Quotes about Mother Child

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. Votes: 4

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom. Votes: 2

A child's first teacher is its mother. Votes: 2

An unhappy mother does not raise a happy child. Votes: 2

Being an only child, my mother reared me very carefully. Votes: 2

I was a single mother when my child was little. Votes: 2

The first principle of child-rearing is to choose a good mother. Votes: 2

I even thought of adopting a child as a single mother. Votes: 2

For when a child is born the mother also is born again. Votes: 2

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly. Votes: 2

Hypocrisy is the mother of all evil and racial prejudice is still her favourite child. Votes: 2

I was a loud child, and if my mother sang to me, I would be quiet. Votes: 2

Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship. Votes: 2

There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age. Votes: 2

Children love their mothers. Especially with a boy child and his mother, there's a bond that's unbreakable. Votes: 2

Your child is never not your child. You can be 90 and your mother 120, but your mother is still worried about you. Votes: 2

Children love their mothers. Especially with a boy child and his mother, there's a bond that's unbreakable. I love my mother to this day. Votes: 2

I'm considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the family - father, mother, children - is fundamental to our civilisation. Votes: 2

All we know is that the school achievement, IQ test score, and emotional and social development of working mothers' children are every bit as good as that of children whose mothers do not work. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

In modern consumer society, the attack on mother-child eroticism took its total form; breastfeeding was proscribed and the breasts reserved for the husband's fetishistic delectation. At the same time, babies were segregated, put into cold beds alone and not picked up if they cried. Votes: 2

Eventually we will learn that the loss of indivisible love is another of our necessary losses, that loving extends beyond the mother-child pair, that most of the love we receive in this world is love we will have to share--and that sharing begins at home, with our sibling rivals. Votes: 2

Despite all the videos you see from the Ministry of Defence or the Pentagon, and all the sanitised language describing smart bombs and pinpoint strikes, the scene on the ground has remained remarkably the same for hundreds of years. Craters. Burned houses. Mutilated bodies. Women weeping for children and husbands. Men for their wives, mothers children. Votes: 2

Under patriarchy, no woman is safe to live her life, or to love, or to mother children. Under patriarchy, every woman is a victim, past, present, and future. Under patriarchy, every woman's daughter is a victim, past, present, and future. Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman. Votes: 2

My mother still calls me Jim and that is about it. Everyone else calls me Lee. My wife calls me whatever. Votes: 2

Some day the workers will take possession of your city hall, and when we do, no child will be sacrificed on the altar of profit! Votes: 2

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between. Votes: 2

No mother should lose her child. Votes: 0

The mother is the child's supreme parent. Votes: 0

The pale child, Eve, leading her mother, Night. Votes: 0

A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk. Votes: 0

A mother is only as happy as her saddest child. Votes: 0

Praise the child, and you make love to the mother. Votes: 0

A child may have too much of his mother's blessing. Votes: 0

Every child a wanted child; every mother a willing mother. Votes: 0

A mother's example sketches the outline of her child's character. Votes: 0

Because everyone is someone's child, every woman seems like someone's mother. Votes: 0

Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child. Votes: 0

What makes a mother? Looking at your child and identifying emotion Votes: 0

There is no greater warrior than a mother protecting her child. Votes: 0

A mother always thinks twice: for herself and for the child Votes: 0

Mother is the best and the first teacher to the child . Votes: 0

When a child is born the mother also is born again. Votes: 0

A mother is a child's first looking glass into the world. Votes: 0

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. Votes: 0

Love the whole world as a mother loves her only child. Votes: 0

I am a child of Nature, and take after my mother. Votes: 0

There is no other love like a mother's love for her child, Votes: 0

Sweater, n. Garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly. Votes: 0

As a mother you are only as happy as your saddest child Votes: 0

When the child is ill, the mother will know how to pray. Votes: 0

The goodness of the mother is written in the gaiety of the child. Votes: 0

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. Votes: 0

The future destiny of a child is always the work of the mother Votes: 0

A little child born yesterday A thing on mother's milk and kisses fed. Votes: 0

My relationship with my mother trapped me in the identity of a child. Votes: 0

I work hard to show my mother that her child has a purpose. Votes: 0

Like the mother of the world, touch each being as your beloved child. Votes: 0

Every child gets a good mother, but not every mother gets a good child. Votes: 0

A Russian child asked his mother : "does God know we don't believe in Him?" Votes: 0

