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I�d like to share with you a few of my favorite quotes taken from the book � �For Mom,� compiled by Jennifer Habel Peter Pauper Press, Inc. White Plains � New York.

     I received a special gift from my daughter in 1992.
     It was a very tiny book with red roses printed on it.
     She was 21 years old then now she is 30.

     Inside were quotes written for special mothers.
     I read this little book - when I miss her.
     In handwriting just inside the little book I found these words written -
                              I love you, Mom.
                              Shawnnita

* Dear Mother; I�m all right. Stop Worrying about me. Papyrus letter of 17 �year-old Egyptian girl, Circa 2000 BC, Metropolitan Museum of Art
* Before becoming a mother I had a hundred theories on how to bring up children. Now I have seven children and only one theory: love them, especially when they least deserve to be loved. -   Kate Samperi
* If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money. - Abigail Van Buren
* A mother is a person who if she is not there when you get home from school you wouldn�t know how to get your dinner, and you wouldn�t feel like eating it anyway. - Anonymous
* What price is success if one fails as a mother? - Mrs. Rosemary Foot M. P.
* The child without a mother is like a door without a knob. - Jewish Proverb
* Love them, feed them discipline them and let them go free. You may have a lifelong good relationship. - Mary G. L. Davis
* If you bungle raising your children, I don�t think whatever else you do well matters very
much. -   Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
* She was such a good loving mother, my best friend; oh, who was happier than I when I could still say the dear name �mother,� and it was heard, and whom can I say it to now? - Ludwig Van Beethoven
* All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. - Abraham Lincoln
* No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle aged children for signs of improvement. - Florida Scott-Maxwell

*Who ran to help me when I fell, and would some pretty story tell, or kiss the place to make it well? My mother. - Ann Taylor
* All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That�s his. - Oscar Wilde
* We never make sport of religion, politics, race, or mothers. A mother never gets hit with a custard pie. Mothers-in-law--yes. But mothers � never. - Mark Sennett
* There�s more to mothering than having kids, just as there�s more to being an artist than owning a paintbrush. - Holly North
* She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn�t take them along. - Margaret Culkin Banning
* The patience and the humility of the face she loved so well was a better lesson to Jo than the wisest lecture, the sharpest reproof.   Louisa May Alcott � Little Women
* The toughest part of motherhood is the inner worrying and not showing it. - Audrey Hepburn
* The future destiny of the child is always the work of the mother.    Napoleon
* In search of my mother�s garden I found my own. - Alice Walker
* Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.   - Erma Bombeck
* Men are what their mothers made them.    - Ralph Waldo Emerson
* In loving memory of my MOTHER without whom I might have been somebody else. - Mae West
* My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw� All I am I owe to my Mother. - George Washington
* My mother is a pretty lady, I wish to kiss her all day long but I have to go to school. - Tania Price,
Australian 6-year-old