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A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.
Sep 10, 2025
A father may turn his back on his child, … . but a mother's love endures through all.
My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one.
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.
When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.
Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.
She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along.
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.
A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children.
Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What's that supposed to mean? In my heart it don't mean a thing.
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.
The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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.
Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.
Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.
If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.
Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them.
Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do
A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.
A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
The moment a child is born, the mother is also born.
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.
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
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.
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.
Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
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.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world.
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.
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