Thursday, August 12, 2010

Pepatah Bijak Asterixz

1. Uang bukan segalanya (Masih ada Mastercard dan Visa)

2. Kita seharusnya menyukai binatang. Mereka rasanya lezat.

3. Hematlah air. Mandilah di bawah shower bersama kekasih kita.

4. Dibelakang setiap pria sukses ada seorang wanita hebat.

5. Cintailah tetangga. Tetapi jangan sampai tertangkap basah.

6. Orang bijaksana tidak menikah, setelah menikah mereka menjadi bijak sana bijak sini

7. Cinta itu photogenic. Dia memerlukan tempat gelap untuk berkembang.

8. Pakaian itu adalah pagar pelindung. Pagar seharusnya melindungi tanpa menghalangi pemandangan yang indah.

9. Semakin banyak belajar, semakin banyak yang kita tahu. Semakin banyak yang kita tahu, semakin banyak yang kita lupa. Semakin banyak yang kita lupa, semakin sedikit yang kita tahu. Jadi kenapa kita sibuk belajar?

10. Masa depan tergantung pada impian kamu. Maka pergilah tidur saja sekarang.

Saturday, August 7, 2010

Quotations about parents

If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.  ~Haim Ginott


Give me the life of the boy whose mother is nurse, seamstress, washerwoman, cook, teacher, angel, and saint, all in one, and whose father is guide, exemplar, and friend.  No servants to come between.  These are the boys who are born to the best fortune.  ~Andrew Carnegie


Now the thing about having a baby - and I can't be the first person to have noticed this - is that thereafter you have it.  ~Jean Kerr


Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.  ~Oscar Wilde


There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.  ~Chinese Proverb


Never raise your hand to your kids.  It leaves your groin unprotected.  ~Red Buttons


Smack your child every day.  If you don't know why - he does.  ~Joey Adams


Kids spell love T-I-M-E.  ~John Crudele


There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.  ~George Bernard Shaw


A parent who has never apologized to his children is a monster.  If he's 
alwaysapologizing, his children are monsters.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


As parents, we guide by our unspoken example.  It is only when we're talking to them that our kids aren't listening.  ~Robert Brault, 
www.robertbrault.com


Mother Nature is wonderful.  Children get too old for piggy-back rides just about the same time they get too heavy for them.  ~Author Unknown


The guys who fear becoming fathers don't understand that fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man.  The end product of child raising is not the child but the parent.  ~Frank Pittman, 
Man Enough


If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.  ~Lawrence Housman


Parenthood is the passing of a baton, followed by a lifelong disagreement as to who dropped it.  ~Robert Brault, 
www.robertbrault.com


I don't believe professional athletes should be role models.  I believe parents should be role models.... It's not like it was when I was growing up.  My mom and my grandmother told me how it was going to be.  If I didn't like it, they said, "Don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out."  Parents have to take better control.  ~Charles Barkley


Mother Nature, in her infinite wisdom, has instilled within each of us a powerful biological instinct to reproduce; this is her way of assuring that the human race, come what may, will never have any disposable income.  ~Dave Barry


The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.  ~Benjamin Spock, 
Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care


Having babies is fun, but babies grow up into people.  ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter, "The Price of Tomato Juice"


My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.  ~Quentin Crisp, 
The Naked Civil Servant, 1968


When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen.  When they're finished, I climb out.  ~Erma Bombeck


I love to play hide and seek with my kid, but some days my goal is to find a hiding place where he can't find me until after high school.  ~Author Unknown


The hardest part of raising a child is teaching them to ride bicycles.  A shaky child on a bicycle for the first time needs both support and freedom.  The realization that this is what the child will always need can hit hard.  ~Sloan Wilson


You don't have to deserve your mother's love.  You have to deserve your father's.  He is more particular.... The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.  ~Robert Frost


Labor Day is a glorious holiday because your child will be going back to school the next day.  It would have been called Independence Day, but that name was already taken.  ~Bill Dodds


