Mother Child Quotes:

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

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

- Ambrose Bierce

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

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

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 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

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

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 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

A Mother's love is something that no one can explain, It is made of deep devotion and of sacrifice and pain, It is endless and unselfish and enduring come what may For nothing can destroy it or take that love away

- Helen Steiner Rice

source: Helen Steiner Rice, Virginia Ruehlmann (2004). “The Poems and Prayers of Helen Steiner Rice”, p.37, Revell

topic: Mother, Pain, Sacrifice, Endless Love, Everlasting Love

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

Cleaning up with children around is like shoveling during a blizzard

- Margaret Culkin Banning

topic: Children, Cleaning, Cleaning Up, Shovels, I Love My Children

Children are the anchors of a mother's life.

- Sophocles

topic: Mother, Children, Silly, I Love My Children, Mother Child

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

Like a child who suddenly stops sobbing when he is clasped in the arms of his mother, such will be the grip of heaven upon our souls.

- Ravi Zacharias

source: Twitter post from May 10, 2015

topic: Inspirational, Christian, Mother, Mother Child, Gripping

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 newborn baby has only three demands. They are warmth in the arms of its mother, food from her breasts, and security in the knowledge of her presence. Breastfeeding satisfies all three.

- Grantly Dick-Read

source: Grantly Dick-Read (2006). “Childbirth Without Fear”, p.388, Pollinger in Print

topic: Mother, Baby, Breastfeeding, Obstetricians, Mother Child

It doesn't matter how old you are, or what you do in your life, you never stop needing your mom.

- Kate Winslet

source: "Kate Winslet's Emmy Acceptance Speech: You Never Stop Needing Your Mom!" By Rosemary Brennan, www.glamour.com. September 19, 2011.

topic: Mom, Matter, Your Mom, Mother Child

Motherhood is not a hobby, it is a calling. You do not collect children because you find them cuter than stamps. It is not something to do if you can squeeze the time in. It is what God gave you time for.

- Neil L. Andersen

topic: Children, Motherhood, Calling, Mother Child, Parental

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 mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

- Dorothy Canfield Fisher

source: Her Son's Wife ch. 37 (1926)

topic: Mother, Unnecessary, Persons, I Love My Mother, Just A Mom

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

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

- James Agee

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

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's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.

- Golda Meir

topic: Family, Children, Men, Mother Child, Mother Proverbs

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

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

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

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

While we tend to equate motherhood solely with maternity, in the Lord’s language, the word 'mother' has layers of meaning...Mothe rhood is more than bearing children, though it is certainly that. It is the essence of who we are as women. It defines our very identity, our divine stature and nature, and the unique traits our Father gave us.

- Sheri L. Dew

topic: God, Mom, Mother Daughter, Maternity, Mother Child

A question may be asked, 'Will mothers have their children in eternity?' Yes! Yes! Mothers, you shall have your children.

- Joseph Smith, Jr.

topic: Mother, Children, May, Mothering, Mother Child

If you're going to tear down a hero, you should never forget that you're tearing down someone else's hero. You're tearing down somebody else's son. You might have to face her one day.

- Kevin Costner

topic: Hero, Son, Tears, Mother Child

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

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

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

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

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

- Henry Ward Beecher

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

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

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.

- Chinua Achebe

topic: Mother, Baby, Children, Darfur, Mother 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

Father, mother, child, are the human trinity, whose substance must not be divided nor its persons confounded. As well reconstruct your granite out of the grains it is disintegrated into as society out of the dissolution of wedded love.

- C. A. Bartol

source: "Tools Of Speech". Book by Maturin M. Ballou, archive.org. 1886.

topic: Mother, Children, Father, Mother Child, Dissolution

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

"Did God have a mother?" Children, when told that God made the heavens and the earth, innocently ask whether God had a mother. This deceptively simple question has stumped the elders of the church and embarrassed the finest theologians, precipitating some of the thorniest theological debates over the centuries. All the great religions have elaborate mythologies surrounding the divine act of Creation, but none of them adequately confronts the logical paradoxes inherent in the question that even children ask.

- Michio Kaku

source: Michio Kaku (1995). “Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension”, p.191, OUP Oxford

topic: Mother, Children, Simple, 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

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

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

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