Learn Through Quotations

“The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent.”

“Any mother could perform the jobs of several air traffic controllers with ease.”

“One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters.”

“A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.”

“Women who miscalculate are called mothers.”

“The quickest way for a parent to get a child's attention is to sit down and look comfortable.”

“If you have never been hated by your child you have never been a parent.”

“Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in my field, since the payment is pure love.”

“No one who has ever brought up a child can doubt for a moment that love is literally the life-giving fluid of human existence.”

“Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.”

“Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud.”

“We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.”

“That best academy, a mother's knee.”

“You will always be your child's favourite toy.”

“Some mothers are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.”

“Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.”

“Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.”

“Parenthood is the passing of a baton, followed by a lifelong disagreement as to who dropped it.”

“There is an instinct in a woman to love most her own child - and an instinct to make any child who needs her love, her own.”

“A parent's love is whole no matter how many times divided.”

“Because I feel that in the heavens above The angels, whispering one to another, Can find among their burning tears of love, None so devotional as that of 'Mother,' Therefore, by that dear name I have long called you, You who are more than mother unto me.”

“If your children spend most of their time in other people's houses, you're lucky; if they all congregate at your house, you're blessed.”

“There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.”

“I cannot forget my mother. She is my bridge. When I needed to get across, she steadied herself long enough for me to run across safely.”