15 Great Quotes About Motherhood and Moms

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. ~Meryl Streep

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. ~Rajneesh

A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother. ~Author Unknown

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his. ~Oscar Wilde

Grown don’t mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What’s that suppose to mean? In my heart it don’t mean a thing. ~Toni Morrison, Beloved

My mother’s menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it. ~Buddy Hackett

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

A little girl, asked where her home was, replied, “where mother is.” ~Keith L. Brooks

God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers. ~Jewish Proverb

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

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars. ~E. M. Forster

My mother… she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.
~ Jodi Picoult

When your mother asks, “Do you want a piece of advice?” it’s a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway. ~ Erma Bombeck