Parenting Quote by Alger, Horatio

“Mrs. Thornton; the only mother he has, I believe,”

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“My mom often said "We're not poor, we just don't have much money.”

— Les Cochran

“No mother is ever, completely, a child’s idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as…

— Margaret Atwood

“We aren't poor," my mother said, again and again. "Because we're rich in love.”

— Cheryl Strayed

“A poor child knew what it meant to be poor. We didn't ask for much, and sometimes we didn't even ask.”

— Da Chen

“I wish I could have been better for her, more of what she deserved. She was a great mom, but that wasn’t me”

— Bry Ann

“There isn’t a woman I know who hasn’t said they wished they’d listened to their mother… especially where the three Big Ms of women’s…

— Claire/Mia Fontaine

“I'm blessed and I couldn't be more grateful. Do you want to know why? Because I'm a mother, but that's only half of it.…

— Adrianna Stepiano

“a mother, don’t you want your children to be better than you are?”

— E.N. Joy

“Yet, even then I wasn’t unhappy. We had no objective perception of our own poverty because we had nothing to compare it to. Most…

— Willie Parker

“Our fortunes have gone up and down over the years, but my mother has never lost her ruthless poise. Whether she's in a cheap…

— Teri Brown

“People are not poor because they’ve made bad choices, my mother liked to say, they make bad choices because they’re poor.”

— Zadie Smith