Quotes - motherhood

Motherhood

Maybe I've been put on earth to be an ordinary person. Not to do anything great, but to do something small that involves great love.

-Adoptive mother

The joy of motherhood: What a mother experiences when all her children are in bed.

-Barbara Johnson

If you wonder where your child left his roller skates, try walking around the house in the dark.
-Leopold Fechtner
A 'young lady' is a female child who has just done something dreadful.

-Judith Martin

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

-Ambrose Bierce

If I had my child to raise all over again, I'd build self-esteem first, and the house later. I'd finer-paint more, and point the finger less. I would do less correcting and more connecting. I'd take my eyes off my watch, and watch with my eyes. I'd take more hikes and fly more kites. I'd stop playing serious, and seriously play. I would run through more fields and gaze at more stars. I'd do more hugging and less tugging.

-Diane Loomans

The hardest part of raising a child is teaching them to ride bicycles. A shy child on a bicycle for the first time needs both support and freedom. The realization that this is what the child will always need can hit hard.

-Sloan Wilson

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

-Quentin Crisp

She tried in every way to understand me, and she succeeded. It was this deep, loving understanding as long as she lived that more than anything else helped and sustained me on my way to success.

-Mae West

Mom is WOW upside down.

-Anonymous

A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.

-Cardinal Mermillod

It is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

-Ann Landers

My mother's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.
-Buddy Hackett
Parents must have a tender heart, an inflexible will, and the patience and faith of saints.

-French saying

The quickest way for a mother to get a child's attention is to sit down and answer the telephone.

-Ginny Unser