May 30, 2009 8:11 AM
More mothering inspiration
Jena sent this collection of quotes for a belated Mother's Day (yeah, we know how it is, Jena!)
You [mothers] are the real builders of the nation wherever you live, for you have created homes of strength and peace and security. These become the very sinew of any nation."
~Gordon B. Hinckley
No other success [in life] can compensate for failure in the home.
~David O. McKay quoting J. E. McCulloch
Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in my field, since the payment is pure love.
~Mildred B. Vermont
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
~Abraham Lincoln
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
~Spanish Proverb
What matters is that a mother loves her children deeply and, in keeping with the devotion she has for God and her husband, prioritizes them above all else.
~Elder M. Russell Ballard
The mother's heart is the child's school-room.
~Henry Ward Beecher
All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother.
~Abraham Lincoln
The most important of the Lord's work you and I will ever do will be within the walls of our own homes.
~Harold B. Lee
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
The precursor of the mirror is the mother's face.
~D.W. Winnicott, Playing and Reality, 1971
My mother is a poem
I'll never be able to write,
though everything I write
is a poem to my mother.
~Sharon Doubiago
One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters.
~George Herbert
One suggestion from Momma C: If you don't already, keep a Quote Book. Find a blank book and when you run across a quote that resonates with you, write it down so you will have it to reflect on or to share when you need it. Though I never journaled, I have kept a Quote Book since I was 15 years old.
And give a lank book to each of your children to start their own!
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Comments
Very inspirational! Thanks for sharing.
Posted by: LadyLovas | May 30, 2009 11:42 AM
