love poems for mom from daughter

You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat. ~Albert Einstein



Cats are notoriously sore losers. Coming in second best, especially to someone as poorly coordinated as a human being, grates their sensibility. ~Stephen Baker



The Bible looks like it started out as a game of Mad Libs. ~Bill Maher



Angels are direct creations of God, each one a unique Master's piece. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994



A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins. ~Charles Lamb, Last Essays of Elia, 1833



Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us. ~Henrik Tikkanen



He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody. ~Joseph Heller, Catch-22, 1961



Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is? ~Frank Scully



One man's daydreaming is another man's novel. ~Grey Livingston



I've met so many people, often the scum of the earth, and found them, you know, quite decent. I am an uncomfortable stranger to moral indignation. ~W. Somerset Maugham



Let no man's ghost return to say his training let him down. ~Firefighters Saying



I prefer the word homemaker, because housewife always implies that there may be a wife someplace else. ~Bella Abzug



Seven days without laughter makes one weak. ~Mort Walker



Labor was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labor, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased. ~Adam Smith



I didn't want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn't know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I'd cry for a week. I could feel the tears brimming and sloshing in me like water in a glass that is unsteady and too full. ~Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar



To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right. ~Confucius



The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. ~Henry David Thoreau



I watched the Indy 500, and I was thinking that if they left earlier they wouldn't have to go so fast. ~Steven Wright



Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses. ~Adlai Stevenson



The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity. ~Clifford Stoll