Best mother & children Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 6

“It used to be the one or the other, right? You were the 'bad girl' or the 'good girl' or the 'bad mother' or the 'good mother,' 'the horrible businesswoman who eschewed her children' or 'the earth mother who was happy to be at home baking pies,' all of that stuff that we sort of knew was a lie.”

Children Home Earth Used Lying Mother Girl Stuff Horrible Used To Be Pie Baking Good Girl Good Mother Bad Girl Bad Mother

Author:Annette Bening

“A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.”

Knows Men Children Doe Care Running Mother Father Parent Policy Deserve Sick Mad Hardship Episodes Workplace Days Off Mad Men Sick Children

Author:Barack Obama

“Man begins life helpless. The babe is in paroxysms of fear the moment its nurse leaves it alone, and it comes so slowly to any power of self-protection that mothers say the salvation of the life and health of a young child is a perpetual miracle.”

Men Children Self Moments Young Mother Fear Miracle Salvation Protection Nurse Perpetual Helpless Babe Young Children Self Protection

Book:The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude

Source: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude

“My mother is very wise and intelligent. If I have children and can do half as good a job as she did in keeping me in line, I'll be very happy.”

Ifs Children Jobs Mother Can Do Lines Half Wise Intelligent Very Happy Very Wise

Author:Brandon Lee

“My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot - a good Irish name - until she died; I was just known as wee one.”

Children Mother Names Known Brother Calling Understood Died My Brother Grandparent Exotic Granny Damon

Author:Natascha McElhone

“I even thought of adopting a child as a single mother.”

Children Mother Adopting Single Mother

Author:Diana Ross

“My child has done nothing wrong apart from being born to a mother like me”

Children Done Mother Born Like Me My Children

Author:Kim Soo-hyun

“When I found out I was pregnant, my mother said, 'Dont separate your life, the life that youre going to make with this child, from the things that you are and what you want to do.'”

Want Children Said Mother Found What You Want Pregnant Were Pregnant

Author:Neneh Cherry

“Providence has so ordained it, that only two women have a true interest in the happiness of a man--his own mother, and the mother of his children. Besides these two legitimate kinds of love, there is nothing between the two creatures except vain excitement, painful and vain delusion.”

Men Love Kind Children Two Mother Interest Creatures Painful Vain Excitement Delusion Providence Kinds Of Love

Author:Octave Feuillet

“[After her 18-day disappearance in 1974:] I love my husband very, very much, but he didn't ask me when he ran for mayor and he didn't consult me about running for governor. It would be nice to be asked. ... You know, I've been my mother's daughter, my father's daughter, the wife of my husband, the mother of my six children, and grandmother to my eleven grandchildren, but I have never been me. But I am now because I went away. I am a changed woman.”

“Apprenticeship is one of the dearest roles of childhood, not just watching Dad or Mother, but being taught a hands-on trade.”

Children Hands Mother Roles Childhood Taught Dad Trade Apprenticeship

Author:Carol Bly

“Emotional damage is never easy to measure, but mothers who are alive but psychically absent impose filial burdens which knot their children's feelings in a way biologic orphans are spared.”

Way Children Feelings Mother Easy Alive Emotional Burden Damage Absent Orphan Knots Filial

Author:Eileen Simpson

“I was a middle child and was used to negotiating. But there was nothing I could do to reverse my mothers condition.”

Children Used Mother Middle Conditions Reverse Negotiating Middle Child

Author:Leeza Gibbons

“Women who are with child should be careful of themselves; they should take exercise and have a nourishing diet. The first of these prescriptions the legislator will easily carry into effect by requiring that they should take a walk daily to some temple, where they can worship the gods who preside over birth. Their minds, however, unlike their bodies, they ought to keep quiet, for the offspring derive their natures from their mothers as plants do from earth.”

Source: Aristotle's Politics: Writings from the Complete Works: Politics, Economics, Constitution of Athens

“Let us then cast ourselves at the feet of this good Mother, and embracing them let us not depart until she blesses us, and accepts us for her children.”

Children Mother Religious Accepting Feet Casts Bless Virgin Mary Good Mother Blessed Mother

Author:Bernard of Clairvaux

“All the sins of your life seem to be rising up against you. Don't give up hope! On the contrary, call your holy mother Mary, with the faith and abandonment of a child. She will bring peace to your soul.”

“That one woman is both mother and virgin, not in spirit only but even in body. In spirit she is mother, not of our head, who is our Savior himself-of whom all, even she herself, are rightly called children of the bridegroom-but plainly she is the mother of us who are his members, because by love she has cooperated so that the faithful, who are the members of that head, might be born in the Church. In body, indeed, she is the Mother of that very head.”

Children Body Might Spirit Mother Born Church Religious Members Faithful Savior Virgins One Woman Virgin Mary Blessed Mother Immaculate Bridegroom

Author:Saint Augustine

“I wanted to write something in a voice that was unique to who I was. And I wanted something that was accessible to the person who works at Dunkin Donuts or who drives a bus, someone who comes home with their feet hurting like my father, someone whos busy and has too many children, like my mother.”

