Our Souls Blossom

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.  ~Marcel Proust

A Real Friend

You can always tell a real friend:  when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.  ~Laurence J. Peter

A Poor Man

I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich.  ~Dan Wilcox and Thad Mumford, M*A*S*H, "Identity Crisis,"

Insanity

Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.  ~Sam Levenson

What if...

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

Making Deposits in our Children

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

Younger Generations

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

Six Theories of having children

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

Having a Child

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

Happy Mother's Day!

Woman in the home has not yet lost her dignity, in spite of Mother's Day, with its offensive implication that our love needs an annual nudging, like our enthusiasm for the battle of Bunker Hill.  ~John Erskine

What makes a Mother?

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

A Mother's Work

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

Irish Proverb

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

The Bank

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

Think Twice

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

A Mother is born

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

Working Mothers

All mothers are working mothers.  ~Author Unknown

Family

To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.  ~Barbara Bush

Family

Family:  A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space.  ~Evan Esar

Spanish Proverb

An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.  ~Spanish Proverb