Inspirational Mothers Quotes

Many people have said to me 'What a pity you had such a big family to raise. Think of the novels and the short stories and the poems you never had time to write because of that.' And I looked at my children and I said, 'These are my poems. These are my short stories.' - Olga Masters

Before becoming a mother I had a hundred theories on how to bring up children. Now I have seven children and only one theory: love them, especially when they least deserve to be loved. - Kate Samperi

Then someone placed her in my arms. She looked up at me. The crying stopped. Her eyes melted through me, forging a connection in me with their soft heat.  - Shirley Maclaine

In the evening, after she has gone to sleep, I kneel beside the crib and touch her face, where it is pressed against the slats, with mine.  - Joan Didion

What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp. - Marjorie Holmes

There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.  - Agatha Christie

A mother's love is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, and it never fails or falters, even though the heart is breaking.  - Helen Steiner Rice

In the sheltered simplicity of the first days after a baby is born, one sees again the magical closed circle, the miraculous sense of two people existing only for each other. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Only a mother knows a mother's fondness. - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

All the earth, though it were full of kind hearts, is but a desolation and a desert place to a mother when her only child is absent.  - Elizabeth Gaskell