Children Quote by Richard Dawkins

“My mother started school when she was six and stopped the same term. She was unusual in the village, as she had a father…

— Malala Yousafzai

“My mother was very strong about my doing well in school and living up to my potential. Two things were important to her and…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“You can still tell Mommy that you love her and that you’ll miss her, and she’ll hear everything you say.” I looked at Mommy…

— Jamie McGuire

“Because my mother couldn't change my present, I decided to change my daughter's future”

— Manal al-Sharif

“At around five, I took the L home. A woman near me had a three-year-old child on her lap, a girl, who looked at…

— David Sedaris

“We were eight children in our family, the first four were all girls, I was the oldest. Papa once came home from work and…

— Svetlana Alexievich

“Why would her mother need a break? And how selfish of her, to take off and not tell anyone,”

— Deanna Lynn Sletten

“From Charades: when she was younger she was a frustrated mother, so she is pleased when her children act as is they don't remember”

— Lorrie Moore

“A mother knows her children’s weaknesses, even if she sometimes refuses to acknowledge them.”

— Mary Campisi

“I don't know what happened to your parents or why they did what they did. But in all the world, I could have wished…

— John Stephens

“She understands, too, the loneliness of parenting, which is the loneliness of memory – to know that she connects a future unknowable to her…

— Chloe Benjamin

“I promised myself that I would talk to her before the summer was over, but schools reopened, the leaves reddened, yellowed, and fell, the…

— Khaled Hosseini