You never hear of a mother cursing the child; she is forgiving, always forgiving. Votes: 0

I completely admire my mother for raising a child with cerebral palsy at home. Votes: 0

A child can die even in the safest place on earth- its mother's womb! Votes: 0

I was a disaster child. I remember I make very often my mother cry. Votes: 0

A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. Votes: 0

There never yet was a mother who taught her child to be an infidel. Votes: 0

My mother was a lupus patient. I was a child with the lupus gene. Votes: 0

There's nothing that symbolizes loss or grief more than a mother losing a child. Votes: 0

My mother and I never got along, not even when I was a child. Votes: 0

The group consisting of mother, father and child is the main educational agency of mankind. Votes: 0

There's healthy attachment, like with a mother and child. It's biologically part of our survival. Votes: 0

I think this is every mother's worst nightmare - something dreadful happening to her child. Votes: 0

The child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination. Votes: 0

A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man. Votes: 0

Single mother and child, working hard for them dollars Girl we got something in common. Votes: 0

A sick child is always the mother's property; her own feelings generally make it so. Votes: 0

For mother's sake the child was dear, and dearer was the mother for the child. Votes: 0

A mother knows what her child's gone through, even if she didn't see it herself. Votes: 0

You never get over bein' a child long's you have a mother to go to. Votes: 0

Godliness is the child of truth, and it must be nursed by its own mother. Votes: 0

I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, Mother, what was war? Votes: 0

I always wanted a child. Being a mother is the central thing in my life. Votes: 0

My mother left me when I was 2 years old which is devestating to a child... Votes: 0

I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask: "Mother, what was war?" Votes: 0

My mother is Ukrainian. She immigrated to the U.S. from Canada as a child. Votes: 0

My child has done nothing wrong apart from being born to a mother like me Votes: 0

Sometimes the father feels pushed out because of the connection between the mother and the child. Votes: 0

She looked like a mother protecting her child of course, we're talking a half-crazed, bloodthirsty mother. Votes: 0

However time or circumstances may come between mother and her child, their lives are interwoven forever. Votes: 0

I think a child calling for his mother is the most beautiful sound in the world. Votes: 0

Mother: It's broccoli, dear. --- Child: I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it. Votes: 0

Where can one find a profounder desolation than in the poor child who has lost its mother? Votes: 0

As a child, my mother had instilled in me a feeling of being born for a purpose. Votes: 0

Humility is the mother of all virtues, courage the father, integrity the child and wisdom the grandchild. Votes: 0

Love is a bridge that links us heart to heart Mother and child can never live apart. Votes: 0

Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child. Votes: 0

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep. Votes: 0

Did you ever meet a mother that complained that her child phoned her too often? Me neither. Votes: 0

A child embarrassed by his mother," she said, "is just a child who hasn't lived long enough. Votes: 0

Not alone is the child born through the mother, but the mother also is born through the child. Votes: 0

Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder. Votes: 0

A father may turn his back on his child, … . but a mother's love endures through all. Votes: 0

See all living beings as your father or mother, and love them as if you were their child Votes: 0

How many shots had to be fired to turn this child back to his home and anxious mother? Votes: 0

Acceptance is to love and embrace everything that we find within ourselves like a mother embraces her child. Votes: 0

Every work of art is the child of its time, often it is the mother of our emotions. Votes: 0

As a child, I first wanted to be a cook because my mother was such a good cook. Votes: 0

A people's relationship to their heritage is the same as the relationship of a child to its mother. Votes: 0

Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact. Votes: 0

I made the wrong choice ," I whispered. My mother shook her head. "A child should never have to choose. Votes: 0

