Quotes - Mothers

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Whether your pregnancy was meticulously planned, medically coaxed, or happened by surprise, one thing is certain -- your life will never be the same.
~ CATHERINE JONES


A babe in the house is a wellspring of pleasure.
~ MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER
English writer, poet and author of Proverbial Philosophy


A baby is something you carry inside you for nine months, in your arms for three years and in your heart till the day you die.
~ MARY MASON


A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for.
~  UNKNOWN


A grand adventure is about to begin.
~ A.  A. MILNE, WINNIE THE POOH
English Author and Playwright best know for his childrens books featuring Winnie The Pooh.


A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest
~ IRISH PROVERB


A moment in my tummy, a lifetime in my heart.
~  UNKNOWN


A mother is she who can take the place of all others, but whose place no one else can take.
~ CARDINAL MERMILLOD
Bishop of Lausanne and Cardinal, great preacher of modern times


A mother LOVES and teaches, a grandmother teaches LOVE.


A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
~ VICTOR HUGO
French poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights activist. Well known for writing LES MISERABLES, THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME.


A mother's joy begins when new life is stirring inside... when a tiny heartbeat is heard for the very first time, and a playful kick reminds her that she is never alone.
~ CRESENT DRAGONWAGON 


A mother's love perceives no impossibilities.
~ CORNELIA PADDOCK
Author


A new baby is like the beginning of all things- Wonder, Hope, a Dream of possibilities.
~ EDA J. LESHAN
Author


Babies are bits of stardust blown from the hand of God. Lucky the woman who knows the pangs of birth for she has held a star.
~ LARRY BARRETTO


Babies are such a nice way to start people.
~ DON HERROLD


Baby in the tummy, it's all up to mommy But once the baby's had, it's bragging rights for Dad"
~ RODNEY SHERWOOD


Be kind to the woman for they make up half the population... and are the mothers of the other half.
~  UNKNOWN


Because I feel that in the heavens above,
The angels, whispering one to another,
Can find among their burning terms of love,
None so devotional as that of "Mother,"
Therefore, by that dear name I have long called you,
You who are more than mother unto me.
~ EDGAR ALLEN POE
Poet, writer, editor, literary critic, part of the American Romantic Movement. Well known for his poem, THE RAVEN.


Before you were coneived, I wanted you. Before you were born, I loved you. Before you were here an hour, I would die for you. This is the miracle of life.
~ MAUREEN HAWKINS


Begin, baby boy, to recognize your mother with a smile.
~  VIRGIL
Classical Roman poet, best known for 3 major works, BUSOLICS, GEORGICS, and the AENID.


Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do.
~  UNKNOWN


Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
~ DON HERROLD


Children are a great comfort in your old age -- and they help you reach it faster, too.
~ LIONEL KAUFFMAN


Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.
~ BILL COSBY
American comedian, actor, author, television producer and activist.


Her children arise up, and call her blessed.
~  PROVERBS


I begin to love this creature, and to anticipate her birth as a fresh twist to a knot, which I do not wish to untie.
~ MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT


I begin to love this little creature, and to anticipate his birth as a fresh twist to a knot, which I do not wish to untie.
~ MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY
British novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer. Best known for her novel, FRANKENSTEIN


I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
~ HARRY S. TRUMAN


I love old mothers- mothers with white hair and kindly eyes, and lips grown softly sweet with murmured blessings over sleeping babes.
~ CHARLES S ROSS


I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
~ ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Sixteenth president of the United States


I want the wide hugs and the exclamations of delight.
~ SABRINA WARD HARRISON
Canadian artist and author


I've noticed that one thing about parents is that no matter what stage your child is in, the parents who have older children always tell you the next stage is worse.
~ DAVE BARRY
"Things it took me 50 years to learn"


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


If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.
~ LAWRENCE HOUSMAN


If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.
~ BETTY DAVIS
Actress


In mothering, if you do it right, you work yourself out of a job.
~ KAREN H. TYLER


