Parenting Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Next to a mother she wanted a quiet place where she could be alone when she wanted to be; to listen to the wind…

— L.M. Montgomery

“I'm a mother," said her mother, in her foodless flat where the dust did not dare to settle, "and I know what I know.”

— Neil Gaiman

“She spoke softly and gently, like our ears needed respect, and she carried the worries of the world on her shoulders so that we…

— Gemma Liviero

“But he saw Naomi as the wind traveling over the field, always searching, never stopping, and never knowing that true peace is when you…

— Rene Denfeld

“It was cold and barren. It was no longer the view that I remembered. The sunshine of her presence was far from me. The…

— Wilkie Collins

“she often went into her garden and got from her flowers a peace which men and women never gave her.”

— Virginia Woolf

“What did your mother do?" he said. "Sir?" "When it was time for bed," said the King. "Tell me." The girls exchanged nervous glances.…

— Heather Dixon

“Up from behind a sand dune close beside her rose the form of her enemy Bitterness. He did not come any nearer, having learned…

— Hannah Hurnard

“Sweet dreams and thin walls... Mother of Pearl. He'd heard me.”

— Alice Clayton

“I lay down in the mother ash dirt among the crocuses and told her it was okay. That I'd surrendered. That since she died,…

— Cheryl Strayed

“She's a beautiful flower put in a pot and hidden in a closet. You can't keep her a little girl forever.”

— V.C.Andrews

“Mother, I think. Wherever you may be. Can you hear me? You wanted a women’s culture. Well, now there is one. It isn’t what…

— Margaret Atwood