...Lincoln had an excellent mother, and when he filled the highest station he bore testimony to her worth : "All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother ; blessings on her memory ! " Her impress was made early, for she sunk under hardships and died when...

...flowers had bloomed above her grave for two score years, he said to a friend, with tears in his eyes : " All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother — blessings on her memory." In the autumn of the same year, Mr. Lincoln returned to his old home...

...dost, and had climbed to life again in forest flowers, Lincoln said to Herndon, with tears in his eyes: "All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother." —HOLLAND. DIALOGUE IN 1819. MRS. CRAWFORD: "What do you expect will become of you, Abe, if yon don't...

...fame and success had laid their crowns at his feet, Mr. Lincoln said, while tears filled his eyes: "All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother; blessings on her memory." In 1816 the family removed to Indiana and settled in the forest, about eighteen...

...spot where she was buried had been covered by the wreck of the forests, her son was wont to say, " All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother ; " and the first letter he ever wrote was written to a parson whom they had known in Kentucky, and...

...that true heart loved her until his dying day; that sitting in the Executive Mansion he should have said, " All that I am or hope to be I owe to my mother," or that when in his presence one spoke of strong sympathy with sorrow as a characteristic...

...covered by the wreck of the forest and almost hidden, her son was wont to say, with tear-dimmed eyes, "all that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother." It was the custom of those days, and of that country, to have a funeral sermon preached by way of memorial,...

...Lincoln always looked back to her with an unspeakable affection, and long after, said to a friend, " All that I am or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother." The tribute to Christian character would have been equally true of Dr. Holland's mother's, with the...

...the watchful mother. —Bulwer. THE mother's heart is the child's schoolroom. — H. IV. ßeechcr. ALL that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. — Lincoln, LET France have good mothers, and she will have good sons. — Napoleon. THE future destiny...

...manhood, as he recalls them, he will not think it unmanly to say, with tearful eyes and choking voice, 'All that I am or hope to be I owe to my mother.' " 8, 9. Thou shalt hind them for a sign upon thine hand, and . . . between thine eyes —...