“I am not really much interested in talking to adults, although I suppose practically every mother in the kingdom knows my name and my books. It's their children I love.” KnowsChildrenBookMotherNamesTalkingAdultsKingdoms Author:Enid Blyton
“I was kind of a misfit, and when my mother died, I had to become an adult, something that I never thought I would ever be.” KindMotherAdultsDiedMisfitsMother Died Author:Martha Wainwright
“My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes more than the usual share of divorce, step-children, dysfunction, and obfuscation. I've spent most of my adult life attempting to deconstruct that history and separate fact from fiction.” ChildrenFactsStoriesMotherFictionStepsShareAdultsComplicatedDivorceUsualAttemptingLife StoryFamily HistoryDysfunctionObfuscationStep Children Author:Melissa Gilbert
“She [a mother] never outgrows the burden of love, and to the end she carries the weight of hope for those she bore. Oddly, very oddly, she is forever surprised and even faintly wronged that her sons and daughters are just people, for many mothers hope and half expect that their new-born child will make the world better, will somehow be a redeemer. Perhaps they are right, and they can believe that the rare quality they glimpsed in the child is active in the burdened adult.” PeopleWorldBelieveChildrenEndsMotherBornHalfQualityForeverSonDaughterAdultsWeightBurdenActiveCarrieBoresRedeemerSon And DaughterWronged Author:Florida Scott-Maxwell
“People over the age of thirty were born before the digital revolution really started. We've learned to use digital technology-laptops, cameras, personal digital assistants, the Internet-as adults, and it has been something like learning a foreign language. Most of us are okay, and some are even expert. We do e-mails and PowerPoint, surf the Internet, and feel we're at the cutting edge. But compared to most people under thirty and certainly under twenty, we are fumbling amateurs. People of that age were born after the digital revolution began. They learned to speak digital as a mother tongue.” PeopleFeelsHas BeensUseAgeMotherSpeakLanguageBornTechnologyCuttingRevolutionInternetAdultsOkayTwentiesCamerasEdgesTongueThirtyExpertsDigitalMailAssistantsSurfLaptopsForeign LanguageCutting EdgeMother TongueDigital TechnologyPowerpointDigital Revolution Author:Ken Robinson
“My mother has a very big family in Shanghai, so I have, like, almost 40 cousins, so we stayed together all the time. So by the time I get to Hong Kong, I become the only child and the only one surrounded by adults, you know.” KnowsChildrenBigsTogetherMotherAdultsCousinHong KongOnly ChildBig FamiliesShanghai Author:Wong Kar-wai
“When I was 11 or 12, I was really bored with everything on my summer reading list. It was all happy, middle-grade kinds of books. I was getting frustrated, because I liked to read. My mother went to the library and got me a copy of 'The Other Side of Midnight' by Sidney Sheldon. It was my first adult book.” FirstsKindBookMotherReadingSidesMiddleSummerAdultsLibraryListsBoredGradesCopiesFrustratedMidnightSummer Reading Author:Lauren DeStefano
“The book that made a lasting impression was the one my mother gave each of us when she decided we were ready for our first "adult novel," Lucy Maud Montgomery's The Blue Castle.” FirstsMadeBookMotherNovelReadyAdultsDecidedBlueImpressionLastingCastlesLucyLasting Impressions Author:Hallie Ephron
“Sometimes when I talk to little children I remind them of the fact that when I was growing up myself, I used to play with frog eggs and tadpoles and I used to walk in the field, I used to literally copy whatever my mother was doing on the land. And that may be the reason why I eventually developed the passion for green and for the Earth. So it is extremely important for adults and especially those who are in charge of cities to make sure that we do not lose touch with the land and with the environment. And especially our children.” MayChildrenLittlesImportantSometimesReasonPlayFactsEarthUsedMotherPassionLosesWalksCitiesGrowing UpEnvironmentGrowingLandFieldsAdultsOur ChildrenGreenReason WhyEggsCopiesFrogsTadpoles Author:Wangari Maathai
“In every adult human there still lives a helpless child who is afraid of aloneness.... This would be so even if there were a possibility for perfect babies and perfect mothers.” IfsHumansChildrenStillsWould BeMotherPerfectPossibilityBabyAdultsHelplessStill Life Book:Oneness and separateness: from infant to individual Source: Oneness and separateness: from infant to individual
“Fortunately for common sense, psychological research has shown that babies with more than one attachment are less distressed whenmother leaves to go to work. They are more content and playful in the presence of other adults, meaning that they feel secure with people other than Mother.” PeopleFeelsMotherCommonBabyResearchAdultsSeparationCommon SensePsychologicalSecureAttachmentBondingPsychological Research Author:Sandra Scarr