Best mother & children Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 7

“The forest is the first cathedral. I felt that from the time I was a child. I credit my mother with that. I used to think it came from her Native-American side. Whichever it was, she instinctively connected with nature, and taught me that.”

Thinking Firsts Children Used Mother Felt Sides Taught Connected Credit Forests Native Native American Cathedrals

Author:Alice Walker

“You work with every actor differently. It's like if you're a mother, if you have children, some children need more discipline. Other children you back off of a little bit and let them be. It's the same way with actors. Some actors need a lot of hand holding. Other actors like to be let be and you let them go. Some actors like to be nudged just a little bit. Some actors don't mind line readings.”

Ifs Way Needs Mind Children Littles Hands Mother Reading Actors Bits Lines Discipline Little Bit Hand Holding

Author:Rob Reiner

“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.”

“Ah! how much a mother learns from her child! The constant protection of a helpless being forces us to so strict an alliance with virtue, that a woman never shows to full advantage except as a mother. Then alone can her character expand in the fulfillment of all life's duties and the enjoyment of all its pleasures.”

Children Character Shows Mother Force Pleasure Virtue Duty Advantage Constant Protection Fulfillment Enjoyment Helpless Strict Alliances

Book:Letters of Two Brides

Source: Letters of Two Brides

“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; and love and faith create a desire for perfection and the power of reaching towards it step by step; create the future, in short, of which the living symbol is the child, link between us and the generations to come.”

Source: The Duties of Man and Other Essays

“But a mother is like a broomstick or like the sun in the heavens, it does not matter which as far as one's knowledge of her is concerned: the broomstick is there and the sun is there; and whether the child is beaten by it or warmed and enlightened by it, it accepts it as a fact in nature, and does not conceive it as having had youth, passions, and weaknesses, or as still growing, yearning, suffering, and learning.”

Source: George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit

“Eventually we will learn that the loss of indivisible love is another of our necessary losses, that loving extends beyond the mother-child pair, that most of the love we receive in this world is love we will have to share--and that sharing begins at home, with our sibling rivals.”

World Children Home Mother Loss Love Is Share This World Pairs Rivals Sibling Rivalry Indivisible Sibling Rivalry Mother Child

Book:Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex

Source: Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex

“The mother's and father's attitudes toward the child correspond to the child's own needs.... Mother has the function of making himsecure in life, father has the function of teaching him, guiding him to cope with those problems with which the particular society the child has been born into confronts him.”

Needs Children Has Beens Problem Mother Father Born Attitude Teaching Particular Function

Book:THE ART OF LOVING

Source: THE ART OF LOVING

“I should like the whole race of nurses to be abolished: children should be with their mother as much as possible, in my opinion.”

Should Children Whole Mother Race Opinion Nurse

Book:The Selected Letters of Lewis Carroll

Source: The Selected Letters of Lewis Carroll

“I have often felt that I cheated my children a little. I was never so totally theirs as most mothers are. I gave to audiences whatbelonged to my children, got back from audiences the love my children longed to give me.”

Giving Children Littles Mother Felt Audience Give Me My Children Cheated I Cheated Love My Children

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“Already the new-born children interpret love In the voices of mothers.”

Children Mother Voice Born

Book:Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose

Source: Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose

“The mother may be doing ninety percent of the disciplining, but the father still must have a full-time acceptance of all the children. He never must say, "Get these kids out of here; I'm trying to watch TV." If he ever does start saying this, he is liable to see one of his kids on the six o'clock news.”

Ifs Trying May Children Doe Stills Kids Mother Father Watches Acceptance Tvs Six News Percent Clock Ninety Liable

Author:Bill Cosby

“Much is made of the accelerating brutality of young people's crimes, but rarely does our concern for dangerous children translateinto concern for children in danger. We fail to make the connection between the use of force on children themselves, and violent antisocial behavior, or the connection between watching father batter mother and the child deducing a link between violence and masculinity.”

Source: Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier

“The risk for a woman who considers her helpless children her "job" is that the children's growth toward self-sufficiency may be experienced as a refutation of the mother's indispensability, and she may unconsciously sabotage their growth as a result.”

May Children Self Jobs Mother Growth Results Risk Helpless Sabotage Self Sufficiency Sufficiency Refutation

Book:Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier

Source: Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier

“I think it a much wiser thing to secure for the thousands of mothers in this State the legal control of the children they now have, than to bring others into the world who would not belong to me after they were born.”