Infinite goodness has wide arms.
~  DANTE
Florentine poet of the middle ages


It is the wise mother who gives her child roots and wings.
~  CHINESE PROVERB


Life is a flame that is always burning itself out, but it catches fire again every time a child is born.
~ GEORGE BERNARD SHAW


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


Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.
~ HARRIETT BEECHER STOWE
Author


My baby cries-and all the world is wrong. My baby laughs-The world is full of song.
~ BETEL NUTS


My Mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one.
~ GROUCHO MARX
American Comedian and film star, known for TV and radio show, YOU BET YOUR LIFE.


My precious little baby, I have loved you from the start. You are a tiny miracle, Laying closely to my heart. Each day I feel your presence, Each day your heart beats softly, As only I could know. So I’ll keep this in a special place And remember each year through Of this very special time in my life, The time I carried you.
~  UNKNOWN


Never will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as marvelous as a newborn baby.
~ CARL SANDBURG
American author, poet


O young thing, your mother's armful! How sweet the fragrance of your body.
~  EURIPEDES
Greek playwright and poet, wrote 92 plays, born around 480 B.C.


Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.
~ LIN YUTANG
Chinese writer and inventor


Of course I can do anything. I'm a mother.
~  UNKNOWN


Only a mother's heart can be patient enough for such as he.
~ ETHEL LYNN BEERS
American poet, best known for her patriotic and sentimental poem "All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight"


Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
~ OGDEN NASH


Parents: Persons who spend half their time worrying how a child will turn out, and the rest of the time wondering when a child will turn in.
~ TED COOK


Richer Than Gold
You may have tangible wealth untold;
Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold.
Richer than I you can never be -
I had a mother who read to me.
~ GILLILAN STRICKLAND
Author


See you pale stripling! When a boy, a mother's pride, a father's joy.
~ SIR WALTER SCOTT
Scottish historical novelist and poet


Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life.
~  YIDDISH PROVERB FROM TALMUD


Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities.
~ BARBARA SCHAPIRO
Author


The bravest battle that ever was fought; Shall I tell you where and when? On the maps of the world you will find it not; It was fought by the mothers of men.
~ JOAQUIN MILLER
Colorful American poet, essayist and fabulist


The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
~ JILL CHURCHILL


The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
~ VICTOR HUGO
French poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights activist. Well known for writing LES MISERABLES, THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME.


The world knows little about its greatest heros.
~ DAN ZADRA
Author of children's books


There are three reasons for breast-feeding: the milk is always at the right temperature; it comes in attractive containers; and the cat can't get it.
~ IRENA CHALMERS


There is nothing wrong with the world that a sensible woman could not settle in an afternoon.
~ JEAN GIRAUDOUX
French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright


There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.
~  CHINESE PROVERB


There never was a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
~ RALPH WALDO EMERSON
American essayist and poet


There was a place in childhood that I remember well, and there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales did tell.
~ SAMUEL LOVER
Irish Author


Thou straggler into loving arms, Young climber up of knees, When I forget thy thousand ways, Then life and all shall cease.
~ MARY ANNE LAMB


To be pregnant is to be vitally alive, thoroughly woman, and undoubtedly inhabited.
~ ANNE  BUCHANAN AND DEBRA KLIGSPORN


To the world you just may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
~ JOSEPHINE BILLINGS


Well behaved women rarely make history.
~ LAUREL THATCHER ULRICH


When a woman who has much to say says nothing, her silence can be deafening.
~  KING MONGKUT
ANNA AND THE KING


When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.
~ NANCY FRIDAY


When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.
~ J.  M. BARRIE
Scottish journalist, playwright and children's book writer


You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
~ FRANKLIN P. JONES


Youth fades; love droops;
the leaves of friendship fall:
A mother's secret love
outlives them all.
~ OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
American physician, professor, member of FIRESIDE POETS, one of the best regarded poets of the 19th century