Best mother & children Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension inside her about who she wanted to be and what she wanted to do and how she couldn’t achieve the things she wanted to.”

Children Wanted Young Mother Achieve Tension Having Children

Author:Natalie Merchant

“We are all equal children before our mother; and India asks each one of us, in whatsoever role we play in the complex drama of nation-building, to do our duty with integrity, commitment and unflinching loyalty to the values enshrined in our Constitution.”

Children Play Mother Values Asks Nations Roles Building Duty Integrity Drama Equal Commitment India Constitution Complexes Loyalty Nation Building

Author:Pranab Mukherjee

“In Sweden, we've moved away from the notion that mothers have some magical, special bond with children.”

Children Mother Special Moved Notion Sweden

Author:Camilla Lackberg

“Do not sit next to my mother when she is watching one of her children compete because you will have fingernails down your back. She is a nervous wreck.”

Children Mother Next Nervous Wrecks Fingernails

Author:Diana Lopez

“The relationship I have to my fatherland is like that of mothers with crippled children: they love them all the more, the more crippled they are. Germany is the background of all my plans, the return to Germany.”

Children Mother Plans Return Backgrounds Germany Crippled Fatherland

Author:Friedrich List

“Thirty, 40 years ago, more than that now, even, the cook was certainly at the bottom of the social scale. And any mother would've wanted their child to marry a doctor, a lawyer, an architect, not a cook. Now, we are genius, it's different.”

Years Children Different Wanted Mother Social Genius Years Ago Doctors Bottom Lawyer Scales Cooks Thirty Architect

Author:Jacques Pepin

“As a partner in a firm full of women who work outside of the home as well as stay at home mothers, all with plenty of children, gender equality is not a talking point for me. It is an issue I live every day.”

Wells Children Home Mother Talking Issues Work Out Gender Partners Plenty Firm Gender Equality Stay At Home Live Every Day

Author:Hilary Rosen

“I find being a mother is a huge advantage. Of course, I'm probably a little more tired than I might be if I didn't have children, but I think they provide me the balance that I need to keep my mind off of lifting.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Mind Children Littles Might Mother Courses Huge Balance Advantage Tired Lifting Being A Mother

Author:Melanie Roach

“But in my own particular case, there was something that happened when I became a mother. Whenever in the news I saw an example of a child being abused or mistreated, my response went from being appalled to being physically revolted.”

Children Mother My Own Cases Saws Happened Example Particular News Response Mistreated

Author:Mercedes Ruehl

“What mothers need, as well as fathers, spouses, and the children of aging parents, is an entire national infrastructure of care, every bit as important as the physical infrastructure of roads, bridges, tunnels, broadband, parks and public works.”

Needs Wells Children Important Care Mother Father Bits Parent Aging Bridges Parks Spouse Infrastructure Tunnels Broadband Aging Parents

Author:Anne-Marie Slaughter

“My mother's kitchen was built to be the focal point of our house. I got into the kitchen often as a child.”

Children Mother House Built Kitchen Focal Point

Author:Gail Simmons

“In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don't baptize the children of single mothers because they weren't conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today's hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation.”

People Children Today Mother Church Salvation Regions Priests Hypocrite Sanctity Single Mother Sanctity Of Marriage

Author:Pope Francis

“Welsh is my mother tongue, and my children speak it. If you come and live in this community you'll work out pretty quickly that it's beneficial to learn the language, because if you're going to the pub or a cafe you need to be a part of the local life.”

Ifs Needs Children Mother Speak Language Community Work Out Tongue Locals My Children Beneficial Pubs Cafes Welsh Mother Tongue

Author:Bryn Terfel

“I have made so many mistakes as a mother. But the one thing that I know I do is I make sure my children know how much I love them and they are absolutely secure in that.”

Knows Children Made Mother Mistake Know How One Thing Secure My Children

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“Look, if you ask a child, 'Would you rather have a fulfilled mother or a stay-at-home Sylvia Plath,' they'll pick Sylvia Plath every time. But I think it's really important that children don't feel their parents' emotional lives depend on their success.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Looks Children Important Home Mother Asks Parent Emotional Depends Picks Fulfilled Stay At Home Emotional Life Plath

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“My mother's the youngest of 10 children too, so we have sort of a special bond in that we know what that feels like. It's a strange spot to be in.”

Knows Feels Children Mother Special Strange Spots

Author:Jack White

“My mother was adored by her family and by the scores of children she took care of and their parents, all of whom called her 'Miss Woody.”

