The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men — from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Perhaps we are given a mom that we might take into death the memory of a lullaby. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. – Honoré de Balzac