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To describe
my mother would be to write about a hurricane
in its perfect power.
- Maya Angelou |
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Raising
kids is part joy
and part guerilla warfare.
- Ed Asner |
There is so
much to teach,
and the time goes so fast.
- Erma Bombeck
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The
heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will
always find forgiveness.
- Honore' de Balzac |
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There
is no friendship, no love, like that
of the parent for the child.
- Henry Ward Beecher |
To
understand your parents' love,
you must raise children yourself.
- Chinese Proverb |
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When God
thought of mother, He must have laughed with satisfaction, and
framed it quickly—so rich, so deep, so divine, so full of soul,
power, and beauty, was the conception.
- Henry Ward Beecher |
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Mothers
reflect God's loving presence on earth.
- William R. Webb |
Of all the
rights of women,
the greatest is to be a mother.
- Lin Yutang |
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Never fear
spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the
atmosphere in which all good affections grow.
- Thomas Bray |
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Your
children need your presence
more than your presents.
- Jesse Jackson |
God could
not be everywhere
and therefore he made mothers.
- Jewish proverb |
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My
mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to
my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral,
intellectual and physical education I received from her.
- George Washington |
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Mother is
the name for God on the lips
and in the hearts of little children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray |
The hand
that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that rules the world.
- W. R. Wallace
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There
shall never be another quite so tender, quite so kind as the
patient little mother, nowhere on this earth you'll find her
affection duplicated.
- Paul C. Brownlow |
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A baby is
God's opinion
that the world should go on.
- Carl Sandburg |
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person
to make leaning unnecessary.
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
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Who is
it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which
no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away?
— It is you, my mother.
- Thomas Carlyle |
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Family
faces are magic mirrors.
Looking at people who belong to us,
we
see the past, present and future.
- Gail Lumet Buckley |
Human beings
are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come
back home.
- Bill Cosby |
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If a child
is to keep his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship
of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the
joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.
- Rachel Carson |
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Every child
born into the world
is a new thought of God,
an ever fresh and
radiant possibility.
- Kate Douglas Wiggin |
Every child
comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore |
It
seems to me that my mother was the most splendid woman I ever
knew....I have met a lot of people knocking around the world
since, but I have never met a more thoroughly refined woman than
my mother. If I have amounted to anything, it will be due to her.
- Charles Chaplin
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All
that I am or ever hope to be,
I owe to my angel Mother.
- Abraham Lincoln
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I
think my life began with waking up
and loving my mother's face.
- George Eliot |
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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.
- Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh |
