The love between a mother and child
I’ve just been given a calendar for 2007 which has lots of nice pictures and quotes about motherhood. Here are some of the less cheesey ones.
‘Children should be educated and instructed in the principals of freedom.’
- John Adams
‘My mother had a great deal of trouble with me but I think she enjoyed it.‘
- Mark Twain
‘Thou are thy mother’s glass, and she in thee calls back the lovely April of her prime’
- William Shakespeare
‘The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom‘
- Henery Ward Beecher
‘You have chosen the roughest road, but it leads straight to the hilltop.‘
- John Bunyan
‘The sweetest sounds to mortals given are heard in mother, home and heaven.‘
-William Goldsmith Brown
‘All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.‘
-Abraham Lincoln
‘A mother understands what a child does not say.‘
- Jewish Proverb
‘I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship‘
- Louisa May Alcott
September 24th, 2006 at 4:25 pm
A few more for Dads:
“Daddy was a bit shouty sometimes, but then again I could be a pain in the ass now and again”
-DLB
“Daddy said I could support whatever football team I liked, as long as it was his one”
-DLB
“Daddy was always strangely hard of hearing when I shouted ‘Can you wipe my bottom please’, odd that”
-DLB
“Switching Daddy’s laptop off when he’s working is a BAD thing to do”
-DLB
“Dropping Daddy’s laptop is even worse”
-DLB