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The numbers on this charming desk clock are represented by 12 herbs, all native to America: basil, parsley, chives, mint and 8 more. The rich, cherry-stained wood case complements any décor.
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Mother's Day Quotes
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of children.--William Makepeace Thackeray (Indian born English author and novelist of 'Vanity Fair', 1811-1863)
The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.--Samuel Taylor Coleridge (English lyrical poet, critic and philosopher. 1772-1834)
Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at de sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground. --Zora Neale Hurston (American folklorist and writer, 1903-1960)
A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.--Irish Proverb
"Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all."--Oliver Wendell Holmes (American physician, poet and humorist. 1809-1894)
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 troubles thicken 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.--Washington Irving (American writer called the first American man of letters. Best known for the short stories The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle. 1783-1859)
"God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers." --Jewish Proverb
Men are what their mothers made them. - Ralph Waldo Emerson (American poet, lecturer and essayist, 1803-1882)
"The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom
of which you will always find forgiveness." -- Honore' de Balzac
(1799-1850)
"You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child
on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around - and why
his parents will always wave back."--William D. Tammeus (newspaper
columnist)
If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!--Rudyard Kipling (English short-story writer, poet, and novelist. Nobel Prize(1907), 1865-1936)
