Sunday 23 March 2014
Mother's Day
Year four are doing a Mother's Day assembly on Monday morning.
Here are some quotes concerning motherhood.
A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie. ~Tenneva Jordan
Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. ~Marion C. Garretty, quoted in A Little Spoonful of Chicken Soup for the Mother’s Soul
Hundreds of dewdrops to greet the dawn,
Hundreds of bees in the purple clover,
Hundreds of butterflies on the lawn,
But only one mother the wide world over.
~George Cooper
Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs… since the payment is pure love. ~Mildred B. Vermont
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. ~William Makepeace Thackeray
A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~Irish Proverb
God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. - Jewish Proverb
A young boy said to his mother, ‘How old were you when I was born?’ His mother replied, ’23.’ ‘Wow, that’s a lot of time we missed spending together.’
