quotes for moms from daughters

Know thyself, or at least keep renewing the acquaintance. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is "God is crying." And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is, "Probably because of something you did." ~Saturday Night Live, Jack Handey, "Deep Thoughts "



Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer. ~Ted Williams



An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit. ~Pliny the Younger, Letters



Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it. ~Christopher Morley, Thunder on the Left



Basically, the only thing we need is a hand that rests on our own, that wishes it well, that sometimes guides us. ~Hector Bianciotti, Sans La Misericorde du Christ



Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world. ~Thomas Carlyle



Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. ~J.R.R. Tolkien



Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don't even notice it. ~Sakyong Mipham



What the daughter does, the mother did. ~Jewish Proverb



Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. ~Jean Anouilh



Having sex is like playing bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand. ~Woody Allen



In nature we see where God has been. In our fellow man, we see where He is still at work. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one. ~Augustine Birrell, Obiter Dicta, "Book Buying"



Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. ~Plato



The greatest feeling in the world is to win a major league game. The second-greatest feeling is to lose a major league game. ~Chuck Tanner, quoted in The Sporting News, 15 July 1985



We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man. ~Lynn White, Jr., "The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis," 1967



We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Mothers ought to bring up and nurse their own children; for they bring them up with greater affection and with greater anxiety, as loving them from the heart, and so to speak, every inch of them. ~Plutarch



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