Showing posts with label Abraham Lincoln. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Abraham Lincoln. Show all posts

Sunday, May 08, 2016

Quote of the Day for 2016-05-08, Mother's Day


"All I am or can be I owe to my angel-mother."

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) Quoted by William Herndon to George Alfred Townsend in The real life of Abraham Lincoln (1867)

Hagar and Ishmael by Jean Charles Cazin (1880)

Saturday, August 29, 2015

Quote of the Day for 2015-08-29


"I don't know who my grandfather was, and am more concerned to know what his grandson will be."

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) Quoted by Ida Tarbell in The Early Life of Abraham Lincoln

Slave children, probably in North Carolina, cira 1860.