Top 22 A Mother Knows Her Child Quotes
#1. In traditional crime fiction every detective with any self-respect has an unfailing nose for when people are lying. It's bullshit! Human nature is a vast impenetrable forest which no one can know in its entirety. Not even a mother knows her child's deepest secrets.
Jo Nesbo
#2. A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child had just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium.
Mary Kay Blakely
#3. To completely trust in Allah is to be like a child who knows deeply that even if he does not call for the mother, the mother is totally aware of his condition and is looking after him.
Al-Ghazali
#4. When a child knows that young that her mother doesn't care for her, bad things happen.
Gillian Flynn
#5. A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.
-The Last Seance (from The Hound of Death and Other Stories, also Double Sin and Other Stories)
Agatha Christie
#6. Every mother should be a true artist, who knows how to weave into her child's life images of grace and beauty, the true poet capable of writing on the soul of childhood the harmony of love and truth, and teaching it how to produce the grandest of all poems - the poetry of a true and noble life.
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
#7. When one knows that he is his mother's child, and proceeds to guard (the qualities of) the mother that belong to him, to the end of his life he will be free from all peril.
Lao-Tzu
#9. Great is the art of the beginning, but greater is the art of ending. - HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
Henry Cloud
#10. Happy is the mother who can say sincerely, that she puts her child in God's hands, and knows therefore, that he is divinely protected.
Florence Scovel Shinn
#11. A mother knows what her child's gone through, even if she didn't see it herself.
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
#12. I have learned that the love a mother has for her child is unique among human emotions. Every mother knows this insticntively, but that doesn't mean it doesn't need articulating.
Lisa Scottoline
#13. I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
Barbara Bush
#14. 'Who was your mother?' 'Never had none!' said the child, with another grin. 'Never had any mother? What do you mean? Where were you born?' 'Never was born!' 'Do you know who made you?' 'Nobody, as I knows on,' said the child, with a short laugh ... 'I 'spect I grow'd.'
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#15. Forgiveness is a process, an admittedly difficult one that often can feel like a rigorous spiritual practice.
Sharon Salzberg
#16. If I thought this would turn into a history lesson, I would have picked a better classroom than a city street.
-Grimalkin
Julie Kagawa
#17. I would rather be the child of a mother who has all the inner conflicts of the human being than be mothered by someone for whom all is easy and smooth, who knows all the answers, and is a stranger to doubt.
Donald Woods Winnicott
#18. There is nothing brilliant or outstanding in my record, except perhaps this one thing. I do the things I believe ought to be done. And when I make up my mind to do a thing, I act.
Theodore Roosevelt
#19. The first lesson every child of Athena learned: Mom was the best at everything, and you should never, ever suggest otherwise.
Rick Riordan
#20. Success is never a place or position but a new state of self-realization.
Debasish Mridha
#21. During the twentieth century, communist governments killed some 100 million of their own people in peacetime, either by repression or by famine.
Charles Wheelan
#22. Every child knows its mother, Dany thought. When the seas go dry and the mountains blow in the wind like leaves.
George R R Martin