Quotes with mother-child

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  • Berkeley Breathed My post-child period resulted in one instant change: I write shorter books for kids.
    Berkeley Breathed
    American cartoonist, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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  • Betsy Brandt My son is pre-K and my daughter is in elementary school. So they don't watch the show. But my son knows that I'm on it - he says that 'Breaking Bad' is his favorite show even though he's never seen it. It's really great that he says that, because it makes me look like mother of the year.
    Betsy Brandt
    American actress (1973 - )
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  • Bob McDonnell My wife and daughters work. My campaign manager in 2005 was a working mother. I appointed 5 women to my senior staff as Attorney General.
    Bob McDonnell
    American politician and lawyer (1954 - )
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  • John Barrymore My wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother, and her mother will go anywhere.
    John Barrymore
    American actor (1882 - 1942)
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  • Bill Halter My wife Shanti and I are blessed with two wonderful daughters. Nothing is more important to us than protecting their future and the future of every Arkansas child.
    Bill Halter
    American politician (1960 - )
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  • Bruce Coville My writing works best when I remember that bookish child who adored reading and gear the work toward him.
    Bruce Coville
    American author (1950 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Nature is not our mother, Nature is our sister.
    The Eternal Revolution
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Mark Twain Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Necessity! thou mother of the world!
    Queen Mab VI, 58
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Jane Welsh Carlyle Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.
    Jane Welsh Carlyle
    Scottish writer (1801 - 1866)
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  • Bill Hybels Never forget that if you are God's child through Jesus Christ, you are praying to a Father who couldn't love you more than he already does.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Epictetus Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? is not this also a return?
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Carol Bellamy New legislation has just been adopted by the International Labour Organization on the Worst Forms of Child Labor, such as bonded labour, prostitution and hazardous work.
    Carol Bellamy
    American nonprofit executive (1942 - )
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  • George Herbert Night is the mother of counsels.
    George Herbert
    English poet (1593 - 1633)
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  • Charlotte Saunders Cushman No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character is a child.
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich No culture on earth outside of mid-century suburban America has ever deployed one woman per child without simultaneously assigning her such major productive activities as weaving, farming, gathering, temple maintenance, and tent-building. The reason is that full-time, one-on-one child-raising is not good for women or children.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Victor Hugo No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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