Children Care Mother Parent Missing Score Woody

Author:Judy Woodruff

“I'm sure everything has a bearing on what I'm doing. My family is a lower-middle-class family, there's lots of children, seven brothers, two sisters grew up together, fighting with each other, went to school. My mother went to school up to 4th grade. My father went to school up to 8th grade. So that's about the education level we had in the family.”

Children Two School Together Mother Fighting Father Levels Class Middle Brother Grew Grew Up My Family Seven Grades Middle Class Middle Class Family Two Sisters

Author:Muhammad Yunus

“My mother and I never got along, not even when I was a child.”

Children Mother

Author:Tamara Mellon

“I don't like to design single objects. I like my pieces to have a relationship to each other. They can be mother and child, like the Schmoo salt and pepper shakers, or brother and sister like the Birdie salt and peppers, or cousins, like most of my dinnerware sets.”

Children Mother Pieces Design Objects Brother Salt Brothers And Sisters Cousin Peppers Mother And Child Shakers Salt And Pepper

Author:Eva Zeisel

“When I met my designs in the market of a remote village in the West Indies, or in the airport restaurant in Zurich, I felt like the mother of many well-behaved children.”

Wells Children Mother Felt Design Mets West Restaurants Village Airports West Indies Zurich

Author:Eva Zeisel

“One of the things my mother taught me when I was a child was just keep your eye on the prize and as long as you feel that you're right with your creator and you're right yourself, then other people's opinions really don't matter.”

People Feels Children Long Matter Eye Mother Opinion Taught Creator Prize Eye On The Prize

Author:Cathy Hughes

“Almost 30 years before Rwanda, before Darfur, more than 2 million people - mothers, children, babies, civilians - lost their lives as a result of the blatantly callous and unnecessary policies enacted by the leaders of the federal government of Nigeria. It's this charge that's dominated the book's Nigerian press, so far as I can see, the accusation, on the one hand, that Awolowo hatched "a diabolical policy to reduce the numbers of his enemies significantly through starvation - eliminating over two million people, mainly members of future generations.”

“When a man does not live with his children and does not get along with the mother of his children, his fatherhood becomes essentially untenable, regardless of how he feels, how hard he tries, or whether he is a good guy. Almost by definition, he has become de-fathered.”

Men Feels Trying Children Doe Hard Mother Guy Definitions Fatherhood Good Guy

Author:David Blankenhorn

“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.”

Knows Children Book Mother Names Talking Adults Kingdoms

Author:Enid Blyton

“Children must grow not only in the body but in the spirit, and the mother longs to follow the mysterious spiritual journey of the beloved one who to-morrow will be the intelligent, divine creation, man.”

Men Children Body Spiritual Spirit Mother Grows Journey Creation Divine Intelligent Mysterious Beloved Loved Ones Morrow Spiritual Journey

Book:Montessori's Own Handbook

Source: Montessori's Own Handbook

“It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost.”

Feels Children Feelings Mother Lost Emotion Engaged Elsewhere Parental Ambivalent

Book:The Writings of Anna Freud: Indications for child analysis and other papers, 1945-1956

Source: The Writings of Anna Freud: Indications for child analysis and other papers, 1945-1956

“I completely admire my mother for raising a child with cerebral palsy at home.”

Children Home Mother Admire Raising Children Cerebral Cerebral Palsy

Author:Natalia Vodianova

“Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.”

“The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.”

Children Mother Father Parent Gratitude Our Children Bills Debt Grandparent Friday Mother And Father Happy Friday Debt Of Gratitude

Author:Nancy Friday

“But children, hark! Your mother would rather, When you arrived, have been your father.”

Children Has Beens Mother Father

Book:The bad parents' garden of verse

Source: The bad parents' garden of verse

“According to my mother, there pretty much wasn't anything I wouldn't eat as a child.... I was even inclined to dig into stuff about which she expressed open disgust... cheap Chinese food with pepper so hot it made your gums feel like a medieval dentist had been at them.”

Feels Children Made Mother Stuff Hot Chinese Disgusting Medieval Dentist Gum Peppers Lobster Chinese Food

Author:Alice Domurat Dreger

“I was a disaster child. I remember I make very often my mother cry.”

Children Remember Mother Cry Disaster

Author:Roberto Cavalli

“The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.”

“A Russian child asked his mother : "does God know we don't believe in Him?"”

Knows Believe Children Doe Mother Belief Don't Believe Motherhood God Knows

Author:Yip Harburg

“Bringing a child into the world is the greatest act of hope there is.”

