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375 Inspirational Mother And Son Quotes: (For Mom In 2023)

Writer: Jonno WhiteJonno White

Updated: Jan 15, 2023

1. “We almost lost my mom to cancer 10 years ago — she survived. Every day we’re a grateful family to have her and all our loved ones around us.” – Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson


2. All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother- Abraham Lincoln


3. “If you would have your son to walk honorably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them – not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone.” – Anne Bronte


4. “I love my son more than anything. I will do whatever it takes to make sure he is raised the right way.”


5. “When you were a toddler you made me smile. When you were a teenage you made me worry.


6. “A woman is not able to re-educate any man. But she is able to bring up her son to be a real man.”


7. “Thanks mom.” — Nathan Chen


8. “Mother is her son’s first god; she must teach him the most important lesson of all – how to love.” – TF Hodge


9. “My son is a blessing in every way.” – Elizabeth Emken


10. “Be strong out there, my son. Look for the love and kindness in others. Forgive yourself when you make mistakes, and enjoy the journey.” – Kirsten Wreggitt


11. And she loved a little boy very, very much, even more than she loved herself. – Shel Silverstein


12. “I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.” ― Abraham Lincoln


13. “Raising a boy is so different from raising someone of her own gender, but a mother did it anyway, and she did it well.”


14. “It doesn’t matter what problems follow a man; he always knows that he is the best for his mother.”


15. Mother is her son’s first god; she must teach him the most important lesson of all, how to love. – T. F. Hodge


16. I constantly go between wanting you to be my baby forever, and being excited about all the amazing things you’ll do in this life.


17. “The years will rush by, and one day you will be watching your son as a man, and feeling incredibly proud that he is caring, safe, making a contribution, and hopefully going far beyond you in the scope of his life.” – Steve Biddulph


18. “Love as powerful as your mother’s leaves its own mark. To have been loved so deeply will give us some protection forever.” — J.K. Rowling


19. “Fathers are what their mothers made them.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson


20. “Mother, dearest mother, no other woman compares to you. You were strong in the darkest hour and you showed me the strength to achieve victory. So at this moment my victories and achievements belong to you.” ― Mark Frank


21. A son will always need his mom. Even if he has a wife and children, his mother’s hugs will always keep him warm.


22. “When I was a child, my mother said to me, ‘If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general. If you become a monk you’ll end up as the pope.’ Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.” – Pablo Picasso


23. “My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.” — Mark Twain


24. “I remember my mother’s prayers, and they have always followed me. They have clung to be all my life.” – Abraham Lincoln


25. A woman is not able to re-educate any man, but she is able to create one.


26. The most important mark I will leave on this world is my son. –unknown


27. You will be his first his, his first love, his first friend. You’re his momma and he is your whole world. He is your little boy.


28. “I love the little boy you are now and the man you will become.”


29. “My mother told me, ‘Son, nobody else but God knows.’ And that’s what I’m about, reaching out to the people, crying with them, giving them hope. Visiting the hospital, visiting the kids with cancer, visiting the adults, and stuff like that. That’s what I do.” – Mr. T


30. Yet now in my arms, I was holding a helpless baby boy who would grow into a man. I cannot imagine that soft little face one-day having whiskers.” – Rhonda Stoppe


31. “I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.” – Maya Angelou


32. “A baby boy will forever change the way his mother looks at the world, and for that she’ll love him and thank him forever.”


