Last month, my blogging sister and good friend Merril Smith tagged me for the Three Quotes in Three Days challenge, and I’m actually a little sad that today is my last day. For today’s quote, I at first wanted to share a quote about motherhood. There are so many excellent quotes on this subject, but my absolute favorite comes from Rod Tidwell (who was Cuba Gooding Jr.’s character in the movie Jerry Maguire… which is odd because I didn’t like the movie, but that quote has stuck with me ever since). The quote was simply, “A single mother — That’s a sacred thing, man.” Isn’t that beautiful?
Some of my other favorites are as follows:
“It’s easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” -Frederick Douglass
“Your children need your presence more than your presents.” -Jesse Jackson
“The trouble with being a parent is that by the time you are experienced, you are unemployed.” -Anonymous
“Whenever I held my newborn baby in my arms, I used to think that what I said and did to him could have an influence not only on him, but on all whom he met, not only for a day or a month or a year, but for all eternity – a very challenging and exciting thought for a mother.” -Rose Kennedy
“When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.” -Sophia Loren
“God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.” – Jewish Proverb
“If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?” -Milton Berle
But because I couldn’t narrow my favorite motherhood quotes down to only one, I decided to go a different direction altogether, and go with something lighthearted, whimsical, and downright funny. Therefore the perfect choice for the person who said my quote for today was obviously Mark Twain. (He always had something humorous to say, didn’t he?) So without further ado, here’s my last quote in this challenge:
“Clothes make the man; naked people have little or no influence in society.”
-Mark Twain
And for my last nomination of someone to participate, I’d like to recommend Phantom Writer. Though I don’t know her name, every time her gravatar pops up in my comments, it makes me smile. She always has something witty to blog about, and I know she’ll be a successful writer in her journey. You can follow her at https://phantomwriter143.wordpress.com/.
Let’s talk: Do YOU like being tagged in these blog challenges? Is there a particular subject on which you have more than one favorite quote? Do you think I cheated by adding more than one quote each day?
I think it’s funny that you wrote all those motherhood quotations to say you weren’t going to use them. But the Mark Twain quotation is great. 🙂
LOL! Thank you! 🙂
love the cuba gooding quote and I’m more into reading other people’s choices, than making my own and being tagged )
LOL! Thanks, Beth! 🙂
You cheated . . . you definitely cheated. 🙂 “Nobody loves me but my mama, and she could be jivin’, too.”–B.B. King
LOL! Oh, that’s a good one! 😀
I like the blog challenges but the problem with me is I always feel the need to somehow make the challenges into poems which doesn’t always work for me and then I feel bad. On the other hand, if taking challenges and making them into poems isn’t cheating, then adding more than one quote certainly is not. These challenges are meant to offer inspiration and as long as they do that, you’re good.
Oh, perhaps I should have tagged you to see if you could rhyme a quote…. I know you’d pull it off fabulously. 😉
Thank you Rachel!
Good work here as always, Rachel. To answer your question: Sometimes I love being tagged. Sometimes I tolerate being tagged. Sometimes I say, oh, no! Guess I’m human. 😉
LOL! That’s a thorough answer, Mark 🙂
Thanks for sharing Rachel! I really like the quote about parents being unemployed by the time they become experienced. So true it seems 🙂
LOL! Thanks! 😀
Woohoo!!! Thanks for tagging me, Rachel!!! I’m so excited! I love being tagged for things. It helps on the days I can’t what to blog about. Haha!!! (And my name is Amy, FYI). 🙂
LOL! (I actually knew it from your Pinterest, but since you don’t mention it on your blog, I thought you’d prefer to remain anonymous.) 🙂
Oh, duh!!! Silly me. I can be incredibly thick sometimes. 🙂
I’ve always loved quotes. 🙂 I like being tagged, but usually drop the ball on participating simply because I don’t blog nearly as much as I used to, but rather use what time I have to work on my novels instead. I do however, LOVE to keep up with my blogging friends! 🙂
Well, I, for one, am glad you can at least find time to keep up, otherwise I’d miss you! I just told someone your bird hatching story today. You always have so many inspirational and motivational posts to share. 🙂
Awwww, thanks Rachel! 🙂