Maternity Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old maternity quotes, maternity sayings, and maternity proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

A baby is something you carry inside you for nine months, in your arms for three years and in your heart till the day you die. Mary Mason
Pregnancy is getting company inside one's skin. Maggie Scarf
Pregnancy is like the beginning of all things; wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. Anonymous
In giving birth to our babies, we may find that we give birth to new possibilities within ourselves. Myla and Jon Kabat-Zinn
It's a great thing about being pregnant you don't need excuses to pee or to eat. Angelina Jolie
You never understand life until it grows inside of you. Sandra Chami Kassis
Maternal desire is the profound emotional need to mother a baby. This stems from either the tragic loss of her own child, or the inability to have one at all. Jeff Davis
Maternal instinct is always irrational. Doesn't mean it's wrong. David Shore
As we carry our baby inside us, we know almost nothing about it that distinguishes it from anyone's baby-except that we love it unlike any other baby. Roni Jay
Making a decision to have a child-it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. Elizabeth Stone
Life is always rich and steady time when you are waiting for something to happen or to hatch. E.B. White
When a woman, gives birth her waters break and she pours out the child and the child runs free. Jeanette Winterson
For nine months I grew a human being inside my belly and then I pushed it out my vagina and now I'm feeding it with my boob. Biology is so...weird. Heather Armstrong
Life is a flame that is always burning itself out, but it catches fire again everytime a child is born. George Bernard Shaw
Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born. Erma Bombeck
Motherhood will also mold you in unexpected, amazing ways, but becoming a mama doesn't mean leaving the woman you are behind. Jill Koziol
Pregnancy is about more than simply growing a baby. It's about becoming a mama. Jill Koziol
Motherhood changes you long before the baby is born. Jill Koziol
Motherhood is about defining an experience as any human being can undergo. Danielle Crittenden
Even id motherhood has been a lifelong desire, once it arrives, many women find themselves feeling lost somewhere who they were before and who they think they should be now. Alexandra Sacks
The older I get the more of my mother I see in myself. Betty Friedan
A mother is not a person to lean on, nut a person to make learning unnecessary. Dorothy Canfield Fisher
The future destiny of the child is always the work of the mother. Napoleon Bonaparte
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. Aristotle
The phrase 'working mothers' is redundant. Jane Sellman
Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still. Nancy Friday
The story of a mother's life: Trapped between a scream and a hug. Cathy Guisewite
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
Anyone who doesn't miss the past never had a mother. Gregory Nunn
Be like duck,' my mother used to tell me. 'Remain calm on the surface and paddle like hell underneath.' Michael Caine