33. There has never been, nor will there ever be, anything quite as special as the love between a mother and a son.


34. “There ought to be a hall of fame for mamas


35. “There is no role in life that is more essential than that of motherhood.” – Elder M. Russell Ballard


36. “But sons have to be soldiers. And soldiers adapt.” ― Alex Irvine


37. Even more than the time when she gave birth, a mother feels her greatest joy when she hears others refer to her son as a wise learned one. – Thiruvalluvar


38. “There is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that transcends all other affections of the heart.” – Washington Irving


39. “The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.” – James E. Faust


40. There has never been, nor will there ever be, anything quite so special as the love between the mother and a son.


41. “Little boys can test your patience, run you ragged, and make you want to pull your hair out. But they will also melt your heart with just one look, and make you wonder how you ever existed before them.” – Katie Bingham Smith


42. “Every mother hopes that her daughter will marry a better man than she did, and is convinced that her son will never find a wife as good as his father did.” – Martin Andersen Nexo


43. “Let your boys test their wings. They may not be eagles, but that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t soar free.” – C.J. Milbrandt


44. “If you want to remember your childhood, don`t forget that it was your mother, who gave it to you.”


45. “To my son, never forget that I love you. Life is filled with hard times and good times. Learn from everything you can. Be the man I know you can be.”


46. “She was the strongest person I ever met.” — Anderson Cooper


47. “My mother is the reason that I love you,’ Bhim said simply. ‘She is the reason I know what love is.” ― Leah Franqui


48. “My mother carried me for ten months. I asked her ‘Mother, you had an extra month, why you didn’t make me a beautiful face?’ and mother told me, ‘My son, I was busy making your beautiful hands and heart.’” – Mstislav Rostropovich


49. “When you teach your son, you teach your son’s son.” — The Talmud


50. My son makes me smile when he stands up for what he believes in even if it’s right to have a second portion of dessert.


51. “A mother hopes that her son will find a wife that will love and respect him in the same way she does.”


52. “Raising boys has made me a more generous woman than I really am. Undoubtedly, there are other routes to learning the wishes and dreams of the presumably opposite sex, but I know of none more direct, or more highly motivating, than being the mother of sons.” – Mary Kay Blakely


53. A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. – Victor Hugo


54. “Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process.” – John F. Kennedy


55. “Having a child makes you realize the most importance of life – narcissism goes out of the window. Heaven on earth is looking at my little boy. The minute he was born, I knew if I never did anything other than being a mom, I’d be fine.” – Jenny McCarthy


56. I live for my sons. I would be lost without them. – Princess Diana


57. “Good mothers that it takes a sense of freedom and patience to raise their sons into fantastic men to be proud of!”


58. “You will be his first his, his first love, his first friend. You’re his momma and he is your whole world. He is your little boy.”


59. “Son, you will outgrow my lap but never my heart.”


60. A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it’s too late to let her know that he sees it. – W. D. Howells


61. “I never thought I would say this but raising a daughter is different than raising a son. But the one thing that is not different is my love for each of them.” – Catherine Pulsifer


62. “I live for my sons. I would be lost without them.” – Princess Diana


63. Why innovation is key to surviving uncertainty


64. I would rather have ideas and some difficulties of technique than a perfect technique and no ideas.” — Mstislav Rostropovich


65. “No matter how strong, independent, or ‘man’ you are, the first thing that comes to your mind when you’re sick is, ‘I wish Mom was here.’”


66. There is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that trancends all other affections of the heart. — Washington Irving


67. “I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.” — Martha Gellhorn


68. “There has never been, nor will there ever be, anything quite so special as the love between the mother and a son.”


69. “I want you to know that you can be anyone that you want to be. The world is your stage, and you have the whole world right in front of you. All you need to do is take that chance. Love you, son.”


70. “A good son will never allow sorrow to befall his mother…and act as if he is an only child that cares…protects when no one dares…serves with his life in return…and most of all finds a wife that will love his mother too.” – Helen Rebibis Ramos


71. My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind. – Michael Jordan


72. “Twenty years on I still feel the love she gave us and that is testament to her massive heart and her amazing ability to be a great mother.” ― Prince William


73. “A son is a mother’s most precious treasure.”


74. “A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.” – Irish Proverb


75. “The most important mark I will leave on this world is my son.” – Sarah Shahi


76. He who can be a good son will be a good father.


77. “It doesn’t matter how old a son is. Even when he is big and strong he is always a small boy for his mother.”


