Some thoughts about mothers and potential mothers on Mothers’ Day.
Abraham Lincoln said:
“All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”
Washington Irving wrote:
“A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother’s love endures through all. ”
Mark Twain wrote:
“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.”
Oprah Winfrey noted:
“Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.”
Miriam Makeba noted:
“Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.”
L. Ron Hubbard wrote:
“The arts and skills of woman, the creation and inspiration of which she is capable and which, here and there in isolated places in our culture, she still manages to effect in spite of the ruin and decay of man’s world which spreads around her, must be brought newly and fully into life. These arts and skills and creation and inspiration are her beauty, just as she is the beauty of Mankind.”
James Brown brought a similar line of thought to song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Febr_t_qa9U
Finally:
“God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.”
~ variously attributed (Rudyard Kipling, Jewish Proverb, etc)
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