Monday, April 27, 2009

Every May there comes a fresh, Spring day. And it's full of new blossoms, new life, new scents and new spirit. It's quite fitting that this day is Mother's Day. Mothers tackle every bully, homework assignment, broken heart and challenge their children bring home. So let's celebrate mothers of all types, whether biological or not. These women fit the description found in these 14 quotes about mothers.

1. "Becoming a mother makes you the mother of all children. From now on each wounded, abandoned, frightened child is yours. You live in the suffering mothers of every race and creed and weep with them. You long to comfort all who are desolate" ~Charlotte Gray

2. "A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man" ~George Eliot

3. "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

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

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

6. "If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much" ~Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

7. "Most mothers are instinctive philosophers" ~Harriet Beecher Stowe

8. "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

9. "Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at de sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground" ~Zora Neale Hurston

10. "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

11. "The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother" ~Unknown

12. "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

13. "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

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

So celebrate your mom and the "mothering" women in your life by thanking them this Mother's Day. And maybe even share your favorite of quotes about mothers.

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