78. “When you were a toddler you made me smile.


79. “Because I feel that, in the Heavens above. The angels, whispering to one another, can find, among their burning terms of love. None so devotional as that of Mother.” — Edgar Allan Poe


80. To be a mother of a son is one of the most important things you can do to change the world. Raise them to respect women, raise them to stand up for others, raise them to be kind. – Shannon L. Alder


81. That the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.” – Glen Campbell & Steve Wariner


82. “As a general thing, when a woman wears pants in a family, she has a good right to them.” – Josh Billings


83. The bond between a mother and son lasts a lifetime. The bond between a mother and son is a special one. It remains unchanged by time or distance, and it is the purest love, unconditional and true. It is an understanding of any situation and forgiving of any mistake.


84. “A son is the only man who can complete his mother’s womanhood.” – Unknown


85. Sometimes when I need a miracle, I look into my son’s eyes, and realize I’ve already created one.


86. “An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.” – Spanish Proverb


87. “A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.” ― Victor Hugo


88. When you were a teenage you made me worry.


89. “All I am; I owe to my mother.” — George Washington


90. A son will surely outgrow his mother’s lap. But he will never outgrow his place in her heart.


91. That strong mother doesn’t tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in. – Lauryn Hill


92. It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son – and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him. – Helen Rowland


93. “Even more than the time when she gave birth, a mother feels her greatest joy when she hears others refer to her son as a wise learned one.” – Thiruvalluvar


94. To a mother, a son is never a fully grown man; and a son is never a fully grown man until he understands and accepts this about his mother.


95. “When you teach your son, you teach your son’s son.” – The Talmud


96. “A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.” – Dorothy Canfield Fisher


97. “I wouldn’t be doing any of this if it weren’t for her, both my parents. She supported this little kid who said, ‘I want to be an actor,’ at 12 years old, which is ridiculous, and she drove me to all these auditions … She’s the only reason I’m able to do what I do.”- Leonardo DiCaprio


98. “Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes


99. “There are no goodbyes, wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.” – Mahatma Gandhi


100. “The only man who has stolen my heart is my son.”– Sandra Bullock


101. “Divine love is rare to find, and the perfect example of it can be found in the way a mother loves her son.”


102. “One of the greatest gifts you can give your teenage boy is the gift of letting him know you get it. You’ve been there.” – Sebastian R. Jones


103. “I’m a mother of a three year old, but when I started ‘California,’ my son wasn’t even a twinkle in my eye. Because the book took as long as it did, I wrote it before I was pregnant, while I was pregnant, and as a new mother. So I enjoyed a diversity of experiences while creating this world.” – Edan Lepucki


104. Mothers play such an important role in the life of their sons. There is a deep connection between a mother and her son that starts from the moment of conception.


105. “A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.” – Agatha Christie


106. “Don’t raise your kids to have more than you had, raise them to be more than you were.” — Jackie Kennedy


107. “I am a boy mom, and I keep my eyes on the goal: raising the boy I love into a man who will make this world a better place.” — Monica Swanson


108. Raising a boy is so different from raising someone of her own gender, but a mother did it anyway, and she did it well.


109. A boy’s best friend is his mother. Joseph Stefano


110. “As the mother of a son, I do not accept that alienation from me is necessary for his discovery of himself. As a woman, I will not cooperative in demeaning womanly things so that he can be proud to be a man. I like to think the women in my son’s future are counting on me.” – Letty Cottin Porgrebin


111. “To wake up to the sound of my son saying ‘Mama, mama!’ It’s the best sound ever.” – Miranda Kerr


112. “I thank my mother (Ma, you’re only second cause you got the dedication), who used to make me write essays whenever I got into trouble, explaining exactly what I’d done and why I’d done it.” ― Ta-Nehisi Coates


113. “But boys are different from girls and not just physically. Acknowledging, appreciating, and understanding that boys are boys is essential in raising a son.” – Catherine Musco Garcia-Prats


