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That wholesome life to the boy heart brings --
Stories that stir with an upward touch,
Oh, that each mother of boys were such!
"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
And would some pretty story tell,
Or kiss the place to make it well?
My Mother."
-- Ann Taylor, "My Mother"
The way to rear up children (to be just),
They know a merry, simple, tender knack
Of tying sashes, fitting babies shoes,
And stringing pretty words that make no sense,
And kissing full sense into empty words."
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning (from "Aurora Leigh")
He governs the land and sea,
He wields a mighty scepter
O'er lesser powers that be.
But a mightier power and stronger
Man from his throne has hurled,
For the hand that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that rules the world."
-- William Ross Wallace, "What Rules the World"
I look across the years and see
Myself beside my mother's knee.
I feel her gentle hand restrain
My selfish moods, and know again
A child's blind sense of wrong and pain.
But wiser now,
a man gray grown,
My childhood's needs are better known.
My mother's chastening love I own."
-- John Greenleaf Whittier
"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
"I looked on child-rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring it." -- Rose Kennedy
"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
"Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. But here again, because there is nothing to sell, there is a very general disposition to regard a married woman's work as no work at all, and to take it as a matter of course that she should not be paid for it."
-- George Bernard Shaw
"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
By thy good care,
I cannot see another's lack
And I not share
My glowing fire, my loaf of bread,
My roof's safe shelter overhead,
That he, too may be comforted.
-- Grace Noll Crowell
"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
He is the straight walls rising from the earth,
The woman is the golden glow of lamps,
The firelight on a hearth.
-- from "Perfect Home," by Emery Petho
"Woman knows what man has long forgotten, that the ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family." -- Clare Boothe Luce
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