No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother’s love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over wastes of worldly fortunes sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star. – Edwin Hubbell Chapin
No one in the world can take the place of your mother. Right or wrong, from her viewpoint you are always right. She may scold you for little things, but never for the big ones. – Harry Truman
Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. – Marion C. Garretty, quoted in A Little Spoonful of Chicken Soup for the Mother&#
Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions. – Charles Dickens