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A Daughter's Promise

March 20, 2015

Every time that I smile,
Every time that I sigh,
I think of your  face,
And a tear escapes my eye.
You were my world,
My  inspiration and my heart,
But when you left me,
I thought I would fall apart.
You were my best friend,
My one true 'confidante',
And  that's not all you were,
You were also my mom.
I didn't want to live  without you,
But you would have wanted me to,
And if there's anyone I  want to make happy,
That anyone is you.
I would have given anything  to have you back,
But I know now that it was meant to be,
For you are  still watching from up there,
And I know you're watching me.
I'll  make you proud mom,
I'm going to fulfill your wish,
You're going to see  me and smile,
That's a daughter's promise.

MY MOTHER "A ROSE"

March 20, 2015

Rose so rare,
one of its kind,
love and beauty a mother, yes! mine. 
Rose without thorns,
not a petal was torn,
a perfect rose stood straight and tall,
my mother was the most precious of all.
A rose that survived the worst kind of weather and yet the most delicate ever,
a rose with a fragrance,
could be no other,
you see this rose is my Mother.
A rose is picked and put to dry,
the beauty is still there,
it never dies.

May 11, 2012

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see -- or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read. - Alice Walker

  

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction. - Annie Sullivan

 

My mother used to say, "He who angers you, conquers you!" But my mother was a saint. - Elizabeth Kenny

 

At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent. - Golda Meir

 

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much. - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

 

Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother. - Jane Welsh Carlyle

 

 

The family is the nucleus of civilization. - Ariel and Will Durant

 

So when the great word "Mother!" rang once more, I saw at last its meaning and its place; Not the blind passion of the brooding past, But Mother -- the World's Mother -- come at last, To love as she had never loved before -- To feed and guard and teach the human race. - Charlotte Perkins Gilman

 

Life is nothing but a series of crosses for us mothers. - Colette

 

The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant -- and let the air out of the tires. - Dorothy Parker

 

Women do not have to sacrifice personhood if they are mothers. They do not have to sacrifice motherhood in order to be persons. Liberation was meant to expand women's opportunities, not to limit them. The self-esteem that has been found in new pursuits can also be found in mothering. - Elaine Heffner

 

Women know The way to rear up children (to be just) They know a simple, merry, tender knack Of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes And stringing pretty words that make no sense. Aurora Leigh - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"Quotes"

May 11, 2012
There is in all this world no fount of deep, strong, deathless love, save that within a mother's heart. - Felicia Hemans

 

Before becoming a mother I had a hundred theories on how to bring up children. Now I have seven children and only one theory: love them, especially when they least deserve to be loved. - Kate Samperi

 

The Great Umbilical Motherly love is not much use if it expresses itself only as a warm gush of emotion, delicately tinged with pink. It must also be strong, guiding and unselfish. The sweetly sung lullaby; the cool hand on the feverd brow, the Mother's Day smiles and flowers are only a small part of the picture. True mothers have to be made of steel to withstand the difficulties that are sure to beset their children. - Rachel Billington

 

 

The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants, but when she resolutely holds him to the highest standards and is content with nothing less than his best. - Hamilton Wright Mabie

 

Motherhood brings as much joy as ever, but it still brings boredom, exhaustion, and sorrow too. Nothing else ever will make you as happy or as sad, as proud or as tired, for nothing is quite as hard as helping a person develop his own individuality especially while you struggle to keep your own. - Marguerite Kelly and Elia Parsons

 

I saw pure love when my son looked at me, and I knew that I had to make a good life for the two of us... - Suzanne Somers

 

She is my first, great love. She was a wonderful, rare woman - you do not know; as strong, and steadfast, and generous as the sun. She could be as swift as a white whiplash, and as kind and gentle as warm rain, and as steadfast as the irreducible earth beneath us. - D H Lawrence

 

My Mother's love is the Almond Blossom of my mind and the fragrance is worth dying for. Her gentle compassionate touch shaped my very essence and -- forever -- I shall remember and although we are separated by the corridor of life and the door way of heaven, I will always attempt to become the man that she perceived me to be. I love you mom, where ever you are and I hope you can feel my written word and I envision you enveloped in a shortcut of kindness and love and -- forever -- happy and content. God bless all of the Mother's of his world and other Space Time Continuum. - Frank L. de Roos III
May 11, 2012

Being a mother is an excitement and enticement and a growth. It is the possibilty that haunts and delights the young girl as she grows to womanhood. It is a part of the fantasy, both her longing for it and her fear of it. The months of pregnancy highlight all the richness of the remembered and internalized experience about mothering. The birth itself brings forth the baby, until now a fantasy, into reality. This real baby is a constant changing, crying, knowing being, and for me the delight of this experience has been one of the most important parts of my life as a women. - Dr. Beverley Raphael

