MO Quotes

To tell the truth I cannot call my childhood bad. In your childhood you can't compare things: one eats carrots, one eats candy, both taste good. As a child you cannot tell the difference.

The best feeling in the world is when you child just comes up to you and lays their head in your lap, for no other reason but just because.

Simple pleasures were all the pleasures that I knew as a child.

It is one of the most beautiful facts in this human existence of ours, that we remember the earliest and freshest part of it most vividly. Doubtless it was meant that our childhood should live on in us forever.

I've always been fascinated by the way that children and animals suffer stoically in a way that I don't think adults do.

My childhood was very beautiful in some ways and very disturbing in others.

Watching my little 18 month old confidently waddle around his weekend exploring the world, I realized that one of the things that's so joyful about being around little one's is that they haven't absorbed all of our cultural programming yet.

Aching familiar in a way that made me wish I was still eight. Eight was before death or divorce or heartbreak. Eight was just eight. Hot dogs and peanut butter, mosquito bites and splinters, bikes and boogie boards. Tangled hair, sunburned shoulders, Judy Blume, in bed by nine thirty.

My parents' love for each other lasted throughout their whole life. They didn't give up... They accepted each other totally unconditionally.

With my mom and dad around, I became a child yet again.

I always cling to things that remind me of being a kid again.

I love kids - they're so carefree and always put a smile on my face.

While my mom was flawed - as we all are - she loved her children more than anything in the world.

For me it is important that children be children. My parents felt exactly the same about me.

My love is not measured in reciprocity. That's not the way I learned love.

I used to think that only a mother could provide unconditional love and make sacrifices.

I would want everyone to love someone in the purest sense of the word - an unconditional love in which you don't expect anything in return.

The children in 'Nobody Knows' had a resonance with me. The children are projections of myself.

Love isn't a switch you can turn on and off. You just can't get rid of it, regardless of the circumstances, if you truly love someone.

If true and unconditional love exists in this world, then it has to be the love between a mother and a child.

We can not love everyone and be loved by everyone. It would be perfection, and nothing is perfect in this world.

I think people are always going to say things about you or disapprove of your relationships or your ideals or your beliefs or something, but I think you have to stand up and stay strong in who you are and not let it affect you.

I know I'm grown, but there's a part of me who will eternally be six years old.

I had an idyllic childhood with the freedom to go and play.

Your first love is your first love. It cannot be analysed, explained, nor forgotten.