Children Quote by Janna Malamud Smith

In the 74 years and nearly four months marking her time on what she called this crooked old Earth, my mother rarely drew a…

— Rodney Crowell

My mother very rarely skipped a Thanksgiving turkey. And yet, none of them ever tasted quite the same, landing somewhere on a sliding scale…

— Wesley Morris

The Saudi ideal of a woman is a religious mother who rarely ventures out: She shouldn't work with men, she should be completely covered,…

— Manal al-Sharif

“Suddenly she understood that it is a very hard thing, to be afraid of things, and that it takes up so much time. Suddenly…

— Tahereh Mafi

“Sometimes the thought of his mother working so hard while he did nothing would come suddenly upon his and he would rush off and…

— E. Nesbitt

When teachers or people in authority put me down or in one way or another tried to make me feel less than equal to…

— Maya Angelou

“I thought about my mother, and the words she said to me almost a lifetime ago. That’s when it clicked: she had asked me…

— Jamie McGuire

Wonderful, Annabeth thought. Her own mother, the most levelheaded Olympian, was reduced to a raving, vicious scatterbrain in a subway station. And, of all…

— Rick Riordan

“No, since we began this case, another possibility has presented itself to me--the thought that, although my mother cared for her children, their welfare…

— Caleb Carr

At the time I thought what I had with you and your mother was better than nothing. But if you can't tell the truth…

— Cassandra Clare

“Anyone watching her would have thought her cold, indifferent, but this was the only way she knew to tackle her deepest troubles, to shoo…

— Laura L. Sullivan

“She thought of something her mother had told her when she'd finally broken up with one of her most dysfunctional boyfriends. When a man…

— Holly Black

“A rock, I thought crazily. He'll pick up a rock. He'll break open my skull, my brain leaking onto the sand. He'll tighten his…

— Emma Cline

the only way to tolerate the thought of her mother sleeping with that man was to get drunk-very drunk.

— Cecily von Ziegesar

Whenever I held my newborn baby in my arms, I used to think that what I said and did to him could have an…

— Rose Kennedy