Children Quote by Lucy Grealy

“I'll tend to her as no mother ever tended a child, a daughter. Nobody will ever get my milk no more except my own…

— Toni Morrison

“Out of the woman's great brown breast the milk gushed forth for the child, milk as white as snow, and when the child suckled…

— Pearl S. Buck

“I think maybe, when I was very young, I witnessed a chaste cheek kiss between the two when it was impossible to avoid. Christmas,…

— Gillian Flynn

“The most difficult part of being a mother was to observe the mistakes of one's children: the foolish loves, the desperate solitude and alienation,…

— David Bergen

“Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out. Whatever…

— Oscar Wilde

“I had spent the last two weeks consumed with my mother’s condition, at her side for many hours every day, living in a soup…

— Jane Gross

“It seems to me that the difficult thing in life is to find what stirs you and move toward it. Mom put us first…

— Christa Parravani

“Few things feel as threatening to a mother as does something that jeopardizes others' love for and acceptance of her child.”

— Amy Fenton Lee

“Her mother was by turns tender and pathetic and terrifying, broken in a way that no one, in that time or place, had any…

— Karen Abbott

“In those days my mother was given to the exasperating and mysterious habit of having babies.”

— James Baldwin

Mother's milk leads to everything.

— George Carlin

“A mother with an infant but without a father was not welcomed in the new world. “You kilt it.” “She kilt it.” “I had…

— Edna O'Brien