Having a child doesn't make a woman a mother any more than owning a paintbrush makes her Frida Kahlo. Votes: 0

You think you know what love is - until you have a child and discover that unconditional mother love. Votes: 0

The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated. Votes: 0

As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things. Votes: 0

The life of a mother is the life of a child: you are two blossoms on a single branch. Votes: 0

A mother's love is supposed to be unconditional. That you could give your child up, over their sexuality, is unthinkable. Votes: 0

It's the only way anything will change. Because we are both mother and child, cause and effect, villain and victim Votes: 0

During my grief, I realised there was nothing I could do for my mother, but I did have a child. Votes: 0

When a child is born, there are two births. The birth of the child and the birth of the mother. Votes: 0

I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time. Votes: 0

Through the grace shown to us in the gospel, there is something distinctly Christlike about a mother's love for her child. Votes: 0

The mother's love for her child is very strong in Korean society - almost on the borderline of being an obsession. Votes: 0

When the heart acknowledges how much pain there is in the mind, it turns like a mother toward a frightened child. Votes: 0

My child was one of Nature's Tories pitted against a mother who was one of nurture's Lefties: it was no contest. Votes: 0

David what your mother did to you was wrong. Verry wrong.No child deserves to be treated like that. She's sick. Votes: 0

I was a very difficult child, and the time I spent reading was about the only peace I gave my mother. Votes: 0

The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world. Votes: 0

I am often asked which picture is my favorite. This is like asking a mother which child she likes the most. Votes: 0

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb. Votes: 0

Take a child away from a mother and she will bring the world to its knees for justice to be served. Votes: 0

No joy in nature is so sublimely affecting as the joy of a mother at the good fortune of a child. Votes: 0

Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born. Votes: 0

The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it. Votes: 0

I remember meeting a mother of a child who was abducted by the North Koreans right here in the Oval Office. Votes: 0

Do I regret getting married? It's hard for me to say anything because ultimately we're talking about the mother of my child. Votes: 0

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child. Votes: 0

I feel I am a child that's lost its mother. I feel like a calf whose mother has gone off to slaughter. Votes: 0

I'm a thirty-something ranch wife, mother of four, moderately agoraphobic middle child who grew up on a golf course in the city. Votes: 0

No matter how old we become, we can still call them 'Holy Mother' and 'Father' and put a child-like trust in them. Votes: 0

As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm. Votes: 0

It's as if, in the mother's eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:'You are there!' Votes: 0

As a child, I was prancing around in my mother's high heels and a ra-ra skirt, singing 'Material Girl' into my hairbrush. Votes: 0

My mother's kitchen was built to be the focal point of our house. I got into the kitchen often as a child. Votes: 0

Urban women don't breed in their twenties. Shortly after, I became a mother too, which is why I was probably so child friendly. Votes: 0

The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement. Votes: 0

My mother never had time for me. When you're the middle child in a family of five million, you don't get any attention. Votes: 0

You are reduced / To the after-sorrow / That will last my lifetime. The hair-tearing / Grief of the mother / Whose child has been swept away. Votes: 0

It takes a Mother's Patience, to bring a child up right, And her Courage and her Cheerfulness to make a dark day bright. Votes: 0

Evening you gather backall that dazzling dawn has put asunder:you gather a lamb, gather a kid,gather a child to its mother. Votes: 0

When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself. Votes: 0

I knew that I was the least-loved child because I was a girl and because my mother had died giving birth to me. Votes: 0

When I stopped seeing my mother through the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself. Votes: 0

To a mother, a child is everything; but to a child, a parent is only a link in the chain of her existence. Votes: 0

As a mother would see her child, you should see the whole world as a beautiful place that God has created for you. Votes: 0

I did want a boy child because I had this romantic idea that a boy child when he's 16 takes his mother out for dinner. Votes: 0

it is not only unfair but disgustingly cruel that the mother is always held responsible for the illegitimate child, while the father goes scot-free. Votes: 0

A dutiful mother is someone who follows every step her child makes...And a good mother is someone whose child wants to follow her. Votes: 0

