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“Mother love has been much maligned. An over mothered boy may go through life expecting each new woman to love him the way his mother did. Her love may make any other love seem inadequate. But an unloved boy would be even more likely to idealize love. I don't think it's possible for a mother or father to love a child too much.”

Thinking Way May Children Has Beens Seems Would Be Mother Father Family Boys Too Much Expecting Inadequate Mother Love Unloved

Author:Frank Pittman

“The mother must set the example in holding out the shrine as the heart of the house hold! She must enforce discipline over the children in personal cleanliness in humility and hospitality, in good manners and acts of service.”

Heart Children Mother House Example Humility Discipline Manners Good Man Hospitality Cleanliness Good Manners Shrines Acts Of Service

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“The sun enriched the old poles grandly... The mothers expressed all womanhood - the big wooden hands holding the child were so full of tenderness they had to be distorted enormously in order to contain it all. Womanhood was strong in Kitwancool.”

Children Hands Bigs Mother Order Strong Sun Gender Tenderness Womanhood Hand Holding

Book:The Emily Carr Omnibus

Source: The Emily Carr Omnibus

“For the whole consequence of evolution from blind impulse through conscious will to self conscious knowledge, seems still somehow to correspond to a continued result of births, rebirths and new births, which reach from the birth of the child from the mother, beyond the birth of the individual from the mass, to the birth of the creative work from the individual and finally to the birth of knowledge from the work.”

Children Stills Self Whole Seems Mother Individual Results Creative Evolution Birth Mass Conscious Consequence Blind Impulse Rebirth Self Conscious Creative Work

Book:journal

Source: journal

“Late one afternoon when returning from town we were met by a few women and children who told us that Mexican troops from some other town had attacked our camp, killed all the warriors of the guard, captured all our ponies, secured our arms, destroyed our supplies, and killed many of our women and children.. when all were counted, I found that my aged mother, my young wife, and my three small children were among the slain.”

Source: Geronimo's Story of His Life: As Told to S. M. Barrett

“Prime Minister Golda Meir said that the Middle East will see peace when Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel. On behalf of many Arab mothers, this is one mother who not only loves her children, but also loves Israel's children.”

Children Said Mother Hate Love Is Middle Israel East Ministers Prime Middle East Prime Minister Behalf Only Love

Author:Nonie Darwish

“The day I need a television puppet or clown to tell my children what's right and what's wrong, I'll bow out as a mother.”

Needs Children Mother Television My Children Bows Clown Puppets

Author:Elinor Smith

“The attitude and reactions of artists toward their art children reveal an attitude similar to that which mothers in general possess toward their children. There is the same sensitivity to any criticism, the same possessive pride.”

Children Art Mother Artist Attitude Pride Criticism Reactions Sensitivity Possessive

Author:Beatrice M. Hinkle

“A mother's example sketches the outline of her child's character.”

Children Character Mother Example Outlines

Author:Tim Howard

“How often a mother initiates a conversation with her child is not predictive of the language outcomes - what matters is, if the infant initiates, whether the mom responds.”

Ifs Children Matter Mother Language Mom Conversation Outcomes What Matters Infant Initiate

Author:Po Bronson

“The future destiny of a child is always the work of the mother”

Children Mother Destiny Motherhood Just A Mom Future Destiny

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.”

“And when children begin to use their reason, fathers and mothers should take great pains to fill their hearts with the fear of God. This the good Queen Blanche did most earnestly by St. Louis, her son: witness her oft-repeated words, "My son, I would sooner see you die than guilty of a mortal sin;" words which sank so deeply into the saintly monarch's heart, that he himself said there was no day on which they did not recur to his mind, and strengthen him in treading God's ways.”

Way Should Mind Heart Children Said Reason Use Pain Mother Dies Father Sin Son Guilty Witness Mortals Queens My Son Monarchs Treading Mortal Sin Blanche

Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“You never get over bein' a child long's you have a mother to go to.”

Children Long Mother Get Over Mothers Day

Book:The Country of the Pointed Firs

Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs

“Alone of human beings the good and wise mother stands on a plane of equal honor with the bravest soldier; for she has gladly gone down to the brink of the chasm of darkness to bring back the children in whose hands rests the future of the years.”

