Life doesn't come with a manual, it comes with a mother.
If you are a mom, you are a superhero, period. @ -Rosie Pope
A mother's greatest masterpiece is her children.
Motherhood: The only place you can experience heaven and hell at the same time.
Birth is not only about making babies. It's about making mothers—strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and believe in their inner strength. @ -Barbara Katz Rothman
A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one can take.
You're always going to wonder if you're doing things wrong, but that's what it means to be a mom, to care so much about someone else that you just want to be as perfect as possible. @ -Naya Rivera
A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's. @ -Princess Diana
When you look into your mother's eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth. @ -Mitch Albom
Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother. @ -Lin Yutang
When you are looking at your mother you are looking at the purest love you will ever know. @ -Charley Benetto
Before you were conceived I wanted you. Before you were born, I loved you. Before you were here an hour, I would die for you. This is the miracle of mother's love. @ -Maureen Hawkins
God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. @ -Rudyard Kipling
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
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my mother. @ -Abraham Lincoln
There's no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one. @ -Jill Churchill
Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face. @ -George Eliot
No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love. @ -Edwin Chapin
It is within the journey of motherhood that a woman will discover how strong she really is.
A mother who radiates self-love and self-acceptance actually vaccinates her daughter against low self-esteem. @ -Naomi Wolf
There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. @ -Chinese Proverb
A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no aw, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path. @ -Agatha Christie
I believe the choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is. @ -Oprah
A mother's joy begins when new life is stirring inside… When a tiny heartbeat is heard for the very first time, and a playful kick reminds her that she is never alone.
Mothers are so brave, strong and special.
The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one. @ -Jill Churchill
The love a mother has for her child is immeasurable.
I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me. @ -Antonio Villaraigosa
All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother. @ -Abraham Lincoln
I don't know about changing my perspective, because motherhood is such a glorious blessing and I am very thankful for that. It's such a beautiful experience. I so strongly recommend it. Its bliss, love and fulfillment of another level. @ -Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
It takes someone really brave to be a mother, someone strong to raise a child and someone special to love someone more than herself.
A mother understands what a child does not say. @ -Jewish Proverb
Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing. @ -Ricki Lake
Motherhood: All love begins and ends there. @ -Robert Browning
Be a strong woman. So your daughter will have a role model and your son will know what to look for in a woman when he's a man.
If at first you don't succeed, try doing it the way mom told you to in the beginning.
My mother always used to say: The older you get, the better you get, unless you're a banana. @ -The Golden Girls
Love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark. To have been loved so deeply... will give us some protection forever. @ -J.K. Rowling
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. @ -Henry Ward Beecher
A strong woman is one who feels deeply and loves fiercely. Her tears flow as abundantly as her laughter. A strong woman is both soft and powerful, she is both practical and spiritual. A strong woman in her essence is a gift to the world.
A strong woman is one who is able to smile this morning like she wasn't crying last night.
Children are the anchors that hold the mother to life. @ -Sophocles
Mother is a verb. It's something you do. Not just who you are. @ -Cheryl Lacey Donovan
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws. @ -Barbara Kingsolver
I am strong because a strong mother raised me.
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
Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy. @ -Tina Fey
Mothers are the only ones that think nothing is beyond their control when it comes to their children. @ -Ali Fazal
Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all. @ -Maggie Gallagher
As a mother would protect her only child with her life... cultivate a boundless love towards all beings. @ -Buddha
I am a strong woman with or without this other person, with or without this job, and with or without these tight pants.
That strong mother doesn't tell her cub, 'Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you.' She says, 'Toughen up, this is reality we are living in.' @ -Lauryn Hill
The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom. @ -Henry Ward Beecher
I am a strong woman. Everything that's hit me in life I've dealt with on my own. I've cried myself to sleep. Picked myself back up and wiped my own tears. I have grown from things meant to break me. I get stronger by the day and I have God to thank for that.
For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home. @ -Jessica Lange
The life of a mother is the life of a child: you are two blossoms on a single branch. @ -Karen Maezen Miller
A mother discovers with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them. @ -Gabriel García Márquez
A strong woman stands up for herself. A stronger woman stands up for everybody else.
A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.
When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway. @ -Erma Bombeck
To support mother and father, to cherish wife and child and to have a simple livelihood; this is the good luck. @ -Buddha
Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired it need not be deserved. @ -Erich Fromm
He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mothers for you leaves its own mark. @ -J.K. Rowling
Truly I dreamt that my beautiful mom told others my secret about life. Nicely the secret was very easy to say but harder to do. The secret is: believe in your child and believe in yourself. @ -Jeremy Sicile Kira
The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children. @ -Nancy Friday
Pregnancy seems designed to prepare you for life as a mother. You start making sacrifices nine months before the child is born, so by the time they put in an appearance you are used to giving things up for them. @ -Brett Kiellerop
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. @ -Pablo Picasso
Whatever you do, be different - that was the advice my mother gave me, and I can't think of better advice for an entrepreneur. If you're different, you will stand out. @ -Anita Roddick
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary. @ -Dorothy Canfield Fisher
A mother feels empty when her child become self-sufficient. A father feels worthy when his child become self-sufficient. @ -Alex Sauer
Feeling fat lasts nine months but the joy of becoming a mom lasts forever. @ -Nikki Dalton
I like to think of motherhood as a great big adventure. You set off on a journey, you don't really know how to navigate things, and you don't exactly know where you're going or how you're going to get there. @ -Cynthia Rowley
My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it. @ -Quentin Crisp
My family is everything. I am what I am thanks to my mother, my father, my brother, my sister... because they have given me everything. The education I have is thanks to them. @ -Ronaldinho
I built the business exactly the way my mother built and ran her family. I wanted a replication of the big, happy family I grew up in. I wanted happy people having fun. @ -Barbara Corcoran
What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all. @ -Benjamin Spock
