Mother — that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries. – T. DeWitt Talmage

What are Raphael’s Madonnas but the shadow of a mother’s love, fixed in permanent outline forever? – Thomas Wentworth Higginson

There is an instinct in a woman to love most her own child — and an instinct to make any child who needs her love, her own. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn’t take them along. – Margaret Culkin Banning