Quotes about moth
mother baby children
The great constructive energies of the child ... have hitherto been concealed beneath an accumulation of ideas concerning motherhood. We used to say it was the mother who formed the child; for it is she who teaches him to walk, talk, and so on. But none of this is really done by the mother. It is an achievement of the child. What the mother brings forth is the baby, but it is the baby who produces the man. Should the mother die, the baby still grows up and completes his work of making the man. Maria Montessori
mother children intelligent
What advice can we give to new mothers? Their children need to work at an interesting occupation: they should not be helped unnecessarily, nor interrupted, once they have begun to do something intelligent.
mother baby children
At birth, the child leaves a person - his mother's womb - and this makes him independent of her bodily functions. The baby is next endowed with an urge, or need, to face the out world and to absorb it. We might say that he is born with 'the psychology of world conquest.' By absorbing what he finds about him, he forms his own personality.
mother school science
I was sent to a finishing school, which didn't last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I 'came out' before going to a domestic science school. Mary Wesley
mother father years
My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20.
mother good-enough break
I still feel as if I weren't a good enough mother. I didn't break any rules. Mary Tyler Moore
mother father opportunity
We need to insist on fathers and mothers sharing the care of their offspring as well as the opportunity to enjoy the fulfillment of individual rights. Mary Frances Berry
mother children opportunity
advocating women's rights and greater opportunity for women in the workplace and in every avenue of public life is inconsistent with an insistence on mother taking care of children and housework.
mother baby son
Babies! What a wonderful way to start people! Mary Engelbreit
mother memories children
My mother always read to me as a child. I really believe that bonding time between a parent and child is so important and precious. I have lasting memories of those stories because the experience was special.
mother father loses
When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life. Patricia Kaas
motherhood black important
Work for black women has been an important and valued dimension of Afrocentric definitions of black motherhood. Patricia Hill Collins
mother children men
Far too many black men who praise their own mother feel less accounted to the mothers of their own children.
mother parent generations
Women gain social influence through their roles as mothers, transmitters of culture, and parents for the next generation.
mother lying fake
That's the hardest part of acting: when it is ultra-personal, when it is deeply personal, and there's no lying involved. You can't fake it, you can't get by it. This is dealing with the most primal instincts and emotions that a mother can have. Patricia Clarkson
mother two wife
When I was in second grade, my mother moved from Miami to this evangelical conservative environment in western North Carolina, two miles down the road from Billy Graham and his wife, Ruth. Patricia Cornwell
mother elegance excellent
Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother Patricia Highsmith
mother shopping perfectly-good
I don't remember my mother ever playing with me. And she was a perfectly good mother. But she had to do the laundry and clean the house and do the grocery shopping. Patricia Heaton
mother knowing-everything rooms
My foster mother always laughed and said it was his reputation for knowing everything that allowed for him to appear infallible: all he had to do was walk through the room and see who looked guiltiest when they saw him. Maybe she was right, but I tried looking innocent the next time, and it didn't work. Patricia Briggs
mother sweet thinking
His voice was soft and sweet as molasses; but my mother once told me that you had to trust that the first thing out of a person's mouth was truth. After they have a chance to think about it, they'll change what they say to be more socially acceptable, something they think you'll be happier with, something that will get the results they want.
mother hot mercy
Mercy," said my mother thoughtfully, "you never told me your werewolf neighbor was quite that hot.
mother children stories
My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for modern audiences until they bore only a nodding acquaintance with the originals, but were released as 'authentic Indian stories' when they were, in fact, nothing of the kind.
mother brother expression
His brother maintained that what sent people backing away was neither his size nor his mother's blood, but solely the expression on his face. To test Samuel's theory, Charles had tried smiling - and then solemnly reported to Samuel that he had been mistaken. When Charles smiled, he told Samuel, people just ran faster.
mother enemy scripture
Love thy enemies, it says in the scriptures. My foster mother always added, "At the very least, you will be polite to them.
mother gun law
Remember that all tax revenue is the result of holding a gun to somebody's head. Not paying taxes is against the law. If you don't pay your taxes, you'll be fined. If you don't pay the fine, you'll be jailed. If you try to escape from jail, you'll be shot. ... Therefore, every time the government spends money on anything, you have to ask yourself, 'Would I kill my kindly, gray-haired mother for this?' P. J. O'Rourke
mother hunger suspects
I suspect that hunger was my mother. Plautus
mother plato stories
[Aristotle] was the most eminent of all the pupils of Plato.... He seceded from Plato while he was still alive; so that they tell a story that [Plato] said, " Aristotle has kicked us off, just as chickens do their mother after they have been hatched. Plato
mother giving different
Give me a different set of mothers and I will give you a different world
mother invention
Necessity is literally the mother of invention.
mother daughter grandparent
I'm raising my daughter with her grandparents in the picture, and that feels good. Paula Cole
mothers-day mom cry
Mom's always know how to make us happy, but they also know exactly how to make us cry. Phil Jones
mother children saddest
A mother is only as happy as her saddest child. Phil McGraw
mother beach children
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. Martin Parr