Alice Miller Quotes

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

Even ordinary people aren't ordinary, not really. They're filled up with thoughts and feelings that you might never know are there until they suddenly materialise.

I've always talked about having a strong maternal instinct... when Mum was pregnant with Alfie, everyone kept saying that I was going to be really jealous of the baby. I took it upon myself to go against what everyone expected and look after him.

I love my mother the most in the world. She has seen a lot of poverty and loneliness and is very simple. Whenever I am in trouble, I go far away from her, as she is not at all strong. If I see her breaking, I break.

It changes everything, absolutely everything. The love you feel for your child transforms everything. Now you have someone helpless and tiny that depends on you and only you. You look at him and know that your world is focused on him, on that part of you.

The relationship between a mother and child is more than just give and take; it is magical.

Every normal woman that is a mother will do everything for your baby to make sure he is happy. Every mother understands that the baby is only happy being with his or her mother.

Make no mistake, the woman had a heart. She had a bigger one that people would think. There was a lot in it, stored up, high in miles of hidden shelving. Remember that she was the woman with the instrument strapped to her body in the long, moon-slit night.

A lot of peoples' parents aren't very supportive; my mom is super supportive.

Anyone I'm with has to love my son just as much as they love me, if not more, because I don't play any games with King.

I do believe my mum looks after me, and I feel so much faith thinking that she is riding with me and is with me in everyday life, whenever I need her.

I have a lot of surrogate parents, but there's no one like your mother.

As a mom, the minute your baby is born, you all of a sudden have these fears. People always say, 'Don't let your fears get you.' But for me, my fears educated me.

I am the mother, and the emotional chord with my children is naturally strong. So there are times when I might get sleepless nights because I am worried.

If you want to love a person, you should know that there are tears, and there can even be hatred inside of it. I think a love really includes all of that.

My mom is my heart.

The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated.

Mother's love is bliss, is peace, it need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. If it is there, it is like a blessing; if it is not there it is as if all the beauty had gone out of life.

A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's.

She had a bottomless well of love for me.

The greatest gift a parent can give a child is unconditional love. As a child wanders and strays, finding his bearings, he needs a sense of absolute love from a parent. There's nothing wrong with tough love, as long as the love is unconditional.

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed.

I do believe that there is something at the core of protecting your offspring - the love of a mother, you just don't get in the way of it.

The hand of a bride becomes the hand of a mother. Ever so gently she cares for her precious child. Bathing, dressing, feeding, comforting-there is no hand like mother's. Nor does its tender care diminish through the years.

My mother was an incredibly loving mother.