Country Quote by Edna O'Brien

A nation's not a child, for God's sake. ... It's like a wild horse you tame by breaking it. Or a fiery woman you…

— Anonymous

Many countries do not allow women to convey their nationality to their children - if they are single mothers, the children become stateless.

— Antonio Guterres

Mothers have not always had the most important role in their children's upbringing, when they had other economic roles to play. Inpast centuries, fathers…

— Sandra Scarr

We are not a nation, so much as a world; for unless we claim all the world for our sire, like Melchisedec, we are…

— Herman Melville

Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones-otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Nations, like men, have their infancy.

— Henry Bolingbroke

God has given you your country as cradle, and humanity as mother; you cannot rightly love your brethren of the cradle if you love…

— Giuseppe Mazzini

No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother's Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture's bad people…

— Anne Lamott

This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth…

— Aristotle

The epithets of parent and child have been long applied to Great Britain and her colonies, [but] we rarely see anything from your side…

— George Mason

And, to help society at large to understand that in the equation of life, fathers are of equal importance as mothers.

— Malik Yoba

In a country of such great wealth and power, it is heartbreaking that we continue to let down expecting mothers who deserve to feel…

— Andy Kim