Monday Musings... Mothers

(My beautiful Mom at about 28 years old)

A father may turn his back on his child,

brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies,

husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands.

But a mother's love endures through all.

~Washington Irving

Who fed me from her gentle breast

And hushed me in her arms to rest.

And on my cheek sweet kisses prest?

My Mother.

~Anne Taylor

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 trouble thickens 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

All women become like their mothers.

That is their tragedy.

No man does.

That's his.

 ~Oscar Wilde

I remember my mother's prayers

and they have always followed me.

They have clung to me all my life.

~Abraham Lincoln

Woman, how divine your mission

Here upon our natal sod!

Keep, oh, keep the young heart open

Always to the breath of God!

All true trophies of the ages

Are from mother-love impearled;

For the hand that rocks the cradle

Is the hand that rules the world.

~William Ross Wallace

All that I am, or hope to be,

I owe to my angel mother.

~Abraham Lincoln