Children Quote by Judith Warner

“My mother had become a obsession for me, a religion, and the very thought of referring to another woman as Mother seems sacrilegious, a…

— Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀

“If a mother was Sacrifice personified, then a daughter was Guilt, with no possibility of redress.”

— Milan Kundera

“Perhaps the loaded question is: How often is maternal self-sacrifice really only masochistic martyrdom, destructive to the mother and destructive to the child as…

— Natalie Shainess

“It stung, the notion that my child belonged more to her mother than to me, but I learned to accept it.”

— Shulem Deen

“Sacrifice was nine tenths of parenting.”

— Zadie Smith

“You are to my soul what God is to a mother praying for her child at the altar.”

— Malak El Halabi

“He said, ‘Oh god, help her. Damn me, I deserve it, but let her live forever.’ This was the love he should have felt…

— Graham Greene

“Oh that God would give every mother a vision of the glory and splendor of the work that is given to her when a…

— J.R. Miller

“Something happened to you, they discovered, when you were given the unconditional love and trust of a child. You wanted to try to deserve…

— Lisa Kleypas

“Being a mother was the best of all human experiences, and also the most excruciating.”

— Elin Hilderbrand

“As a mother, you need to remember that a loving and compassionate God is one hundred percent aware of your child’s situation.”

— Elizabeth George

“...now that I am a mother, I understand what Mother's Day is about: it's about looking through our lives and recognizing the act of…

— Shauna Niequist