Monday, May 08, 2006

Quotes For Happy Mother's Day I



God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. ~Jewish Proverb


Motherhood is priced
Of God, at price no man may dare
To lessen or misunderstand.
~Helen Hunt Jackson


Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
~Oprah Winfrey


You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around - and why his parents will always wave back.
~William D. Tammeus


Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
~Elizabeth Stone


Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories.
~John Wilmot


Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.
~Haim Ginott


It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams


Children are a great comfort in your old age - and they help you reach it faster, too.
~Lionel Kauffman


Sing out loud in the car even, or especially, if it embarrasses your children.
~Marilyn Penland


Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
~Charles R. Swindoll, The Strong Family


Now the thing about having a baby - and I can't be the first person to have noticed this - is that thereafter you have it.
~Jean Kerr


There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.
~Chinese Proverb


Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
~Red Buttons


If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.
~Lawrence Housman


Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
~William Makepeace Thackeray


Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.
~Sam Levenson


The one thing children wear out faster than shoes is parents.
~John J. Plomp


Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease or major motion-picture star. If your child simply grows up to be someone who does not use the word "collectible" as a noun, you can consider yourself an unqualified success.
~Fran Lebowitz, "Parental Guidance," Social Studies, 1981


This heart, my own dear mother, bends,
With love's true instinct, back to thee!
~Thomas Moore



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