As I venture towards this bittersweet stage in motherhood, where my firstborn graduates and heads off into the adult world, I’m finding solace in quotes about motherhood. I cannot believe I missed the last two summers being around my oldest child 100% of the time. Life simply took over and we ended up in a different world so to speak, but we’ve made the best of it. I get to text and call my oldest anytime. My oldest has a social life and a relationship, of course, that is supposed to take over time with Mama. I know this.
I still have to admit, this transitional stage is hard! It’s hard on my Mama heart because it means I have to soon let go. I have to stand there this June and watch my oldest child grab her diploma and toss that cap off and be an … adult! It’s crazy. I can only hope I have provided my oldest with the skills and lessons necessary to survive this crazy world we live in. That my firstborn will never forget that Mama is just a phone call away and that you can live here forever with me (when we have a home again) just … you’ll have to pay rent. LOL
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While I reminisce about the old days and the future of having an adult child, these quotes about motherhood provide me just what I need to embrace the funny, beauty and amazing parts of motherhood. I’m truly blessed to have three kids, and I cannot wait to see what the future holds for my oldest child.
No matter how old you get, kiddos, your Mama loves you deeply, without conditions and will do everything to be that shoulder you need to cry upon, and ear to listen when times are tough.
25 Quotes About Motherhood
“Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.” — Robert Browning
“Being a mother is not about what you gave up to have a child, but what you’ve gained from having one.” — Unknown
“A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.” — Cardinal Mermillod
“Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.” – Barbara Kingsolver
“To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.” – Maya Angelou
“Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy.” – Tina Fey
“Birth is the epicenter of women’s power.” –Ani DiFranco
“There is such a special sweetness in being able to participate in creation.” – Pamela S. Nadav
“Because I feel that, in the Heavens above / The angels, whispering to one another, / Can find, among their burning terms of love / None so devotional as that of ‘Mother’” – Edgar Allen Poe
“Giving birth and being born brings us into the essence of creation, where the human spirit is courageous and bold and the body, a miracle of wisdom.” – Harriette Hartigan
“I believe the choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is.” – Oprah
“In giving birth to our babies, we may find that we give birth to new possibilities within ourselves.” – Myla and Jon Kabat-Zinn
“There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.” – Jill Churchill
“Rigid plans work best if you’re building a skyscraper; with something as mysteriously human as giving birth, it’s best, both literally and figuratively, to keep your knees bent.” – Mark Sloan
“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
“Babies are bits of star-dust blown from the hand of God. Lucky the woman who knows the pangs of birth for she has held a star.” – Larry Barretto
“We have a secret in our culture, and it’s not that birth is painful. It’s that women are strong.” – Laura Stavoe Harm
“There is no way to be a perfect mother, but a million ways to be a good one.” — Jill Churchill
“While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.” — Angela Schwindt
“Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn’t know you had and dealing with fears you didn’t know existed.” — Linda Wooten
“Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.” — Lin Yutang
“There will be so many times you feel like you’ve failed. But in the eyes, heart, and mind of your child, you are super mom.” — Stephanie Precourt
“A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.” — Victor Hugo
“Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world, a mother’s love is not.” – James Joyce
“Having children just puts the whole world into perspective. Everything else just disappears.” —Kate Winslet