A Mother's Day Thought For You.

My wife is leaving tomorrow morning at a ridiculously early hour to spend a long weekend with her High School friends. Therefore, I wanted to send her off with some touching mother's Day well wishes. Problem is, my creativity seems a bit "sapped." So, rather than offer up something contrived, I had a brilliant idea. I would like to share the following wonderful thoughts on what makes Mothers everywhere SPECIAL. To my wife as well as mothers, grandmothers, sisters, aunts, daughters everywhere. I couldn't have said it better myself. HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY! Famous Mother's Day Thoughts "All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother."

~ Abraham Lincoln "I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life." ~ Abraham Lincoln "There never was a woman like her. She was gentle as a dove and brave as a lioness... The memory of my mother and her teachings were, after all, the only capital I had to start life with, and on that capital I have made my way." ~ Andrew Jackson

"Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws." ~ Barbara Kingsolver

"In all my efforts to learn to read, my mother shared fully my ambition and sympathized with me and aided me in every way she could. If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother." ~ Booker T. Washington

"It seems to me that my mother was the most splendid woman I ever knew... I have met a lot of people knocking around the world since, but I have never met a more thoroughly refined woman than my mother. If I have amounted to anything, it will be due to her." ~ Charles Chaplin

"I cannot tell you how much I owe to the solemn word of my good mother." ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

"The noblest calling in the world is that of mother. True motherhood is the most beautiful of all arts, the greatest of all professions. She who can paint a masterpiece or who can write a book that will influence millions deserves the plaudits and admiration of mankind; but she who rears successfully a family of healthy, beautiful sons and daughters whose immortal souls will be exerting an influence throughout the ages long after painting shall have faded, and books and statues shall have been destroyed, deserves the highest honor that man can give." ~ David O. McKay

"My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back." ~ Denzel Washington "The mother, more than any other, affects the moral and spiritual part of the children's character. She is their constant companion and teacher in formative years. The child is ever imitating and assimilating the mother's nature. It is only in after life that men gaze backward and behold how a mother's hand and heart of love molded their young lives and shaped their destiny." ~ E.W. Caswell "My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her." ~ George Washington "The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom." ~ Henry Ward Beecher "Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearing of little children tends towards the formation of character." ~ Hosea Ballou When Robert Ingersoll, the notorious skeptic, was in his heyday, two college students went to hear him lecture. As they walked down the street after the lecture, one said to the other, "Well, I guess he knocked the props out from under Christianity, didn't he?" The other said, "No, I don't think he did. Ingersoll did not explain my mother's life, and until he can explain my mother's life I will stand by my mother's God." ~ James S. Hewett, Illustrations Unlimited, Tyndale. "Mothers have as powerful an influence over the welfare of future generations as all other earthly causes combined." ~ John S.C. Abbott "To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power." ~ Maya Angelou "The future destiny of a child is always the work of the mother." ~ Napoleon Bonaparte "My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier you'll be a general; if you become a monk you'll end up as the pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso." ~ Pablo Picasso "An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest." ~ Spanish proverb "Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love." ~ Stevie Wonder

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