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| My Favorite Gardening Quotations These are a compilation of years of collecting poems about gardening and nature. I hope you enjoy them. And if I'm missing any really good ones, send them to me! |
| Earth’s crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God; And only he who sees takes off his shoes; the rest sit around it eating blackberries. EB Browning A bit of fragrance clings to the hand that gives flowers. Chinese Proverb Faith sees the flower in every seed. The Lord will guide you always; He will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land, and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail. Isaiah 58:11 Happiness is the art of making a bouquet of those flowers within reach. Stand still and consider the wondrous works of God. Job 37:14 He covers the sky with clouds, He supplies the earth with rain and maketh the grass grow on the hills. Psalm 147:8 Let the beauty of the Lord rest upon us. Psalm 90:17 …still another seed fell on good soil. It came up and yielded a crop, a hundred times more than was sown. Parable of Jesus Acknowledge and take heart this day that the Lord is God in heaven above and on the earth below. There is no other. Deuteronomy 4:39 Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden. Sir Walter Scott Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, little flower – But if I could understand what you are, root and all, And all in all, I should know what God and man is. –Alfred Lord Tennyson Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding. Author: Marc Chagall Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume. Author: French Proverb Now the summer came to pass and flowers through the grass joyously sprang, while all the tribes of birds sang. – Walter Von der Vogleweide …and muse on natures with a poet’s eye. –Thomas Campbell Love your flowers. By some subtle sense the dear things always detect their friends. –Julia T. Berrall When at last I took the time to look into the heart of a flower, it opened up a whole new world… as if a window had been opened and let in the sun. -Princess Grace of Monaco What a desolate place would be a world without flowers. –Clara Balfour What a pity flowers can utter no sound! A singing rose, a whispering violet, a murmuring honeysuckle – Oh what a rare and exquisite miracle would there be. Henry Ward Beecher Shall I sing of happy hours numbered by opening and closing of flowers. – Hartly Coleridge I know a little garden close, set thick with lily and red rose, Where I would wander if I might from dewy morn to dewy night. – William Morris Who can forget those days when to announce the appearance of a bird… or the perfection of a full blown peony, was glory enough for one morning. –Joseph Tsreck Gather ye roses while ye may, Old time is still a-flying, And this same flower that smiles today Tomorrow will be dying. -Robert Herrick The windows of my soul, I throw wide open to the sun. –John Greenleaf Whittier A lily has an air, and the sundrop a grace, And the sweetpea a way, and the heartsense a face – Yet there’s nothing like the rose when she blows. -Christina Rosetti “The Rose” Here are sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight: With wings of gentle flush o’er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To bend them all about with tiny wings. -Keats SANCTUARY: a sacred asylum (: place of retreat), a refuge, consecrated to the worship of God. Come ye apart and rest awhile. -Jesus Christ …with every leaf, a miracle. –Walt Whitman September By Edwin Fallis A road like brown ribbon, A sky that is blue, A forest of green With that sky peeping through. Asters, deep purple, A grasshopper’s call, Today it is summer, Tomorrow is fall. One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides. –W E Johns A house, though otherwise beautiful, yet it hath no garden is more like a prison than a house. – William Coles More than anything, I must have flowers, always flowers. – Claude Monet For in the true nature of things, if we will rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver. –Martin Luther When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden. Minnie Alemonier Every gardener knows that under the cloak of winter lies a miracle… a seed waiting to sprout, a bulb opening to the light, a bud straining to unfurl. And the anticipation nurtures our dream. –Barbara Winkler God has given us memories that we may have roses in December. Yes, in the poor man’s garden grow far more than herbs and flowers – Kind thoughts, contentment, peace of mind, and joy for weary hours. – Mary Howitt There is pleasure in the pathless woods, There is rapture in the lonely shore. There is society where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in it’s roar: I love not man the less, but nature more. In the corner of my garden, where the wildflowers grow, I sit and I admire how God has graced us so. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. – Emerson Autumn is a second spring when every leaf’s a flower. -Albert Camus November has tied me to an old dead tree – get word to April to rescue me. -Tom Wait Steep thyself in a bowl of summer. -Virgil "To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few." Walk lightly in this garden; the wind may whisper of yesterdays that time stilled, not broken. And breathe again words heard but unspoken. –Mawmaw Tubby 1951 The sense that we have brought to birth out of the cold and heavy soil, These blessed fruits and flowers of earth is large reward for all our toil. -Ruth Pitter Those that come after me will gather these roses, and watch as I do now the white wisteria burst in the sunshine from it’s pale green sheath. –Mary Ursula Bethell “Time” What if you have seen it before, ten thousand times over? An apple tree in full blossom is like a message, sent from heaven to earth, of purity and beauty! -Henry Ward Beecher Nothing in this world is precious until we know that it will soon be gone. –Donald Culross Peatrie Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. –Pietro Aretino 1537 Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain. There is no season such delight can bring, as summer, autumn, winter and the spring. -William Browne Nature gives to every time and season, some beauties of its own. –Charles Dickens Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. – Albert Einstein All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature. –Aristotle The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of his tail. –Tagore A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothiness; but still will keep a bower quiet for us, and a sleep full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing. Therefore, on every morrow, are we wreathing a flowery band to bind us to earth. "Endymion" As for me, I know nothing else but miracles, Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan, Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky, Or wade with naked feet along the beach just in the edge of the water, Or stand under the trees in the woods, Or talk by day with any one I love, Or sleep in bed at night with any one I love, Or watch honey bees busy around the hive of a summer forenoon... Or the wonderfulness of the sundown, Or of stars shining so quiet and bright, Or the exquisite delicate thin curve of the new moon in spring... What stranger miracles are there? Walt Whitman "Ecclesiastes 3: 1-8" To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; a time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; a time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; a time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace. Emily Dickinson A Light exists in Spring not present on the Year at any other period -- when March is scarcely here. A Color stands abroad on Solitary Fields that Science cannot overtake but Human Nature feels. "Where the most beautiful wild-flowers grow; there one's spirit is fed and poets grow." June 15, 1852, Journal. "In Wildness is the preservation of the World.... Nature has a place for the wild clematis as well as for the cabbage." "The flowers of the earth do not grudge at one another, though one be more beautiful and fuller of virtue than another; but they stand kindly one by another, and enjoy one another's virtue." Jakob Boeme, c. 1600 Robert Frost, "The Road Not Taken" Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and sorry I could not travel both and be one traveler, long I stood and looked down one as far as I could to where it bent in the undergrowth; then took the other, as just as fair, and having perhaps the better claim, because it was grassy and wanted wear; though as for that the passing there had worn them really about the same, and both that morning equally lay in leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh somewhere ages and ages hence: two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. DAFFODILS William Wordsworth "I wandered lonely as a cloud that floats on high o'er vales and hills, when all at once I saw a crowd, a host of golden daffodils beside the lake, beneath the trees, fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine and twinkle on the milky way, they stretched in never-ending line along the margin of a bay: ten thousand saw I, at a glance, tossing their heads in sprightly dance. The waves beside them danced, but they outdid the sparkling waves in glee; a poet could not but be gay in such a jocund company; I gazed - and gazed - but little thought what wealth the show to me had brought. For oft, when on my couch I lie, in vacant or in pensive mood, t hey flash upon that inward eye which is the bliss of solitude; and then my heart with pleasure fills, and dances with the daffodils." |
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Quotes to consider for your personalization projects
| Come forsythia and hyacinth, join in glad refrain with iris, squill, and columbine for spring has come again. Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world. –Virgil A. Kraft The snowdrop is the prophet of the flowers; It lives and dies upon its bed of snows; And like a thought of spring it comes and goes. -George Meredith April by Sara Teasdale The roofs are shining from the rain, The sparrows twitter as they fly, And with a windy April grace The little clouds go by. Yet the backyards are bare and brown With only one unchanging tree— I could not be so sure of spring Save that it sings in me. And in green underwood and cover, Blossom by blossom the spring begins. -Algernon Charles Swinburne The flowers of late winter and early spring occupy places in our hearts well out of proportion to their size. -Gertrude S. Wister Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil. -Reginald Heber The daffodil is our doorside queen; She pushes upward the sword already, to spot with sunshine the early green. -William Cullen Bryant Tis my faith that every flower enjoys the air it breathes. William Wordsworth Stars will blossom in the darkness; Violets bloom beneath the snow. -Julia Caroline Ripley Dorr They speak of hope to the fainting heart, With a voice of promise they come and part, They sleep in dust through the wintry hours, They break forth in glory – bring flowers, bright flowers! -Felicia D. Hemans Came the spring with all its splendor, all its birds and all its blossoms, all its flowers and leaves and grasses. