Children Quote by Robert Benchley

“The son knows about himself as a masculine figure through the eyes of the mother, not the eyes of the father.”

— George Kohlrieser

He came up straight to her father, whose hands he took and wrung without a word - holding them in his for a minute…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“The child's face is close to her own now, but there is still no detail. It is a blur, a watercolor painting left out…

— John Connolly

“Mother is God in the eyes of a child.”

— William Makepeace Tackery

“Father and the child were no longer speaking, but they sat together in silence. The child was at his feet, and he sat, up…

— Carmen Dominique Taxer

When the baby dies, On every side Rose stranger's voices, hard and harsh and loud. The baby was not wrapped in any shroud. The…

— Helen Hunt Jackson

“Mother is the name of god on the lips and hearts of little children.”

— The Crow

“She cannot remember her mother's face... This is the woman who brought her into the world... This is the woman her father loved. Yet…

— Mark Haddon

“Tears slid down my cheeks. Their source must move closer to the eyes in mothers.”

— Janet Benton

A mother's example sketches the outline of her child's character.

— Tim Howard

“I can speak of our baby like this to no one else. Who but his father would linger over the exact width of his…

— Phillippa Gregory

“The boys didn’t say a word. They stared at their mother, through to the back of her eyes, looking for her, but unable to…

— Holliday Vann