“Motherhood is the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It’s huge and scary—it’s an act of infinite optimism.” —Gilda Radner
“In giving birth to our babies, we may find that we give birth to new possibilities within ourselves.” —Myla and Jon Kabat-Zinn
“There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.” —Jill Churchill
“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.”—Sophia Loren
“Grown don’t mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown. In my heart it don’t mean a thing.”—Toni Morrison
“Kids don’t stay with you if you do it right. It’s the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won’t be needed in the long run.”—Barbara Kingsolver
“The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.” —James E. Faust
“Mother—that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.” —T. DeWitt Talmage
“No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother’s love.” —Edwin Chapin
“A mother understands what a child does not say.” —Jewish Proverb
“Motherhood: all love begins and ends there.” —Robert Browning
“Motherhood was the great equalizer for me; I started to identify with everybody.” —Annie Lennox
“Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.” —Harriet Beecher Stowe
“Mother is a verb. It’s something you do. Not just who you are.” — Cheryl Lacey Donovan
“The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.” —Elaine Heffner
“A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s.” —Princess Diana
“Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you.” —Louisa May Alcott
“A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.” —Honoré de Balzac
“There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.” —Ambrose Bierce
“A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.” —Dorothy Canfield Fisher
“Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy.” —Tina Fey
“There is such a special sweetness in being able to participate in creation.” —Pamela S. Nadav
“Having kids—the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings—is the biggest job anyone can embark on.” —Maria Shriver
“Mother is the heartbeat in the home; and without her, there seems to be no heartthrob.” —Leroy Brownlow
“I can imagine no heroism greater than motherhood.” —Lance Conrad, “The Price of Creation”
“Only mothers can think of the future ― because they give birth to it in their children.” ―Maxim Gorky
“A mother’s arms are made of tenderness, and children sleep soundly in the them.” ―Victor Hugo
“A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.” ―Dorothy Canfield Fisher
“You can feel when your mom’s proud of you. You can feel the love.” —Jimmy Fallon
“The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.” —James E. Faust
“Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind.” —Howard W. Hunter
“Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.” —Robert Browning
“It’s the job that I take most seriously in my life and I think it’s the hardest job.” —Debra Messing
“I’ve never had more appreciation for anyone in my entire life until I became a mom.” —Chrissy Teigen
“Only mothers can think of the future because they give birth to it in their children.” —Maxim Grosky
“I believe the choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is.” —Oprah Winfrey
“Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.” —Lin Yutang
“My mom smiled at me. Her smile kind of hugged me.”―R.J. Palacio, “Wonder”
“The truth is that no matter how old we are, as long as our mothers are alive, we want our mother.” —Goldie Hawn
