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All About Mom: From Mark Twain to Maya Angelou--Insights, Thoughts, And Life Lessons on Motherhood Dahlia Porter, Gabriel Cervantes Nothing else in life compares to the one-of-a-kind bond mothers have with their children. Filled with more than 400 heartfelt reflections from such luminaries as Sylvia Plath, Booker T. Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Helen Keller, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Thomas Edison, Mark Twain, Jamaica Kincaid, Anne Tyler, and Amy Tan, All About Mom is a wise, witty, touching, and always honest look at what it really means to be mom.
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Wisdom from the Proverbs Bargain Books Staff Guidance and wisdom from the Book of Proverbs is at your fingertips in the handy vest pocket edition. |
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Smart Quotations For Smart People Paul Bowden This book is full of smart quotations (quotations that are either good advice or useful truths). If you're smart when you start reading it, you'll be even smarter by the time you finish it! |
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Women with Spirit: Book Two: More Daily Quotations by Inspiring Women Another volume with 365 quotations exclusively by celebrated and uncelebrated women to motivate, inspire, inform, entertain, validate, and at times, challenge you! Each month is assigned a different topic and each daily quote, presented one per page, relates to that topic.
Use the book for daily inspiration or review the quotes on specific topics when you need a fresh perspective.
For more inspiring words by women, see my first volume, Women with Spirit: Daily Quotations by Inspiring Women. This volume uses the same format yet has completely different topics and quotations. |
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Writing Conversations: Spend 365 Days with Your Favorite Authors Learning the Craft of Writing Cherie K. Miller Writing Conversations is about the daily life of the writer. How do you keep motivated in your craft when it's just you? Spend a moment of each day listening to the voices of your favorite connoisseur of the writing craft. Learn what they know about how to become a successful author. Whether it's the first line, the last line, how to find an agent or how to publish, it's all here. Learn how to launch the bestseller that's been incubating inside of you for so long. Writing Conversations has just what you need! |
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Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations Various This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery. |
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50 Mother's Day Quotes (Quotes of Inspiration) NEED SOME INSPIRING WORDS FOR MOTHER'S DAY?
Want just the right words for your loving mother?
The perfect quote for that beautiful being like no other?
A way to bring a smile to the person that gave you life, held you tight, and made your world seem just right?
Then you'll be delighted by these inspiring and profound quotes from some of the world's most famous people.
After all, nothing is more powerful than seeing what a great influence mothers have had, especially when you hear it expressed by people who have done some great things.
So in Honor of Mother's Day, here are 50 of the best quotes about mothers from presidents, poets, artists and other famous people.
Use these inspirational Mother's Day quotes to...
* Decorate cards
* Make as bookmarks
* Write in scrapbooks and photo books
* Email to your Mom
* Text it to her
* Post it on Facebook or Twitter
* Just say it to her!
These 50 quotes are inspiring, motivational, loving, thought-provoking, and at times, just plain funny.
Whatever you are looking for, you are sure to find one that you connect with!
~ Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
~ Abraham Lincoln
~ Leonardo DiCaprio
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
~ Rudyard Kipling
~ Sophia Loren
~ Oprah Winfrey
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
~ Emily Dickinson
~ Erma Bombeck
... and dozens more!
Did you know?
A loving mother prepares us for a successful and happy life.
In fact, psychologists say that when we form secure attachments to our mothers, we use that as a safe haven from which to go out and explore the world.
The love of a mother for her child is...
* unselfish
* unconditional
* intuitive
* unique
* forgiving
* everlasting
Mothers are there to protect and care for their families...
...with true compassion that's without a price.
Mothers are not perfect, but just "good enough" to cement a life-long bond with their children.
So just tell your Mom how much she means to you.
Or express to your wife what a great Mother she is.
Whatever the reason, here are the words that will lift her heart and put a smile on her face. |
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I, Steve: Steve Jobs in His Own Words (In Their Own Words) Drawn from more than three decades of media coverageprint, electronic, and onlinethis tribute serves up the best, most thought-provoking insights ever spoken by Steve Jobs: more than 200 quotations that are essential reading for everyone who seeks innovative solutions and inspirations applicable to their business, regardless of size.
Jobs, who passed away on October 5, 2011 at the age of 56, co-founded Apple in 1976. He stepped down from that role in August 2011, bringing an end to one of the greatest, most transformative business careers in history. Over the years, Jobs gave countless interviews to the media, explaining what he called the vision thing”his unmatched ability to envision, and successfully bring to the marketplace, consumer products that people find simply irresistible.
Jobs made an indelible mark in multiple industries, and played an enormous role in creating others. Consider how Jobs and Apple shaped the following fields: personal computers (laptop and desktop), apps (for multiple electronic devices), computer animation (Pixar), music (iTunes), telecommunications (iPhone), personal digital devices (iPod), books (iBook), and, most recently, tablets (iPad). Jobs was the greatest business visionary of our era.
I, Steve is the perfect gift or reference item for everyone interested in this great American original.
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Thank-you (Tiny Tomes Minitures) Edited by Bridget Sullivan |
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Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack (Dover Thrift Editions) Benjamin Franklin Hundreds of delightful aphorisms, carefully selected from many issues of Franklin's popular 18th-century publication: "Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise"; "Love your Neighbor; yet don't pull down your Hedge"; "He that lies down with Dogs, shall rise up with fleas" and many more. |