If I had my child to raise all over again,
I'd build self-esteem first, and the house later.
I'd finger-paint more, and point the finger less.
I would do less correcting and more connecting.
I'd take my eyes off my watch, and watch with my eyes.
I'd take more hikes and fly more kites.
I'd stop playing serious, and seriously play.
I would run through more fields and gaze at more stars.
I'd do more hugging and less tugging.
~Diane Loomans, from "If I Had My Child To Raise Over Again"


Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.  ~Gloria Steinem, 
New York Times, 26 August 1971


Good, honest, hardheaded character is a function of the home.  If the proper seed is sown there and properly nourished for a few years, it will not be easy for that plant to be uprooted.  ~George A. Dorsey


Hot dogs always seem better out than at home; so do French-fried potatoes; so do your children.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, 
The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices:  take it, or leave it.  ~Buddy Hackett


Whenever I held my newborn baby in my arms, I used to think that what I said and did to him could have an influence not only on him but on all whom he met, not only for a day or a month or a year, but for all eternity - a very challenging and exciting thought for a mother.  ~Rose Kennedy


Was there ever a grandparent, bushed after a day of minding noisy youngsters, who hasn't felt the Lord knew what He was doing when He gave little children to young people?  ~Joe E. Wells


Ma-ma does everything for the baby, who responds by saying Da-da first.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, 
The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


Insanity is hereditary - you get it from your kids.  ~Sam Levenson


It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.  ~Colette, 
My Mother's House, 1922


Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.  ~P.J. O'Rourke


Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, 
The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


Conspicuously absent from the Ten Commandments is any obligation of parent to child.  We must suppose that God felt it unnecessary to command by law what He had ensured by love.  ~Robert Brault, 
www.robertbrault.com


The one thing children wear out faster than shoes is parents.  ~John J. Plomp


You see much more of your children once they leave home.  ~Lucille Ball


Raising children is like making biscuits:  it is as easy to raise a big batch as one, while you have your hands in the dough.  ~E.W. Howe


A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful.  ~Judith Martin


Parenting is a stage of life's journey where the milestones come about every fifty feet.  ~Robert Brault, 
www.robertbrault.com


Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.  ~Author Unknown


The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent.  ~Mell Lazarus


No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids.  ~Bill Cosby, 
Fatherhood, 1986


The ideal home:  big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, 
The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


Parenthood is a lot easier to get into than out of.  ~Bruce Lansky


Conscience is less an inner voice than the memory of a mother's glance.  ~Robert Brault, 
www.robertbrault.com


Character is largely caught, and the father and the home should be the great sources of character infection.  ~Frank H. Cheley


When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.  ~The Talmud


A lot of parents pack up their troubles and send them off to summer camp.  ~Raymond Duncan


Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation.  If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.  ~Erma Bombeck


Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell, the name will carry.  ~Bill Cosby


There are no illegitimate children - only illegitimate parents.  ~Leon R. Yankwich


Sometimes, in a moral struggle, we discover the right thing to do - just as, on some cold day long ago, we discovered mittens pinned to our coat sleeve.  ~Robert Brault, 
www.robertbrault.com


Instant availability without continuous presence is probably the best role a mother can play.  ~Lotte Bailyn


If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any.  ~Clarence Day


A child enters your home and for the next twenty years makes so much noise you can hardly stand it.  The child departs, leaving the house so silent you think you are going mad.  ~John Andrew Holmes


Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.  ~William Feather, 
The Business of Life, 1949


Parents are not interested in justice; they are interested in quiet.  ~Bill Cosby


Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine.  You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease or major motion-picture star.  If your child simply grows up to be someone who does not use the word "collectible" as a noun, you can consider yourself an unqualified success.  ~Fran Lebowitz, "Parental Guidance," 
Social Studies, 1981


A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it.  ~Frank A. Clark


Your children vividly remember every unkind thing you ever did to them, plus a few you really didn't.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, 
The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


These are my daughters, I suppose.
But where in the world did the children vanish?
~Phyllis McGinley, "Ballad of Lost Objects," 1954


