Sam Kean Quotes

I feel that the connection with children and mothers is so strong in places where there are not so many 'things' to get in the way, no electronic distraction devices, no high-tech baby equipment, just a mother carrying her little one everywhere, sharing a family bed and having the help of all the other women around to raise the baby.

There's a story behind everything..but behind all your stories is always your mother's story..because hers is where yours begins.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

You really get your sense of women, to begin with, from your mom.

My mom and I always had a great bond. It was always a natural friendship bond since early on. My mom was 18 when she had me.

One of my main wishes in wanting to write about my mother was to explore the impact of her death on my life, explore our relationship, think about the different versions of myself that I was with and without her. I also had the really strong wish to bring her to life for my children, who were born after she was gone.

I learned that you can never ever have enough quality time with Mom.

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.

People who have gone, are still here, in us. Places we came from, are carried to the places we go.

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.

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

Sons love moms forevermore.

A good mother is irreplaceable.

All mothers are rich when they love their children. There are no poor mothers, no ugly ones, no old ones. Their love is always the most beautiful of joys.

Nothing can ever overcome that one enormous sex (female) superiority that even the male child is born closer to his mother than to his father.

It was their mothers, long ago. Tibby noted with joy that all four of them were wearing jeans.

Mothers and daughters are part of each other's consciousness, in different degrees and in a different way, but still with the mutual sense of something which has always been there. A real mother is just a habit of thought to her children.

Motherhood is heart-exploding, blissful hysteria.

The older I become, the more I think about my mother.

If I should die, and you should choose to carry on my work, you are welcome to visit my grave. Pour some water on it and shout three times. I want to hear your voice.

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

Being a mom, I love to play with my kids and have fun with them, but I also love fashion. My mom and both of my grandmothers have always been into fashion, so it's been around us our whole lives.

Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.

Once you're a mom, you've been split into two people. It's like Peter Pan and his shadow.

For we think back through our mothers if we are women.