Top 20 Motherhood Quotes

1. “A Mother’s love is something that no one can explain, It is made of deep devotion and of sacrifice and pain, It is endless and unselfish and enduring come what may For nothing can destroy it or take that love away.”

— Helen Steiner Rice

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2. “We are born of love. Love is our mother.”

— Rumi

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3. “All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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4. “Whenever and however you give birth, your experience will impact your emotions, your mind, your body, and your spirit for the rest of your life.”

— Ina May Gaskin

5. “When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.”

— Toni Morrison

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6. “A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.”

— Agatha Christie

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7. “Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.”

— Mother Teresa

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8. “Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.”

— Khalil Gibran

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9. “The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.”

— Malcolm X

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10. “Women are one half of society which gives birth to the other half so it is as if they are the entire society.”

— Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

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11. “Ain’t a woman alive that could take my mama’s place.”

— Tupac Shakur

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12. “The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family.”

— Mother Teresa

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13. “I’ll love you forever, I’ll like you for always, As long as I’m living, my baby you’ll be.”

— Robert Munsch

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14. “How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers.”

— Mother Teresa

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15. “My mother is a walking miracle.”

— Leonardo DiCaprio

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16. “A child’s mental health is just as important as their physical health.”

— Kate Middleton

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17. “We not only respect babies, we demonstrate our respect every time we interact with them. Respecting a child means treating even the youngest infant as a unique human being, not as an object.”

— Magda Gerber

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18. “God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.”

— Rudyard Kipling

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19. “As truly as God is our Father, so truly God is our Mother.”

— Julian of Norwich

20. “The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.”

— William Ross Wallace

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21. “There is no greater warrior than a mother protecting her child.”

— N.K. Jemisin

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22. “Be what you wish your children to be. Parents have perpetuated by precept and example their own stamp of character to their posterity.”

— Ellen G. White

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23. “I love my family, I’ll do anything for them.”

— Toni Braxton