Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

Children are to be born into a family where the parents hold the needs of children equal to their own in importance. And children are to love parents and each other.

It is a truism that children need more of Mother than of money.

If you don't show care and love for your children and leave the mothers to take care of all their needs, if they grow up, they will also not consider you.

At the end of the day, I'm Violet's mom, and I want the best for her.

My mom is just incredible. She's delved into both the mother and father figure in my life.

I often say that if I had one wish in this world, I would wish that every child could have a mother the way my mother were. And I never went without clothes, I never went without food... I never went without anything that a child needs. But above all of that, she gave me unconditional love.

Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers...but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.

If I cannot give my children a perfect mother I can at least give them more of the one they've got--and make that one more loving. I will be available. I will take time to listen, time to play, time to be home when they arrive from school, time to counsel and encouerage.

Was it the act of giving birth that made you a mother? Did you lose that label when you relinquished your child? If people were measured by their deeds, on the one hand, I had a woman who had chosen to give me up; on the other, I had a woman who'd sat up with me at night when I was sick as a child, who'd cried with me over boyfriends, who'd clapped fiercely at my law school graduation. Which acts made you more of a mother? Both, I realized. Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.

Children long to know that they are lovable. And there are ways that technology can help with that. But ultimately it's their relationships with their parents, their grandparents, their peers, and their teachers that help them to know that for sure. A child can learn the word "hug" and the letters h-u-g through a computer, but a computer can never give the child a hug.

Government, obviously, cannot fill a child's emotional needs. Nor can it fill his spiritual and moral needs. Government is not a father or mother. Government has never raised a child, and it never will.

You never get over bein' a child long's you have a mother to go to.

There is no love like a mother’s - she who carries the child that God knits in the womb, she who nourishes and guides, she who teaches and inspires, she who gives of her heart and soul and self for the good and the happiness of her children and her family.

It would be very sad if children had no memories before those of school. What they need most is the love and attention of their mother.

I love my son more than anything. I will do whatever it takes to make sure he is raised the right way.

Parents are your teachers until a certain point, and if they don't give you love, you'll go somewhere else to find it.

I don't want to be an absent mother. Otherwise, why have children?

I want a certain thing for my children. I just want to be in their life. I don't want nannies raising my kids.

I don't think people who have children are acting selfishly or unselfishly. Having a child who'll be loved, to parents who love each other, is the important thing.

I always wanted to be with a woman who has the same mindset and wants to look after me like my mum.

Parents are the designated caregivers and are best suited for being able to raise children.

My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all - the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be, and much less about what we would do.

True parents do not see to it that their children grow in a particular way, according to a preferred pattern or scripted stages, but they see to it that they grow with their children.

I'm a Mommy's Girl - the strongest influence in my young life was my mom.

Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.