Mom And Child Quotes by Buddy Hackett, George Eliot, Ambrose Bierce, Agatha Christie, Bette Davis, Sydney J. Harris and many others.
As a child my family’s menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.
A mother’s yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.
Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
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.
If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.
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.
Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do
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.
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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.
My mother loved children – she would have given anything if I had been one.
A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
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 suburban mother’s role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.
She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn’t take them along.
