Quotes with mother-child

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  • Hubert Humphrey Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Hubert Humphrey Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Alexander Pope Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • J.M. Coetzee Being a father ... I can't help feeling that, by comparison with being a mother, being a father is a rather abstract business.
    In ongenade (1999)
    J.M. Coetzee
    South African-born Australian novelist (1940 - )
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  • Brigitte Nielsen Being a mother is the best thing that ever happened to me. Before you have your first baby you are a girl and then you become a mother. There is no transition into being a woman; you literally become a mum and being a mum means you always love someone else more than yourself and it is an unexplainable situation.
    Brigitte Nielsen
    Danish actress, model and singer (1963 - )
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Mother Teresa Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Bruce Schneier Beware the Four Horsemen of the Information Apocalypse: terrorists, drug dealers, kidnappers, and child pornographers. Seems like you can scare any public into allowing the government to do anything with those four.
    Schneier, Bruce (2005)
    Bruce Schneier
    American cryptographer, computer security professional and writer (1963 - )
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  • Caroll Spinney Big Bird went through his very human kind of struggles as a child. No other children's character has been that complete and detailed.
    Caroll Spinney
    American puppeteer, cartoonist, author and speaker (1933 - 2019)
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  • Lydia M. Child Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!
    Lydia M. Child
    American Abolitionist, Writer, Editor (1802 - 1880)
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  • Beatrice Wood But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
    Beatrice Wood
    American artist (1893 - 1998)
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  • Lydia M. Child But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.
    Lydia M. Child
    American Abolitionist, Writer, Editor (1802 - 1880)
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  • Gloria Steinem But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or coercion we endured, there is a resistant, daydreaming, rebellious, creative, unique child -- a true self who is waiting.
    Revolution from Within (2012) 98
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • George Eliot But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Ben Stein But when I talk to people who are Darwinists or evolutionists and say, 'Well, how did life begin' -- they're...they don't have an answer. I mean, they have an answer, but it's a BS answer. It's an answer that wouldn't make sense to a small child.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Tsitsi Dangarembga Can you cook books and feed them to your husband? Stay at home with your mother. Learn to cook and clean. Grow vegetables.
    Tsitsi Dangarembga
    Zimbabwean novelist, playwright and filmmaker (1959 - )
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  • Thomas Traherne Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child.
    Thomas Traherne
    British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic (1636 - 1674)
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  • Lydia M. Child Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.
    Lydia M. Child
    American Abolitionist, Writer, Editor (1802 - 1880)
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