Words of Wisdom - Mother's Day Edition

"Few of us will reach our potential without the nurturing of both the mother who bore us and the mothers who bear with us."
~Sheri L. Dew 

"Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother."  ~Lin Yutang


"Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother."  ~Oprah Winfrey

"All that I am and hope to be, I owe to my mother."  ~Abraham Lincoln

"I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that demanded the best that I could bring to it."  ~ Rose Kennedy

"My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw.  I attribute all the success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her."  ~ George Washington

"Show me how highly a society reverences their mothers and I can tell you the health of that society."  ~Bill Sunday

"You are the trip I did not take.  You are the pearls I cannot buy.  You are my blue Italian lake.  You are my piece of foreign sky."  ~Anne Campbell

"If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much." 
~ Jackie Kennedy

"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