World Children Mother Positive Pregnancy

Author:Louise Hart

“I was standing on the highest mountain of them all, and round about beneath me was the whole hoop of the world. And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being. And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people was one of many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all children of one mother and one father. And I saw that it was holy.”

“Your Nafs is just like a suckling child. If you do not take the pains to wean him, he will yearn for his mother's breast even when he's grown up. Therefore you should not try to satisfy your lust by indulging in sins. This will only increase the desire for more sins. The same is the case with the disease of gluttony. The more a person eats, the more his hunger increases.”

Ifs Should Trying Children Persons Wisdom Pain Mother Desire Sin Cases Disease Increase Hunger Lust Islamic Breasts Gluttony Nafs

Author:Busiri

“If they survive, today's children will inherit a world that our fathers and grandfathers have ravaged, where the seas are acidic cesspools that the whales have fled, where rain forests are Indian memories never to return, and where human greed has plundered Mother Earth's innards and turned human genes into factories for profit. They will inherit a diminished planet where fresh water is increasingly rare, and where fresh air is a commodity... We live in a world that fears and hates its young. How else can one explain the bequest of such a foul, polluted, and hollow inheritance?”

“I spent a lot of time reading blogs by mothers who had children with varying degrees of neural dysfunction, from schizophrenia to all sorts of different issues. And honestly, I don't think it's different for anybody. There's no right way to make sure your child will be emotionally and mentally healthier. It's just frustrating.”

Thinking Way Children Different Mother Reading Issues Degrees Our Children Honestly Your Children Right Way Frustrating Blogs Schizophrenia Dysfunction

Author:Vera Farmiga

“I grew up, in my childhood, with some of the greatest women performers, on stage and on screen, and even my family - my mother and my sisters. So I was very busy watching women, as a child! I have a lot of memories of great women performers”

Children Mother Memories Childhood Stage Grew Grew Up My Family Busy Screens My Children Performers My Sister Great Women

Author:John Travolta

“Our message today is one of hope. It is about potential waiting to be fulfilled: the surest way to meet the global challenges we face now and in the future is to make every mother and child count.”

Way Children Today Faces Mother Waiting Challenges Messages Fulfilled Mother And Child Challenges We Face

Author:Lee Jong-wook

“The world is full of what seem like intractable problems. Often we let that paralyze us. Instead, let is spur you to action. There are some people in the world that we can't help, but there are so many more that we can. So when you see a mother and her children suffering in another part of the world, don't look away. Look right at them. Let them break your heart, then let your empathy and your talents help you make a difference in the lives of others. Whether you volunteer every week or just a few times a year, your time and unique skills are invaluable.”

“A mother's love is indeed the golden link that binds youth to age; and he is still but a child, however time may have furrowed his cheek, or silvered his brow, who can yet recall, with a softened heart, the fond devotion, or the gentle chidings, of the best friend that God gives us.”

Giving Heart May Children Stills Age Mother Love Is Youth Devotion Golden Gentle Links Cheeks Recalls Brows Mother's Love

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.”

“I think it must somewhere be written that the virtues of mothers shall be visited on their children, as well as the sins of their fathers.”

Thinking Wells Children Mother Father Sin Virtue Written

Author:Charles Dickens

“The pale child, Eve, leading her mother, Night.”

Children Mother Night Evening Pale Mother Night

Book:Poems ... Third edition

Source: Poems ... Third edition

“I am not allowed to be afraid. My mother made me like that. As a child, if I was afraid of the dark, she would lock me in the closet. Things like this. And she would talk about the time she spent in the concentration camp, but not about being afraid, only about the good side of it.”

Ifs Children Made Mother Sides Dark Concentration Camps Locks Closets Being Afraid Concentration Camp

Author:Diane von Furstenberg

“Recently a young mother asked for advice. What, she wanted to know, was she to do with a 7-year-old who was obstreperous, outspoken, and inconveniently willful? "Keep her," I replied.... The suffragettes refused to be polite in demanding what they wanted or grateful for getting what they deserved. Works for me.”

Knows Years Children Wanted Young Mother Advice Grateful Polite Outspoken Suffragettes Young Mother

Author:Anna Quindlen

“When I was a little girl, if I didn't eat my soup, my mother would say, 'You have to think of all the Chinese children who have nothing to eat.' But now, for my children, Chinese people make everything, and for my grandchildren, they buy everything.”

People Ifs Thinking Children Littles Mother Girl Chinese My Children Soup Grandchildren My Grandchildren

Author:Diane von Furstenberg

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