Learn Through Quotations

“If you love someone tell them... because hearts are often broken by words left unspoken.”

“I cannot forget my mother. She is my bridge. When I needed to get across, she steadied herself long enough for me to run across safely.”

“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.”

“Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!”

“My whole heart for my whole life.”

“If I was damned of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, Mother o' mine, O mother o'mine.”

“Little girls are precious gifts, wrapped in love screen. Their dresses tied with sashes and futures tied with dreams.”

“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.”

“Proust had his madeleines; I am devastated by the scent of yeast bread rising.”

“What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.”

“Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.”

“What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?”

“Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in my field, since the payment is pure love.”

“One of the good things that come of a true marriage is, that there is one face on which changes come without your seeing them; or rather there is one face which you can still see the same, through all the shadows which years have gathered upon it.”

“A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.”

“A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.”

“Like star dust glistening on fairies'wings Little girls dreams are of magical things.”

“A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.”

“One lamp - thy mother's love - amid the stars Shall lift its pure flame changeless, and before The throne of God, burn through eternity - Holy - as it was lit and lent thee here.”

“What is a mom but the sunshine of our days and the north star of our nights.”

“Little girls are just angels who haven't yet spread their wings.”

“We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.”

“That quiet mutual gaze of a trusting husband and wife is like the first moment of rest or refuge from a great weariness or a great danger.”

“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.”