Top 1200 Mother And Child Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

My mother is a very liberal wife and mother, so there was no peer pressure to marry.

Hold the hand of the child within you. For this child, nothing is impossible.

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.

I love child things because there's so much mystery when you're a child.

There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can't find a parent who will admit that it is his child.

Good heredity and environment are necessary. You cannot compare the child of a savage with the child of a civilized person.

Parents appreciate the child who agrees; they condemn the child who disagrees.

I'm not the angry, rebellious child that I was. You can remain a child for a long time. I certainly did. I was a slow learner.

I'm a fighter as a mother. I'm fighting to be a mother, but I cannot say no to my passion because it's me, as well.

What I love most about Mother's Day is that I am acknowledged and honored for being a mother.

What do you do with mother love and mother wit when the babies are grown and gone away?

Every pampered child becomes a hated child.... There is no greater evil than the pampering of children.

Truth is love's mother, and we all know it is not wise to lie to anyone's mother.

I was born 20 years after my eldest sister. I was the pampered child. That kind of love gives you an almost unbreakable backbone. My mother had three kids before me. She let me be completely free. I just never had anything to beat myself up over.

I do not think that I am a natural born mother... If I ever wanted to mother anyone, it was my father.

I do not believe that a child can be reformed by lock and key and bars, or that fear can ever develop a child's character.

I was called "T-Bow" but the people got it mixed up with "T-Bone." My name is Aaron Walker but "T-Bone" is catchy, people remember it. My auntie gave it to me when I was a kid. Mother's mother was a Cherokee Indian full blooded. There were sixteen girls and two boys in my mother's family, all dead but two.

My mother thinks I am the best. And I was raised to always believe what my mother tells me

You often hear attacks on international adoption as robbing a child of his or her culture, and that's both true and false. It's true that an internationally adopted child loses the rich background of history and religion and culture and language that the child was born into, but the cruel fact is that most children don't have access to the local, beautiful culture within an orphanage.

The purpose of parenting is to provide steady and wide-ranging opportunities for a child. The child does the rest.

In my case, my mother had to be my mother and father, so I am thankful to her.

A good friend of mine was Lucy Ball. Her mother and my mother were best friends.

I think, as a child, there weren't dreams. I can't recall as a child having some ultimate dream and thinking that it was possible.

Don't try to 'fix' the child's boredom - rather, let the child find his or her inner resources.

With the right support, a deaf child can do exactly the same as a hearing child, yet constantly, they're being failed.

What I try to point out is the role an ordinary person can have in seeing the child's destiny. You have to have a feeling for the child.

I do want to be a mother. I like the idea of passing on what my mother passed on to me.

As an actor, you always want to reach back to being a child and having the spontaneity and the imagination of a child.

To be a healthy person, you have to be sympathetic to the child you once were and maintain the continuity between you as a child and you as an adult.

What was so moving for [Diane Wilson], and also for me, is that she felt the Bay itself was like her grandmother. She said, "I don't think there's a woman alive who would give up fighting for her child, or her mother, or her grandmother."

I hated being a child because to be a child means that you are essentially the property of your parents, benevolently or not.

It is much easier to condemn a child than to understand a child.

Mother cow is in many ways better than the mother who gave us birth.

The child who acts unlovable is the child who most needs to be loved.

It's a difficult thing to lose a child, a grown-up child.

I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you. So, the best way to get them to read, is to read. The best way to get them to do anything is to do it yourself, and they will absolutely copy you. That way, you don't have to worry about what's supposedly age appropriate, a child will pick something up when the child is ready.

I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

I adore my mother, and I am probably a chef because of my mother. She was adventurous.

I realized that my mother was at the center of my work, because now that my mother is no longer there, there's nobody left.

A mother is beyond any notion of a beginning. That's what makes her a mother.

What does it mean to a successful woman today? Does it mean you have to be a mother? If you are a mother, does it mean you have to be a mother with a husband? If you don't have a husband, what is the role that the man plays? I think there are a lot of confusing things that we're all really still sorting out.

A mother who is obsessing about being thin and dieting and exercising is not going to be a very good mother.

It's time to update traditional public schools, charter schools, home schools, online schools and parochial schools. Let the dollars follow the child instead of forcing the child to follow the dollars, so that every child has the opportunity to attain an education.

I made a choice in life and got pregnant and had a child, and I want to put my child first.

No child is un-teachable. I will never give up on any kid. Every child can learn.

Marriage? I ain't got time for a husband or child. All my life I've looked after myself as if I was my own child.

The great man is not the child of his age but its step-child.

I am a mother first. I will always be a mother, and I would die for my kids if need be.

I consider all women as mother. I compose poems for any female considering her as mother.

When a man makes up a story for his child, he becomes a father and a child together, listening.

My mother thinks I am the best. And I was raised to always believe what my mother tells me.

I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until you're a mother.'

If you've not been loved as a child, you don't know how to love a child.

To give a child animal products is a form of child abuse.

Even losing my mother, I wanted my mother. That's who you want instinctually when you're having a hard time.

The most important thing in life is having a child. Nothing is more special than a child.

If I rescued a child from drowning, the press would no doubt headline the story: 'Benn grabs child

I'm boggled by the idea of being an only child. I know nothing at all (I'm happy to say) about having had a cold and withholding mother, about being divorced. The more I've been writing novels, each novel I've written has become successively less grounded in anything approaching autobiography.

When I was a child and the snow fell, my mother always rushed to the kitchen and made snow ice cream and divinity fudge-egg whites, sugar and pecans, mostly. It was a lark then and I always associate divinity fudge with snowstorms.

Mother was actually a great doer and organizer. All the special occasions were directed by mother.