Years Humans Children Hands Mother President Human Beings Darkness Gone Wise Honor Equal Soldier Planes Chasms

Book:In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena

Source: In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena

“I believe it would be much better for everyone if children were given their start in education at home. No one understands a child as well as his mother, and children are so different that they need individual training and study. A teacher with a roomful of pupils cannot do this. At home, too, they are in their mothers care. She can keep them from learning immoral things from other children.”

Source: Laura Ingalls Wilder, farm journalist: writings from the Ozarks

“See that your children are properly educated in the rudiments of their mother tongue, and then let them proceed to higher branches of learning.”

Children Mother Education Higher Our Children Tongue Educated Your Children Branches Mother Tongue

Book:Journal of Discourses

Source: Journal of Discourses

“Every year when it's Chinese New Year here in New York, there are fireworks going off at all hours. New York mothers calm their frightened children by telling them it's just gunfire.”

Years Children Mother Hours New York Calm Chinese Frightened New Year Fireworks

Book:Late night with David Letterman: the book

Source: Late night with David Letterman: the book

“Nature, the great Moloch, which exacts a frightful tax of human blood, sparing neither young nor old; taking the child from the cradle, the mother from her babe, and the father from the family.”

Humans Children Young Mother Father Nature Blood Taxes Cradle Babe

Book:Osler's

Source: Osler's

“Perhaps the profession of doing good may be full, but every body should be kind at least to himself. Take a course of good water and air, and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you. Some have strange, morbid fears as soon as they find themselves with Nature, even in the kindest and wildest of her solitudes, like very sick children afraid of their mother-as if God were dead and the devil were king.”

Source: STEEP TRAILS: California - Utah - Nevada - Washington - Oregon - The Grand Canyon: Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Essays and Wilderness Studies from the author of The Yosemite, Our National Parks, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf & Picturesque California

“When a poet writes a poem, meaning arises - because the poet is not alone; he has created something. When a dancer dances, meaning arises. When a mother gives birth to a child, meaning arises. Left alone, cut off from everything else, isolated like an island, you are meaningless. Joined together you are meaningful. The bigger the whole, the bigger is the meaning.”

Giving Writing Children Whole Motivational Together Mother Left Cutting Poet Birth Bigger Meaningful Arise Islands Dancer Meaningless Isolated Not Alone Left Alone

Author:Rajneesh

“We are children of the Earth...respect your mother.”

Children Motivational Earth Mother

Author:Ralph Smart

“Boys are slobs... One reason is that mothers let them get away with it. Mothers are notorious for spoiling male children.”

Children Reason Mother Women Boys Males Get Away Notorious

Author:Laura Schlessinger

“I've often wanted to play the victim, or somebody who makes terrible choices. I would love to play the alcoholic mother who horribly lets down her children. That's a great morally imperiled role.”

Children Play Wanted Mother Choices Roles Terrible Victim Alcoholics Let Down

Author:Lucy Lawless

“Just as the child must trust his mother, the white belt must believe in the good will of his instructor. There will be a time for questioning, but for now he must focus and train.”

Believe Children Mother White Focus Train Questioning Belts Good Will Instructors

Author:Saulo Ribeiro

“We are earth's children, and life is the same in sap as in blood; all that the earth, our mother, feels and expresses to the eye by her form and aspect, in melancholy or in splendor, finds an echo within us.”

Feels Children Eye Earth Form Life Is Mother Blood Aspect Melancholy Echoes Splendor Sap

Book:Raphael: Or, Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty...

Source: Raphael: Or, Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty...

“Wise children always choose a mother who was a shocking flirt in her maiden days, and so had several offers before she accepted their fortunate papa.”

Children Mother Wise Offers Accepted Fortunate Shocking Flirting Maidens Papa

Book:The Little White Bird (Annotated Edition)

Source: The Little White Bird (Annotated Edition)

“In the soft and gentle arms of a mother's love, children can come to know the voice of the Lord.”

