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Like kites without strings, and butterflies without wings, my mother taught me to soar with my dreams. – William H. McMurry III
“I believe in you” were my mother’s supportive embrace when I needed a cane to push my laming spirit forward. “Your happiness is mine too” were my mother’s fortune wish behind my cloudy decisions.How can she always be present when sometimes I refused to accept her gift of affection like a madman running away from a healing cloak?
How can she be a healing face when I am beaten down with pride and pain?
Is it because she is a mother?
Through the years, I witness the essence of true love and forgiveness in her words and gestures. If my every thought for Mom can be likened to a flower, I will be walking through a big beautiful garden.
My words mean little to describe her and no words or actions can suffice to show my gratitude for having a mother like her.
Thank you Mom and Happy Mother’s Day!
MOTHER’S QUOTES
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. –Aristotle
Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort. –John Lancaster Spalding
Take the word “family.” Strike out the “m” for mother and the “y” for youth – and all you have left is “fail.” – Omar Burleson
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 trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts. –Washington Irving
Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. –Meryl Streep
Mothers are like fine collectibles – as the years go by, they increase in value. – Unknown
The sweetest sounds to mortals given
Are heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven. – William Goldsmith Brown
What are Raphael’s Madonnas but the shadow of a mother’s love, fixed in permanent outline forever? –Thomas Wentworth Higginson
My mom is a never ending song in my heart of comfort, happiness, and being. I may sometimes forget the words but I always remember the tune. – Graycie Harmon
Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. –Marion C. Garretty, quoted in A Little Spoonful of Chicken Soup for the Mother’s Soul
I love my mother as the trees love water and sunshine – she helps me grow, prosper, and reach great heights. –Adabella Radici
[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled. –Emily Dickinson
A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. –Victor Hugo
Grown don’t mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What’s that suppose to mean? In my heart it don’t mean a thing. –Toni Morrison, Beloved, 1987
All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother.”
– Abraham Lincoln
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 trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts. –Washington Irving
I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.”
– Abraham Lincoln
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process.”- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.”- Albert Einstein
By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacation-less class.”- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.”- Arnold Bennett
A mother is she who can take the place of all others but
whose place no one else can take.”- Cardinal Mermillod
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.”
– Dorothy Canfield Fisher
If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylum would be filled with mothers.”
– Edgar Watson Howe
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.”- George Washington
The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.”- Henry Ward Beecher
What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.”
– Henry Ward Beecher
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.”- Honore’ de Balzac
Education commences at the mother’s knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.”- Hosea Ballou
A little girl, asked where her home was, replied, “where mother is.” –Keith L. Brooks
The phrase “working mother” is redundant.”- Jane Sellman
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.”- Jewish proverb
A boy’s best friend is his mother.”- Joseph Stefano
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
Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.”- Lin Yutang