Happy Mother’s Day, 2008

God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.” ~Anonymous

All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother.” ~Abraham Lincoln

What is home without a mother?” ~Alice Hawthorne

On Mother’s Day a minister gave this perfect tribute: “My mother practices what I preach.” ~Capper’s Weekly

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.” ~David O. McKay

Healthy families are our greatest national resource.” ~ Dolores Curran

A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.” ~Dorothy Canfield Fisher

He that wipes the child’s nose, Kisses the mother’s cheeks.” ~George Herbert

The babe first feeds upon the mother’s bosom, but is always on her heart.” ~H W Beecher

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, and call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.” ~Jane Howard

A light-heel’d mother makes a heavy-heel’d daughter.” ~John Ray

That best academy, a mother’s knee.” ~J R Lowell

The future destiny of the child is always the work of the mother.” ~Napoleon Bonaparte

Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret love outlives them all.” ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

The holiest thing alive.” ~S T Coleridge

Creating a warm, caring, supportive, encouraging environment is probably the most important thing you can do for your family.” ~Stephen Covey

The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes one a mother – which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician.” ~Sydney Harris

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of children.” ~W M Thackeray

For the hands that rock the cradle, Is the hand that rules the world.” ~W R Wallace

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to ‘jump at de sun.’ We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.” ~Zora Neale Hurston