“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.” PeopleChildrenTodayMotherChurchSalvationRegionsPriestsHypocriteSanctitySingle MotherSanctity Of Marriage Author:Pope Francis
“I remember hearing stories from my mother and father about their parents and grandparents when they were taken off the reservation, taken to the boarding schools, and pretty much taught to be ashamed of who they were as Native Americans. You can feel that impact today.” FeelsStoriesTodaySchoolRememberMotherFatherParentTakenTaughtImpactHearingAshamedNativeNative AmericanGrandparentMother And FatherReservationsParents And Grandparents Author:Chaske Spencer
“At the end of the day, Mother Nature has only one question for us: 'What life did you nurture today?” EndsTodayMotherNatureThe End Of The DayNurtureMother Nature Author:Robert Breault
“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?” IfsWorldHumansChildrenTodayEarthYoungMotherHateFatherWaterMemoriesAirSeaPlanetsReturnFutureRainGreedProfitForestsIndianFactoriesGenesGrandfatherCommodityInheritanceHollowOur FatherFoulWhalesMother EarthFresh AirFresh WaterFathers And Grandfathers Author:Mumia Abu-Jamal
“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.” WayChildrenTodayFacesMotherWaitingChallengesMessagesFulfilledMother And ChildChallenges We Face Author:Lee Jong-wook
“Today, we see the reemergence of reverence for the Divine Mother that we knew in past ages.” AgeTodayPastMotherDivineReverenceDivine Mother Author:Elizabeth Clare Prophet
“My mother's blueberry pie from scratch was amazing. I still make it today.” StillsTodayMotherPieScratchesBlueberries Author:Geoffrey Zakarian
“The deer aren't our prey or our possessions -- they're us. They're us at one point in the cycle of life and we're them at another point in the cycle. The deer are twice your parents, for your mother and father are deer, and the deer that gave you its life today was mother and father to you as well, since you wouldn't be here if it weren't for that deer.” IfsWellsTodayMotherFatherParentPossessionCyclesPreyDeerMother And FatherCycle Of Life Author:Daniel Quinn
“I'm immensely grateful for the precious gift my mother has given me. She is my hero today and every day.” TodayMotherGivenHeroGratefulMy HeroPrecious Gifts Author:Steven Cojocaru
“Even today . . . experts, usually male, tell women how to be mothers and warn them that they should not have children if they have any intention of leaving their side in their early years. . . . Children don't need parents' full-time attendance or attention at any stage of their development. Many people will help take care of their needs, depending on who their parents are and how they chose to fulfill their roles.” PeopleIfsNeedsShouldYearsChildrenHelpingCareTodayMotherParentSidesAttentionRolesStageDevelopmentIntentionMalesLeavingTake CareExpertsAttendance Author:Stella Chess
“As a single mother of four, my mother taught me that you always want to show up strong for the moments that really matter with family, friends, and community. I now recognize how her strength helped shape the person I am today and the mother that I have become.” WantPersonsMatterMomentsShowsTodayMotherStrongCommunityFourTaughtShapesFamily FriendsSingle Mother Author:Andie MacDowell
“The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.” ReasonTodayMotherChristReligiousReason WhyVirgin MaryBlessed Mother Author:John Henry Newman
“My mother saved our home with a minimum wage job. But in the 1960s, a minimum wage job would support a family of three above the poverty line. Not today. Not even close. I understood right then that people can work hard, they can play by the rules, and they can still take a hard smack.” PeopleStillsHardPlayHomeRealityTodayJobsMotherThreePoliticsLinesWorkJusticeMoneyFamilyPovertyHistorySupportGenerationsPolicyHard WorkEthicsUnderstoodHuman RightsSavedIdeologyMinimum1960sCivilityMinimum WageSmackFood Stamps Author:Elizabeth Warren
“Current conflicts and guilt about being a woman who is a mother and a person in her own right are a socially defined malaise, notan individual problem.... The conflict is not between being a mother and having a career; it is between nineteenth-century ideas about children and today's ideas about women.” ChildrenPersonsIdeasProblemTodayMotherIndividualWomenWorkCareersCenturyConflictGuiltCurrentsDefinedMen WomenBeing A WomanNineteenth CenturyBeing A MotherMalaise Author:Sandra Scarr
“Today's fathers and mothers--with only the American dream for guidance--extend and overextend themselves, physically, emotionally,and financially, during the best years of their lives to ensure that their children will grow up prepared to do better and go further than they did.” YearsChildrenDreamTodayMotherFatherGrowsGrowing UpPreparedGuidanceAmerican DreamBest Year Book:Daughters: from infancy to independence Source: Daughters: from infancy to independence