Some favorite Quotes Tips
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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
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
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
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~
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
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)
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
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
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
MINUTES ARE WORTH...
"Minutes are worth more than money. Spend them wisely."
--Thomas P. Murphy
YOU ARE...
"You are the trip I did not take;
You are the pearls I can not buy;
You are my blue Italian lake;
You are my piece of foreign sky. . ."
by Anne Campbell
HUMAN SPIRIT
"The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it."
--George C. Scott
FATHERHOOD IS...
"Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope."
-- Bill Cosby (Quotez)
SOAP ON A ROPE
"Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is Soap-on-a-Rope."
-- Bill Cosby (Quotez)
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
FATHER LEARNED
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
-- Mark Twain
MAKE THE MOST OF YOURSELF
"Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you"
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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)
DON'T HURRY, DON'T WORRY...
"Don't hurry, don't worry. You're only here for a short visit. So be sure to stop and smell the flowers."
--Walter Hagen
M-O-T-H-E-R
"M" is for the million things she gave me,
"O" means only that she's 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 she'll always be,
Put them all together, they spell "MOTHER,"
A word that means the world to me.
--Howard Johnson
A HAPPY LIFE
"A happy life is made up of little things . . . a gift sent, a letter written, a call made a recommendation given, transportation provided, a cake made, a book lent, a check sent."
--Carol Holmes
MOTHERS LOVE IS THE FUEL...
"Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible."
-- Unknown
WONDERFUL MOTHER
God made a wonderful mother,
A mother who never grows old.
He made her smile of the sunshine,
And He molded her heart of pure gold.
In her eyes He placed bright shining stars,
In her cheeks fair roses you see.
God made a wonderful mother,
And He gave that dear mother to me.
--Pat O'Reilly
GOD COULD NOT BE EVERYWHERE...
"God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers."
Jewish Proverb
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
FATHER'S FAVORITE SAYINGS
Don't ask me. Go ask your mother.
A little dirt never hurt anyone.
You call that a haircut?
Turn off the lights. Do you think I'm made of money?
No, we're not there yet.
You should visit more often. Your mother worries.
EXPERIENCE
"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward."
-- Vernon Law
TOO MUCH OF EVERYTHING IS...
"Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little."
--Edna Ferber
TEACHERS OPEN THE DOOR...
"Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself."
-- Chinese Proverb
LOVING PERSONALITY
"The loving personality seeks not to control, but to nurture, not to dominate, but to empower."
--Gary Zukav
NO MATTER HOW OLD...
"No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement."
--Florida Scott-Maxwell
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
A MOTHER LOVES HER CHILDREN...
"A mother loves her children even when they least deserve to be loved."
-- Kate Samperi, "Mothers"
ONE MAN IS...
"One man is no more than another if he does no more than another."
--Miguel de Cervantes
LOVING THEIR PARENTS
"Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them."
-- Oscar Wilde
RICHER THAN GOLD
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
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
MOTHERS KNOW
"Real Mothers know that a child's growth is not measured by height or years or grade. It is marked by the progression of Mama to Mommy to Mother.
-- unknown
A MAN LOVES...
"A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest."
-- Irish proverb
MOTHER'S LOVE
"Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved."
-- Erich Fromm, psychologist
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. Mother's 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
HAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE
"The hand that rocks the cradle (is the hand that) rules the world."
--William Ross Wallace
