Children Quote by Drew Magary

What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams. We deny them an existence of their own,…

— Margaret Atwood

“Some moms are equipped by the hand of God to be “that mom.” They have been formed with the three-C gene — Cooking, Crafting,…

— Lysa TerKeurst

“Parenting isn’t about creating someone in your own image; it’s about giving them the clay to shape themselves as they see fit, and celebrating…

— Mikki Brammer

You know you've made it when you've been moulded in miniature plastic. But you know what children do with Barbie dolls - it's a…

— Cate Blanchett

I think of costumes as a character device.

— Alice Rohrwacher

I was a daughterless mother. I had nowhere to put the things a mother places on her daughter. The nail polish I used to…

— Ann Hood

Ornaments were invented by modesty.

— Joseph Joubert

My mother and grandmother created this secret garden where it was OK for boys to play with dolls, and it was OK for little…

— Leslie Jordan

A mother's example sketches the outline of her child's character.

— Tim Howard

“The moral of this story is simple. Some moms are equipped by the hand of God to be “that mom.” They have been formed…

— Lysa TerKeurst

“What is a parent, really, but somebody who picks up the things a child leaves behind - a trail made of stripped off clothing,…

— Jodi Picoult

“Over the years our mother has beaten us with belts, shoes, rulers, extension cords, hair brushes, a wooden spoon, a fly swatter, a toilet…

— Bob Thurber