114. “I spent a lifetime being small for those closest to me but this is not the woman my son will know.”― Jewel, Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story


115. “The moment that little bundle of pink, squirming flesh slips into our arms, love touches us. We feel it, not just in our hearts, but also on our skin. He is there. Our son.” – Meg Meeker Md


116. “When my son was little, we mothers always did the Halloween parties, and I would wear my orange and black chanel. It comes in handy on October 31. I’m the chicest pumpkin around.” – Karen Katz


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118. “Having a child makes you realize the importance of life, narcissism goes out the window. Heaven on earth is looking at my little boy. The minute he was born, I knew if I never did anything other than being a mom, I’d be fine.” – Jenny McCarthy


119. “A society without mothers would not only be a cold society, but a society that has lost its heart, lost the feel of home.” — Pope Francis


120. I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.- Maya Angelou


121. You are loved for the boy you are, the man you will become, and the precious son you will always be.


122. “No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.” ― Thomas Huxley


123. “My wild, wild son, run free. Ooh, you’ll know it when you’re where you’re supposed to be.” – Armin van Buuren & Sam Martin


124. “Mothers, be thankful for raising sons who can appreciate the way you love and care for them!”


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126. “There will be many times you will feel like you have failed. But in the eyes, heart and mind of your child, you are supermom.” – Stephanie Precourt


127. A man who treats his woman like a princess is proof that he has been born and raised in the arms of a queen.


128. “When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this Earth.” – Mitch Albom


129. “A son is the only man who can complete his mother’s womanhood.”


130. I’m thankful for my son’s laughter. It’s the sound of all that’s right in the world.


131. “No matter how many Legos I step on, I’m always so grateful to be your mom.”


132. “You are ugly when you love her, you are beautiful and fresh, vital and free, modern and poetic. When you don’t, you are more beautiful as an orphan than as your mother’s son.” – Witold Gombrowicz


133. “Sons worship their mothers, seeing them as flawless, almighty beings who spread love and who are able to do anything.”


134. “A mother is a son’s first true love. A son, especially that first son, is a mother’s last true love.” — Denzel Washington


135. “I didn’t know my purpose in this world and I had always wondered why I was born until you were born to me. I love you, son.”


136. “The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge


137. “Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.” ― Napoleon Bonaparte


138. Raise Kids who come to you with problems, not hide from you with these tips on communicating with teens and kids.


139. “My son is my baby, today, tomorrow, and always. You hurt him, I will hurt you. I don’t care if he’s 1 day or 50 years old, I will defend and protect him all of my life!”


140. “A mother is a person who, seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.” – Tenneva Jordan


141. “My son makes me smile when he stands up for what he believes in, even if it’s his right to have a second portion of dessert.”


142. “Nothing makes a deeper impression on a boy than seeing his strong mother suddenly girlish and hurt.”― Stefan Hertmans


143. “And be very careful at the front, Paul.” Ah, Mother, Mother! Why do I not take you in my arms and die with you. What poor wretches we are!” ― Erich Maria Remarque


144. “A man’s desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.” – Helen Rowland


145. “A mother can do her son a big favour by simply loving him, standing by his side and having his back in everything he does.”


146. “A boy’s best friend is his mother.” – Joseph Stefano


147. “Mother gives her hand to a son only for a while, and she presents him her heart for life.”


148. “Motherhood is the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It’s huge and scary – it’s an act of infinite optimism.” – Gilda Radner


149. “A mother is the only woman who is able to understand your tears without judging you.”


150. “A mother is always proud of her son, not because he has achieved something, but because he is her son.”


151. “If you try singling me out to my mother, she’ll be down your throat. She has three sons, and she’s equally proud of us all.” – Lee Pearson


152. “There is one man I love more than any other; he is my son.”


153. “I’m thankful for my son’s laughter. It’s the sound of all that’s right in the world.”


