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Quotes About Children

If every child might live the life predestined in a mother's heart, all the way from the cradle to the coffin, he would walk upon a beam of light, and shine in glory.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
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.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
I'm a mother, and my life is very full.
~ Sheherazade Goldsmith
Part of what I want to do is sort of reclaim my story - it belongs to me and to my children, who have to live with whoever their mother is.
~ Elizabeth Edwards
This mother needs happy, reputable children, and that one needs unhappy ones: otherwise she cannot show her kindness as a mother.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I always have a camera now that I've got a kid, but I don't think I've got one picture of anyone other than my daughter.
~ Georgina Chapman
Now, we've made the revolutionary discovery that children have two parents. A decade ago even the kindly Dr. Spock held mothers solely responsible for children.
~ Gloria Steinem
A mother needs to be in the home even when the kids aren't. A messy house sends a coded message to children: "I'm not loveable. Otherwise Mother would dust.
~ Stephen Colbert
The task is simple. We will organize children and teach them in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way.
~ John D. Rockefeller
The way I see it," she began, "your mother's devoted her whole life to you kids." She said "you kids" in precisely the same tone I would have used for "you infestation of cockroaches
~ Jennifer Weiner
Already the new-born children interpret love In the voices of mothers.
~ Wallace Stevens
Growing up in the fifties and sixties, I can only remember knowing one child, ever, whose parents got a divorce, and hardly any whose mother "worked" at anything besides raising her children.
~ Joyce Maynard
Children deserve to be reared in a home with a father and a mother.
~ Lance B. Wickman
When I had my daughter, Louisanna, two and a half years ago, I started recording every funny or sweet thing she said or did on my phone.
~ Leelee Sobieski
I most want to be remembered for being as great a mother to James and Lennon as my mum was to me and my brother Jamie.
~ Patsy Kensit
Kids are anchors of mothers' life
~ Sophocles
Mothers hold close, fathers let go. Maybe that's the way of the world.
~ Lisa Gardner
Children with healthy mothers are much more likely to survive childhood, attend school and live healthy, productive lives.
~ Liya Kebede
Mothers will be fishing kids out of obscure cubby-holes for years!
~ Richard Hammond
~I'm really clear about my priority in life - it's being a mom ... I love doing films, but I wouldn't like to do that more than I'd like to be my daughter's mother.~
~ Teri Hatcher
You [meaning mothers] said good-bye a little every day -- from the minute they left your body until they left your home.
~ Lisa Unger
Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.
~ Margaret Atwood
Our children, two daughters and a son, were born in 1874, 1876, and 1879.
~ Mary Augusta Ward
Children always know when their mothers are crazy - they just never admit it, not out loud, to anyone.
~ Sarah Addison Allen