out of the mouth of babes 3

While driving Jessi to tumbling, I turned on the radio--it was NPR. She listened for a minute and then said, "Can we listen to music? You always listen to these guys talking and talking and talking."

Me: "It's so I will be smart."

Jessi: "I don't wanna be smart...I wanna groove."

May each of us remember this truth; 'one cannot forget mother and remember God. One cannot remember mother and forget God.' Why? Because these two sacred persons, God and mother, partners in creation, in love, in sacrifice, in service, are as one.

-President Thomas S. Monson

You have nothing in this world more precious than your children. When you grow old, when your hair turns white and your body grows weary, when you are prone to sit in a rocker and meditate on the things of your life, nothing will be so important as the question of how your children have turned out. It will not be the money you have made. It will not be the cars you have owned. It will not be the large house in which you live. The searing question that will cross your mind again and again will be, "How well have my children done?"

-President Gordon B. Hinkley

A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.

-Peter DeVries

All that I am or ever hope to be,

I owe to my angel Mother.

-Abraham Lincoln

The sweetest sounds to mortals given

Are heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven.

-William Goldsmith Brown

"All true trophies of the ages are from mother love impearled;

For the hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world."

-William Ross Wallace