Only a mother...

"If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do well matters very much."
--Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

"The bravest battle that ever was fought; Shall I tell you where and when? On the maps of the world you will find it not; it was fought by the mothers of men."
--Miller

“As a mother, my job is to take care of what is possible and trust God with the impossible.”
--Ruth Bell Graham

"No man is poor who has had a Godly mother."
--Lincoln

“Ma-ma does everything for the baby, who responds by saying Da-da first.”
--Mignon McLaughlin

"Men are what their mothers made them."
--Emerson

"A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take."
-- Cardinal Mermillod

"One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters."
--Herbert

"What war is to man, childbirth is to women"
--Hindu Proverb

"By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class."
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"There never was a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The mother love is like God's love; he loves us not because we are lovable, but because it is His nature to love, and because we are His children."
--Riney

“There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.”
--Chinese Proverb

"There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies!"
--Winston Churchill

"There is none, in all this cold and hollow world, no fount of deep, strong, deathless love, save that within a mother's heart."
--Herman

"My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her."
-- George Washington

"All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother."
-- Abraham Lincoln

"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his."
--Oscar Wilde

“You will always be your child's favorite toy.”
--Vicki Lansky

"The bearing and the training of a child are woman's wisdom."
-–Tennyson

"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

So you want to be a father...

“Give me the life of the boy whose mother is nurse, seamstress, washerwoman, cook, teacher, angel, and saint, all in one, and whose father is guide, exemplar, and friend. No servants to come between. These are the boys who are born to the best fortune.”
--Andrew Carnegie

"The Hebrew word for parent is horim, and it comes from the same root as moreh, teacher. The parent is, and remains, the first and most important teacher that the child will ever have."
--Rabbi Kassel Abelson

"The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them. "
-- Confucius

"The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any in their fathers."
--Fred Astaire

"I pray you so live, that when you stand over your child's dead body, you may never hear a voice coming up from that clay, "Father, your negligence was my destruction. Mother, your prayerlessness was the instrument of my damnation."
--Spurgeon

“A father is someone who carries pictures where his money used to be.”
--Anonymous

"It is admirable for a man to take his son fishing, but there is a special place in heaven for the father who takes his daughter shopping."
--John Sinor

"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother."
--Theodore Hessburgh

“Kids spell love T-I-M-E.”
--John Crudele

"My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass." "We're not raising grass," my dad would reply, "we're raising boys."
--Harmon Killebrew

“Good, honest, hardheaded character is a function of the home. If the proper seed is sown there and properly nourished for a few years, it will not be easy for that plant to be uprooted.”
--George A. Dorsey

"It is a wise father that knows his own child."
--William Shakespeare

"It is a wise child that knows his own father."
--Homer

"He was all questions. But small boys expect their fathers to be walking lexicons, to do two jobs at once, to give replies as they are working, whether laying stones or building models...digging up a shrub, or planting flower beds...Boys have a right to ask their fathers questions...Fathers are the powers that be, and with their power and might must shelter, guard, and hold and teach and love...All men with sons must learn to do these things...Too soon, too soon, a small son grows and leaves his father's side to test his manhood's wings. "
--Roy Z. Kemp