Writing Children Persons Home Wanted Mother Father Voice Hurt Feet Unique Busy Coming Home Bus Donuts Dunkin Donuts

Author:Sandra Cisneros

“The most powerful teaching a child will ever receive will come from concerned and righteous fathers and mothers.”

Children Mother Father Powerful Teaching Concerned Most Powerful Righteous

Author:L. Tom Perry

“It is necessary to reaffirm our solid opposition to any direct offense against life, especially when innocent and defenseless, and the unborn child in its mother's womb is the quintessence of innocence. Let us remember the words of Vatican Council II: 'Therefore from the moment of its conception life must be guarded with the greatest care while abortion and infanticide are unspeakable crimes.'”

“There's nothing that symbolizes loss or grief more than a mother losing a child.”

Children Mother Loss Grief Losing Losing A Child

Author:David LaChapelle

“As all mothers know, children travel faster than kisses. The speed of kisses is, in fact, what Doctor Fallow would call a cosmic constant. The speed of children has no limits.”

Knows Children Facts Mother Limits Kissing Doctors Constant Speed Faster Cosmic

Book:The Fairyland Series

Source: The Fairyland Series

“One of the monstrous things that slavery in this country caused was the breakup of families. I mean, physical labor, horrible; beatings, horrible; lynching death, all of that, horrible. But the living life of a parent who, A, has no control over what happens to your children, none. They don't belong to you. You may not even nurse them. They may be shipped off somewhere, as in "Beloved" the mother was, to be nursed by somebody who was not able to work in the fields and was a wet nurse.”

May Children Country Happens Able Mother Parent Fields Labor Our Children Slavery Horrible Live Life Beloved Your Children Breakup Nurse Wet Monstrous Lynching

Author:Toni Morrison

“My mother taught me the principles of hard work, setting my own goals and visualizing my future. From my early days with Destiny's Child, I understood I had to be focused and dedicated if I wanted true success. We were taught we needed a plan and the discipline to execute that plan to the fullest. I strongly believe if you work hard, whatever you want, it will come to you. I know that's easier said than done but keep trying.”

“How could I have been a wife, a mother and a singer? Who takes care of the piccolini when you go around the world? Your children would not call you Mama, but Renata.”

World Children Has Beens Care Mother Wife Our Children Take Care Singers Around The World Your Children Mama

Author:Renata Tebaldi

“My mother didn't want me to be in fashion. She was in the fashion business, so was my brother, and she thought it was too crazy for me. She wanted me to be married with children, to be independent, yes, but not to have a crazy life.”

Want Children Wanted Mother Crazy Fashion Brother Married Independent My Brother Want Me Being Married Married With Children Crazy Life Fashion Business

Author:Donatella Versace

“As a mother, the things that I wanted for my own four children, I want for all the children of France.”

Want Children Wanted Mother My Own Four Our Children France

Author:Segolene Royal

“There was a four year old child whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife. Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old gentleman's yard, climbed onto his lap, and just sat there. When his Mother asked what he had said to the neighbor, the little boy said, “Nothing, I just helped him cry.²” “Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth “You owe me” Look what happens with a love like that, It lights the whole sky..””

“Our world is one of terrible contradictions. Plenty of food, but one billion people go hungry. Lavish lifestyles for a few, but poverty for too many others. Huge advances in medicine while mothers die every day in childbirth, and children die every day from drinking dirty water. Billions spent on weapons to kill people instead of keeping them safe.”

“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.”

Knows Children Bigs Together Mother Adults Cousin Hong Kong Only Child Big Families Shanghai

Author:Wong Kar-wai

“I have nine children... and one of them is an invalid. Her mother is obliged to take her away in the winter, and when one bird is off the nest, the other has to go on.”

Children Mother Goes On Bird Winter Nine Obliged Nests

Author:Melville Fuller

“I have a history of eating disorders but, as a mother, you think of being an example to your child. I'm so much more balanced than I was.”

Thinking Children Mother Example Eating Your Children Disorder Balanced Eating Disorder

Author:Geri Halliwell

“My mother brought me numerous times to visit Orton as a child, and I have visited the gardens with my children many times. Orton is a gem on the Cape Fear River and I am excited about our restoration efforts to bring it back to its original landscape.”

Children Mother Effort Garden Rivers Originals Excited Landscape My Children Restoration Gems Capes

Author:Louis Bacon

“I think my mother's and Granny's storytelling had had the same effect upon me when a child, as the reading of books: my mind was stimulated, my creativity encouraged.”

Thinking Mind Children Book Mother Reading Creativity Effects Storytelling Granny

Book:Kaffir boy: the true story of a Black youth's coming of age in Apartheid South Africa

Source: Kaffir boy: the true story of a Black youth's coming of age in Apartheid South Africa

“I am an average mother in almost every way, so yes, much to my regret, I do yell at my children.”

Way Children Mother Regret Average My Children

Author:Kelly Corrigan

“As a child, the person I admired most in the world was Lana Turner! She seemed the epitome of glamour, and her glitzy surroundings so enviable, the opposite of my mother's extremely banal taste.”

World Children Persons Mother Taste Opposites Surroundings Glamour Epitome Turner

Author:Lee Radziwill

“In case of separation, why should the children be taken from the protecting care of the mother? Who has a better right to them than she? How much do fathers generally do toward bringing them up?”

Should Children Care Mother Father Cases Taken Separation

Book:Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader

Source: Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader

“There is a sensuality about fabric. I think all materials should be inviting when they touch the skin. When I watch children stroking their mothers clothes, I feel that I have succeeded.”

Thinking Feels Should Children Mother Watches Materials Clothes Skins Sensuality Fabric Inviting

Author:Azzedine Alaia

“As a child growing up in a grey-skied Yorkshire village, I would occasionally happen upon a Bollywood movie on the television. After a few minutes watching a bunch of sari-clad dancers cavorting on a Swiss mountain to tuneless music, I would switch over to some proper drama about housing estates and single mothers.”

“If a person continues to see only giants, it means he is still seeing the world through the eyes of a child. I have a feeling that man's fear of woman comes from having first seen her as the mother, creator of men.”

Ifs Men World Firsts Mean Children Persons Stills Feelings Eye Mother Seeing Creator Giants Through The Eyes Seeing The World Eyes Of A Child Through The Eyes Of A Child

Author:Anais Nin

“Oh, my goodness, when you're a mother and you just give birth to a child with spina bifida and -- or Down's Syndrome or cerebral palsy, there's a bit of a shock you're going to have to go through, a bit of an adjustment curve.”

Giving Children Mother Bits Birth Goodness Shock Curves Adjustment Syndromes Cerebral Cerebral Palsy

Author:Joni Eareckson Tada

“The only thing Jess really cared about were those two children and letting them know they were okay. Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you had your mother at your back, you'd be okay. Some deep-rooted part of you would know you were loved. That you deserved to be loved.”

Ifs Knows World Children Two Whole Mother Rocks Okay Whole World Throwing Rooted Throwing Rocks

Author:Jojo Moyes

“"But even if he has been wicked," pursued Rose, "think how young he is; think that he may never have known a mother's love, or the comfort of a home; that ill-usage and blows, or the want of bread, may have driven him to herd with men who have forced him to guilt. Aunt, dear aunt, for mercy's sake, think of this, before you let them drag this sick child to a prison, which in any case must be the grave of all his chances of amendment."”

Source: The Charles Dickens Collection Volume One: Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, and Bleak House

“On every hand there seems to be design to defeat design. If God created man - if he is the father of us all, why did he make the criminals, the insane, the deformed and idiotic? Should the mother, who clasps to her breast an idiot child, thank God?”

Ifs Men Should Children Hands Seems Mother Father Atheism Design Defeat Positive Atheism Criminals Insane Idiot Breasts Thank God Idiotic

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“Mothers of young children, your work is most holy. You are fashioning the destinies of immortal souls. The powers folded up in the little ones that you hushed to sleep in your bosoms last night, are powers that shall exist forever. You are preparing them for their immortal destiny and influence. Be faithful. Take up your sacred burden reverently. Be sure that your heart is pure and that your life is sweet and clean.”

“The pediatrician must have thought me one of those neurotic mothers who craved distinction for her child but who in our civilization's latter-day degeneracy could only conceive of the exceptional in terms of deficiency or affliction.”

Children Mother Term Civilization Distinction Latter Affliction Exceptional Neurotic Deficiency Latter Days Pediatrician

Book:We Need To Talk About Kevin

Source: We Need To Talk About Kevin

“Love is the reason why my mother and father stick together in a hard life when they might each have an easier one apart; love is the reason why you choose a life with someone, and you don't turn back although your heart cries sometimes and your children see you cry and you wish out loud that things were easier. Love is getting up each day and fighting the same fight only to sleep that night in the same bed beside the same person because long ago, when you were younger and you did not see so clearly, you had chosen them.”

“Gargantua, at the age of four hundred four score and forty- four years begat his son Pantagruel, from his wife, named Badebec, daughter of the King of the Amaurotes in Utopia, who died in child-birth: because he was marvelously huge and so heavy that he could not come to light without suffocating his mother.”

Years Children Light Age Death Mother Four Wife Son Huge Birth Kings Daughter Hundred Died Heavy Score Forty Four Years Utopia Suffocating Birth Of A Child

Author:Francois Rabelais

“It is only reasonable to allow the administration of affairs to mothers before their children reach the age prescribed by law at which they themselves can be responsible. But that father would have reared them ill who could not hope that in their maturity they would have more wisdom and competence than his wife.”

Children Age Law Mother Father Family Wife Responsible Affair Ill Administration Maturity Reasonable Competence Being Responsible

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“As important as the father is in the life of a child, even he must take second place to mother during the first three years of life.... Consequently, mothers actually have more to do with producing a predisposition toward homosexuality than fathers. Two kinds of mothers are particularly harmful - smother mothers and dominating mothers.”

Years Firsts Kind Children Two Important Mother Three Father Scary Three Years Homosexuality Dominating Second Place Years Of Life

Author:Tim LaHaye

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