Henry David Thoreau Quotes

I constantly looked for motherly protection.

When you're sick, nobody takes care of you like your mom.

I understand what it is for a woman to want to protect their children and give them the best they can.

[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein.

Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it well? My mother.

It just didn't feel right to let my child scream and holler and thrash by her little self in the dark in her crib when I knew full well that a little rocking in her glider, maybe a song and a sweet nuzzle of her cheek would send her off to dreamland.

You need your mom and dad to protect you. It means they love you so much.

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

Everything I do as a mother builds on a foundation of love and compassion.

Empathy probably started out as a mechanism to improve maternal care. Mammalian mothers who were attentive to their young's needs were more likely to rear successful offspring.

I am just trying to be a good, protective mother. I want to give Bertie as normal a childhood as possible while preserving his privacy.

Would not the child's heart break in despair when the first cold storm of the world sweeps over it, if the warm sunlight of love from the eyes of mother and father did not shine upon him like the soft reflection of divine light and love?

I think people want very much to simplify their lives enough so that they can control the things that make it possible to sleep at night.

I love my parents in the way most children would: for having been there at every point in my youth and childhood, ready to pick me up when I fell and support me when I stumbled.

My mother wasn't controlling at all. She was a stabilizing force who grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania. Now it's the big circle game. Taking care of her is a great blessing for me. I'll tuck her into bed, kiss her on the cheek, wipe up the mess on her blouse from whatever she spilled.

Nothing can really prepare you for you the sheer overwhelming experience of what it means to become a mother. It is full of complex emotions of joy, exhaustion, love, and worry, all mixed together.

Family - and certainly kids and a stable relationship - is something bigger than yourself. They need you to sit down with them, be there for them when they wake up in the middle of the night.

My family knows they are loved. As a mother, it is my job to let them know that they are, and it's a job I take quite seriously.

Every mother wishes the best for her children.

I would ask my mum to feed my dolls and make sure they were tucked in when I went to school.

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

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

I wish I had somebody to rock me to sleep.

If I should have a daughter, instead of "Mom," she's going to call me "Point B," because that way she knows that no matter what happens, at least she can always find her way to me.