Sunday, May 9, 2010

SOME THOUGHTS ON MOTHERS


With fondness to all mothers. I think we can tell the make of a home, a community, and a nation by the character of the mothers. I would especially like to thank all of the Gold Star Mothers and those who have had, or now have children serving our country. YOUR children are protecting ours and making the world a better place for the children of mothers here at home and around the world. I doubt that we can ever fully understand your sacrifice, the heartache, the worry, etc... but i know we an appreciate it. God bless all mothers this day, especially those who are away from those they love, or those who have lost.
Richard


A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie. ~Tenneva Jordan


Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in my field, since the payment is pure love. ~Mildred B. Vermont



The phrase "working mother" is redundant. ~Jane Sellman


The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new. ~Rajneesh


If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother in the other, the whole world would kick the beam. ~Lord Langdale (Henry Bickersteth)


I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. ~Abraham Lincoln


Some mothers are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together. ~Pearl S. Buck


The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes


The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. ~Honoré de Balzac


All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his. ~Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895


He is a poor son whose sonship does not make him desire to serve all men's mothers. ~Harry Emerson Fosdick


Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee
Calls back the lovely April of her prime.
~William Shakespeare


An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. ~Spanish Proverb


When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. ~Sophia Loren, Women and Beauty

Motherhood is priced
Of God, at price no man may dare
To lessen or misunderstand.
~Helen Hunt Jackson


Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort. ~John Lancaster Spalding


My mom is a neverending song in my heart of comfort, happiness, and being. I may sometimes forget the words but I always remember the tune. ~Graycie Harmon


The formative period for building character for eternity is in the nursery. The mother is queen of that realm and sways a scepter more potent than that of kings or priests. ~Author Unknown


I love my mother as the trees love water and sunshine - she helps me grow, prosper, and reach great heights. ~Terri Guillemets


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


A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts. ~Washington Irving


That best academy, a mother's knee. ~James Russell Lowell


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


Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What's that suppose to mean? In my heart it don't mean a thing. ~Toni Morrison, Beloved, 1987


A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories. ~Honoré de Balzac


A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all. ~Washington Irving


A mom forgives us all our faults, not to mention one or two we don't even have. ~Robert Brault,


One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters. ~George Herbert


Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. ~Erich Fromm


Mother - that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries. ~T. DeWitt Talmage


The precursor of the mirror is the mother's face. ~D.W. Winnicott, Playing and Reality, 1971


Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. ~William Makepeace Thackeray


I miss thee, my Mother! Thy image is still
The deepest impressed on my heart.
~Eliza Cook


The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated. ~Washington Irving


I cannot forget my mother. [S]he is my bridge. When I needed to get across, she steadied herself long enough for me to run across safely. ~Renita Weems


A little girl, asked where her home was, replied, "where mother is." ~Keith L. Brooks


Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes


Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers and sisters, aunts and cousins, comrades and friends - but only one mother in the whole world. ~Kate Douglas Wiggin


If I was damned of body and soul,
I know whose prayers would make me whole,
Mother o' mine, O mother o'mine.
~Rudyard Kipling


Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not. ~James Joyce


My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart - a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation. ~Mark Twain


The mother's heart is the child's school-room. ~Henry Ward Beecher


The desolation and terror of, for the first time, realizing that the mother can lose you, or you her, and your own abysmal loneliness and helplessness without her. ~Francis Thompson


My mom is literally a part of me. You can't say that about many people except relatives, and organ donors. ~Carrie Latet


All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother. ~Abraham Lincoln

No painter's brush, nor poet's pen
In justice to her fame
Has ever reached half high enough
To write a mother's name.
~Author Unknown



One lamp - thy mother's love - amid the stars
Shall lift its pure flame changeless, and before
The throne of God, burn through eternity -
Holy - as it was lit and lent thee here.
~Nathaniel Parker Willis


No one in the world can take the place of your mother. Right or wrong, from her viewpoint you are always right. She may scold you for little things, but never for the big ones. ~Harry Truman


God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers. ~Jewish Proverb



The best conversations with mothers always take place in silence, when only the heart speaks. ~Carrie Latet


Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother. ~Oprah Winfrey

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