Parenting Quote by Marisa de los Santos

“The short sharp shock of three thousand mother two hundred mothers. The ones who picked through the supermarket debris for pieces of their dead…

— Colum McCann

“My mother knew a man during the war. Theirs was a love story, and like any good love story, it left blood on the…

— Mark Slouka

“Nothing prepared me for the loss of my mother. Even knowing that she would die did not prepare me. A mother, after all, is…

— Meghan O'Rourke

“They wanted the real mother, the blood mother, the great womb, mother of fierce compassion, a woman large enough to hold all the pain,…

— Janet Fitch

“Did other people’s mothers vanish into holes in the ground during their midlife crises?”

— Maggie Stiefvater

The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life…

— Adrienne Rich

“Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons”

— Sun Tzu

“My mother's perpetual now, tempting me with possibility. Weren't we silly, she might say? What was the matter with us? Let's be close again.…

— Susanna Sonnenberg

“in all the years i had blundered along in search of my own footing, she had never given me an inkling of this wish.…

— Gail Caldwell

“In the trenches between the burial mounds hundreds of dead soldiers sat side by side with their heads against the torn earth, as if…

— J G Ballard

“In the hospitality of war we left them their dead to remember us by.”

— Archilochus

“Perhaps the best way to sum all this up is to say that the people I knew felt, mainly, a peculiar kind of relief…

— James Baldwin