Mom And Child Quotes:

Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Mother, Children, Pregnancy, Being A Mother, Mom And Child

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

- Agatha Christie

topic: Family, Crush, Mom, I Love My Mother, Joys Of Motherhood

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.

- Rajneesh

topic: Mom, Mother, Children, Mom And Daughter, I Love My Mother

Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown. In my heart it don't mean a thing.

- Toni Morrison

topic: Mom, Mother, Children, Inspirational Motherhood, Your Mom

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

- Aristotle

topic: Family, Mom, Mother, Inspirational Motherhood, Inspirational Mothers

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

- Theodore Hesburgh

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Happy Family, Marriage Advice

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

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Family, Mom, Mother, Just A Mom, Love Mom

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

- Groucho Marx

topic: Love, Funny, Mother, Mom And Child, Mother And Child

At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.

- Golda Meir

topic: Mother, Children, Struggle, Inspirational Motherhood, Inspiring Motherhood

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Love, Mom, Mother, Mom And Child, Mother And Baby

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.

- Maxim Gorky

topic: Mom, Mother, Baby, Love Mom, Your Mom

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.

- Washington Irving

topic: Love, Family, Mom, Brothers And Sisters, Mother And Daughter

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

- Buddy Hackett

topic: Funny, Family, Fitness, Menus, Your Mom

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

- Bette Davis

topic: Mom, Mother, Children, Inspirational Parenting, Inspirational Parents

When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.

- Nancy Friday

topic: Mother, Children, Eye, Special Mother, Mom And Child

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Family, Mothers Day, Mom, Mother Son, Loss Of A Parent

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

- Charles R. Swindoll

topic: Family, Friday, Mother, Best Memories, Deposits

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

- Florida Scott-Maxwell

source: Measure of my Days (1968) p. 16

topic: Mother, Children, Age, Middle Aged, Being A Mother

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

- Henry Ward Beecher

topic: Family, Mom, Mother, Mom And Daughter, I Love My Mother

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

- Victor Hugo

topic: Mom, Mother, Baby, Mother Son, Mom And Daughter

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

topic: Mom, Mother, Children, Being A Mother, Inspirational Motherhood

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

- Sophia Loren

topic: Mother, Children, Thinking, Mom And Daughter, I Love My Mother

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.

- Erich Fromm

topic: Mom, Mother, Children, Being A Mother, Love Mom

Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.

- Sam Levenson

topic: Funny, Hilarious, Mom, Being A Mother, Inspirational Mom

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

- Peter De Vries

topic: Funny, Mom, Mother, Special Mother, Just A Mom

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

- William Makepeace Thackeray

source: William Makepeace Thackeray (1853). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”, p.317

topic: Family, Mothers Day, God, Mom And Daughter, Special Mother

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

- Phyllis Diller

topic: Funny, Family, Mom, Love Mom, Young Mother

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

- Sophia Loren

topic: Family, Mothers Day, Mom, Mom And Daughter, Happy Children

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

- Margaret Culkin Banning

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

topic: Mom, Children, Home, Joys Of Motherhood, Just A Mom

A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children.

- James Agee

topic: Mom, Mother, Children, Mom And Child, Mothering

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

- William Feather

topic: Mom, Mother, Children, Inspirational Motherhood, Inspirational Mothers

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

- Jesse Jackson

topic: Birthday, Family, Christmas, Kid At Heart, Inspirational Parenting

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

topic: Mom, Baby, Children, Mom And Child, Mothering

The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes them a mother - which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician.

- Sydney J. Harris

topic: Mother, Children, Believe, Mom And Child

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

- George Eliot

topic: Mom, Mother, Children, Mom And Child, Mother's Day