154. “I can imagine no heroism greater than motherhood.” – Lance Conrad


155. Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.”– Stevie Wonder


156. “My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.” – Michael Jordan


157. It doesn’t matter how old a son is. Even when he is big and strong he is always a small boy for his mother.


158. “A mother’s love doesn’t make her son more dependent and timid; it actually makes him stronger and more independent.” – Cheri Fuller


159. “Sometimes when I need a miracle, I look into my son’s eyes, and realize I’ve already created one.”


160. Your son will hold your hand only for a little while, but he will hold your heart for a lifetime.


161. “All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.” – Oscar Wilde


162. “I’m glad we’ve begun to raise our daughters more like our sons—but it will never work until we raise our sons more like our daughters.” — Gloria Steinem


163. “A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s.” —Princess Diana


164. “Mother is her son’s first god. She must teach him the most important lesson of all – how to love.” – T. F. Hodge


165. “Mother’s love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.”


166. “I do what I want, when I want, where I want…if my mom says it’s ok.”


167. Sons worship their mothers, seeing them as flawless, almighty beings who spread love and who are able to do anything. That is why the most important lesson that a mother can teach her son is respect, love, and how to understand women.


168. In uncertain times, innovation, transformation and even acceleration are more important for businesses than ever.


169. What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter? – Rose Kennedy


170. She loved a boy very, very much– even more than she loved herself- Shel Silverstein


171. Raising boys has made me a more generous woman than I really am. Undoubtedly, there are other routes to learning the wishes and dreams of the presumably opposite sex, but I know of none more direct, or more highly motivating, than being the mother of sons. – Mary Kay Blakely


172. “Little boy, you remind me how much depends on days made of now.” – Alison McGhee


173. “I’m really happy to be a mom, and I’m proud of the phase I’m in.” – Liz Phair


174. A mother is the first love of her son, and a son is the whole world for a mother.


175. “I adore his smile, I cherish his hugs, I admire his heart. But most of all I love that he is my son.”


176. “[My mom]’s a cool chick. We can hang, and she can roll with the punches.” – Bradley Cooper


177. “God gave those little children to you, mama- You. No one else can mother them like you can. You may have your work cut out for you, but you’re the one cut out to accomplish it.” — Erin Odom


178. “I know that despite whatever stupid thing I do, I’d be able to go to my mom and she’d still love me. I honestly believe that.” ― Nellie Christine


179. “Bringing up a daughter, a mother pours a part of her soul. Bringing up a son, she gives him her whole soul.”


180. “My son is my son till he have got him a wife, But my daughter’s my daughter all the days of her life.” – Thomas Fuller


181. “No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.” – Godfrey Winn


182. “You are my Son shine.”


183. “My son is super awesome and I am the lucky one because I get to be his mother.”


184. “When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother’s hand, his fingers could see in the dark.” – John Irving


185. “I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it’s good to make thoughtful, good choices.” – Karen Salmansohn


186. “You may have tangible wealth untold; caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than you can never be. I had a mother who read to me.” – Strickland Gillilan


187. I adore his smile, I cherish his hugs, I admire his heart. But most o all, I love that he is my son.


188. “Godspeed, little man. Sweet dreams, little man. Oh my love will fly to you each night on angels wings. Godspeed. Sweet dreams.” ― Dixie Chicks


189. “If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?” – Milton Berle


190. “Moms are people who know us the best and love us the most.”


191. “Have a little faith in your sons. This journey will be the making of them.” – C.J. Milbrandt


192. “Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.” ― Epictetus


193. “I have a son who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving, strong and kind.” – Maya Angelou


194. “I have a son who is my heart. A wonderful young man, darling and loving and strong and kind.” – Maya Angelou


195. “When I was in great sadness from life’s hardships, all I needed to see was my son’s smile. Caring for him as my daily routine has helped me become a happy person and mother. My son is my hero.”


