Quotes & anectdotes from the wise, the foolish, the courageous & the drunk

motherhood

Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three. 5 views from Billie Holiday

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers. 23 more quotes from E. W. Howe

It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion it is a joy of every moment. 53 views from Honore de Balzac

Men are what their mothers made them. 135 wisdom & wit from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like. 3 wisdom & wit from Arnold Bennett

There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and its mother's age. 6 more quotes from Benjamin Spock

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom. 58 quotes from Henry Ward Beecher

If I made a list of the people I admire, Mom would probably fill up half of it. She could do anything and everything. 4 more wisdom & wit from Patsy Cline

We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can. 4 more quotes from Ethel Waters

Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me. 4 quotes from Ethel Waters

Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand. 6 quotes from Helen Hunt Jackson

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. 98 quotes from Mark Twain

The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother. 9 more views from Elizabeth Cady Stanton

What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles? 10 views from Louisa May Alcott

Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well. 13 views from Amos Bronson Alcott

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse. 11 other quotes from Rebecca West

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. 75 quotes from Aristotle

Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity, but from their point of view, show business was no way to make a living. 9 quotes from Ethel Merman

Mom claimed that I could carry a tune at 2 or 3 years of age. Maybe she was a little prejudiced. 9 quotes from Ethel Merman

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars. 26 quotes from E. M. Forster

My beloved Mom and Pop always rated tops with each other, and that's the way it will always be. 9 quotes from Ethel Merman

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother. 33 quotes from Erma Bombeck

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding. 33 more sayings from Erma Bombeck

Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name. 3 other sayings from Harriet Ann Jacobs

Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own. 2 quotes from Nelson Algren

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children. 4 quotes from Maxim Gorky