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“My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white; White as an angel is the English child, But I am black as if bereaved of light.”

Ifs Children Soul Light Mother Black White Angel My Soul Southern Bores

Author:William Blake

“I didn't like what was on TV in terms of sitcomsit had nothing to do with the color of themI just didn't like any of them. I saw little kids, let's say 6 or 7 years old, white kids, black kids. And the way they were addressing the father or the mother, the writers had turned things around, so the little children were smarter than the parent or the caregiver. They were just not funny to me. I felt that it was manipulative and the audience was looking at something that had no responsibility to the family.”

Way Years Children Littles Kids Mother Father Felt Parent Black Term White Responsibility Audience Saws Color Tvs Smarter Little Kid Sitcom Manipulative Caregivers

Author:Bill Cosby

“With all the efforts made by modern society to nurture and educate the young, how stupid it is to permit the mothers of young children to spend themselves in the coarser work of the world!”

World Children Made Young Mother Effort Modern Stupid Permit Educate Nurture Young Children Modern Society Hull House

Book:Twenty Years at Hull House

Source: Twenty Years at Hull House

“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.”

Children Mother Parent Son Daughter Our Children Longing Parenting Your Children Prophet Raising Children Being A Parent Son And Daughter Child Development Bows And Arrows

Author:Khalil Gibran

“No artist's masterpiece can match a mother's creation of a successful child, one who has been freed to explore and to grow. ... Success is measured not only by who we are, but by what gifts we give. As the old chief said, "The gift is not complete until it is given again." Ah, the mother whose gift to the world is a person !”

World Giving Children Persons Has Beens Said Mother Artist Given Grows Successful Creation Chiefs Who We Are Masterpiece Success Is Measured

Book:Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century

Source: Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century

“My mother made it seem perfectly normal for thousands of people to be cheering me, as if there was nothing special going on. I thought all children must live as I did.”

People Ifs Children Made Seems Mother Special Normal Made It Cheer Perfectly Normal

Author:Shirley Temple

“[My mother] closed the school the next day [after a visit from Castro's soldiers], because she knew that the purpose of education was the broadening and opening of children's minds. And she couldn't be a party to the systematic closing of minds, borders, freedoms and ideals.”

Mind Children School Mother Purpose Next Party Ideals Soldier Opening Borders Next Day Closing Systematic Castro Purpose Of Education

Author:Gloria Estefan

“When tempted, the shortest and surest way is to act like a little child at the breast; when we show it a frightful monster, it shrinks back and buries its face in its mother's bosom, that it may no longer behold it.”

Way May Children Littles Shows Faces Mother Monsters Temptation Breasts Tempted Shrinks Bosoms

Book:Spiritual Progress

Source: Spiritual Progress

“God's treasury where He keeps His children's gifts will be like many a mother's store of relics of her children, full of things of no value to others, but precious in His eyes for the love's sake that was in them.”

Children God Eye Mother Values Sake Stores His Eyes Treasury Relics

Author:Francois Fenelon

“On coming to the house, they (the Magi), saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. (Matthew 2:11) [This] adoration, too, was not the same as the worship of God. In my opinion they did not yet recognize him as God, but they acted in keeping with the custom mentioned in Scripture, according to which Kings and important people were worshiped; this did not mean more than falling down before them at their feet and honoring them.”

People Mean Children Important Mother Fall House Opinion Saws Feet Kings Worship Down And Scripture Customs Mary Falling Down Adoration Matthew Mother Mary

Author:Martin Luther

“[Among the Arapeh... both father and mother are held responsible for child care by the entire community...] If one comments upon a middle-aged man as good-looking, the people answer: 'Good-looking? Ye-e-e-s? But you should have seen him before he bore all those children'.”

People Ifs Men Should Children Care Mother Father Community Answers Middle Should Have Responsible Comment Bores Looking Good Middle Aged Child Care

Author:Margaret Mead

“The father spent his time talking and thinking of religion. He proclaimed himself an agnostic and was so absorbed in destroying the ideas of God that had crept into the minds of his neighbors that he never saw God manifesting himself in the little child that, half forgotten, lived here and there on the bounty of her dead mother's relatives.”