196. “Heaven on Earth is looking at my boy.” – Jenny McCarthy


197. Son keeps mother grounded and stronger, while mother gives son an idea of what love is supposed to feel like!


198. A mother’s love doesn’t make her son more dependent and timid; it actually makes him stronger and more independent. – Cheri Fuller


199. “The bond between mother and son lasts a lifetime. The bond between mother and son is a special one. It remains unchanged by time or distance.”


200. “From the day her son is born, a mother will make sure to become his biggest love, shelter and support system.”


201. Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.- Pablo Picasso


202. “My daughter and two sons are the flowers in my heart and garden.” –


203. “The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.” – Henry Ward Beecher


204. “I suppose the mothers of most twelve-year-old boys live with the uneasy conviction that their sons are embarked upon a secret life of crime.” ― Shirley Jackson


205. Son, you remind me how so much depends on days made of now. – Alison McGhee


206. “Her love for her family and her faith in God somehow gave her the strength not only to go on but to love life without bitterness and instill in all of us a gratitude for every day we have together.” — Stephen Colbert


207. “I find, by close observation, that the mothers are the levers which move in education. The men talk about it. . . but the women work most for it.” ― Frances Watkins Harper


208. “You count the hours you could have spent with your mother. It’s a lifetime in itself.” – Mitch Albom


209. “Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing.” – Ricki Lake


210. “A mother’s love endures through all.” – Washington Irving


211. “A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.” – Sophia Loren


212. “I will always be your number one supporter for I care for you the most in this life of ours.”


213. There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep. – Ralph Waldo Emerson


214. “A mother understands what a child does not say.” – Jewish Proverb


215. “Son, you remind me how so much depends on days made of now.” – Alison McGhee


216. “I don’t think there are enough words in the world that exist to express exactly just how much I love my son! He’s right there in the front of my soul, he can turn me into an eagle, a lioness, a tigress, a swan! A goof or a queen!” ― C. JoyBell C.


217. I missed your first word, I missed your first step. Now you are in your teenage years. Later in life, you gonna become a man. My dear son, I’ll be your guidance.” ― Nagella Jean-Baptiste


218. “Sometimes a mother wonders if her son could have a better mother, but she knows for sure that she knows that there doesn’t exist a better son.”


219. “When a woman gives birth to a son, she has a chance to give the world a real man.”


220. “The day you came into my life, I knew what my purpose was. To love and protect with everything I have.”


221. “What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?” – Rose Kennedy


222. When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth. – Mitch Albom


223. “My mother never gave up on me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.”- Denzel Washington


224. “A dad for his son is always caring, while mommy is always loving.”


225. “How beautifully everything is arranged by Nature; as soon as a child enters the world, it finds a mother ready to take care of it.” – Jules Michelet


226. And I promise you this: no matter who enters your life, I will love you more than any of them.


227. “You’ve been a blessing from the start, I love you son with all my heart.”


228. “Sons are the anchors of a mother’s life.” – Sophocles


229. “Life has many uncertainties, but what’s certain is a mother’s love for her son.”


230. “The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom” – Henry Ward Beecher


231. “Some mothers are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.” ― Pearl S. Buck


232. “My mother said to me, ‘If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.’ Instead, I was a painter and became Picasso.” — Pablo Picasso


233. “There’s no doubt a mother’s love to her son is one of the best things in the world.”


234. “A good mother knows if her son becomes a soldier, he will be a general.”


235. “It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son – and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.” – Helen Rowland


236. Sons are the anchors of a mother’s life. – Sophocles


237. “You don’t raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they’ll turn out to be heroes, even if it’s just in your own eyes.” – Wally Schirra


238. There’s this boy who stole my heart. He calls me mom.


239. “A boy who cares too little about the future and frets too much about the past: nothing could depress a mother more.”― Fredrik Backman


240. “A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us.” ― Washington Irving


241. My mother is not a CIA agent, but she’s an Italian mother, and she’d do anything for her son. – Adriano Giannini


242. “The life of a mother doubles after she bears a son. His upbringing becomes her top priority, and everything that her son do will always make her proud no matter what.”