Getting down on all fours and imitating a rhinoceros stops babies from crying.  (Put an empty cigarette pack on your nose for a horn and make loud "snort" noises.)  I don't know why parents don't do this more often.  Usually it makes the kid laugh.  Sometimes it sends him into shock.  Either way it quiets him down.  If you're a parent, acting like a rhino has another advantage.  Keep it up until the kid is a teenager and he definitely won't have his friends hanging around your house all the time.  ~P.J. O'Rourke


In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything.  You just need a lot of love and luck - and, of course, courage.  ~Bill Cosby, 
Fatherhood, 1986


Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.  ~Fran Lebowitz,
Social Studies


The trouble with being a parent is that by the time you are experienced, you are unemployed.  ~Author Unknown


The trouble with having a stubbornness contest with your kids is that they have your stubbornness gene.  ~Robert Brault, 
www.robertbrault.com


If your kids are giving you a headache, follow the directions on the aspirin bottle, especially the part that says "keep away from children."  ~Susan Savannah


In spite of the seven thousand books of expert advice, the right way to discipline a child is still a mystery to most fathers and... mothers.  Only your grandmother and Ghengis Khan know how to do it.  ~Billy Cosby


In bringing up children, spend on them half as much money and twice as much time.  ~Author Unknown


From the moment of birth, when the Stone-Age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence called love, as its father and mother and their parents and their parents before them, have been.  These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potential.  ~R.D. Laing


Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.  ~Bill Cosby, 
Fatherhood, 1986


It is one thing to show your child the way, and a harder thing to then stand out of it.  ~Robert Brault, 
www.robertbrault.com


What's done to children, they will do to society.  ~Karl Menninger


If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.  ~George Bernard Shaw


You have a lifetime to work, but children are only young once.  ~Polish Proverb


The clash between child and adult is never so stubborn as when the child within us confronts the adult in our child.  ~Robert Brault, 
www.robertbrault.com



You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around - and why his parents will always wave back.  ~William D. Tammeus


Making the decision to have a child is momentous.  It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.  ~Elizabeth Stone


Always kiss your children goodnight - even if they're already asleep.  ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.


When you have brought up kids, there are memories you store directly in your tear ducts.  ~Robert Brault,
www.robertbrault.com


Parenthood:  That state of being better chaperoned than you were before marriage.  ~Marcelene Cox


Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories.  ~John Wilmot


It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.  ~Phyllis Diller


To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.  ~Josh Billings


There comes a time when a woman needs to stop thinking about her looks and focus her energies on raising her children.  This time comes at the moment of conception.  A child needs a role model, not a supermodel.  ~Astrid Alauda, on the "hot mom" trend


Your children need your presence more than your presents.  ~Jesse Jackson


It's not only children who grow.  Parents do too.  As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours.  I can't tell my children to reach for the sun.  All I can do is reach for it, myself.  ~Joyce Maynard


Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.  ~Robert Fulghum


Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.  ~Haim Ginott


The trouble with learning to parent on the job is that your child is the teacher.  ~Robert Brault, 
www.robertbrault.com


It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be.  ~Homer


If you have never been hated by your child you have never been a parent.  ~Bette Davis


It kills you to see them grow up.  But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.  ~Barbara Kingsolver, 
Animal Dreams


Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.  ~Robert Burton, "Anatomy of Melancholy," 
Democritus to the Reader, 1621


Children are a great comfort in your old age - and they help you reach it faster, too.  ~Lionel Kauffman


Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, 
The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.  ~Abigail Van Buren


The quickest way for a parent to get a child's attention is to sit down and look comfortable.  ~Lane Olinghouse


If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.  ~C.G. Jung, 
Integration of the Personality, 1939


Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.  ~Robert A. Heinlein


Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.  ~Roger Lewin


Simply having children does not make mothers.  ~John A. Shedd


Although there are many trial marriages... there is no such thing as a trial child.  ~Gail Sheehy


Children have more need of models than of critics.  ~Carolyn Coats, 
Things Your Dad Always Told You But You Didn't Want to Hear


The beauty of "spacing" children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.  ~Sydney J. Harris


There are two lasting bequests we can give our children.  One is roots.  The other is wings.  ~Hodding Carter, Jr.


Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, 
The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.  ~Edward, Duke of Windsor, 
Look, 5 March 1957


The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.  ~Charles DeLint


Sing out loud in the car even, or especially, if it embarrasses your children.  ~Marilyn Penland


My mom used to say it doesn't matter how many kids you have... because one kid'll take up 100% of your time so more kids can't possibly take up more than 100% of your time.  ~Karen Brown


A parent's love is whole no matter how many times divided.  ~Robert Brault,
www.robertbrault.com


Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
And that's what parents were created for.
~Ogden Nash, "The Parent," 
Happy Days, 1933


Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.  ~Charles R. Swindoll, 
The Strong Family


How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board.  It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.  ~Walter Scott


You will always be your child's favorite toy.  ~Vicki Lansky, 
Trouble-Free Travel with Children, 1991


What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.  ~P.D. James, 
Time to Be in Earnest


There is a strong chance that siblings who turn out well were hassled by the same parents.  ~Robert Brault, 
www.robertbrault.com


If your children spend most of their time in other people's houses, you're lucky; if they all congregate at your house, you're blessed.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, 
The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

Quotations about Mom

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


Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in my field, since the payment is pure love.  ~Mildred B. Vermont


A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.  ~Peter De Vries


The phrase "working mother" is redundant.  ~Jane Sellman


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.  ~Rajneesh


If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother in the other, the whole world would kick the beam.  ~Lord Langdale (Henry Bickersteth)


I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me.  They have clung to me all my life.  ~Abraham Lincoln


Some mothers are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.  ~Pearl S. Buck


If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been.  ~Robert Brault, 
www.robertbrault.com


A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.  ~Author Unknown


Sweater, n.:  garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.  ~Ambrose Bierce


Women's Liberation is just a lot of foolishness.  It's the men who are discriminated against.  They can't bear children.  And no one's likely to do anything about that.  ~Golda Meir


The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.  ~Oliver Wendell Holmes


The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.  ~HonorĂ© de Balzac


All women become like their mothers.  That is their tragedy.  No man does.  That's his.  ~Oscar Wilde, 
The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895


He is a poor son whose sonship does not make him desire to serve all men's mothers.  ~Harry Emerson Fosdick


Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee
Calls back the lovely April of her prime.
~William Shakespeare


An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.  ~Spanish Proverb


She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along.  ~Margaret Culkin Banning


When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts.  A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.  ~Sophia Loren, 
Women and Beauty


If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?  ~Milton Berle


Motherhood is priced
Of God, at price no man may dare
To lessen or misunderstand.
~Helen Hunt Jackson


Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.  ~Aristotle


Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.  ~John Lancaster Spalding


Motherhood has a very humanizing effect.  Everything gets reduced to essentials.  ~Meryl Streep


The sweetest sounds to mortals given
Are heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven.
~William Goldsmith Brown


What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?  ~Thomas Wentworth Higginson


My mom is a neverending song in my heart of comfort, happiness, and being.  I may sometimes forget the words but I always remember the tune.  ~Graycie Harmon


The formative period for building character for eternity is in the nursery. The mother is queen of that realm and sways a scepter more potent than that of kings or priests. ~Author Unknown


Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.  ~Marion C. Garretty, quoted in 
A Little Spoonful of Chicken Soup for the Mother's Soul


I love my mother as the trees love water and sunshine - she helps me grow, prosper, and reach great heights.  ~Terri Guillemets


[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.  ~Emily Dickinson


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 who rejoice with us in our sunshine 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


Any mother could perform the jobs of several air traffic controllers with ease.  ~Lisa Alther


Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.  ~Beverly Jones
That best academy, a mother's knee.  ~James Russell Lowell


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


Grown don't mean nothing to a mother.  A child is a child.  They get bigger, older, but grown?  What's that suppose to mean?  In my heart it don't mean a thing.  ~Toni Morrison, 
Beloved, 1987


The only mothers it is safe to forget on Mother's Day are the good ones.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, 
The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Hundreds of dewdrops to greet the dawn,
Hundreds of bees in the purple clover,
Hundreds of butterflies on the lawn,
But only one mother the wide world over.
~George Cooper


