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Quotes About Mothers

Witch mothers possess a laser-like ability to detect areas of vulnerability in others. Like the witch in Hansel and Gretel, the borderline Witch has "a keen sense of smell" for human weakness. Witch mothers know what to say to hurt or scare their children, and use humiliation and degradation to punish them.
~ Christine Ann Lawson
Emotionally stable parents share their children's joy and quiet their fear. But caretaking roles are reversed for children of borderlines whose mothers are chronically upset. Children repress their fear in order to calm their mother. Situations that should frighten children may not because they have learned not to feel.
~ Christine Ann Lawson
We all came from our mothers' bellies. We all have hope in our veins. We don't want history to forget us, but the dead look after the afterwards.
~ Henri Cole
As the minister for faith as well as equalities, I'm proud to champion our work with faith leaders to help overcome vaccine hesitancy in mothers from religious and ethnic groups.
~ Kemi Badenoch
If you want to know the value of vaccines, just spend some time in a clinic in Africa. The faces of the mothers and fathers say it all: vaccines prevent illness and save lives.
~ Seth Berkley
I know what it's like to struggle and to have those concerns that all mothers have.
~ Ann Romney
She was about to touch one of the large wooden wheels of the coach when a more sinister image flashed before her – a coach full of children being driven away from the mission, crying for their mothers. Odette turned her back on the carriage.
~ Unknown
women are so strange and their tempers are uncertain, and mothers are the strangest of all, for they see fears and harms about their children where there are no such things.
~ Pearl S. Buck
They had that special bond that sometimes exists between mothers and sons, as confidants and friends.
~ Danielle Steel
Every culture seems to have customs to ward off evil. Italians use the curved horn, and Eastern European Jews used to say insulting things to babies, such as "Oy, such an ugly girl!" to avoid tempting the devil. America's magic charms are private education, science camp, and SAT tutors to ward off our evil: personal failure. Mothers
~ Claire Fontaine
Para seguir en el colegio donde todas esas mujeres con las que hoy va a almorzar mandan a sus hijos, él tenía que ser otro. Uno parecido a los hijos de ellas. Por eso hace tiempo que no las ve, porque sus comentarios, aunque se refieran al gimnasio, a la mucama o a la liquidación donde se compraron la mejor ropa de la temporada, no sólo la sacan de quicio sino que llegaron a producirle el mismo sentimiento que los olvidos de Andrés: ganas de matar a alguien.
~ Unknown
Mothers sound so stupid when they praise their daughters to the skies.
~ Colette
involved direct experimentation on children without informed consent being given by their parents or guardians. In the case of the Tuskeegee Study, children were harmed by preventable congenital syphilis. In the radiation experiments they were harmed through direct exposure after birth or in utero exposure during experiments on their mothers.
~ Unknown
I have noticed,' she says, 'common men often love their mothers. Sometimes they even love their wives.
~ Hilary Mantel
It is warmth and comfort and safety. A smell of mothers.
~ Unknown
Wives and mothers of the disappeared, when they were present at the arrest, would swear that the missing had been taken away by very polite Germans, similar to those who asked us for directions in the street.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Parents who needed a little chemical help to develop that favorable attitude could turn to pharmaceuticals. As in the Victorian era—the last time mothers were encouraged to do all the child-rearing themselves—drugs again became a popular at-home activity. Enter Miltown and Valium, aka mother's little helper.*
~ Jennifer Traig
Real mothers don't die, said Ferdi. No one had an answer to that. So we talked about oranges. Like mothers, oranges were a common topic. Enos said he had eaten them many times, but Ferdi said they were only made up. What do oranges taste like? I asked Enos. He closed his eyes. Like nothing else. What do they look like? Like a little sun before it sets. Feeding said, Oranges don't exist.
~ Jerry Spinelli
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.
~ Unknown
girls their mothers' nature share. So be not thou. For pity's sake Accept the word the monarch spake. Thy husband's will, O Queen, obey, And be the people's hope and stay, O, do not, urged by folly, draw The king to tread on duty's law.
~ V?lm?ki
I had asked her for help, and she had sent me to the lions. I knew that she was trying to save her little girl, but sometimes mothers with the best intentions kill their daughters all the same.
~ Laura Whitcomb
It's Mother's Day, so a big 'Happy Birthday' to all you mothers out there!
~ Unknown
Christ loves mothers and is drawn to their tears, words, and prayers. After all, He lived in the house, ate her cooking, saw her clean His clothes and His room, and knew she was blessed above all women.
~ Unknown
Dairy farmers routinely remove calves from their mothers at an early age so that the milk will be available for humans; anyone who has lived on a dairy farm will know that, for days after the calves have gone, their mothers keep calling for them.
~ Peter Singer