Knows Children Mother Voice Lord Arms Gentle Children Love Mother's Love

Author:Dwan J. Young

“Candid and searing, Deborah Jiang Stein’s memoir is a remarkable story about identity, lost and found, and about the author’s journey to reclaim—and celebrate—that most primal of relationships, the one between mother and child. I dare you to read this book without crying.”

Children Book Stories Mother Found Lost Journey Cry Identity Dare Memoir Celebrate Remarkable Primal Candid Mother And Child Lost And Found

Author:Mira Bartok

“What does a woman feel when she is hit? My mother slapped me when I was a child - on two occasions, to the point of pure hysteria; I never liked it. Those who are humiliated in such a way learn to disintegrate – that is, they become once removed from pain. This is the most direct route to psychic ruin.”

Way Feels Children Doe Two Pain Mother Pure Direct Ruins Occasions Routes Psychics Hysteria Humiliated

Author:Antonella Gambotto-Burke

“I would take school instruction out of the hands of the old order of decrepit, stammering, journeymen-teachers as well as from the new weak ones, who are generally no better for popular instruction, and entrust it to the undivided powers of Nature herself, to the light that God kindles and ever keeps alive in the hearts of fathers and mothers, to the interest of parents who desire that their children should grow up in favour with God and man.”

“The mother's first kiss teaches the child love; the first holy kiss of the woman he loves teaches man hope and faith in life.”

Men Firsts Children Mother Teach Holy Kissing First Kiss Hope And Faith Children Love

Book:The Duties of Man and Other Essays

Source: The Duties of Man and Other Essays

“I have been blessed in my career and I was able to afford the extra procedures and everything to have my children. Does that make me a better mother than someone who cannot afford it? No, of course not.”

Children Doe Has Beens Able Mother Courses Careers Blessed My Children Extras Procedures

Author:Cindy Margolis

“Stupid word, that. Period. In America it means 'full stop,' like in punctuation. That's stupid as well. A period isn't a full stop. It's a new beginning. I don't mean all that creativity, life-giving force, earth-mother stuff, I mean it's a new beginning to the month, relief that you're not pregnant, when you don't have to have a child.”

Giving Wells Mean Children Earth America Mother Force Stuff Creativity Stupid Months Periods Relief Pregnant New Beginnings Punctuation

Author:Michelene Wandor

“Rush like a river from the highest mountain, drink from the fountain and stop your counting. What kind of wine does he have in his tavern, oh so enchanted and sing like a mad man. Mad with the love of a wife for her husband, child or mother, sister or brother... sing for the Most High, sing for no other. We are all notes in this eternal song, God plays his flute and we all dance along.”

Men Kind Children Doe Play Mother Song Wife Brother Drink Husband Mountain Eternal Highest Rivers Mad Wine Notes Fountain Counting Enchanted Flutes Mad Men Taverns

Author:Trevor Hall

“Step back in time; look closely at the child in the very arms of his mother; see the external world reflected for the first time in the yet unclear mirror of his understanding; study the first examples which strike his eyes; listen to the first words which arouse within him the slumbering power of thought; watch the first struggles which he has to undergo; only then will you comprehend the source of his prejudices, the habits, and the passions which are to rule his life. The entire man, so to speak, comes fully formed in the wrappings of his cradle.”

“More than any other personality trait, my mother seemed to be ruled by anger and sadness. She seemed to hate being a mother. Watching her unhappiness as I grew up made me conclude that the answer was to try and be as unemotional as I could, which many therapists have taught me is a bad idea. It also made me want to avoid marriage and having children.”

“I've played a mother many times, even in tragic things like, "I Dreamed of Africa," so I know how it is to lose a child cinematically. I have so much compassion on so many fronts, for women who have lost children or tried for years and couldn't have them.”

Knows Years Children Mother Lost Loses Compassion Know How Fronts Tragic Lost Child

Author:Kim Basinger

“But the majority of mothers work - and are responsible for taking care of the kids and home. And more fathers are spending more time doing child care and housework, and still working long hours. That work-life conflict is weighing on everybody.”

