Mother And Child Quotes:

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

There is a bond, it appears, between mother and child which endures as long as they do. It is independent of love; reason cannot weaken it; hate cannot destroy it.

- Margaret Deland

topic: Mother, Children, Hate, Mother And Child

A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.

- Gaspard Mermillod

topic: Relationship, Mother, Joys Of Motherhood, Just A Mom, Being A Mother

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

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

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

The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated, except by those whose feelings are withered by vitiated society. Holy, simple, and beautiful in its construction, it is the emblem of all we can imagine of fidelity and truth.

- Washington Irving

topic: Beautiful, Mother, Children, Mother And Child, Mother Child

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

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

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

- Henry Ward Beecher

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

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

Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There's no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving.

- Gail Tsukiyama

source: Gail Tsukiyama (2003). “Dreaming Water: A Novel”, p.164, Macmillan

topic: Mom, Mother, Strong, I Love My Mother, Just A Mom

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

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.

- Jessica Lange

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

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

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

- James Agee

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

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

The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.

- Karl Lagerfeld

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

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

Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.

- Sam Levenson

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

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

It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.

- Mother Teresa

topic: Life, Happiness, Success, Mother And Child, Mother Child

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

source: 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

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

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

topic: Children, Motherhood, Thinking, Just A Mom, Mother And Child

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

- Jackie Kennedy

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

topic: Children, Motherhood, Parenting, Joys Of Motherhood, Single Parent

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

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

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

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

- Laurence Housman

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

topic: Marriage, Children, Husband, Being A Mother, Inspirational Motherhood

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

topic: Mother, Children, Eggs, Mother And Child, Mother Child

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

- Ambrose Bierce

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

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

- Ted Shackelford

topic: Knots, Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me, Landing, Mom And Daughter, Inspirational Baby

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

- Marilyn French

topic: Future, Losing, Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me, Mom And Daughter, Inspirational Baby

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

Being sectioned was the best thing that ever happened to me,

- Frank Bruno

topic: Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me, Rock Song, Inspirational Baby, Mother And Daughter, Long Love

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 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

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

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

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

- Maud Lindsay

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

topic: Mother, Children, Heart, Mother And Child, Heart To Heart

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

topic: Mother, Children, Waiting, Mother And Child