Elizabeth Berg Quotes

A child's first teacher is its mother.

My mom was a terrible parent of young children. And thank God - I thank God every time I think of it - I was sent to my paternal grandmother. Ah, but my mother was a great parent of a young adult.

If the agency of the mother in forming the character of her children is, in truth, so considerable, as I think it - if she does so much toward making her son what she would wish him to be - how essential is it that she should be fitted for the beneficial performance of these important duties.

We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments.

It's interesting as a mom to reflect on your own parenting skills. The core of our beliefs may stay the same, but our perspective changes over the years and evolves with each child that comes through us.

I'm sure mothers are important across every culture, but particularly in Korean society, the role of the mother is of great importance.

I'm sure there were plenty of loving, attentive mothers in the 'me generation,' but none of them lived at my house.

I didn't have a mother; I had a mama. I measure other women by the stature of my mama.

If I were like your mother, I would be a woman.

I believed in raising my children as I had been raised.

I had a very strict upbringing with my dad and was very close to my mum, who was extremely loving.

The truth is that all great men have had great mothers. Great women have had, as a rule, great fathers.

I'm the youngest of six children; both of my sisters are housewives and they each have four kids.

I think people nowadays do tend to blame their parents for everything.

As the idealized mother, I might choose Irene Dunne as the mother in 'I Remember Mama' who strives and not just cooks and scrubs for her children, but who also acts as her daughter's literary agent.

I have so much respect for when my parents did. They did not raise me talking about money and I would have disappointed them if I went to China.

Everybody's mom plays a huge role in their development and support. Mom was awesome. There is no one better. I had a good family. I had six brothers and six sisters, and they were all very supportive.

The way I'm raising my kids is so different than the way I was raised.

I grew up in an era where Dad worked, Mum looked after the family, and if I think of the qualities she brought to that - nurture and support are so valuable.

When a child is small, it is his mother who is mainly responsible for the way he is brought up. So it was with me. I belonged in those days to my mother rather than my father.

I'm actually a mummy's boy.

I have always believed that the way my parents disciplined me has a great deal to do with the success I have enjoyed as a man.

Eve had one advantage over all the rest of her sex. In his wildest moments of rage Adam never could accuse her of being 'just like her mother!

When you have a child yourself, you go back and think about how you were parented, how you were mothered and what your parents did for you, and you just want to be able to call and ask them.

I knew one thing. I did not want to be a mommy like mommy.