66 Cute New Mom Quotes and Sayings
Motherhood is so many things. It's a journey unlike anything else, and when it's your first time doing it, no amount of parenting books, advice or classes can really prepare a new mom for all that she's about to experience. And while bringing the baby home is just the beginning of the lifelong bond as mother and child, those early days are treasures she'll hold onto for the rest of her life.
Whether you're the new mom yourself or you're looking to support one, these sweet new mom quotes can make for the best messages in a card, Instagram captions or words of encouragement. We even included some funny mom-related quotes that will help remind her that she's not alone when she's dealing with some, erm, parenting challenges.
The most important thing for any mom or parent, is that they have all the love and support they can get from their friends and family. And that they are reminded they are doing a great job, even when it might not feel like it. So these words can make all the difference and help her know just how special she is (so can one of these best gifts for new moms, BTW!).
Tina Brown
Having a baby is like falling in love again, both with your husband and your child.
Rosie Pope
If you're a mom, you're a superhero. Period.
Princess Diana
A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's.
Pamela S. Nadav
There is such a special sweetness in being able to participate in creation.
Oprah
I believe the choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is.
Nikki Dalton
Feeling fat lasts nine months, but the joy of becoming a mom lasts forever.
Nicole Fornabaio
Spit-up is my new favorite accessory; no outfit is complete without it.
Lisa Jo Baker
A mother continues to labor long after the baby is born.
Linda Wooten
Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn't know you had, and dealing with fears you didn't know existed.
Kate Winslet
Having children just puts the whole world into perspective. Everything else just disappears.
Karen Maezen Miller
The life of a mother is the life of a child: you are two blossoms on a single branch.
Jessica Lange
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.
Harriette Hartigan
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.
George Bernard Shaw
Life is a flame that is always burning itself out, but catches fire again every time a child is born.
Ezra Taft Benson
No society will long survive without mothers who care for their young and provide that nurturing care so essential for their normal development.
Cynthia Rowley
I think of motherhood as a great big adventure. You set off on a journey, you don't really know how to navigate things, and you don't exactly know where you're going or how you're going to get there.
Chrissy Teigen
No one told me I would be coming home in diapers, too.
Carrie Fisher
Everything grows rounder and wider and weirder, and I sit here in the middle of it all and wonder who in the world you will turn out to be.
Cardinal Mermillod
A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.
Anonymous
A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten and the future worth living for.
Bradley D. Foster
Perhaps the reason we respond universally to our mothers' love is because it typifies the love of our Savior.
Anonymous
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.
Amy Tan
A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.
Robin Lim
Birthing is the most profound initiation to spirituality a woman can have.
Taraji. P. Henson
Once you're a mom, you're always a mom. It's like riding a bike, you never forget.
Barbara Kingsolver
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
Anne Lamott
There are places in the heart you don’t even know exist until you love a child.
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Kristen Bell
Having kids feels like that first seventh-grade crush that overwhelms every molecule in your body, but it’s permanent.
Jennifer Hudson
You never know how much your parents loved you until you have a child to love.
Robert Browning
Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
Gilda Radner
Motherhood is the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It’s huge and scary — it’s an act of infinite optimism.
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Mary Mason
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.
Anita Diamant
Just as there is no warning for childbirth, there is no preparation for the sight of a first child. There should be a song for women to sing at this moment, or a prayer to recite. But perhaps there is none because there are no words strong enough to name that moment.
Tina Fey
Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; a mother’s secret hope outlives them all.
Cynthia Rowley
I like to think of motherhood as a great big adventure. You set off on a journey, you don’t really know how to navigate things, and you don’t exactly know where you’re going or how you’re going to get there.
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Simone De Beauvoir
There is a wondrous curiosity in every young mother. It is a strange miracle to see, to hold a living being formed in and coming out of one’s self.
Amy Poehler
When your children arrive, the best you can hope for is that they break open everything about you. Your mind floods with oxygen. Your heart becomes a room with wide-open windows.
Gail Tsukiyama
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.
Elizabeth Stone
Making the decision to have a child — it is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
Virginia Kelley
There is nothing like a newborn baby to renew your spirit and to buttress your resolve to make the world a better place.
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Washington Irving
A mother’s love endures through all.
Kate Winslet
Having children just puts the whole world into perspective. Everything else just disappears.
Kara Ferwerda
There are hard days in motherhood, but looking at your baby sleeping reminds you why it’s all worth it.
Penelope Leach
Loving a baby is a circular business, a kind of feedback loop. The more you give the more you get and the more you get the more you feel like giving.
Charles Dickens
Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
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Karen Maezen Miller
The life of a mother is the life of a child: you are two blossoms on a single branch.
Maya Angelou
To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.
Victor Hugo
A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
Naya Rivera
You’re always going to wonder if you’re doing things wrong, but that’s what it means to be a mom, to care so much about someone else that you just want to be as perfect as possible.
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.
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Jim Gaffigan
Babies are the worst roommates. They’re unemployed. They don’t pay rent. They keep insane hours. Their hygiene is horrible. If you had a roommate that did any of the things babies do, you’d ask them to move out.
Harriette Hartigan
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.
Toni Morrison
Grown don’t mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown. In my heart it don’t mean a thing.
Eda LeShan
A new baby is like the beginning of all things — wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities.
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William Macneile Dixon
Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything.
Charles Osgood
Babies are always more trouble than you thought — and more wonderful.
Jodi Picoult
Sometimes when you pick up your child you can feel the map of your own bones beneath your hands, or smell the scent of your skin in the nape of his neck. This is the most extraordinary thing about motherhood — finding a piece of yourself separate and apart that all the same you could not live without.
Leo J. Burke
People who say they sleep like a baby usually don’t have one.
Sophia Loren
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.
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Linda Wooten
Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn’t know you had, and dealing with fears you didn’t know existed.
Jill Churchill
There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
Agatha Christie
A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.
Laura Stavoe Harm
We have a secret in our culture, and it’s not that birth is painful. It’s that women are strong.
George Bernard Shaw
Life is a flame that is always burning itself out, but it catches fire again every time a child is born.
Elizabeth Bard
A baby is a wishing well. Everyone puts their hopes, their fears, their pasts, their two cents in.
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