Best Her Children Quotations
168 Her Children quotes by 149 unique authors
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I've often wanted to play the victim, or somebody who makes terrible choices. I would love to play the alcoholic mother who horribly lets down…
— Lucy Lawless
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I think Nature, if she interests herself much about her children, must often feel that, like the miserable Frankenstein, with her experimenting among the elements…
— James Anthony Froude
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Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.
— Billy Graham
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A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the…
— Augustus Hare
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Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get…
— Zora Neale Hurston
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Growing up in the fifties and sixties, I can only remember knowing one child, ever, whose parents got a divorce, and hardly any whose mother…
— Joyce Maynard
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I was shortly again at the castle, and the Princess gave me her hand to kiss and then brought her children, the young princes and…
— Max Muller
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There are over 200 million illiterate women in India. This low literacy negatively impacts not just their lives but also their families' and the country's…
— Sachin Tendulkar
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A good mother remembers to serve fruit at breakfast, is always cheerful and never yells, manages not to project her own neuroses and inadequacies onto…
— Ayelet Waldman
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Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.
— Thornton Wilder
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A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful…
— Lois Wyse
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I believe that an author who cannot control her characters is, like a mother who cannot control her children, not really fit to look after…
— Margery Allingham
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Can anything harm us, mother, after the night-lights are lit?" Nothing, precious," she said; "they are the eyes a mother leaves behind her to guard…
— James M. Barrie
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Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children,…
— Betty Friedan
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She emptied her mind of all thought of herself, of her children, of all anger, of all rebellion, of all questions. Then with a profound…
— Mario Puzo
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If it is perfectly acceptable for a widow to disfigure herself or commit suicide to save face for her husband's family, why should a mother…
— Lisa See
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Our heroine knew that the mother would always leave the window open for her children to fly back by; so they stayed away for years…
— James M. Barrie
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Woman's world is her husband, her family, her children and her home. We do not find it right when she presses into the world of…
— Adolf Hitler
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But Laila has decided that she will not be crippled by resentment. Mariam wouldn’t want it that way. ‘What’s the sense?’ she would say with…
— Khaled Hosseini
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Living to an extraordinary age, she mourned them all equally as she buried her husband and, one by one, her children. In this suffering she…
— Martine Leavitt
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Wilbur never forgot Charlotte. Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart.…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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That is the injustice of a woman's lot. A woman has to bring up her children; and that means to restrain them, to deny them…
— George Bernard Shaw
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We, her children, are heroic, dersperate.
— Marguerite Duras
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All of our actions have in their doing the seed of their undoing. ... That in her creation of her children there should be the…
— Louise Erdrich
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But maybe a man was nothing but a man, which is what Baby Suggs always said. They encouraged you to put some of your weight…
— Toni Morrison
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