* "The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother." - David O. McKay
* "A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary." - Dorothy Canfield Fisher
* Creating a warm, caring, supportive, encouraging environment is probably the most important thing you can do for your family. - Stephen Covey
* "Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at de sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground." - Zora Neale Hurston
* "God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers." - Jewish Proverb
* "The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes one a mother - which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician." - Sydney Harris
* On Mother's Day a minister gave this perfect tribute: "My mother practices what I preach."- Capper's weekly
* Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, and call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one. - Jane Howard
* Healthy families are our greatest national resource. - Dolores Curran
* Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall. A mother's secret love outlives them all.- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Mother's Day Messages
The occasion of Mother's Day is extraordinary for all of us. It's time to love, kiss and hug the most precious creation of God- our Mom! All through our lives we love to put our heads in the lap of our mothers, unmindful of our status, position and standing. For her, we always remain the small kid but this is the day to visit our Mom, spend time with her, hold her hands and reassure her of our love and care. Some of the most beautiful messages from some of the greatest men and women of all times pay a glowing tribute to mothers on this Mother's Day.
* Your arms were always open when I needed a hug. Your heart understood when I needed a friend. Your gentle eyes were stern when I needed a lesson. Your strength and love has guided me and gave me wings to fly. - Sarah Malin
* If I had a flower for each time I thought of My Mother, I could walk in my garden forever. - Unknown
* Mother is the name for god on the lips and hearts of all children - Brandon Lee
* Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. - Marion C. Garretty
* All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother. - Abraham Lincoln
* There is no velvet so soft as a mother's lap, no rose as lovely as her smile, no path so flowery as that imprinted with her footsteps. - Archibald Thompson
* The Miracle of Life nurtured by a woman who gave us love and sacrifice...MOTHER - Joel Barquez
* This heart, my own dear mother, bends, with love's true instinct, back to thee! - Thomas Moore