Best mother & lost Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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.”

“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 have lost my mother, my father, my five, and ninety relatives in Poland. Poland is for me a cemetery.”

Mother Father Lost Five Ninety Cemetery Poland

Author:Simon Wiesenthal

“Candid and searing, Deborah Jiang Stein’s memoir is a remarkable story about identity, lost and found, and about the author’s journey to reclaim—and celebrate—that most primal of relationships, the one between mother and child. I dare you to read this book without crying.”

Children Book Stories Mother Found Lost Journey Cry Identity Dare Memoir Celebrate Remarkable Primal Candid Mother And Child Lost And Found

Author:Mira Bartok

“I've played a mother many times, even in tragic things like, "I Dreamed of Africa," so I know how it is to lose a child cinematically. I have so much compassion on so many fronts, for women who have lost children or tried for years and couldn't have them.”

Knows Years Children Mother Lost Loses Compassion Know How Fronts Tragic Lost Child

Author:Kim Basinger

“I think my dad would make an incredible president, and it would be great if he'd run again. But personally, for our family, part of me is glad that he didn't. We lost our mother recently, and we need to focus on ourselves.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Would Be Running Mother Lost President Focus Dad Incredibles My Dad Glad Our Family

Author:Alexandra Kerry

“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

“I don't think God is a gender. He presents himself as a father but he comes to us with the tenderness of a mother. In some of the parables, he is the housewife who cleans the house looking for the lost coin.”

Thinking Mother Father House Lost Gender Tenderness Coins Housewife Parables

Author:Max Lucado

“I lost my mother two years ago to cancer. But the greatest gift she gave to me was showing me how to be a wonderful and loving mom to my two sons, even now that they are grown men.”

Men Years Two Mother Lost Wonderful Son Mom Years Ago Cancer Two Years Greatest Gifts Grown Man Two Years Ago

Author:Carla Hall

“I grew up in St. Louis in a tiny house full of large music - Mahalia Jackson and Marian Anderson singing majestically on the stereo, my German-American mother fingering 'The Lost Chord' on the piano as golden light sank through trees, my Palestinian father trilling in Arabic in the shower each dawn.”

Light Mother Father House Lost Tree Grew Grew Up Singing Tiny Golden Dawn Piano Palestinian Showers Chords House Music Golden Light Tiny Houses

Author:Naomi Shihab Nye

“I have sat with the mothers who have lost addicted sons. I have sat with families of kids who have been killed in drug-related gang violence. I have been to the prisons. I have seen the effects. At some point in time, I felt I had to do something other than write a novel about it, that I needed to try to make some sort of contribution, at least try to make some sort of difference in the real world.”

World Writing Trying Has Beens Real Kids Mother Lost Felt Differences Novel Violence Effects Son Needed Drug Prison Sat Related Contribution Real World Gang Gang Violence

Author:Don Winslow

“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..””

“Mother Teresas detractors have accused her of overemphasizing Calcuttans destitution and of coercing conversion from the defenseless. In the context of lost causes, Mother Teresa took on battles she knew she could win. Taken together, it seems to me, the criticisms of her work do not undermine or topple her overall achievement.”

Seems Together Mother Winning Lost Causes Taken Battle Achievement Criticism Conversion Accused Defenseless Teresa Lost Cause

Author:Bharati Mukherjee

“Cleaning up after themselves was a low priority for Margo and my mother. They had both recovered from cancer scares, failed marriages, and lost hope; in their opinion, dirt could wait.”

Mother Lost Waiting Opinion Lows Cancer Priorities Scare Dirt Cleaning Cleaning Up Lost Hope Failed Marriage

Book:Local Girls

Source: Local Girls

“My first favourite book was Are You My Mother? A picture book about a lost bird. After that my favourites changed almost yearly. I loved everything by Roald Dahl, but my favourite was probably Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. A librarian gave me a first edition of that book, which I treasure.”

Firsts Book Mother Lost Changed Bird Treasure Chocolate Factories Favourite Librarian Charlie Picture Books Favourite Book Charlie And The Chocolate Factory

Author:Rick Yancey

“It's no fun to be yellow. Maybe I'm not all yellow. I don't know. I think maybe I'm just partly yellow and partly the type that doesn't give much of a damn if they lose their gloves. One of my troubles is, I never care too much when I lose something - it used to drive mother crazy when I was a kid. Some guys spend days looking for something they've lost. I never seem to have anything that if I lost it I'd care too much. Maybe that's why I'm partly yellow. It's no excuse, though. It really isn't. What you should be is not yellow at all.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Giving Should Seems Care Kids Used Mother Guy Lost Fun Loses Too Much Trouble Crazy Type Excuse Damn Yellow Gloves No Excuses Caring Too Much

Book:THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

“I think I am in my last days, but it doesn't really matter because I have had such a beautiful life. I have lived through many wars and have lost everything many times - including my husband, my mother and my beloved son. Yet, life is beautiful, and I have so much to learn and enjoy. I have no space nor time for pessimism and hate. Life is beautiful, love is beautiful, nature and music are beautiful. Everything we experience is a gift, a present we should cherish and pass on to those we love.”

“We [in USA] have people honestly believing that, if a president calls a war, you have to shut up and sing. That is not the nation my mother raised me to pledge my allegiance to. We should speak out. We sent thousands of Americans to foreign battlefields to protect our way of life, which includes free speech. If you're not going to use it, it's already lost. We'll find a Mussolini who will tell us what's good for us.”

People Ifs Way Should Believe War Use Mother Lost Speak Nations President Protect Speech Raised Honestly Usa Free Speech Shut Up Pledge Allegiance Battlefields Speaks Out

Author:Phil Donahue

“We have to divide mother love with our brothers and sisters. Our parents can help us cope with the loss of our dream of absolute love. But they cannot make us believe that we haven't lost it.”

Believe Helping Dream Mother Lost Parent Loss Havens Brother Absolutes Divides Brothers And Sisters Our Dreams Sibling Rivalry Mother Love Sibling Rivalry Absolute Love

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

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

“I believe the alphabet is no longer considered an essential piece of equipment for traveling through life. In my day it was the keystone to knowledge. You learned the alphabet as you learned to count to ten, as you learned "Now I lay me" and the Lord's Prayer and your father's and mother's name and address and telephone number, all in case you were lost.”

Believe Mother Father Names Lost I Believe Prayer Numbers Lord Knowledge Cases Pieces Ten Essentials Lays Addresses Equipment Telephones Alphabet Keystones

Book:One Writer's Beginnings

Source: One Writer's Beginnings

“As Anna Freud remarked, the toddler who wanders off into some other aisle, feels lost, and screams anxiously for his mother neversays "I got lost," but accusingly says "You lost me!" It is a rare mother who agrees that she lost him! she expects her child to stay with her; in her experience it is the child who has lost track of the mother, while in the child's experience it is the mother who has lost track of him. Each view is entirely correct from the perspective of the individual who holds it .”

Feels Children Mother Individual Lost Views Perspective Agree Track Wander Scream Anna Aisle Toddler Lost Me

Author:Bruno Bettelheim

“A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions.”

World Giving Should May Children Stills Enough Action Mother Lost Loses Support Enthusiasm Mixing Prompts

Author:Augustus Hare

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