Monday, November 3, 2008

Happy Birthday Moms!

Happy Birthday to all the Moms out there!

Well, as my sister said, October starts the endless birthday/holiday season in our lives...and with that a number of women’s birthdays in the next few weeks, including: Sister Leigh (28), friend Megan (27), Mom Redmond (1), Mom Mason (12), etc. So with limited financial resources, I began to start thinking about what I could do to show my appreciation. As I began to think about the role that these women play in my life, I realized that they are all mothers (among other things). So I looked up "moms" in an internet search and began to find a lot of good quotes. Here are just a few….

"By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class."-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"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

"I really learned it all from mothers."-- Dr. Benjamin Spock

"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

"Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not."-- James Joyce

"Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother."-- Lin Yutang

"My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it."-- Mark Twain

"To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power."-- Maya Angelou

"Over the years I have learned that motherhood is much like an austere religious order, the joining of which obligates one to relinquish all claims to personal possessions."-- Nancy Stahl

"Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; a mother's secret hope outlives them all."-- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1775-1817)

"A mother's hardest to forgive. Life is the fruit she longs to hand you, Ripe on a plate. And while you live, Relentlessly she understands you."-- Phyllis McGinley

"Men are what their mothers made them."-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Never say anything on the phone that you wouldn't want your mother to hear at your trial."-- Sydney Biddle Barrows

"An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest."-- Spanish proverb

"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother."-- Theodore Hesburgh

"Children are the sum of what mothers contribute to their lives."-- Unknown

“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

“I know how to do anything - I'm a Mom.” -Roseanne Barr

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