Thinking Mind Children Littles Ideas Mother Father Half Talking Saws Forgotten Neighbor Manifest Destroying Agnostic Here And There Bounty Dead Mother

Book:Winesburg, Ohio

Source: Winesburg, Ohio

“God reveals Himself to a devotee who feels drawn to Him by the combined force of these three attractions: the attraction of worldly possessions for the worldly man, the child's attraction for its mother, and the husband's attraction for the chaste wife. If one feels drawn to Him by the combined force of these three attractions, then through it one can attain Him.”

Ifs Men Feels Children Mother Three Force Wife Husband Possession Attraction Worldly Chaste Devotee Worldly Possessions

Book:The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna

Source: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna

“Little children play with dolls in the outer room just as they like, without any care of fear or restraint; but as soon as their mother comes in, they throw aside their dolls and run to her crying, "Mamma, mamma." You too, are now playing in this material world, infatuated with the dolls of wealth, honour, fame, etc., If however, you once see your Divine Mother, you will not afterwards find pleasure in all these. Throwing them all aside, you will run to her.”

Source: Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120

“I feel like there are women who are genuinely born to be mothers, and women who are born to be aunties, and women who really probably not should be allowed near children. The tragedy that happens is when any one of those women ends up in the wrong category.”

Feels Should Children Ends Happens Mother Born Tragedy Categories

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“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.”

Children Facts Stories Mother Fiction Steps Share Adults Complicated Divorce Usual Attempting Life Story Family History Dysfunction Obfuscation Step Children

Author:Melissa Gilbert

“The most unacknowledged spending expectation among women is the amount of time spent by single mothers caring for children, not only physically, but psychologically. It is my feeling that only a small percentage of a mother's time is normally compensated for by child support, given what a woman could make adding these hours to workforce hours. It is why women who have never been married and never had children earn so much more in the workplace than women who have had children.”

Children Feelings Mother Given Hours Support Amount Married Expectations Caring Spending Workplace Percentages Workforce Time Spent Single Mother Child Care

Author:Warren Farrell

“A mother who is not everything for her children: a friend, a teacher, a confidant, a source of joy and founded pride, inducement and soothing, reconciliator, judge and forgiver, that mother obviously chose the wrong job.”

Children Jobs Joy Mother Teacher Judging Source Pride Soothing Confidant Wrong Job

Author:Joseph Goebbels

“Consider, children ... the pain of touching the tip of your finger to your mother's stove, even for a fraction of a second. That is an experience which most of you have suffered. Now try to imagine that pain, not simply on a fingertip but spread over the whole surface of your body, and not for a mere second, but everlastingly. That, children, is hellfire.”

Trying Children Whole Body Pain Mother Hell Imagine Mere Fingers Spread Surface Your Body Touching Imagine That Fractions Fingertips Stoves

Book:The Rector of Justin

Source: The Rector of Justin

“I am sure that hon. members will realize that I am not drawing on my imagination when I state that last fall there were children going to school in Saskatchewan with only sacking wrapped around their feet. We have gone into homes and found mothers and children lying on piles of bedding in the corner; they did not have the proper bedding equipment or the proper clothing to meet the rigours of a very cold winter.”

“What mothers do - they act with love, at least good mothers do! They have a spirit of strong, fierce, protective energy - the way a mother would put her life on the line for her children - we need to put our life on the line for each other.”

Way Needs Children Spirit Mother Energy Strong Lines Our Lives Fierce Protective Good Mother

Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“My mother often says that she could never have done it if I had been the youngest, if she had other small children she had to cart around New York City for my auditions and go-sees (modeling auditions) and stuff.”

Ifs Children Done Mother Stuff Cities New York New York City Auditions Modeling Small Child Carts

Author:Katherine Heigl

“A great need a mother has to know that her daughters will find somebody or will be okay in life. That's very primal as they get older. You know, you should get married, you should have children.”

Knows Needs Should Children Mother Married Daughter Should Have Okay Primal

Author:Christine Baranski

“We are all connected. What unites us is our common humanity. I don't want to oversimplify things - but the suffering of a mother who has lost her child is not dependent on her nationality, ethnicity or religion. White, black, rich, poor, Christian, Muslim or Jew - pain is pain - joy is joy.”

Want Children Christian Pain Joy Mother Suffering Humanity Lost Black White Poor Common Rich Jew Connected Dependent Nationality Ethnicity Rich Poor Common Humanity

Author:Desmond Tutu

“17,000 children starve on this planet every single day. That fact alone should blow any conscious person out of their chair. You know, my mother used to say that a woman’s most important job is taking care of her children and her home. I laughed at that when I was younger, but I don’t laugh at it anymore. I just realize now that every child on the planet is one of our children, and the earth itself is our home.”

