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The Lord did not bless us with any children of our own, so we gathered up little waifs whom we thought would be neglected and would not be cared for unless we brought them into our family.
My mother, my father, I love 'em, I hate 'em, wish god I didnt have 'em, but thank god that he made 'em
My Mom and Dad and brother have grown through the years into my closest friends, the people who tell me the most searing truth, who give me soft places to rest and present to me a bright future when the only one I can see from my vantage point is dim and breaking before my eyes.
What are the children of men, but as leaves that drop at the wind's breath?
As a nonparent, I stand in awe of parents.
Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.
My deceased grandmother on my mom's side was a real fairy godmother, who lived to be 102 and who I always feel is looking after me.
We are the orphans of our son.
There ought to be a hall of fame for mamas / Creation's most unique and precious pearl / And heaven help us always to remember / That the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world
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The Disney animators' rules on adult females: mothers are perfect but imperiled; stepmothers are wicked and occasionally homicidal; godmothers are sweet things with magical powers.
Let me share my loving care upon those who are not my children - yet, willing to see me as their Father.
Adoption is grief in reverse.
A long time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or very small babies, or perhaps not even born, Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby Carrie left their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin.
I give praise and honor to the Holy one of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob for the blessing of motherhood.
As fathers, we know what a force for life children can be. They represent all of our futures.
Children are our future, and their mothers are its guardians.
Their raspy kisses brand our jam tart necks, their treacherous miasma clasps our herbal thighs. Motherlessly we surrender, too many fathers we have, we, your daughters of joy.
Mom was the midwife who delivered stories to me.
Beloved mother and wife. Without you, all the light is gone.
But their mother was the family's heartbeat. Always she was at the center of their good and bad times, lending perspective or a kind word or a shoulder to cry on.
One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad.
The public! why, the public's nothing better than a great baby.
There are certain rules to be observed when writing about our parents. We can only describe them as transparent figures with golden haloes, smiling down at us from heaven, large flag billowing in the breeze optional, just before the end credits roll.
Father-Mother is the name for Deity ...
motherless mothers with their skinless mysteries.
The only mothers who never embarrass, harass, dismiss, discount, deceive, distort, neglect, baffle, appall, inhibit, incite, insult, or age poorly are dead mothers, perfectly contained in photographs, pressed into two dimensions like a golden autumn leaf.
Your children are your legacy to the world. As you raise them with love, you contribute to making this world a better place.
What do the only children do?
I'm not sure I would be a good godmother. I have read about it, and I found that the godmother's position is to take care of the morals of the child. I don't know how good I would be at that.
peculiar, or sad, and yet still deserve a place within the circle of familial love. The parents would thus have created an invaluable wellspring of courage from which those children would eventually be able to draw to sustain the confessions and direct conversations of adult life. Rabih
Hi, Mom. (Devyn)
It's the other parental unit. Not as pretty or as fierce as your mother, but loving nonetheless. (Syn)
Sons love moms forevermore.
It takes dedicated parents to produce consecrated children.
Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
If there are not mothers, where will men come from and who will feed them?
The children became their reciprocal angels: readers.
Fathers, yours is an eternal calling from which you are never released.
Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.
Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.
My mother always seemed to me like a fairy princess: a radiant being possessed of limitless riches and power. She shone for me like the evening star. I loved her dearly.
So mothers have God's license to be missed.
Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention
Mother is the name for God on the lips and hearts of all children.
For me, all mother in the world are my goddesses.
Healers. My father got to know my mother because on his hunts he would sometimes collect medicinal
Once upon a time, there had been gods. Now there were only children going about in their dead parents' undergarments.
As children, we are profoundly loyal to our parents, and to their pain: I wanted to be related to my mom, not ruined by her
To a woman in whom the state of true motherhood has awakened, all creatures are her children. This love, this motherhood, is Divine Love---and that is GOD.
Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family.
Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.
Notwithstanding my grandmother's long and faithful service to her owners, not one of her children escaped the auction block. These God-breathing machines are no more, in the sight of their masters, than the cotton they plant, or the horses they tend.
I am the Sisters of Mercy. All three of them. Triplets.
She has assisted at more than one Birth, has endur'd a hard-drinking and quarrelsome troop of Men-Folk, - who is this unfamily'd man in a Frock to call her child?
Truly, we are the gods' own children, forged in the fire of our tortured pasts, but also blessed with unimaginable gifts.
Where loved ones failed you, guardian angels stand ready to catch your fall.
Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.
The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants.
Mother is God in the eyes of a child.
Mothers who work full time - they're the real heroes.
There is eternal influence and power in motherhood.
I may not be the best mom. I may not even get back to being the average mother I once claimed to be. But I'm here. I'm getting back up. I'm not leaving. And I'm the mom God ordained for these fours souls, and therefore I am their best mom.
The happiest and holiest children in the world are the children whose fathers succeed in winning both their tender affection and their reverential and loving fear. And they are the children who will come to understand most easily the mystery of the fatherhood of God.
God is the designer of the family.
Adopted children are self-invented because we have to be; there is an absence, a void, a question mark at the very beginning of our lives. A crucial part of our story is gone, and violently, like a bomb in the womb
There is no one who takes care of us as lovingly as our mother does. She is our living God.
Each generation takes a special pleasure in removing the household gods of its parents from their pedestals, and consigning them to the cupboard.
At first parenthood was as I had expected, exhausting, sometimes heinous, and occasionally divine. I held my children close enough to feel them breathe, laugh, swallow.
None but mothers know each other's feelings when we give up our daughters whom we love and cherish so tenderly to the mercies of a man, and perhaps even a stranger.
A mother is God's deputy on earth.
Mothers are bravest and best they sacrifice themselves for the welfare of family.
The story of a mother's life: Trapped between a scream and a hug.
In the absence of sisters, we find sisters. In the absence of mothers, we find mothers. In the absence of family, you are my family.'
My great-great-great-grandmother
abandoned their mother for the gorgeous girl who had shared
Parents remain our touchstones, fellow travelers, even after death. They are both missing and present.
How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.
Grandmam came back from that distance in time that separates grandmothers from their grandchildren and made herself a mother to me.
Common sense. Mothers are the last riddle, the worst horror, the only consolation.
Their promise, my children's possibilities, still linger in our home.
The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.
Grandchildren are God's reward for not killing your kids.
Some had had to suffer through a few daughters before siring a precious son,
Many fathers are gone. Some leave, some are left. Some return, unknown and hungry. Only the dog remembers.
Our lonely, gray mothers became visitors to a world in which they had no share.
There is no other like a mother.
Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind.
Here is the alphabet of the pulsing apocalypse that is fatherhood, a book in love with what words, like parents, create: beauty, terror, awe.
Mom means miracles of a magical life.
Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.
Mothers. We get none of the breaks. But we also get most of the blessings. You
All families had started off in some mysterious waay: to repopulate the earth, or by accident, or by force, or out of boredom; and it's all a mystery what each will become.
A family is a mystery.
Unlike Champions, Godmothers don't have to keep undergoing ridiculous ordeals every time one turns around. Our idea of besting a dragon is not to chop it into bits, but to get it to sit down to tea.
Mothers who love their children take them along.
Sometimes a fairy godmother needs more than magic.
A mother isn't the person who births you; it's the person who rears you and shows you love.
The Malfoys. The family you can always rely on to make the world a murkier place.
A mother's love! O holy, boundless thing!
Fountain whose waters never cease to spring!
I don't really have parents. I have parasitic ancestors who refuse to die."
-Halcyon Smith (Hero is a Man)