Quotes with mother-child

Quotes 381 till 400 of 797.

  • Agnes Smedley Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • Caroline Lawrence Like every child growing up in America, I read 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' and 'Huckleberry Finn.' I liked them well enough, but I didn't love them.
    Caroline Lawrence
    English American author (1954 - )
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  • Mother Teresa Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Camille Paglia Love for all means coldness to something or someone. Even Jesus, let us recall, was unnecessarily rude to his mother at Cana.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Erich Fromm Love is the child of freedom, never that of domination.
    Erich Fromm
    German - American philosopher and psychologist (1900 - 1980)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Buddha Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • H.G. Wells Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
    H.G. Wells
    British-born American author (1866 - 1946)
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  • Mother Teresa Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Arlie Russell Hochschild Many women cut back what had to be done at home by redefining what the house, the marriage and, sometimes, what the child needs. One woman described a fairly common pattern: I do my half. I do half of his half, and the rest doesn't get done.
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  • Dag Hammarskjöld Maturity: among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
    Dag Hammarskjöld
    Swedish diplomat (1905 - 1961)
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch Maybe it's because I was an only child, but I've always wanted kids.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Aeschylus Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Emma Goldman Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Mother Teresa More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Gloria Steinem Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Benjamin Watson Most of the guys in the NFL would sit here and tell you we don't condone the abuse of a child, any sort of abuse of a woman, breaking rules, failing drug tests, or doing any of those things. We hold ourselves to a very high standard.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Blythe Danner Mostly, I spend my time being a mother to my two children, working in my organic garden, raising masses of sweet peas, being passionately involved in conservation, recycling and solar energy.
    Blythe Danner
    American actress (1943 - )
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  • Angela Carter Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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