Knows Should Children Persons Important Facts Home Care Earth Jobs Used Mother Realizing Laughing Planets Conscious Our Children Blow Chairs Laughed Important Jobs

Author:Marianne Williamson

“I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty.I decided that I would not live for myself but would live for others.”

Children Used Mother House Born Poor Poverty Decided Sells Coaches Tea Household Livelihood Railway Live For Others Poor Family Utensils

Author:Narendra Modi

“What we teach our children is that earth is your mother that provides; she's a giver. So, please first ask forgiveness from the mother earth before you step on to it and cause it pain.”

Firsts Children Earth Pain Mother Asks Causes Steps Teach Please Our Children Giver Mother Earth Asking For Forgiveness

Author:Narendra Modi

“My father died when I was two years old. But my mother was quite capable. She raised three children with his war pension which was peanuts. Yet we did not want for anything. We grew up with a certain parsimony, which is a nice thing. Then if life gives you more good, otherwise you get used to. I'm still thrifty.”

“I am tired of the warmakers making war with our children. I am tired of our tired troops being sent over to do the dirty work for mob bosses who are going to squeeze the life out of Iraq and not leave until every asset and every natural resource has been raped from the country. I am tired of seeing Iraqis burying their loved ones and hearing the reverberating screams of mothers all over our country who are being destroyed for the benefit of a very few.”

“In order to provide the German housewife, above all mothers of many children...with tangible relief from her burdens, the Fuhrer has commissioned me to bring into the Reich from the eastern territories some four to five hundred thousand select, healthy, and strong girls.”

Children Mother Order Girl Strong Five Four Healthy Thousand Hundred Burden Relief Territory Eastern Select Tangible Housewife Strong Girl

Author:Fritz Sauckel

“The idea of feminine authority is so deeply embedded in the human subconscious that even after all these centuries of father-right the young child instinctively regards the mother as the supreme authority. He looks upon the father as equal with himself, equally subject to the woman's rule. Children have to be taught to love, honor, and respect the father, a task usually assumed by the mother.”

“Women are more powerful than they think. A mother's warmth is the essence of motivation. If we could liquefy the encouragement, care and compassion we deliver to our children it would surely fill an expanse greater than the Pacific.”

Ifs Thinking Children Care Mother Motivation Women Powerful Compassion Greater Essence Encouragement Our Children Warmth Pacific Expanse

Author:Louise Burfitt-Dons

“Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder.”

Children Has Beens Real Mother Parent Abuse Murder Jail Child Abuse Mother Nature Real Parents

Author:Nick Bostrom

“If any good comes out of the current famine in the Horn of Africa - amidst the pictures of mothers carrying dying babies at their shrivelled breasts and hollow-eyed children with swollen bellies and matchstick limbs - it will be galvanising the world on the need to ensure access to nutritious food for the world's most vulnerable people.”

People Ifs World Needs Children Mother Dying Baby Currents Access Vulnerable Breasts Belly Limbs Hollow Horns Famine Swollen Matchsticks Horn Of Africa

Author:Josette Sheeran

“We are all children of the same mother, and the same fate awaits us all. We, too, have our religion, and it is this: Help for the living-Hope for the dead.”

Children Helping Mother Fate

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“A few months ago I was visiting my mother, and she said that as a child I had always wanted to learn everything, and that it took me a long time to realize that you couldn't learn everything. I got really angry, and I shouted "I'm not done yet!"”

Children Long Said Done Wanted Mother Realizing Months Long Time Angry Visiting

Author:Mark Jason Dominus

“Love is a bridge that links us heart to heart Mother and child can never live apart.”

Heart Children Mother Love Is Bridges Links Mother And Child Heart To Heart

Book:Mother Stories

Source: Mother Stories

“Children delight in folk-tale and fairy lore, but the very little child loves best the story which mirrors the familiar. And it is for him, and for the mother who is striving in this age of profusion to guard the innate simplicity of her child's nature, that I have written my little stories.”

Children Littles Stories Age Mother Love Is Written Mirrors Strive Simplicity Folks Delight Tales Familiar Fairy Innate Children Love

Book:A story garden for little children

Source: A story garden for little children

“The tendency to superstitions should be counteracted from the earliest age; or rather steps should be taken to protect the mind of the child from superstitions imposed upon it by ignorant nurses or silly mothers.”