 

The greatest battle that ever was fought - Shall I tell you where and when? On the maps of the world you will find it not: It was fought by the mothers of men. - Joakuin Miller

 

Mothers have as powerful an influence over the welfare of future generations as all other earthly causes combined. - John S C Abbott

 

Women as the guardians of children possess a great power. They are the moulders of their children's personalities and the arbiters of their development. - Ann Oakley

 

Everybody knows that a good mother gives her children a feeling of trust and stability. She is their earth. She is the one they can count on for the things that matter most of all. She is their food and their bed and the extra blanket when it grows cold in the night; she is their warmth and their health and their shelter; she is the one they want to be near when they cry. She is the only person in the whole world in a whole lifetime who can be these things to her children. There is no substitute for her. Somehow even her clothes feel different to her children's hands from anybody else's clothes. Only to touch her skirt or her sleeve makes a troubled child feel better. - Katharine Butler Hathaway

  The love of husbands and wives may waver; brothers and sisters may become deep-rooted enemies; but a mother's love is so strong and unyielding that it usually endures all circumstances: good fortune and misfortune, prosperity and privation, honor and disgrace. A mother's love perceives no impossibilities. - Paddock

 

Children, ay forsooth, They bring their own love with them when they come... - Jean Ingelow

 

In the sheltered simplicity of the first days after a baby is born, one sees again the magical closed circle, the miraculous sense of two people existing only for each other. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

 

Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. - Elizabeth Stone

 

Becoming a mother makes you the mother of all children. From now on each wounded, abandoned, frightened child is yours. You live in the suffering mothers of every race and creed and weep with them. You long to comfort all who are desolate. - Charlotte Gray

May 11, 2012

Mothers are the pivot on which the family spins, Mothers are the pivot on which the world spins. - Pam Brown

 

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

 

A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary. - Dorothy Canfield Fisher

 

There is so much to teach, and the time goes so fast. - Erma Bombeck

 

It will be gone before you know it. The fingerprints on the wall appear higher and higher. Then suddenly they disappear. - Dorothy Evslin

 

Children and mothers never truly part - Bound in the beating of each other's heart. - Charlotte Gray

  You never realize how much your mother loves you till you explore the attic - and find every letter you ever sent her, every finger painting, clay pot, bead necklace, Easter chicken, cardboard Santa Claus, paperlace Mother's Day card and school report since day one. - Pam Brown

 

Flowers For Mother Mother is the heartbeat in the home; and without her, there seems to be no heart throb. - Leroy Brownlow

 

I never thought that you should be rewarded for the greatest privilege of life. - Mary Roper CokerMother of the Year 1958

 

I love being a mother...I am more aware. I feel things on a deeper level. I have a kind of understanding about my body, about being a woman. - Shelley Long

 

A woman with a child rediscovers the world. All is changed - politics, loyalties, needs. For now all is judged by the life of the child ... and of all children. - Pam Brown

 

A mother laughs our laughter, Sheds our tears, Returns our love, Fears our fears. She lives our joys, Cares our cares, And all our hopes and dreams she shares. - Julia Summers

 

May 11, 2012

Oh what a power is motherhood, possessing A potent spell All women alike Fight fiercely for a child. - Euripides

 

A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror, that confidence of success that often induces real success. - Sigmund Freud

 

The Princess Happy he With such a mother! Faith in womankind Beats with his blood. - Alfred, Lord Tennyson

 

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 willbe due to her. - Charles Chaplin

 

....my opinion is that the future good or bad conduct of a child depends on its mother. - Letizia Ramolino Buonaparte,Napoleon's mother

 

Our lady of the Snows Daughter am I in my mother's house But mistress in my own. - Rudyard Kipling 

Sonnets Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime. - William Shakespeare

Now that I've reached the age, or maybe the stage, where I need my children more that they need me, I really understand how grand it is to be a grandmother. - Mrs Margaret Whitlam

 

A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take. - Cardinal Mermillod

 

Motherhood is a wonderful thing - what a pity to waste it on chldren. - Judith Pugh

 

 

"Quotes"

May 11, 2012
Likely Mother (to son wandering around the room): "What are you looking for?" Son: "Nothing." Mother: "You'll find it in the box where the candy was."

 

Story-Telling Dad Six-year-old Mary woke up about two in the morning. "Tell me a story, mamma," she pleaded. "Hush, darling," said mother. "Daddy will be in soon and tell us both one."

 

Surely Feminine Visitor: "And what will you do, little girl, when you get as big as your mother?" Little Girl: "Diet!"

 

Courteous Retort Operator: "Pardon me, madam, but your girl seems more than twelve." Her Mother: "Operator, would you take me to be the mother of a girl that age." Operator: "Lady, don't tell me you're her grandmother!"

