The best way to figure out what it’s like to be a Mom, is, well, to be one I suppose. Not all of us are so chosen, or created this way, so as we make our way toward Mother’s Day this week, this second blog in the trilogy is devoted to some of the best quotes I could find about Motherhood and words from the ones who live it, or have lived it, because to appreciate it through their eyes, we can all comprehend.
“Mother is a verb. It’s something you do, not just who you are.”
– Cheryl Lacey Donovan
“There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.”
-Jill Churchill
“Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There’s no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving.”
-Gail Tsukiyama
“The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.”
– Jessica Lange
“The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.”
– W. R. Wallace
“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
“Those helpless bundles of promise and power that come into our world show us our true selves – who we are, who we are not, who we wish we could be.”
– Hillary Rodham Clinton
“More than in any other human relationship, overwhelmingly more, motherhood means being instantly interruptible, responsible and responsive.”
– Tillie Olson
“The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.”
-Honoré de Balzac
“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
“Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs… since the payment is pure love.”
-Mildred B. Vermont
“A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.”
-Dorothy Canfield Fisher
“A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.”
– Victor Hugo
“There is an instinct in a woman to love most her own child — and an instinct to make any child who needs her love, her own.”
– Robert Brault
“My mother is a poem I’ll never be able to write, though everything I write is a poem to my mother.”
– Sharon Doubiago
“What is a mom but the sunshine of our days and the north star of our nights.”
– Robert Brault
“Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn’t know you had, and dealing with fears you didn’t know existed.”
– Linda Wooten
“A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.”
– Irish Proverb
“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, that is his.”
– Oscar Wilde
Until next time, thanks for taking the time.
Mark
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