Should Mind Children Age Mother Steps Taken Protect Silly Ignorant Tendencies Nurse Superstitions

Author:Arthur Alfred Lynch

“Single mothers are raising more of America's children than ever before.”

Children America Mother Single Mother

Author:Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

“When I was a child and the snow fell, my mother always rushed to the kitchen and made snow ice cream and divinity fudge-egg whites, sugar and pecans, mostly. It was a lark then and I always associate divinity fudge with snowstorms.”

Children Made Mother Snow Ice Kitchen Divinity Eggs Sugar Cream Associates Ice Cream Larks Fudge Snowstorms Pecans

Book:Occasions: Selected Writings

Source: Occasions: Selected Writings

“I think that we see war as a virtual thing and we even get to believe that bombs fall on top of cardboard cutouts and stuff like that. They don't. They kill real people, real children, real mothers and millions of innocent people.”

People Thinking Believe Children War Real Mother Fall Stuff Millions Innocent Bombs

Author:Shakira

“I was always an observer, even as a child. I could be satisfied to sit in a car for 3 hours and just look at the street go by while my mother went shopping.”

Looks Children Mother Hours Streets Car Satisfied Shopping Observers

Author:Jonathan Winters

“Several hours later, I heard my mother calling me to come into the house, and it never occurred to me that this was an experience that other children didn't have on a regular basis.”

Children Mother House Hours Heard Calling Bases Rama

Author:Frederick Lenz

“A little girl who finds a puzzle frustrating might ask her busy mother (or teacher) for help. The child gets one message if her mother expresses clear pleasure at the request and quite another if mommy responds with a curt 'Don't bother me - I've got important work to do.'”

Ifs Children Littles Important Helping Might Mother Girl Asks Pleasure Clear Teacher Messages Busy Bother Puzzles Frustrating Request Important Work

Author:Daniel Goleman

“Every man that tried to destroy the Government, every man that shot at the holy flag in heaven, every man that starved our soldiers... every man that wanted to burn the negro, every one that wanted to scatter yellow fever in the North, every man that opposed human liberty, that regarded the auction-block as an altar and the howling of the bloodhound as the music of the Union, every man who wept over the corpse of slavery, that thought lashes on the naked back were a legal tender for labour performed, every one willing to rob a mother of her child - every solitary one was a Democrat.”

“The Christians seized all the maize the locals of Nicaragua had grown for themselves and their own families and, as a consequence, some twenty or thirty thousand natives died of hunger, some mothers even killing their own children and eating them.”

Children Christian Mother Atheism Thousand Eating Consequence Died Twenties Killing Hunger Positive Atheism Locals Thirty Nicaragua Maize

Author:Bartolome de las Casas

“Antiquity was often delighted to cast a halo of mythical glory around its illustrious names. The immortal works of this great philosopher seemed to entitle him to more than mortal honors. A legend into the authenticity of which we will abstain from inquiring, asserted that his mother, Perictione, a pure virgin, suffered an immaculate conception through the influence of Apollo. The god declared to Ariston, to whom she was about to be married, the parentage of the child.”

Source: History of the Intellectual Development of Europe

“These bible people remind me of another calamity similar to this missionary scheme, when our people, or any christian power would go to Africa for the pious purpose of kidnapping negroes, the mother would cry out to her children "run, run, the christians are coming," so when ever you hear "bibles," run for your life, if you do not want your pockets picked, or to be insulted and slandered as I was... and if you hear "hopeful conversions" or the "gospel," don't stop to look behind you.”

People Ifs Want Looks Children Running Christian Mother Purpose Behinds Atheism Cry Positive Atheism Conversion Hopeful Pockets Missionary Schemes Calamity Behind You Pious Insulted Kidnapping

Author:Anne Royall

“I know also another man who married a widow with several children; and when one of the girls had grown into her teens he insisted on marrying her also, having first by some means won her affections. The mother, however, was much opposed to this marriage, and finally gave up her husband entirely to her daughter; and to this very day the daughter bears children to her stepfather, living as wife in the same house with her mother!”

Knows Men Firsts Mean Children Mother Girl House Wife Bears Husband Married Daughter Affection Teens Another Man Gave Up Widows Marrying Polygamy Stepfathers Marrying Her

Author:T. B. H. Stenhouse

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