Mother And Child Quotes - Page 2

• In a child's eyes, a mother is a goddess. She can be glorious or terrible, benevolent or filled with wrath, but she commands love either way. I am convinced that this is the greatest power in the universe.

  N.K. Jemisin

  Mom, Mother, Children

  N. K. Jemisin (2010). “The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms”, p.63, Hachette UK

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• No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.

  Florida Scott-Maxwell

  Family, Mothers Day, Mom

  Measure of my Days (1968) p. 16

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• Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.

  William Feather

  Mothers Day, Mom, Children

  William Feather (1949). “The Business of Life”

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• A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

  Sophia Loren

  Mom, Mother, Children

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The moment a child is born, the mother is also born.

  Rajneesh

  Mothers Day, Mom, Children

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• Becoming a mother makes you the mother of all children. From now on each wounded, abandoned, frightened child is yours. You live in the suffering mothers of every race and creed and weep with them. You long to comfort all who are desolate.

  Charlotte Gray

  Mothers Day, Mom, Children

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• Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Mothers Day, Mom, Children

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.33, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Motherhood has taught me the meaning of living in the moment and being at peace. Children don't think about yesterday, and they don't think about tomorrow. They just exist in the moment.

  Jessalyn Gilsig

  Children, Motherhood, Thinking

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  If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Mother, Children, Single Mom

  Interview with NBC News Correspondent Sander Vanocur at Hyannis Port, Mass., October 1, 1960.

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• There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Mom, Mother

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• A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.

  George Eliot

  Mom, Mother, Children

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• Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Mom, Mother, Baby

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.321

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• If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.

  Laurence Housman

  Marriage, Mothers Day, Mom

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one.

  Paul Simon

  Mother, Children, Eggs

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• Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Family, Mothers Day, Mom

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• Knots Landing is the best thing that ever happened to me.

  Ted Shackelford

  I Love You, Romantic, Short Love

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• Losing the future is the best thing that ever happened to me.

  Marilyn French

  I Love You, Romantic, Short Love

  Marilyn French (2013). “A Season in Hell: A Memoir”, p.245, Open Road Media

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• My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one.

  Groucho Marx

  Love, Funny, Mothers Day

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• Being sectioned was the best thing that ever happened to me.

  Frank Bruno

  I Love You, Romantic, Break Up

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• She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along.

  Margaret Culkin Banning

  Family, Mom, Mother

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.

  Peter De Vries

  Funny, Mothers Day, Mom

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• I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them.

  Phyllis Diller

  Funny, Family, Mom

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• As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.

  Buddy Hackett

  Funny, Family, Mothers Day

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

  Maud Lindsay

  Mother, Children, Heart

  Maud Lindsay (2010). “Mother Stories”, p.48, Heart of Dixie Publishing

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• 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.

  Lee Jong-wook

  Mother, Children, Waiting

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