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"My mother is the nervous type, always worried about everyone in the family -- but we know her love for us is endless and from the heart. I can't imagine a 'Mom' that I could love more."
- Michele Sharp

"Although I was born in poverty, I had the great privilege of having tremendous parents.
My mom and dad always showed terrific love, appropriate discipline, encouragement, and exemplary conduct, without which, I could not have accomplished 1/1000 of the good things I've been able to accomplish in my life. As I write this, Mom is now 88 years-of-age and

although dad has died, continues to be
an inspiration, counsel, advisor, and kindly critic for me. I love her very much. If I have accomplished anything good in this life, my mother deserves the bulk of the credit."
- Senator Orrin Hatch

"I was twenty-one in 1943 with four beautiful 'treasures.' I still wonder if I was a worthy mother? I was so young, and terribly unqualified to cope with every challenge. Life continues and as one looks backward, there are many glorious memories -- and some, also, that are less than ideal -- leaving much to be desired. There can be such a waste of time in life, performing unloving and uncaring deeds. Days blend one into another, but on days like this, I can imagine each day as a fragment placed into squares and then put together as
a quilt. I might prefer each square to
be bright and sunny yet, sadly, one needs to shuffle some 'grays' about
to accent the cheery days -- into a
blend pleasing to our eyes."
- Mary Becker Reesor

"As small children, in the fall of each year, we would sit around the fireplace. Mother would give us slices of homemade bread with a butter spread. As she handed the bread to us, she would warn -- 'Don't throw the crumbs in the fire because that's a sin.' Even though that was about seventy years ago, whenever I put bread scraps into the garbage, her words come back to me." - Ruth Sims

"My mother always told us, 'You can do anything you want to do if you just try hard enough.' Sometimes it's actually true!"
- Nancy Dickerson Whitehead

"My mother was
a loving mother to all eleven of her children. I love her even though she's not with us today. She lives in my heart." - Cristy Lane, singer of a great song: "One Day At A Time."

"Everybody on this earth has had a mother -- even Jesus," declared famous singer and song writer Patsy Montana. "My mother had six boys before she was thirty-five years old and then she had me -- a girl. She had four more boys while trying to get me a sister, but -- no luck!"

Actress Brenda Vaccaro gave us this tribute to her Mom: "My mother is the greatest lady I have ever known! She has been there to guide me my whole life -- to be what I am today -- with support, love and wisdom."

The original "Country Music Outlaw" David Allan Coe had this to say with his many fans: "I have experienced the love
of my children and the love of many others, but nothing has surpassed the love my mother has shown me over the years."

Teenager Adrian Hilyer believes mothers are doing a good job when... "They show love during those sick flu nights by holding your head over the toilet while you barf -- and when she helps her child grow up."