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Flowers may beckon toward us, but they speak toward heaven and God. -Henry Ward Beecher There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals. -John Ruskin Not a flower but shows some touch in freckle, streak or stain, of His unrivall’d pencil. -William Cowper The buttercups, bright –eyed and bold, held up their chalices of gold to catch the sunshine and the dew. -Julia C. R. Dorr I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one! -Edna St. Vincent Millay Open afresh your rounds of starry folds, Ye ardent marigolds. -John Keats The Amen of nature is always a flower. -Oliver Wendell Holmes That God once loved a garden We learn in Holy Writ. And seeing gardens in the Spring, I well can credit it. -Winifred M. Letts Flowers are words even a babe may understand. -Bishop Coxe Now the earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery. –Sappho All things seem possible in May. –Edwin Way Teale “North with the Spring” Frost locked all the winter, Seeds, and roots, and stones of fruits… Swollen with sap put forth their shoots; Curled-headed ferns sprout in the lane, Birds sing and pair again There is no time like Spring, When life’s alive in everything. –Christina Rosetti “Spring” But each spring… a gardening instinct, sore as the sap rising in the trees, stirs within us. We look about and decide to tame another little bit of ground. –Lewis Gannett For lo, the winter is past; the rain is over and gone, the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle dove is heard in our land. –Song of Solomon Spring is a heart full of hope and a shoe full of rain. Spring is a natural resurrection, an experience in immortality. –Thoreau Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze. – William Cowper BEHOLD Above, above All birds in air Below, below All earth’s flowers… Sing out and say Again the refrain Behold this lovely world. Mary Kawena Pukui Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed which is upon the face of the earth. –Genesis 1:29 Outside the open window the morning air is all awash with angels. – Richard Purdy Wilbur Just living is not enough, one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flowers. –Hans Christian Anderson If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere. –Vincent Van Gogh The earth laughs in flowers. -Emerson French: La Terre rit dans les fleurs. All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today. Flowers always make people better and happier; They are sunshine, food and medicine to the soul. -Luther Burbank And so I find it good to come for deeper peace to this still room. For here the heartbeat of the soul feels less the outer world’s control. To sit among the flowers all, the only sound a robin’s call. The world that hastens aptly on, falls off and leaves us God alone. If thou of fortune be bereft and in they store there be but left, two loaves, sell one and with the dole buy hyacinths to feed thy soul. If thou hast two loaves of bread, then sell one and buy flowers… For although the bread will nourish thy body, the flowers will nourish thy soul. Meet me in the garden. The kiss of the sun for pardon, the songs of the birds for mirth, One is nearer God’s heart in a garden than any place else on earth. In the corner of my garden, where the wildflowers grow, I sit and I admire how God has graced us so. God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees, and flowers, and clouds, and stars. Martin Luther The grass withers, the flowers fade, the Word of our God stands forever. Isaiah 40:8 Awake, North Wind, and come south wind! Blow upon my garden, that its fragrance may spread abroad. Song of Solomon 4:16 To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour. William Blake d. 1827 To see a world in a grain of sand, And heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour. -William Blake d1827 Faith sees the flower in every seed. Still another seed fell on good soil, It came up and yielded a crop, A hundred times more than was sown. Visit here this quiet nook, As songbirds rest their wing, Hearken softly, whisper low, And perchance you’ll hear them sing. Who plants a seed beneath the sod, And waits to see believes in God. The air is like a butterfly with frail blue wings. The happy earth looks at the sky and sings. -Joyce Kilmer Within each bulb a flower Within each seed a tree Hidden ‘til its season Where only God can see. Emily Dickinson The morns are meeker than they were The nuts are getting brown The berry's cheek is plumper The Rose is out of town. The Maple wears a gayer scarf the field a scarlet gown Lest I should be old fashioned I'll put a trinket on. “The little cares that fretted me, I lost them yesterday. among the fields, above the sea, among the winds at play; among the lowing of the herds, the rustling of the trees, among the singing of the birds, the humming of the bees. The foolish fears of what may pass, I cast them all away, among the clover-scented grass, among the new-mown hay; among the husking of the corn, where drowsy poppies nod, where ill thoughts die and good are born, out in the fields with God." In his garden every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation. –Louise Beebe Wilder “Color in My Garden” Trees are not known by their leaves, nor even by their blossoms, but by their fruits. -Eleanor of Aquitaine There is one great thing, the only thing: To live to see the great day that dawns and the light that fills the world. -Intuit song My garden, with it’s silence and pulses of fragrance that come and go on the airy undulations, affects me like sweet music. Care stops at the gates