Chains of Habit
"The chains of habit are too strong to be felt until they are too strong to be broken"
- Samuel Johnson
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)
SEPARATED FROM MOTHER
"Your love for your mother is something that you never completely comprehend until you are separated by the miles from her warmth and her wonder."
-- Collin McCarty
RIGHTS OF WOMEN
"Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother."
--Lin Yutang
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
TEACHERS OPEN THE DOOR...
"Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself."
-- Chinese Proverb
EDUCATION
"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."
-- Aristotle
EXPERIENCE
"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward."
-- Vernon Law
LEARNING
"Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere."
-- Chinese Proverb
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.
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
HAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE
"The hand that rocks the cradle (is the hand that) rules the world."
--William Ross Wallace
M-O-T-H-E-R
"M" is for the million things she gave me,
"O" means only that sheīs growing old,
"T" is for the tears she shed to save me,
"H" is for her heart of purest gold;
"E" is for her eyes, with love-light shining,
"R" means right, and right sheīll always be,
Put them all together, they spell "MOTHER,"
A word that means the world to me.
--Howard Johnson
IN AWE OF MOTHERS
We are never quite so in awe of our own mothers as in our own journey into parenthood. We only then begin to truly appreciate the care, patience and understanding that has been given us throughout our lives. Motherīs Day is just one day in which we can celebrate the compassionate women who have mothered us and who are mothers to our children.
--Aurora Leigh
FRIENDS
"My father always used to say that when you die, if youīve got five real friends, youīve had a great life."
-- Lee Iacocca
MOTHERS KNOW
"Real Mothers know that a childīs growth is not measured by height or years or grade. It is marked by the progression of Mama to Mommy to Mother.
-- unknown
MOTHERS LOVE IS THE FUEL...
"Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible."
-- Unknown
FORGIVENESS
"The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness."
-- Honoreī de Balzac (1799-1850)
MOTHER IS TRUEST FRIEND
"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 (1783-1859)
CREATIVE SPARK
"And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see -- or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read."
-- Alice Walker
A MOTHER THINKS TWICE..
"When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. You are connected to your child and to all those who touch your lives. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child."
--Sophia Loren
HUMAN BEINGS ARE...
"Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home."
--Bill Cosby.
HOME
Mothers are the place that we call home.
On them we rest our heads and close our eyes.
Thereīs no one else who grants the same soft peace,
Happiness, contentment, sweet release,
Erasing nighttime tears with lullabies,
Restoring the bright sun that makes us bloom
--Nicholas Gordon
MOTHERS HEART IS..
" The motherīs heart is the childīs schoolroom."
--Henry Ward Beecher
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
MOTHERīS SECRET HOPE
"Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A motherīs secret hope outlives them all."
--Oliver Wendell Holmes
GENERATIONS
"One generation plants the trees; another gets the shade."
--Chinese proverb
NO MATTER HOW OLD...
"No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement."
--Florida Scott-Maxwell
FRIEND
"The best mirror is an old friend."
--Anon.
ONE MAN IS...
"One man is no more than another if he does no more than another."
--Miguel de Cervantes
TOO MUCH OF EVERYTHING IS...
"Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little."
--Edna Ferber
MINUTES ARE WORTH...
"Minutes are worth more than money. Spend them wisely."
--Thomas P. Murphy
WEALTH
"Your wealth is where your friends are."
--Plautus
DONīT HURRY, DONīT WORRY...
"Donīt hurry, donīt worry. Youīre only here for a short visit. So be sure to stop and smell the flowers."
--Walter Hagen
FATHERīS FAVORITE SAYINGS
Donīt ask me. Go ask your mother.
A little dirt never hurt anyone.
You call that a haircut?
Turn off the lights. Do you think Iīm made of money?
No, weīre not there yet.
You should visit more often. Your mother worries.
REFUSED TO BECOME DISCOURAGED
"History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats"
- Bertie C. Forbes
WASTE OF TIME?
"Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely"
-Rodin
MAKE TIME
"You will never īfindī time for anything. If you want time, you must make it"
- Charles Buxton
GREAT MINDS
"Great minds have purposes, others have wishes"
- Washington Irving
LACK WILL
"People do not lack strength, they lack will"
- Victor Hugo
DO MORE
"The more we do, the more we can do"
-William Hazlitt
