~I just wanted to give hugs to all the wonderful nurturing Pixies women who are raising happy, healthy, families and to honor the Moms who raised us all.~

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.
-Anon.

"The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom."
-Henry Ward Beecher

"Motherhood: All love begins and ends there."
-Robert Browning

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

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

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

RICHER THAN GOLD
You may have tangible wealth untold;
Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold.
Richer than I you can never be --
I had a mother who read to me.
-Strickland Gillilan

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

M-O-T-H-E-R
"M" is for the million things she gave me,
"O" means only that she's growing old,
"T" is for the tears she shed to save me,
"H" is for her heart of purest gold;
"E" is for her eyes, with love-light shining,
"R" means right, and right she'll always be,
Put them all together, they spell "MOTHER,"
A word that means the world to me.
-Howard Johnson

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

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

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

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

"There was never a great man who had not a great mother"
-Oliver Schreiner

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

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

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

"God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers"
-Anon.

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The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give orders better from there.~ Betty Grable

If I wanted your opinion, I'd remove the duct tape and ask you for it.~ Me
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