Quotes About Children

Children should have a balanced start in life: a mother and a father. I think that's the only reason to get married.

Mothers ought to bring up and nurse their own children; for they bring them up with greater affection and with greater anxiety, as loving them from the heart, and so to speak, every inch of them.

The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.

The mother is the early care giver and primary source of identification for all children.... A daughter continues to identify with the mother

In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not the motherless children who become delinquent but the fatherless ones.

There is a sensuality about fabric. I think all materials should be inviting when they touch the skin. When I watch children stroking their mothers clothes, I feel that I have succeeded.

I was not a classic mother. But my kids were never palmed off to boarding school. So, I didn't bake cookies. You can buy cookies, but you can't buy love.

For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.

Always a godmother, never a mother. That sucks. I've got to get me one of those little accessories.

I am not really much interested in talking to adults, although I suppose practically every mother in the kingdom knows my name and my books. It's their children I love.

A wise son makes a glad father, But a foolish son is the grief of his mother.

We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.

My mother's one idea was to sacrifice her life to her children and she had done nothing else since the death of my father. We wished that she had married again instead.

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.

The world's beginning is its mother. To have found the mother is also to know the children. Although you know the children, cling to the mother. Until your last day you will not be harmed.

Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues - faith and hope.

The greatest job that any mother will ever do will be in nurturing, teaching, lifting, encouraging and rearing her children in righteousness and truth. None other can adequately take her place.

What can I do to provide for my children that's really significant? The answer is to love their mother unconditionally.

The father is the head of the home; the mother is the heart of the home; the children are the reward, the joy and the life of the home.

I have found being a mother has made me emotionally raw in many situations. You heart is beating outside your body when you have a baby.

When a mother takes pictures of her children on the beach, she doesn't take herself for an artist; she does it for love, which is an excellent reason, from my point of view.

Women who miscalculate are called mothers.

The joy of motherhood: what a mother experiences when all her children are in bed

Being a mother is probably the hardest job in the world. I feel like, in a lot of ways, children come into the world to teach us.