21 Quotes by Charlotte Gray

Human beings who leave behind them no great achievements, but only a series of small kindnesses, have not had wasted lives

After scolding one's cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference.

A man's own judgement should be the final appeal in all that relates to himself. Many men do this or that because someone else thought it right.

You can kid the world, but not your sister.

Becoming a mother makes you the mother of all children. From now on each wounded, abandoned, frightened child is yours. You live in the suffering mothers of every race and creed and weep with them. You long to comfort all who are desolate.

I will protect you until you are grown and then I will let you fly free, but loving you, that is for always.

All that I am my mother made me. – John Quincy Adams. Children and mothers never truly part...

Children and mothers never truly part – Bound in the beating of each other’s hearts.

Success is not fame or money or the power to bewitch. it is to have created something valuable from your own individuality and skill a garden, an embroidery, a painting, a cake, a life.