THOUGHTS FOR MOTHER’S DAY

 

· 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

· Hundreds of dewdrops to greet the dawn,/ Hundreds of bees in the purple clover,/ Hundreds of butterflies on the lawn,/ But only one mother the wide world over. George Cooper

· 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

· Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. Elizabeth Stone

· There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. Chinese Proverb

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

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

· The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. Theodore Hesburgh

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

· 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 troubles thicken around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavour by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts. Washington Irving

· The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world. William Ross Wallace

· A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. Irish Proverb

· A mother understands what a child does not say. Jewish Proverb

· I never knew how much love my heart could hold until someone called me "mommy." Author Unknown

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

· When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso. Pablo Picasso

· You may have tangible wealth untold; Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be I had a mother who read to me. Strickland Gillilan

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

· Motherhood: All love begins and ends there. Robert Browning