Thinking World Children States Mother Born Motherhood Secure Womens Rights Wiser

Author:Susan B. Anthony

“In the older times it was seldom said to little girls, as it always has been said to boys, that they ought to have some definite plan, while they were children, what to be and do when they were grown up. There was usually but one path open before them, to become good wives and housekeepers. And the ambition of most girls was to follow their mothers' footsteps in this direction; a natural and laudable ambition. But girls, as well as boys, must often have been conscious of their own peculiar capabilities,--must have desired to cultivate and make use of their individual powers.”

Source: A New England girlhood

“Fortunately for those who pay their court through such foibles, a fond mother, though, in pursuit of praise for her children, the most rapacious of human beings, is likewise the most credulous; her demands are exorbitant; but she will swallow any thing.”

Humans Children Mother Human Beings Pay Demand Praise Court Pursuit Foibles

Author:Jane Austen

“What had I expected of the first child? Everything. Rocket scientist. Neurosurgeon. Designated hitter. We talked wisely at cocktail parties about the sad mistake our mothers had made in pinning all their hopes and dreams on us. We were full of it.”

Firsts Children Made Dream Mother Party Mistake Scientist Expected Rockets Cocktails Hopes And Dreams Cocktail Parties Neurosurgeons Designated Hitter

Book:Living Out Loud

Source: Living Out Loud

“The reason child care is such a loaded issue is that when we talk about it, we are always tacitly talking about motherhood. And when we're talking about motherhood we're always tacitly assuming that child care must be a very dim second to full-time mother care.”

Children Reason Care Mother Talking Issues Assuming Motherhood Loaded Child Care Mother Care Full Time Mother

Book:Loud and Clear

Source: Loud and Clear

“Having children can smooth the relationship, too. Mother and daughter are now equals. That is hard to imagine, even harder to accept, for among other things, it means realizing that your own mother felt this way, too--unsure of herself, weak in the knees, terrified about what in the world to do with you. It means accepting that she was tired, inept, sometimes stupid; that she, too, sat in the dark at 2:00 A.M. with a child shrieking across the hall and no clue to the child's trouble.”

Source: Living Out Loud

“My view on issues is based on common sense, and my experience as a mother of four children, as a sole parent, and as a businesswoman running a fish and chip shop.”

Children Running Mother Parent Views Common Issues Four Fishes Common Sense Shops Sole Chips Fish And Chips

Author:Pauline Hanson

“Hopefulness is the heartbeat of the relationship between a parent and child. Each time a child overcomes the next challenge of hislife, his triumph encourages new growth in his parents. In this sense a child is parent to his mother and father.”

Heart Children Mother Next Father Parent Growth Challenges Overcoming Triumph Heartbeat Mother And Father Children And Parents Hopefulness New Growth

Book:Oneness and separateness: from infant to individual

Source: Oneness and separateness: from infant to individual

“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.”

Ifs Humans Children Stills Would Be Mother Perfect Possibility Baby Adults Helpless Still Life

Book:Oneness and separateness: from infant to individual

Source: Oneness and separateness: from infant to individual

“Normally an infant learns to use his mother as a "beacon of orientation" during the first five months of life. The mother's presence is like a fixed light that gives the child the security to move out safely to explore the world and then return safely to harbor.”

World Giving Firsts Children Use Light Moving Mother Five Security Months Return Fixed Infant Harbors Orientation Beacons

Book:Oneness and separateness: from infant to individual

Source: Oneness and separateness: from infant to individual

“Roosevelt could always keep ahead with his work, but I cannot do it, and I know it is a grievous fault, but it is too late to remedy it. The country must take me as it found me. Wasn't it your mother who had a servant girl who said it was no use for her to try to hurry, that she was a "Sunday chil" and no "Sunday chil" could hurry? I don't think I am a Sunday child, but I ought to have been; then I would have had an excuse for always being late.”

Thinking Knows Trying Children Has Beens Said Country Use Funny Mother Girl Found Ought Late Faults Excuse Servant Too Late Sunday Take Me Remedy

Author:William Howard Taft

“The fact that women in the home have shut themselves away from the thought and life of the world has done much to retard progress.We fill the world with the children of 20th century A.D. fathers and 20th century B.C. mothers.”

World Children Done Facts Home Mother Father Progress Century 20th Century Retard

Author:Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“A child may have too much of his mother's blessing.”

May Children Mother Too Much Blessing

Book:A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages. And a Complete Alphabetical Index

Source: A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages. And a Complete Alphabetical Index

“In the event of an oxygen shortage on airplanes, mothers of young children are always reminded to put on their own oxygen mask first, to better assist the children with theirs. The same tactic is necessary on terra firma. There's no way of sustaining our children if we don't first rescue ourselves. I don't call that selfish behavior. I call it love.”