![Magnolia blossom in natural setting](https://i2.wp.com/thelensandpen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Magnolia-Summer.jpg?resize=600%2C479)
Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love. – Stevie Wonder
![Hydrangea on White](https://i1.wp.com/thelensandpen.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Hydrangea-on-White.jpg?resize=600%2C399)
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers. – Rudyard Kipling
![Pink2Collage](https://i2.wp.com/thelensandpen.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Pink2Collage.jpg?resize=600%2C200)
Motherhood: All love begins and ends there. – Robert Browning
![ROSES-2997-Edit](https://i1.wp.com/thelensandpen.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ROSES-2997-Edit-1.jpg?resize=600%2C480)
It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful? – Mahatma Gandhi
![Lily-8](https://i2.wp.com/thelensandpen.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Lily-8.jpg?resize=600%2C901)
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. – Theodore Hesburgh
![Sunflowers-8333](https://i2.wp.com/thelensandpen.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Sunflowers-8333.jpg?resize=600%2C901)
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws. – Barbara Kingsolver
![Carnations-6176](https://i0.wp.com/thelensandpen.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Carnations-6176.jpg?resize=600%2C901)
There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing. – Billy Sunday
![Anemone Blue-](https://i2.wp.com/thelensandpen.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Anemone-Blue-.jpg?resize=600%2C441)
For when a child is born the mother also is born again. – Gilbert Parker
![Carnations--11](https://i2.wp.com/thelensandpen.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Carnations-11.jpg?resize=600%2C399)
I was always at peace because of the way my mom treated me. – Martina Hingis
![Pink Vertical Tulip With Bird](https://i0.wp.com/thelensandpen.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Pink-Vertical-Tulip-With-Bird.jpg?resize=600%2C901)
Who’s a boy gonna talk to if not his mother? – Donald E. Westlake
All floral photography and compositions copyright Nancy Kirkpatrick Photography
Mother’s Day, 2016