and gazes at me wistfully through the bars. – Alexander Smith The man around the corner keeps experimenting with new flowers every year and now has quite an extensive list of things he cannot grow. –William Vaughn b. 1577 American colonialist John Burroughs If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature; and the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand is nature. Nature we have always with us, an inexhaustible storehouse of that which moves the heart, appeals to the mind, and fires the imagination, - health to the body, a stimulus to the intellect, and joy to the soul. ...there's rosemary and rue; these keep seeming and savour all the winter long: grace and remembrance be to you..." The Winter's Tale - Shakespeare Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Thou art the Iris, fair among the fairest, who, armed with golden rod and winged with the celestial azure, bearest the message of some God. Thou art the muse, who, far from crowded cities hauntest the sylvan streams,playing on pipes of reed the artless ditties that come to us as dreams. O flower-de-luce, bloom on, and let the river linger to kiss thy feet! O flower of song, bloom on, and make forever the world more fair and sweet. Ralph Waldo Emerson These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones, they are for what they are; they exist with God to- day. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence. Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full-blown flower there is no more; in the leafless root there is no less. Its nature is satisfied and it satisfies nature in all moments alike. Keats A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness; but still will keep a bower quiet for us, and a sleep full of sweet dreams, and healthy, and quiet breathing. Therefore, on every morrow are we wreathing a flowery band to bind us to earth. "Endymion" Hymn - "For The Beauty of the Earth" For the beauty of the earth, for the glory of the skies, For the love which from our birth over and around us lies: For the beauty of each hour of the day and of the night, Hill and vale, and tree and flower, sun and moon and stars of light: For the joy of ear and eye, for the heart and mind's delight, For the mystic harmony linking sense to sound and sight: For the joy of human love, brother, sister, parent, child, friends on earth and friends above; for all gentle thoughts and mild: Refrain: Lord of all to thee we raise this our hymn of grateful praise. Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, little flower but if I could understand what you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is. Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1869 |
| The Lord has done great things for us and we are filled with joy. Psalm 126:3 Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born, I consecrated you. -Jeremiah 1:5 A wee bit of heaven drifted down from above, an armful of happiness, a heart full of love. A sweet, new blossom of humanity, fresh fallen from God's own home to flower on earth. Children are the hands by which we hold heaven. Henry Ward Beecher Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, a miracle happens. Every good and perfect gift is from above. -James 1: 17 May you be blessed by the Lord, the Maker of heave and earth. -Psalm 115:15 For I know the plans I have for you, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future. -Jeremiah 29:11 The Lord will keep you from all harm - he will watch over your life; the Lord will watch over your coming and going both now and forever. -Psalm 121:7-8 The Lord bless thee and keep thee, the Lord make his face shine upon thee and be gracious to thee: The Lord lift up His countenance upon thee and give thee peace. -Numbers 6:24-26 Angels shall guard thee. God has presented me with a precious gift. Genesis 30:20 May you be blessed. 1 Samuel 26:25 A new hand to hold, a new heart to love, a new life to lead. Little girls, like butterflies, need no excuse. -Robt A. Heinlein Where there is great love there are always miracles. -Willa Cather Babies are such a nice way to start people. -Don Herrold Wherever you go, go with all your heart. -Confucius God gives all men all earth to love, but since man’s heart is small, ordains for each one spot should prove beloved over all. -Rudyard Kipling May your goodness and love be with me all my life; and may your house be my home as long as I live. Based on Psalm 23:6 The HOME where people love God is filled with rich and beautiful things. Based on Psalm 24:4 Having someplace to go is a home. Having someone to love is family. Having both is a blessing. Many hearts one family. Family Forever, for always, and no matter what. A house is built with boards and beams A home is built with love and dreams. God rest your love upon this door, Bless this home forever more. May our faith grow exceedingly and the charity that each of us shows toward the others abound. 2 Thess. 