poems for mothers from daughters

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. ~William Blake



The soul may sleep and the body still be happy, but only in youth. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in. ~Alan Alda



We did not hesitate to call our movement an army. But it was a special army, with no supplies but its sincerity, no uniform but its determination, no arsenal except its faith, no currency but its conscience. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.



Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home. ~Bill Cosby, Fatherhood, 1986



While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it. ~Samuel Johnson



Information and communications technology unlocks the value of time, allowing and enabling multi-tasking, multi-channels, multi-this and multi-that. ~Li Ka Shing



Oftentimes, when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps. ~Lemony Snicket



While we are sleeping, angels have conversations with our souls. ~Author Unknown



What boots up must come down. ~Author Unknown



Childhood is that wonderful time of life when all you need to do to lose weight is take a bath. ~Author Unknown



The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it. ~Ernest Hemingway, interview in Paris Review, Spring 1958



We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls. ~Bill Bryson



The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself. ~Gore Vidal



The breakfast slimes, angel food cake, doughnuts and coffee, white bread and gravy cannot build an enduring nation. ~Martin H. Fischer



My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view. ~H. Fred Dale (Thanks, Anne)



The human spirit needs places where nature has not been rearranged by the hand of man. ~Author Unknown



Mother's milk, time-tested for millions of years, is the best nutrient for babies because it is nature's perfect food. ~Robert S. Mendelsohn



Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul. ~The Koran



There are more things, Lucilius, that frighten us than injure us, and we suffer more in imagination than in reality. ~Seneca