243. “It was vitally important to me over the years of my son’s development that I modeled the behavior that I wanted him to adopt. You see, as a parent or as parents, we all have a tremendous responsibility that should not be taken lightly.” – Catherine Pulsifer


244. “Yet now in my arms I was holding a helpless baby boy who would grow into a man. . . . . I cannot imagine that soft little face one day having whiskers.” – Rhonda Stoppe


245. “Daddy’s a lot nicer than you are Mommy.” “That’s probably due to all of the extra rest he gets, sweetheart.”


246. “Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.” — Augustus Hare


247. “Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold.”


248. A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. – Irish Proverb


249. “Mother is a verb. It’s something you do. Not just who you are.” – Cheryl Lacey Donovan


250. To have a son means to have a protector, a buddy, a support system, and to live out one of life’s greatest adventures!


251. “All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” ― Abraham Lincoln


252. “Maybe your mother isn’t able to give you everything you want. But she is able to give you even more– her love.”


253. “I know you have your own life, his mother said to his voicemail. I was just hoping to be part of it for a few hours.” – Maggie Stiefvater


254. “I believe in you, my son. I believe that you’ll be the luckiest person in this world because I have worked my whole life in bringing the best out of you. I love you with all my heart!”


255. “My mother is not a CIA agent, but she’s an Italian mother, and she’d do anything for her son.” – Adriano Giannini


256. “My mother was the making of me. She was so true, so sure of me; and I felt I had something to live for, someone I must not disappoint.” — Thomas Edison


257. “I adore his smile, I cherish his hugs, I admire his heart but most of all… I love that he is my son.”


258. “To be a mother of a son is one of the most important things you can do to change the world. Raise them to respect women, raise them to stand up for others, raise them to be kind.” – Shannon L. Alder


259. “I want my son to have a choice to contribute fully in the workforce or at home.” – Sheryl Sandberg


260. “A son will search for the ultimate love his entire love, but will finally realize it was within his mother all along.”


261. “No matter your age, you always need your mom.”


262. “Most young men are such bores. They haven’t lived long enough to learn that they are not the wonders to the world they are to their mothers.” ― L.M. Montgomery


263. “A boy needs his mother’s respect. Not only her love but also her respect.” — Emerson Eggerichs


264. “Every man looks for a girlfriend that has his mother’s qualities.”


265. I adore his smile, I cherish his hugs, I admire his heart but most of all… I love that he is my son.


266. “You may take offense at your mother. But always remember: your mother is the only woman who will love you in spite all your disadvantages.”


267. “Every mother wants her son to find a wife just like her. She is sure that no woman can take care of her little boy.”


268. That strong mother doesn’t tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in.- Lauryn Hill


269. “Yet now in my arms, I was holding a helpless baby boy who would grow into a man. I cannot imagine that soft little face one-day having whiskers.” – Rhonda Stoppe


270. But now you are a man and my son, I am so proud of you and all your accomplishments!” – Catherine Pulsifer


271. “Sons love mothers, mothers love their sons?” ― Dave Appleby


272. A man can love different women during his life, but the love for his mother is timeless.


273. “A child’s first teacher is its mother.” – Peng Liyuan


274. “Put something on, “she hissed.”I’m not some high school cheerleader you can intimidate or make me squirm by showing your penis. I’ve seen it before. I was the one who changed your diapers.”– Tijan


275. “Motherhood changes everything.” – Adriana Trigiani


276. “Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother.” —Moroccan Proverb


277. “There is an endearing tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that transcends all other affections of the heart.” – Washington Irving


278. “Mother – that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.” — T. Dewitt Talmage


279. “Moms are as relentless as the tides. They don’t just drive us to practice, they drive us to greatness.” – Steve Rushin


280. “My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.” – Jack Nicholson


281. Men are what their mothers made them. – Ralph Waldo Emerson


282. “A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it’s too late to let her know that he sees it.” – W. D. Howells


