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Quotes of the Day for 8 May 2005 - Mothers Day

Today is the day of busy signals - the heaviest telephone call volume of the year. Also the biggest day of the year for greeting cards. (I'm struggling with an inscription for one of those right now.) A mother's gifts surround us throughout life, not just one day a year, but it's hardly out of line to dedicate one day to remembering she who had the most influence over what we are today.

The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.
     - Benjamin McLane Spock, 1903 - 1998

And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong - to belong to my mother. And in return - I wanted my mother to belong to me.
     - Gloria Vanderbilt

What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
     - Henry Ward Beecher, 1813 - 1887

Men are what their mothers made them.
     - Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803 - 1882

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
     - Victor Hugo, 1802 - 1885

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of children.
     - William Makepeace Thackeray, 1811 - 1863

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