Quotes for Mother's Day
"Mother - that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries."
- T. DeWitt Talmage
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"God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers."
- A Jewish Proverb
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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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"The sweetest sounds to mortals given
Are heard in Mother,
Home, and Heaven."
- William Goldsmith Brown
Y
"Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly."
- Ambrose Bierce
Y
"The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense,
tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side,
yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother,
and become fully independent."
- Erich Fromm
Y
"When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts.
A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once
for her child."
- Sophia Loren
Y
"If motherhood teaches us anything it's that we can't change
our children, only ourselves."
- Katrina Kenison
Y
"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
Y
"If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?"
- Milton Berle
Y
"There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thanks for all the Mother's Day stuff. I enjoyed it very much. This is the time when I miss my mom the most. She was one of those who had eyes in the back of her heard. I swear she did, but I never found them. Looked all through her hair while she was sleeping. Happy Mother's Day, Val
ReplyDeleteBlessings, Penny