Philippe Halsman Quotes

A mother's love is indeed the golden link that binds youth to age; and he is still but a child, however time may have furrowed his cheek, or silvered his brow, who can yet recall, with a softened heart, the fond devotion, or the gentle chidings, of the best friend that God gives us.

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all; in good repute, in bad repute, in the face of the world's condemnation, a mother still loves on, and still hopes that her child may turn from his evil ways, and repent; still she remembers the infant smiles that once filled her bosom with rapture, the merry laugh, the joyful shout of his childhood, the opening promise of his youth; and she can never be brought to think him all unworthy.

The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.

A mother's love, in a degree, sanctifies the most worthless offspring.

A father may turn his back on his child, … . but a mother's love endures through all.

A sick child is always the mother's property; her own feelings generally make it so.

A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.

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

The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated, except by those whose feelings are withered by vitiated society. Holy, simple, and beautiful in its construction, it is the emblem of all we can imagine of fidelity and truth.

My children love me. I'm like the mother they never had.

If I go away, I take a little picture of my son. It's in a frame with a speaker, and he recorded a birthday message for me when he was nine or 10. I can't listen to it without filling up.

I've never loved anybody the way I love my children.

I think it's really hard to understand the depths and the power of the love that someone has for their children unless you really have children.

I love my mother. I reach out to my mother.

I love being with my children. They're fascinating people.

Sometimes there's a very special relationship between a mother and her son.

I look back in retrospect, and I would never say I regret not one of my children. They are why I live.

…for no matter how lost and soiled and worn-out wandering sons may be, mothers can forgive and forget every thing as they fold them into their fostering arms. Happy the son whose faith in his mother remains unchanged, and who, through all his wanderings, has kept some filial token to repay her brave and tender love.

Mothers, take time to be a real friend to your children. Listen to your children, really listen. Talk with them, laugh and joke with them, sing with them, cry with them, hug them, honestly praise them. Yes, regularly spend unused one-on-one time with each child. Be a real friend to your children.

Your daughter is your child for life.

Once there was a little bunny who wanted to run away. So he said to his mother, "I am running away". "If you run away", said his mother, "I will run after you. For you are my little bunny".

To a mother, a child is everything; but to a child, a parent is only a link in the chain of her existence.

I think a child calling for his mother is the most beautiful sound in the world.

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.