Famous Quotes - Tags - Mothers
- (I remember my mother, my mother,
A stiff wind halted outside,
In the hard ear my... More
- ... what I needed to help me go to sleep happy, with untroubled peacefulness that no mistress... More
- A mother, who is really a mother, is never free. More
- A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in... More
- A Mother’s hardest to forgive.
Life is the fruit she longs to hand you,
Ripe on a... More
- A mother’s life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible.... More
- A parent, his gentler one,
Looked forth on her small son.... More
- A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother. More
- A “super person” is one who expects to manage a career, home, and family with complete ease,... More
- Adolescent girls were fighting a mother’s interference because they wanted her to acknowledge... More
- Ah! how much a mother learns from her child! The constant protection of a helpless being forces... More
- All my mother came into mine eyes
And gave me up to tears. More
- All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat;... More
- Already the new-born children interpret love
In the voices of mothers. More
- Anyone who has breast-fed knows two things for sure: The baby wants to be fed at the most... More
- As a fond mother, when the day is o’er,
Leads by the hand her little child to bed,
Half... More
- As a mother I am often confused about how to help my children make wise decisions for themselves.... More
- As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating,... More
- At first your mother said . . . why me! why me!
But she got over that. Now she enjoys
her... More
- Before a day was over,
Home comes the rover,
For mother’s kiss—sweeter this
Than... More
- Being constantly with children was like wearing a pair of shoes that were expensive and too... More
- Being so wrong about her makes me wonder now how often I am utterly wrong about myself. And how... More
- Being the sons of mothers whose husbands had blundered rather brutally through their feminine... More
- Biological possibility and desire are not the same as biological need. Women have childbearing... More
- But I would cry,
rooted into the wall that
was once my mother,
if I could remember... More
- But now I am weary and my old heart, which thought itself turned away from all, has learned pain... More
- But the mother’s yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the... More
- By school age, many boys experience pressure to reveal inner feelings as humiliating. They think... More
- Children are the anchors of a mother’s life. More
- Children do not care if their mother is not beautiful. More
- Children of eight and nine who love their mothers dearly will cross to the other side of the... More
- Christianity only hopes. It has hung its harp on the willows, and cannot sing a song in a strange... More
- Clara: I don’t think a mother should depend so much upon her children for her rewards in... More
- Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman’s natural fitness for the... More
- Come up from the fields father, here’s a letter from our Pete,
And come to the front door... More
- Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to... More
- Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and... More
- Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into... More
- Every one of my friends had a bad day somewhere in her history she wished she could forget but... More
- Everyone carries within himself an image of womanliness derived from his mother: it is this that... More
- Fall on the ground, O great Wetness, O Mother, No harm on thy body! More
- Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really... More
- For if my father was the head of our house, my mother was its heart. More
- For that’s what a woman, a mother wants—to teach her children to take an interest in life.... More
- Fortunately for those who pay their court through such foibles, a fond mother, though, in pursuit... More
- Frances Stevens: Mother, this is why I’ve had to spend half my life running around the world... More
- Given Freudian assumptions about the nature of children and the biological predestination of... More
- Go tie back your hair, said my mother,
and Why is your mouth all green?
Rob Roy, he... More
- God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. More
- Gude grant that thou may aye inherit
Thy mither’s person, grace, an’ merit,
An’ thy... More
- Hatred of the mother is familiar, but the mother’s hatred still comes as a surprise. More
- He that would the daughter win
Must with the mother first begin. More
- he walks with me
to the gate of Home and leaves me.
I enter.
Mother is gone,
only... More
- Her personality had an architectonic quality; I think of her when I see some of the great London... More
- her rocking horse was pain
with vomit steaming from her mouth.
Her belly was big with... More
- His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork. More
- holy mother, now you smile on your love, your world is born anew, children run naked in the field... More
- Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God... More
- How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers’... More
- However diligent she may be, however dedicated, no mother can escape the larger influences of... More
- However global I strove to become in my thinking over the past twenty years, my sons kept me... More
- Hundreds of dewdrops to greet the dawn,
Hundreds of bees in the purple clover,
Hundreds... More
- I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them,... More
- I close my eyes and suck you in like a fire.
I grow. I grow. I’m fattening out.
I’m a... More
- I do not think of you lying in the wet clay
Of a Monaghan graveyard; More
- I drink the five o’clock martinis
and poke at this dry page like a rough
goat. Fool! I... More
- I guess a man’s best friend is his mother. More
- I guess what I’ve really discovered is the humanizing effect of children in my... More
- I have always felt that too much time was given before the birth, which is spent learning things... More
- I have given suck, and know
How tender ‘tis to love the babe that milks me;
I would,... More
- I have often felt that I cheated my children a little. I was never so totally theirs as most... More
- I have put a padlock
on you, Mother, dear dead human,
so that your great bells,
those... More
- I know how to do anything—I’m a mom. More
- I taught school in the early days of my manhood and I think I know something about mothers. There... More
- I want mother’s milk,
that good sour soup.
I want breasts singing like... More
- I wanted him to fly, burst like a missile from your throat,
burst from the... More
- I was a closet pacifier advocate. So were most of my friends. Unknown to our mothers, we owned... More
- I will always be your Mommy and I always will love you. I just won’t be your Mommy in the... More
- I would soon fear him, if he did not still fear me. More
- If mothers are told to do this or that or the other,... they lose touch with their own ability to... More
- Iknowwhata mother tiger does when she’s upset. She eats her young. More
- In erotic love, two people who were separate become one. In motherly love, two people who were... More
- In every adult human there still lives a helpless child who is afraid of aloneness.... This would... More
- In Japan, mothers insist on achievement and accomplishment as a sign of love and respect. Thus to... More
- In most other modern societies working mothers are not put under these special and exaggerated... More
- In motherhood, where seemingly opposite realities can be simultaneously true, the role of... More
- In the early nineteenth century, the doctrine of self-sufficiency came to apply to families as... More
- Indeed, my mother’s beautiful face still shone with youthfulness that night when she so softly... More
- Insults from an adolescent daughter are more painful, because they are seen as coming not from a... More
- It is a human circumstance that when we are born we have not yet come into existence. We are... More
- It is easy after a day full of hassles to experience a child as being just one more hassle, one... More
- It is not only their own need to mother that takes some women by surprise; there is also the... More
- It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible... More
- It isn’t easy to see the formerly loving child who once curled up in our laps turn into a surly... More
- It was no wonder that her sons stood tall and straight. She was a rich mine of life, like the... More
- It’s not the mother that bore you, but the one that feeds you that you love. More
- John B. Watson, the most influential child-rearing expert [of the 1920s], warned that doting... More
- Judas had a mother
His mother had a dream.
Because of this dream
he was altogether... More
- Kicking his mother until she let go of his soul
Has given his a healthy appetite: clearly,... More
- Know that every mother occasionally feels “at the end of her rope.” When you reach the end of... More
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