A smart mother suggests that her child bring an apple to his teacher; a smarter mother suggests that he bring a couple of aspirins. Votes: 0

The mother's first kiss teaches the child love; the first holy kiss of the woman he loves teaches man hope and faith in life. Votes: 0

My mother tried to teach me when I was a small child to sing but failed because of my inability to carry a tune. Votes: 0

That child whose mother has never smiled upon him is worthy neither of the table of the gods nor the couch of the goddesses. Votes: 0

A wise man once said that next to losing its mother, there is nothing more healthy for a child than to lose its father. Votes: 0

A wise man once said that next to losing its mother, there is nothing more healthy for a child than to lose its father. Votes: 0

My first failure was to be born a child not wanted by his father or mother, as they parted shortly after I was born. Votes: 0

You do have to overcome the child's thinking that this new woman, who is not their mother, is going to be in their lives. Votes: 0

When a mother goes to the store and purchases food for her child, she has the right to know what she is feeding her family. Votes: 0

My mother read nursery rhymes to me, and my grandmother told me folk stories, but as a child I had no interest in writing whatsoever. Votes: 0

Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude. Votes: 0

If a mother respects both herself and her child from his very first day onward, she will never need to teach him respect for others. Votes: 0

Romanticism is the mother of kitsch and that there are moments when the child becomes so like its mother that one cannot differentiate between them Votes: 0

I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction. Votes: 0

As for the American child's classic problem - too much mother, too little father - that would be cured by an equalization of parental responsibility. Votes: 0

Nothing can ever overcome that one enormous sex (female) superiority that even the male child is born closer to his mother than to his father. Votes: 0

How fondly swindlers coddle their dupes! No mother is as caressing or thoughtful towards her adored child as a merchant in hypocrisy toward his milch-cow. Votes: 0

It has been tough being a mother of two daughters without a co-parent because I think I was a child myself, as my mother was. Votes: 0

Oh, my friends, that your self be in your deed as the mother is in her child - let that be your word concerning virtue! Votes: 0

I was a feral child. Always on the go. My mother used to sew bells into my dresses so they would know where I was. Votes: 0

How beautifully everything is arranged by Nature; as soon as a child enters the world, it finds a mother ready to take care of it. Votes: 0

As a child, our house had a backyard lined with roses tended vigilantly by my mother. So the fragrance fills me with nostalgia for my youth. Votes: 0

The welfare and the future of our societies depend on our capacity to remain mobilized so as to improve the health of every mother and child. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

All the earth, though it were full of kind hearts, is but a desolation and desert place to a mother when her only child is absent. Votes: 0

I'm 23 years old. I might just be my mother's child, but in all reality, I'm everybody's child. Nobody raised me; I was raised in this society. Votes: 0

There is not substantial data that AZT stops the transmission of HIV from mother to child. There is too much conflicting data to make concrete policy. Votes: 0

I think my gift expressed itself in every way possible. When I was a little child, my mother said I used to draw on the walls. Votes: 0

You are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow-adventurer on a bright journey to understand the things that are. Votes: 0

I have loved to cook since I was a child in my mother's kitchen. If I don't have time to cook, I'll just read a cookbook. Votes: 0

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity. Votes: 0

It's the bond between mother and child, which is really, for us and for chimps and other primates, the root of all the expressions of social behavior. Votes: 0

What do we know of our mothers? I thought I knew her. But I'd seen her as a child sees a good mother--pure, transparent, incapable of deception. Votes: 0

Maintain silence in the presence of birth to save both the sanity of the mother and the child and safeguard the home to which they will go. Votes: 0

But a child's joy is doubled for the mother, and the sound of her son's laughter began to her heart, a feat she had never believed possible Votes: 0

There's a kind of intimacy that happens between a mother and an only child. Which only gets more intimate when it's between a mother and only daughter. Votes: 0

It’s a terrible thing to hate your mother. But I didn’t always hate her. When I was a child, I only kind of disliked her. Votes: 0