Children Long Stills Home Care Kids Mother Father Hours Conflict Responsible Majority Spending More Time Housework Weighing Long Hours Child Care Working Long Hours

Author:Brigid Schulte

“Though this new forest grew mightily, elsewhere the mighty jungles fell. Elsewhere the coastal rain forests that furred the body of the world were torn and riven. Elsewhere the last of the old growth the last of the world's own garment were ripped away. It was in this time, now, that the mother of us all was stripped naked and left to die in shame of her children, she who had been robed in glory like this, adorned like this. I bent my head upon the roots and wept, sorrowing for the trees.”

World Children Body Lasts Mother Dies Left Growth Tree Grew Glory Rain Roots Shame Forests Naked Elsewhere Bent Torn Jungle Garments Ripped Coastal

Author:Sheri S. Tepper

“Assoon as I stepped out of my mother's womb on to dry land, I realized that I had made a mistake?but the trouble with children is that they are not returnable.”

Children Made Mother Mistake Trouble Land I Realized Dry Womb Made A Mistake Dry Land

Author:Quentin Crisp

“The so-called mother of the child isn't the child's begetter, but only a sort of nursing soil for the new-sown seed. The man, the one on top, is the true parent, while she, a stranger, foster's a stranger's sprout.”

Men Children Mother Parent He Man Stranger Seeds Soil Nursing Sprouts

Book:The Complete Aeschylus: Volume I: The Oresteia

Source: The Complete Aeschylus: Volume I: The Oresteia

“Earth, the mother of all, Moves on her stedfast way, Gathering, flinging, sowing. Mortals, we live in her day, She in her children is growing.”

Way Children Earth Moving Mother Growing Mortals Gathering Sowing

Book:Poems of George Meredith

Source: Poems of George Meredith

“If we're ever going to get the world back on a natural footing, back in tune with natural rhythyms, if we're going to nurture the Earth and protect it and have fun with it and learn from it - which is what mothers do with their children - then we've got to put technology (an aggressive masculine system) in its proper place, which is that of a tool to be used sparingly, joyfully, gently and only in the fullest cooperation with nature. Nature must govern technology, not the other way around.”

Ifs World Way Children Earth Used Mother Fun Natural Technology Protect Tools Having Fun Tunes Cooperation Aggressive Nurture Masculine Cowgirls

Author:Tom Robbins

“It takes a heap o' children to make a home that's true,And home can be a palace grand, or just a plain, old shoe;But if it has a mother dear, and a good old dad or two,Why, that's the sort of good old home for good old me and you.”

Ifs Children Two Home Mother Dad Shoes Dear Palaces Old Shoes

Author:Louis Untermeyer

“"You sound as if you question the authority and the decision of the Oracle, who said he should die." "I do not. Why should I? But the Oracle did not ask me to carry out its decision." [...] "The Earth cannot punish me for obeying her mesenger," Okonkwo said. "A child's fingers are not scalded by a piece of hot yam which its mother puts into its palm."”

Ifs Should Children Said Earth Mother Dies Asks Sound Decision Pieces Authority Hot Fingers Ask Me Should I Palms Obeying Oracles Things Fall Apart Okonkwo Yams Okonkwo

Author:Chinua Achebe

“The glorified spirit of the infant is as a star to guide the mother to its own blissful clime.”

Children Spirit Mother Stars Guides Infant

Book:Letters to mothers

Source: Letters to mothers

“In fact if you're a mother or a father, you're filled with oxytocin when you have a child. It makes you love the baby, even though they look like a lizard .You'll think it's the beautiful thing in the world.”

Ifs Thinking World Looks Children Facts Beautiful Mother Father Baby Filled Beautiful Things Lizards Oxytocin

Author:Tony Robbins

“When a mother takes pictures of her children on the beach, she doesn't take herself for an artist; she does it for love, which is an excellent reason, from my point of view.”

Children Doe Reason Mother Artist Views Point Of View Beach Excellent

Author:Martin Parr

“The narcissistic, the domineering, the possessive woman can succeed in being a "loving" mother as long as the child is small. Only the really loving woman, the woman who is happier in giving than in taking, who is firmly rooted in her own existence, can be a loving mother when the child is in the process of separation.”

Giving Children Long Mother Process Existence Succeed Separation Rooted Narcissistic Possessive Loving Mother

Book:The Art of Loving: The Centennial Edition

Source: The Art of Loving: The Centennial Edition