A Tribute...

...to a very, very special woman. Our dear mother's birthday is today. Please join us in wishing her a very lovely day! Here are a few "Mama" quotes to make you smile and nod.


"The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world." ~William Ross Wallace


"Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother". ~Lin Yutang

(Mommy and her four maidens)

"There was never a great man who had not a great mother." ~Olive Schreiner

"The mother is the most precious possessions of the nation, so precious that society advances its highest well-being when it protects the functions of the mother." ~Ellen Key

(All of us!)

Oh! These are they that mold the men of story,

These mothers, oftime shorn of grace and youth,

Who, worn and weary, ask no greater glory

Than making some young soul the home of truth;

Who sow in hearts all fallow for the sowing

The seeds of virtue and of scorn for sin,

And, patient, watch the beauteous harvest growing

And weed out tares which crafty hands cast in.

~Ella Wheeler Wilcox

posted by Lydia