Mother`s Quotes
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In the early 1970s psychologist David Olds was working in a Baltimore day-care center where many of the preschoolers came from homes wracked by poverty, domestic violence, and drug abuse. Aware that only addressing the children’s problems at school was not sufficient to improve their home conditions, he started a home-visitation program in which skilled nurses helped mothers to provide a safe and stimulating environment for their children and, in the process, to imagine a better future for themselves. Twenty years later, the children of the home-visitation mothers.
Bessel van der Kolk
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Mothers, train up your children in righteousness; do not attempt to save the world and let your own family fall apart.
Ezra Taft Benson
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Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.
Cathy Guisewite
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A sick child is always the mother's property; her own feelings generally make it so.
Jane Austen
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Most mothers think they are bad mothers. We all make terrible mistakes, often, and always think we're getting it wrong.
Essie Davis
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I saw clearly the mothers of the old neighborhood. They were nervous, they were acquiescent. They were silent, with tight lips and stooping shoulders, or they yelled terrible insults at the children who harassed them. Extremely thin, with hollow eyes and cheeks, or with broad behinds, swollen ankles, heavy chests, they lugged shopping bags and small children who clung to their skirts and wanted to be picked up. And, good God, they were ten, at most twenty years older than me.
Elena Ferrante
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It took one human error to take my leg and one human error to take my mother's.
Heather Mills
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Mothers reflect God's loving presence on earth.
William R. Webb
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The United States is the only advanced economy with no paid parental leave for either mothers or fathers.
Brigid Schulte
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I'm not against mothers. I am against the ideology which expects every woman to have children, and I'm against the circumstances under which mothers have to have their children.
Simone de Beauvoir
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To cause pain was a disease. As a child I imagined tiny, almost invisible animals that arrived in the neighborhood at night, they came from the ponds, from the abandoned train cars beyond the embankment, from the stinking grasses called fetienti, from the frogs, the salamanders, the flies, the rocks, the dust, and entered the water and the food and the air, making our mothers, our grandmothers as angry as starving dogs.
Elena Ferrante
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Mothers, look after your daughters, keep them near you, keep their confidence - that they may be true and faithful.
Elmina Shepard Taylor
