Here are some quotes I like and some mommies I love.
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. —William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863), Novelist
A boy came home from school one day carrying a note from officials suggested that the parents take the boy out of school, claiming that he was “too stupid to learn.” The boy’s mother read the note and said, “My son Tom isn’t ‘too stupid to learn.’ I’ll teach him myself.” And so she did.
My mother was the making of me. —Thomas A. Edison (1847-1931), Inventor
When Mother Teresa received her Nobel Prize, she was asked, “What can we do to promote world peace?” She replied, “Go home and love your family.”
The thing that makes a mother wonderful is that self-sacrificial spirit that is willing to sacrifice her own time and strength and even her health, if need be, for the sake of her child. —David Brandt Berg (1919-1994)
The hand that rocks the cradle– Is the hand that rules the world. —William Ross Wallace (1819-1881), Poet and Songwriter
- The bravest battle that ever was fought!
Shall I tell you where and when?
On the maps of the world you will find it not;
‘Twas fought by the mothers of men.
Nay not with the cannon of battle-shot,
With a sword or noble pen;
Nay, not with eloquent words or thought
From mouth of wonderful men!
From a poem by – Joaquin Miller (1839-1913)
Photos, in order, daughters Amy, Ruth, Chloe and Aiko with some of their eleven children.
Happy Mothers Day!
