the struggles.” – Sharon Jaynes
- “Good moms have sticky floors, messy kitchens, laundry piles, and happy kids.” – Unknown
- “Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn’t know you had, and dealing with fears you didn’t know existed.” – Linda Wooten
- “She taught me that fear is not an option.” – Diane von Furstenberg
- “It’s not easy being a mother. If it were easy, fathers would do it.” – The Golden Girls
- “No matter how much I say I love you, I always love you more than that.” – Unknown
- “The loveliest masterpiece of the heart of God is the heart of a mother.” – St. Therese of Lisieux
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