“When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.”
Sophia Loren
“For the hand that rocks the cradle - Is the hand that rules the world”
William Ross Wallace
“The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary”
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
“A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.”
Washington Irving
“The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.”
Honore de Balzac
“I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.”
Abraham Lincoln