There is nothing so strong as the force of love; there is no love so forcible as the love of an affectionate mother to her natural child. Votes: 0

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity. Votes: 0

A mother would never by choice sleep in a wet bed but she would gladly do so in order to spare the dry bed for her child. Votes: 0

My mother is so full of joy and life. I am her child. And that is better than being the child of anyone else in the world. Votes: 0

We would like to see the virtual elimination of the transmission of [HIV] from mother to child by 2015. ... We believe it can be achieved with political will. Votes: 0

As a child I made a pact with my mother. I agreed that we were doomed, that she and I abided together in a cocoon of melancholy. Votes: 0

A mother's body remembers her babies-the folds of soft flesh, the softly furred scalp against her nose. Each child has it's own entreaties to body and soul. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I hadn't thought about the fact that I was a foster child but, did notice that (in films) I'm often without a mother or father or both. Votes: 0

The central icon of Catholic Christianity is mother and child. That motif is so deep in not just our human experience but in our animal, biological past. Votes: 0

When people are hungry, when a mother or father is facing a child that they can't feed, you can't ask that family to lay down their arms. Votes: 0

As a mother, you have that impulse to wish that no child should ever be hurt, or abused, or go hungry, or not have opportunities in life. Votes: 0

Seeing God face to face is to feel that He is enthroned in our hearts even as a child feels a mother's affection without needing any demonstration. Votes: 0

According to my mother, positively no one, least of all herself, had even the faintest suspicion that she was heavy with child at the time of my birth. Votes: 0

Like a mother who protects her child, her only child, with her own life, one should cultivate a heart of unlimited love and compassion towards all living beings. Votes: 0

Men have the influence and power in business and politics. It is the mother who can make the child's bedtime earlier, take away desserts or ground the child. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I grew up as the only child, and we did not have a large family. So for me and my mother, our friends tend to become our family. Votes: 0

We wondered why when a child laughed, he belonged to Daddy, and when he had a sagging diaper that smelled like a landfill, 'He wants his mother.' Votes: 0

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you. Votes: 0

When I was a child I wanted to be a vet. I'd come home with "lost" kittens and dogs. My mother would tell me to put them back. Votes: 0

I have a history of eating disorders but, as a mother, you think of being an example to your child. I'm so much more balanced than I was. Votes: 0

My parents told me that children were taken from their families in 1941, and my mother had a child taken from her - with the goal of saving him. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Listen - man is a child of Nature. When he turns against his mother - he's done! He may not find out about it right away, but he will. Votes: 0

How often a mother initiates a conversation with her child is not predictive of the language outcomes - what matters is, if the infant initiates, whether the mom responds. Votes: 0

I think my mother's and Granny's storytelling had had the same effect upon me when a child, as the reading of books: my mind was stimulated, my creativity encouraged. Votes: 0

I never try to be the poster child for the perfect mother/wife... You prioritize, you do the best you can possibly do, and you don't beat yourself up. Votes: 0

Whatever binds us most, whatever is dearest to us, that is what we should offer the Lord. Doesn't a mother give her child whatever she thinks is the best? Votes: 0

In the creative process there is the father, the author of the play; the mother, the actor pregnant with the part; and the child, the role to be born. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A mother is a mother from the moment her baby is first placed in her arms until eternity. It didn't matter if her child were three, thirteen, or thirty. Votes: 0

I have always loved animals, and as a child, I read a lot of horse books. I had a particular favorite called 'Silver Snaffles' that my mother gave away. Votes: 0

As a child I thought it was very boring when I had to sit with [my mother] on the city streets, but the time sank deep and surfaced later. Votes: 0

There's nothing more noble than a father and mother making an opportunity for their child, knowing that their life is gonna be hard. There's something incredibly heroic about that. Votes: 0

A direct killing of the innocent child, 'Murder' by the mother herself Votes: 0

By abortion, the mother does not learn to love, but kills even her own child to solve her problems. Votes: 0

What will we answer to Him about that child, that old father and mother, because they are His creation, they are children of God. Votes: 0

And if we can accept that a mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another? Votes: 0