 Mother QuotesHere are some of my favourite mother quotes. Moms are in a class all their own. Who else would love a whiny, dependent person who frequently pukes on her? That was grounds for break up in high school! But a mother's love is unconditional and unwavering. Use these mother quotes in scrapbooks, mother's day cards or just to remind you how important motherhood really is.
--Irish Proverb A mother holds her children's hands for a while...their hearts forever. A mother understands what a child does not say. Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother. All mothers are working mothers. Before becoming a mother I had a hundred theories on how to bring up children. Now I have seven children and only one theory: Love them, especially when they least deserve to be loved. Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in my field, since the payment is pure love. Children and mothers never truly part - Bound in the beating of each other's heart. Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom with the dishes. God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers. I know how to do anything - I'm a mom. I never knew how much love my heart could hold until someone called me "mommy." If at first you don't succeed, do it the way your mother told you to. It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding. Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. More Mother QuotesMotherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.--Meryl Streep Motherhood is not for the faint-hearted. Frogs, skinned knees, and the insults of teenage girls are not meant for the wimpy. My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind. She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along. The greatest thing she'd learned over the years is that there's no way to be a perfect mother, but a million ways to be a good one. The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. 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. There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. What took me by surprise is the way I feel when her face lights up when I walk into a room because I am her world and she is mine. Being a mother is like taking your heart out of your chest and watching it walk around. Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away. When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso. 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. 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. If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers. Who, in their infinite wisdom, decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.
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