A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.  ~HonorĂ© de Balzac


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.  ~Washington Irving


A mom forgives us all our faults, not to mention one or two we don't even have.  ~Robert Brault, 
www.robertbrault.com


My mother is a poem
I'll never be able to write,
though everything I write
is a poem to my mother.
~Sharon Doubiago


With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.  ~Isadora Duncan


One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters.  ~George Herbert


There's nothing like a mama-hug.  ~Terri Guillemets


Who fed me from her gentle breast
And hushed me in her arms to rest,
And on my cheek sweet kisses prest?
My Mother.
~Anne Taylor


Mother's love is peace.  It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.  ~Erich Fromm


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


Mother - that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.  ~T. DeWitt Talmage


The precursor of the mirror is the mother's face.  ~D.W. Winnicott, 
Playing and Reality, 1971


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


A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of her self.  And mothers are their daughters' role model, their biological and emotional road map, the arbiter of all their relationships.  ~Victoria Secunda


Mother's love grows by giving.  ~Charles Lamb


I miss thee, my Mother!  Thy image is still
The deepest impressed on my heart.
~Eliza Cook


The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated.  ~Washington Irving


A mom reads you like a book, and wherever she goes, people read you like a glowing book review.  ~Robert Brault, 
www.robertbrault.com


I cannot forget my mother.  [S]he is my bridge.  When I needed to get across, she steadied herself long enough for me to run across safely.  ~Renita Weems


A little girl, asked where her home was, replied, "where mother is."  ~Keith L. Brooks


Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.  ~Oliver Wendell Holmes


Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds.  Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers and sisters, aunts and cousins, comrades and friends - but only one mother in the whole world.  ~Kate Douglas Wiggin


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


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


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


It's not easy being a mother.  If it were easy, fathers would do it.  ~From the television show 
The Golden Girls


The mother's heart is the child's school-room.  ~Henry Ward Beecher


Women know
The way to rear up children (to be just)
They know a simple, merry, tender knack
Of tying sashes, fitting baby shoes,
And stringing pretty words that make no sense,
And kissing full sense into empty words.
~Elizabeth Barrett Browning


The desolation and terror of, for the first time, realizing that the mother can lose you, or you her, and your own abysmal loneliness and helplessness without her.  ~Francis Thompson


My mom is literally a part of me.  You can't say that about many people except relatives, and organ donors.  ~Carrie Latet


Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother.  ~Moorish Proverb


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


No painter's brush, nor poet's pen
In justice to her fame
Has ever reached half high enough
To write a mother's name.
~Author Unknown


Women who miscalculate are called mothers.  ~Abigail Van Buren


A man's work is from sun to sun, but a mother's work is never done.  ~Author Unknown


One of the very few reasons I had any respect for my mother when I was thirteen was because she would reach into the sink with her bare hands - 
bare hands - and pick up that lethal gunk and drop it into the garbage.  To top that, I saw her reach into the wet garbage bag and fish around in there looking for a lost teaspoon.  Bare hands - a kind of mad courage.  ~Robert Fulghum


One lamp - thy mother's love - amid the stars
Shall lift its pure flame changeless, and before
The throne of God, burn through eternity -
Holy - as it was lit and lent thee here.
~Nathaniel Parker Willis


No one in the world can take the place of your mother.  Right or wrong, from her viewpoint you are always right.  She may scold you for little things, but never for the big ones.  ~Harry Truman


God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.  ~Jewish Proverb


Life is the fruit she longs to hand you,
Ripe on a plate.
And while you live,
Relentlessly she understands you.
~Phyllis McGinley


All mothers are working mothers.  ~Author Unknown


Because I feel that in the heavens above
The angels, whispering one to another,
Can find among their burning tears of love,
None so devotional as that of "Mother,"
Therefore, by that dear name I have long called you,
You who are more than mother unto me.
~Edgar Allan Poe


The best conversations with mothers always take place in silence, when only the heart speaks.  ~Carrie Latet


Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.  ~Oprah Winfrey


A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.  ~Irish Proverb