"Quotes"

May 11, 2012
Nobody knows of the work it makes To keep the home together. Nobody knows of the steps it takes, Nobody knows-but Mother. - Anonymous

 

Is my mother my friend? I would have to say, first of all she is my Mother, with a capital 'M'; she's something sacred to me. I love her dearly...yes, she is also a good friend, someone I can talk openly with if I want to. - Sophia Loren

 

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

 

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

 

Woman knows what man has long forgotten, that the ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family. - Clare Boothe Luce

"Quotes"

May 11, 2012
No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement. - Florida Scott-Maxwell

 

Original Poems for Infant Minds "My Mother"Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it well? My Mother.

 

Mother is the name of God in the lips and hearts of children. - William Makepeace Thackeray

 

"We Have a Beautiful Mother" We have a beautiful mother Her green lap immense Her brown embrace eternal Her blue body everything we know. - Alice Walker

 

from the May Queen You must wake and call me early, call me early, mother dear. - Alfred Lord Tennyson
May 11, 2012

A mother is a person who if she is not there when you get home from school you wouldn't know how to get your dinner, and you wouldn't feel like eating it anyway. - Anonymous

 

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory. - Will Durant

"Quotes"

May 11, 2012
We only have One Mom, One Mommy, One Mother in this World, One life. Don't wait for the Tomorrow's to tell Mom, you love her. - Author Unknown

 

To my Mother ~ Elizabeth Mary, who is not with me anymore, On Mother's Day and always... ...my heart remembers you. Much love always, love from your ever loving daughter Elaine Mary Berger.

 

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine, desert us when troubles thicken around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts. - Washington Irving(1783-1859)

 

They joys of motherhood are never fully experienced until the children are in bed. - Author Unknown

"Quotes"

May 11, 2012
Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother. - Lin Yutang

 

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. - Honore' de Balzac(1799-1850)

 

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(1732-1799)

 

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh(1907- )

 

Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all. - Oliver Wendell Holmes(1809-1894)

 

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. - Abraham Lincoln(1809-1865)

 

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. - Author Unknown

"Quotes"

May 11, 2012
MotherSimply having children does not make mothers.

 

Over my slumbers your loving watch keep; Rock me to sleep, mother; rock me to sleep. - Elizabeth Chase

 

The hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand that rules the world. - W. R. Wallace

 

Her children arise up, and call her blessed. - Proverbs 31:28

 

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. - William M. Thackeray

 

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom. - H. W. Beecher

 

What are Raphael's madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in a permanent outline forever? - T. W. Higginson

 

Mother always said that honesty was the best policy, and money isn't everything. She was wrong about other things too. - Gerald Barzan

 

"Once in Royal David's city" Once in Royal David's City Stood a lowly cattle shed, Where a mother laid her baby, In a manger for its bed: Mary was that mother mid, Jesus Christ her little child. - Cecil Frances Alexander

 

A mother who is really a mother is never free. - Honore De Balzac

 

What the mother sings the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin. - Henry Ward Beecher

 

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you. - Jill Bennett

 

An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children. - Benjamin Disraeli

 

Men are what their mothers made them. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

The Mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother and to become fully independent. - Erich Fromm

 

I demand for the unmarried mother, as a sacred channel of life, the same reverence and respect as for the married mother; for Maternity is a cosmic thing and once it has come to pass, our conversation must not be permitted to blaspheme it. - Ben Lindsey

 "A boy's best friend is his mother." - Anthony Perkins

"Quotes"

May 11, 2012
Biblical QuoteV. Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God give the thee.

 

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom. - H.W. Beecher

 

Let France have good Mothers, and she will have good sons. - Napoleon I

 

My mother's influence in molding my character was conspicuous. She forced me to learn daily of chapters of the bible by heart. To that discipline and patient, accurate resolve I owe not only much of my general power of taking pains, but the best part of my taste for literature. - John Ruskin

 

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. - Lincoln

 

A father may turn his back on his child; brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies; husbands may desert their wives and wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all; in good repute, in bad repute, in the face of the world's condemnation, a mother still loves on, and still hopes that her child may turn from his evil ways, and repent; still she remembers the infant smiles that once filled her bosom with rapture, the merry laugh, the joyful shout of his childhood, the opening promise of his youth; and she can never be brought to think him all unworthy. - Washington Irving
May 8, 2012

 

"My mother...

She was my shining example

Of strength and compassion

Of honor and love

I was grateful to call her "Mom"

She made me proud

She wasn't only my mother

She was my dear friend

My mother had great strength

And she was wise...

I always knew I could draw from her strength

Whenever I needed it

It gave me the courage to grow up and take risks

To experience life's successes...

And a few of its failures

Mother's compassion for others was so deep!

She looked for the need and she filled it

She treated others with kindness and respect

And many lives were blessed through her goodness..."

 

 

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