"What I wanted most for my daughter was that she be able to soar confidently in her own sky, wherever that might be, and if there was space for me as well, I would, indeed, have reaped what I had tried to sow."

~Helen Claes

"Children are likely
to live up to
what you believe of them."

~Lady Bird Johnson

"The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for 30 years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found."

~Calvin Trillin

Safe harbor

"An infant learns to use his mother as a 'beacon of orientation' during the first five months of life. The mother's presence is like a fixed light that gives the child the security to move out safely to explore the world and then return safely to harbor."

~Louise J. Kaplan

"It is not what you do for your children
but what you have taught them
to do for themselves
that will make them
successful human beings."

~Ann Landers

"Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease."

~Lisa Alther

WOW

"MOM"
is
"WOW"
upside down!

"Don't get so involved
in the duties of your life
and your children
that you forget the pleasure.
Remember why you had children."

~Lois Wyse

Grown

"Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown. In my heart it don't mean a thing."

~Toni Morrison