poems for mom from daughter

Infinity is a floorless room without walls or ceiling. ~Author Unknown



My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat. ~Leo Tolstoy



I believe in prayer. It's the best way we have to draw strength from heaven. ~Josephine Baker



Belief is when someone else does the thinking. ~Buckminster Fuller, 1972



Friendship is Love, without his wings. ~Lord Byron, L'Amitie est l'Amour sans Ailes



"But" is a fence over which few leap. ~German Proverb



Never believe in mirrors or newspapers. ~Tom Stoppard



I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship. ~Louisa May Alcott



Does the father figure in your cat's life ever clean the litter box? My husband claims that men lack the scooping gene. ~Barbara L. Diamond



People are giving birth underwater now. They say it's less traumatic for the baby because it's in water. But certainly more traumatic for the other people in the pool. ~Elayne Boosler



We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays



Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated. ~Erma Bombeck



The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night's sleep. ~E. Joseph Cossman



A dogma will thrive in soil where the truth could not get root. ~Lemuel K. Washburn, Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays



Moderation is a fatal thing; nothing succeeds like excess. ~Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance, 1894



Women have had the power of naming stolen from us. ~Mary Daly



If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair. ~Samuel Johnson



Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. ~Lily Tomlin as "Edith Ann"



The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best. ~Paul Valery, Tel Quel, 1943