Children Quote by Robert Wrigley

“I knew that she was trying to save her little girl, but sometimes mothers with the best intentions kill their daughters all the same.”

— Laura Whitcomb

“What was it about fathers, Clay wondered, that compelled so many of them to test their children? To insist that a daughter, or a…

— Nicholas Eames

“Indeed, she had started to wonder if her blessings might be in her daughters and their progeny rather than in her sons. There was…

— Elizabeth Chadwick

“She saw the children. They have been given viruses to educate them. From three weeks old they could speak and do basic arithmetic. By…

— Geoff Ryman

“Long, long ago; her thought was of that child By him begot, the son by whom the sire Was murdered and the mother left…

— Sophocles

“It was funny, in her old age, to look back and see for how short a period her nest had NOT been empty. Relatively…

— Anne Tyler

“Daughters," he told her as they dug. "Nothing better than a good daughter.”

— Joyce Maynard

“She was a clay pot, and she’d been broken in pieces. There used to be something inside her, and now that it had spilled…

— Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen

“Mother was,' June thought, 'a beautiful little ornament that was damaged.' Her broken edges cut her daughters in ways both emotional and physical, and…

— Karen Abbott

“Stories of her children when they were small, their round little bodies barely containing their personalities, which bloomed and glittered and melted into her.”

— Erica Bauermeister

“She was a dull person, but a sensational invitation to make babies. Men looked at her and wanted to fill her up with babies…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“She found beauty in the children.”

— Sinclair Lewis