“When your children are teenagers ... Mstislav Rostropovich, cellist, conductor In addition to these mother-son quotes, these Mother’s Day short stories will warm your heart.

Here we round up the quotes from literature that best encapsulate ... It is what moulds their entire being. When a mother sees her child in danger, she is literally capable of anything.

Now, parenthood has me walking in lockstep with one of the world’s most famous feisty, Italian cloistered nuns: Mother Angelica. A champion for ordinary holiness, her spirituality challenges us ...