1:3 Peace be to this house And to all who dwell in it Peace be to them that enter And to them that depart Bless this house which is our home May we welcome all who come. Life’s riches other rooms adorn But in a kitchen home is born. HOUSE PRAYER Louis Untermeyer "May nothing evil cross this door, and may ill-fortune never pry about these windows; may the roar and rains go by. Strengthened by faith, the rafters will withstand the battering of the storm. This hearth, though all the world grow chill will keep you warm. Peace shall walk softly through these rooms, touching your lips with holy wine, till every casual corner blooms into a shrine. Laughter shall drown the raucous shout and, though the sheltering walls are thin, may they be strong to keep hate out and hold love in." Marriage/Romantic Love The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved: loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. -Victor Hugo Come, put your hand in mine, True love, long sought and found at last. -Henry Van Dyke In the consciousness of belonging together, in the sense of constancy, resides the sanctity, the beauty of matrimony, which helps us to endure pain more easily, to enjoy happiness doubly, and to give rise to the fullest and finest development of our nature. -Fanny Lewald 1811-1889 Age does not protect you from love, but love, to some extent, protects you from age. -Jeanne Moreau b. 1928 We were two and had but one heart. – Francois Villon A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short. –Andre Maurois Cherish To have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part. Book of Common Prayer Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made: Our times are in His hand Who saith "A whole I planned, youth shows but half; trust God: see all, nor be afraid!" Robert Browning. …love will enter cloaked in friendship’s name. –Ovid In dreams and in love there are not impossibilities. –James Arany |
| What is the earth with all its art, verse, music worth – compared with love, found, gained and kept? Robert Browning I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out. -Eliz. Barrett Browning. What binds us together is the prayer, the promise and the lifting of each other’s burdens, the commitment we have made, and kept, to be companions to each other on the road we share. What binds us together is the laying down of our lives for each other in a way that we cannot even explain. –Robert Benson Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: For love is strong as death… Many waters cannot quench love, Neither can the floods drown it. SoS 8:6-7 I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears of all my life! -Elizabeth Barrett Browning To see coming toward you the face that will mean an end of oneness is - far more than birth itself – the beginning of life. –Holly Roth The world has little to bestow where two fond hearts in equal love are joined. -Anna Laetitia Barbauld My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep, the more I give to thee The more I have, for both are infinite. -Shakespeare Waking beside you is more lovely than any dream. Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale. Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased. Nor is it etched in stone, for stone can be broken. But it is inscribed on a heart and there it shall remain forever. TO MY DEAR AND LOVING HUSBAND Anne Bradstreet If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee; If ever wife was happy in a man Compare with me, ye women if you can. I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold, Or all the riches the east doth hold. My love is such that rivers cannot quench, Nor ought but love from thee give recompense. Thy love is such I can no way repay; The heavens reward thee manifold, I pray. Then while we live, in love let's so persever, That when we live no more we may live ever. May God be with you and bless you. May you see your children's children. May you be poor in misfortunes and rich in blessings. May you know nothing but happiness from this day forward. Irish Marriage Blessing THE MARRIAGE OF TRUE MINDS William Shakespeare Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark, That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth¹s unknown, although his height be taken. Love¹s not Time¹s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle¹s compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved. "APACHE BLESSING" "Now you will feel no rain for each of you will be shelter to the other. Now you will feel no cold for each of you will be warmth to the other. Now there is no more loneliness for each of you will be companion to the other. Now you are two bodies but there is only one life before you. Go now to your dwelling place to enter into the days of your togetherness. And may your days be good and long upon the earth." Christopher Marlowe Come live with me, and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods or steepy mountain yields. And we will sit upon the rocks, Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks, By shallow rivers, to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals. And I will make thee beds of roses, With a thousand fragrant posies, A cap of flowers, and a kirtle Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle. A belt of straw and ivy buds, With coral clasps and amber studs: And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me, and be my love. Family: Famiglia (IT), Famille (FR), Familie (GR), Familia (SP), De Familie (dutch) A mother’s love is like a rose… Always blooming, forever caring Always giving, forever sharing. We’ve been mother and daughter From the very start, But the friendship we’ve found Is God’s gift to my heart. A mother’s love perceives no impossibilities. –Cornelia Paddock A mother’s love is like a rose – Each passing day it grows and grows. The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. Honore de Balzac I remember my mother’s prayers, and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. –Abraham Lincoln He didn’t tell me how to live; He lived, and let me watch him do it. -Clarence Budington Kelland Nothing in life can hold more joys or more tears, can make you more proud or more tired, or give back more rewards than being a mother. Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ~Elizabeth Stone The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new. ~Rajneesh |