WOMEN KNOWN

The way to rear up children (to be just)
They know a simple, merry, tender knack
Of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes
And stringing pretty words that make no sense.
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

GREAT MINDS

"Great minds have purposes, others have wishes."
~ Washington Irving

MOTHERS HEART IS..

" The mother´s heart is the child´s schoolroom."
--Henry Ward Beecher

GOD SENT CHILDREN ...

God sent children ...
to enlarge our hearts and to make us unselfish...
to give our souls higher aims...
and to bring round our firesides bright faces, happy smiles and loving, tender hearts. --
Mary Botham Howitt

EXPENSES

"Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship"
- Benjamin Franklin

MIRACLE OF LIFE

Before you were conceived I wanted you... Before you were born I loved you... Before you were here an hour I would die for you... This is the miracle of life...
~Maureen Hawkins~

PERSON TO LEAN ON

"A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary."
-- Dorothy C. Fisher (1879-1958)

MIRACLE OF BEING M-O-T-H-E-R

MOTHER
M is for the miracle of Being.
O is for its origin in love
T is for the tenderness of seeing.
H is for a home no wind can move.
E is for the ecstasy of living.
R is for the recklessness of giving.
--Nick Gordon

HUMAN BEINGS ARE...

"Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home."
--Bill Cosby.

MOTHER´S SECRET HOPE

"Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother´s secret hope outlives them all."
--Oliver Wendell Holmes

FORGIVENESS

"The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness."
-- Honore´ de Balzac (1799-1850)

ABILITY TO STICK TO ONE THING

"Consider the postage stamp; Its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there"
- Josh Billings

ONLY ONE MOTHER

" 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, but only one mother in the whole world."
--Kate Douglas Wiggin

THE FUTURE BELONGS TO...

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
-- Eleanor Roosevelt, former First Lady of the U.S.

Chains of Habit

"The chains of habit are too strong to be felt until they are too strong to be broken"
- Samuel Johnson

EDUCATION

"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."
-- Aristotle

DO MORE

"The more we do, the more we can do"
-William Hazlitt

KEEPING CHILDREN AT HOME

"The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant -- and let the air out of the tires."
-- Dorothy Parker

MOST IMPORTANT...FATHER CAN DO

"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother."
-- Henry Ward Beecher

TWO ENDS

"The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most."
--Ann Landers