a mother

We often run out of words in describing people who are nearest our hearts.  More often, when we are to say something about our mother, tears are likely to come out first rather than words.  This is because it is our mother whom we owe a lot.  As Edwin Hubbell Chapin said, “No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother's love.  It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over wastes of worldly fortunes sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star”.   Such is a touching tribute to a mother. 

The following is my compilation of quotes from notable persons which to me characterizes the best women in the world – mothers.  This is my way of saying : “HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY” to the great mothers of the world.

1.       A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts. 

~Washington  Irving

2.       A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands.  But a mother's love endures through all. 

~Washington  Irving

3.       The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. 

~Honoré  de  Balzac

4.       Mother’s  love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. 

~Marion C. Garretty

5.       Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.  ~Oliver  Wendell  Holmes