Happy Mother's Day

Instead of a short story, today I've gathered some of my favorite quotations by or about mothers. Happy Mother's Day!

Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.  ~Marion C. Garretty



If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been.  ~Robert Brault

On Mother's Day I have written a poem for you.  In the interest of poetic economy and truth, I have succeeded in concentrating my deepest feelings and beliefs into two perfectly crafted lines:  You're my mother, I would have no other!  ~Forest Houtenschil

Sweater, n.:  garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.  ~Ambrose Bierce












Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.  ~Aristotle

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