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cathleenc · 07-27-2005, 10:06 PM

A professional calligrapher is going to letter lovely sayings/quotes about motherhood, children, life, breastfeeding, etc around the upper perimeter of my bf/ap retail store walls. I have no clue what to have put up there - but I do want the words to be special.

What are you favorite quotes or sayings? I'd really your suggestions - and if you can tell me who to attribute the sayings to, even better.

thanks!
Cath

~MamaCharly~ · 07-27-2005, 10:25 PM

"breastmilk is the Bestmilk"

OnTheBrink · 07-27-2005, 10:34 PM

Be careful the words you choose, children will listen.
-- from Into the Woods

I always wanted to invent something that would move around & make funny noises & would change the world as we know it & I forgot all about that until we had kids & now I see I came pretty close.
-- Brian Andreas, “Invention”

justjaymes · 07-27-2005, 11:19 PM

Smile on your kids, it is the best atmosphere to grow in.

It is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us. ~~~Charles Dickens

It will be gone before you know it. The fingerprints on the wall appear higher and higher. Then suddenly, they disappear."

~~~Dorothy Evslin

We made a wish
And it came true.
We made a wish
And God sent you.

Shouting to make your children obey is like using the horn to steer your car, and you get about the same results.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. ~~~Mother Theresa

Nobody has ever measured how much the heart can hold.

Love is a verb.

What should not be heard by little ears should not be spoken by big mouths.

The first handshake in life is the greatest of all: the grasp of an infant's fist around a parent's finger. ~~~Mark Beltaire

I think my life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.
~~~ George Eliot

Who, being loved, is poor? ~~~Oscar Wilde

J3 · 07-27-2005, 11:21 PM

I can only think of bumpersticker type ones right now.

Every Mother is a working Mother.
Human milk for human babies.

choleblack · 07-27-2005, 11:34 PM

You have to have chaos in your heart to give birth to a star ~ nietzsche

Chole

~Bethany~ · 07-27-2005, 11:48 PM

It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals. Mark Twain

Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. Marion C Garrety

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face. George Eliot

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

Mamaselena · 07-27-2005, 11:56 PM

Before you were conceived I wanted you
Before you were born I loved you
Before you were here an hour I would die for you
This is the miracle of life.
~ Maureen Hawkins

Loving Two
I walk along holding your 2-year-old hand,
basking in the glow of our magical relationship.
Suddenly I feel a kick from within,
as if to remind me that our time alone is limited.
And I wonder: How could I ever love another child as I love you?
Then he is born, and I watch you.
I watch the pain you feel at having to share me
as you've never shared me before.
I hear you telling me in your own way,
"Please love only me."
And I hear myself telling you in mine,
"I can't," knowing, in fact, that I never can again.
You cry. I cry with you.
I almost see our new baby as an intruder
on the precious relationship we once shared.
A relationship we can never quite have again.
But then, barely noticing,
I find myself attached to that new being,
and feeling almost guilty.
I'm afraid to let you see me enjoying him -- as though I am betraying you.
But then I notice your resentment change,
first to curiosity,
then to protectiveness,
finally to genuine affection.
More days pass,
and we are settling into a new routine.
The memory of days with just the two of us is fading fast.
But something else is replacing those wonderful times we shared, just we two.
There are new times -- only now, we are three.
I watch the love between you grow,
the way you look at each other, touch each other.
I watch how he adores you -- as I have for so long.
I see how excited you are by each of his new accomplishments.
And I begin to realize that I haven't taken something from you,
I've given something to you.
I notice that I am no longer afraid to share my love openly with both of you.
I find that my love for each of you is as different as you are, but equally strong.
And my question is finally answered, to my amazement.
Yes, I can love another child as much as I love you -- only differently.
And although I realize that you may have to share my time,
I now know you'll never share my love.
There's enough of that for both of you -- you each have your own supply.
I love you -- both. And I thank you both for blessing my life."
author unknown

Christi · 07-28-2005, 12:35 AM

"The best way to make children good is to make them happy."
- Oscar Wilde

Sometimes, said Pooh, the smallest things take up the most room in your heart. - A.A. Milne

The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child. ~Joe Houldsworth

Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child. - Ron Wild

"To be a mother is the grandest vocation in the world. No one being has a position of
such power and influence. She holds in her hands the destiny of nations."
(Hannah Whitall Smith).

Daisy · 07-28-2005, 01:58 AM

OMG Selena!!! That Loving Two is beautiful!!!!

We are thinking of TTC #2 and I wept reading that. I have been struggling with worry and concern for James' reaction to a new baby......this has really eased my mind.

mamabuzzybee · 07-28-2005, 02:38 AM

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children
that makes the heart too big for the body.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

In raising my children, I have lost my mind but found my soul.
Lisa T. Shepherd

Children are like sponges; they absorb all your strength and leave you limp...
But give them a squeeze and you get it all back.
-Ann Van Tassells Lincoln Lines

The guys who fear becoming fathers don't understand that fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man.
~Frank Pittman, Man Enough

You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again.
~Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, 1762

"If we are to attain real peace in this world, we will have to begin with the children."
- Gandhi

Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
~Harold Hulbert

meemee · 07-28-2005, 02:45 AM

Some of my faves from dd's babybook-

A newborn babe is God's handywork. ~Char

The world has no such flowers
in any land
And no such pearl in any gulf of the sea,
As any baby on any mother's knee. ~Algernon Swinburn

Children are the anchors
that hold a mother to Life. ~Sophocles, Phaedra

Love me, I love you
Love me, my baby:
Sing it high, sing it low,
Love me, -I love you. ~Christina Rossetti
There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.
Winston Churchill

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. - Frederick Douglas

A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. - Carl Sandburg

and my personal favorite-

When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies. And now when every new baby is born its first laugh becomes a fairy. So there ought to be"
James Matthew Barrie

Katie · 07-28-2005, 03:13 AM

Let the baby win. ~The Loucks Family Motto.

LOL.

Katie

jessica_momof7 · 07-28-2005, 03:19 AM

Breastfeed. Because your baby deserves the breast.

-me (LOL) jessica gibbons (slogan made up in a debate about BF/FF-and a play on carnation's words)

OnTheBrink · 07-28-2005, 10:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by meemee

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. - Frederick Douglas

I love this one! I was the Director of the Mentoring Resource Center at Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Miami and we used this quote a lot. It really summed up our mission.