Mother's Day 2014

Happy Mother's Day!

"I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.” — 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 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

“Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all.”

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

“I’m a mother,” said her mother, in her foodless flat where the dust did not dare to settle, “and I know what I know.”

~ Neil Gaiman

“If I was damned of body and soul,

I know whose prayers would make me whole,

Mother o’ mine, O mother o’mine.”

~ Rudyard Kipling

“My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.” ― Jodi Picoult

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

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

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. - Victor Hugo

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

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.
- Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart - a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.- Mark Twain

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

The mother is everything - she is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness. She is the source of love, mercy, sympathy, and forgiveness. He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly.- Kahlil Gibran

When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.- Nancy Friday

Who ran to help me when I fell,
And would some pretty story tell,
Or kiss the place to make it well?
My mother.- Ann Taylor