283. “We are born of love; love is our mother.” – Rumi


284. “There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.” – Jill Churchill


285. “My mom was the person that I most looked up to for her point of view, her humor.” – Ben Stiller


286. If a man has been his mother’s undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it. -Sigmund Freud


287. “The best love in the world is the love of a man. The love of a man who came from your womb, the love of your son!” – C. Joybell C


288. If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands? — Milton Berle


289. One of the greatest gifts I have ever gotten is my son. – Unknown


290. Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws. Barbara Kingsolver


291. “My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.” — Maya Angelou


292. “Behind every successful man, is a mother who never stops supporting him to reach his dreams.”


293. “You’ve been a blessing from the start, I love you son with all my heart.” – Unknown


294. “The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness.” – Jessica Lange


295. “Sometimes a mother can think that her son could get a better mommy. But she knows for sure that she knows that there doesn`t exist a better son.”


296. “I always was a weird child. My mother told me the story that, in kindergarten, I would come home and tell her about this weird kid in my class who drew only with black crayons and didn’t speak to other kids. I talked about it so much that my mother brought it up with the teacher, who said, ‘What? That’s your son?’” – John Waters


297. “And she loved a little boy very, very much, even more than she loved herself.” – Shel Silverstein


298. “You may have tangible wealth untold; Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I can ever be. I had a mother who read to me.” ― Strickland Gillilan


299. “Bringing up a daughter, a mother pours a part of her soul. Bringing up a son, she gives him her whole soul.” – Unknown


300. “Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.” — Plato


301. “Mothers are inscrutable beings to their sons, always.” – A.E. Coppard


302. You don’t raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they’ll turn out to be heroes, even if it’s just in your own eyes. – Walter M. Schirra, Sr.


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


304. “His little hands stole my heart, and his little feet ran away with it.”


305. “You are my Son shine.” – Author Unknown


306. Creation’s most unique and precious pearls


307. “Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.” — Barbara Kingsolver


308. Every man looks for a girlfriend that has his mother’s qualities


309. “As the mother of a son, I do not accept that alienation from me is necessary for his discovery of himself.” – Letty Cottin Pogrebin


310. “My mom tells me every single day that she’s proud of me.” – Don Lemon


311. “Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs… since the payment is pure love.” – Mildred B. Vermont


312. “Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.” – Kahlil Gibran


313. “Ain’t a woman alive who could take my mama’s place.” –Tupac


314. Learn 3 Facts about the Boy Brain that can lead you to better parenting here!


315. “As a son I would say this, she was the best mum in the world. She smothered us with love, that’s for sure.” — Prince Harry


316. As a woman, I will not cooperate in demeaning womanly things so that he can be proud to be a man. I like to think the women in my son’s future are counting on me.” — Letty Cottin Pogrebin


317. “Only one woman is able to love a man more than she loves herself. It`s his mother.”


318. “Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.” ― Erich Fromm


319. “Mothers see the angel in us because the angel is there. If it’s shown to the mother, the son has got an angel to show, hasn’t he?” – Booth Tarkington


320. “At first blush, everyone thinks the most important relationships in the family are the father-son and mother-daughter relationships. But they’re wrong. The cross-gender relationships are most critical.” – Dr. Kevin Leman


321. A boy’s best friend is his mother.


322. To my son, never forget that I love you. Life is filled with hard times and good times. Learn from everything you can. Be the man I know you can be.


323. “Regardless of the situation you and your son find yourselves in, you, the parent, can always change how you respond to your teen.” – Kevin Fall


324. When I was a child, my mother said to me, ‘If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general. If you become a monk you’ll end up as the pope.’ Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso. – Pablo Picasso


325. “Your son will hold your hand for only a little while but he will hold your heart for a lifetime.”


326. “Today i reflect upon my blessings for the last twenty four years.God gifted me with Loving,Caring,Prayerful and Selfless Momma.Love You Mama Rose Mulunda.I appreciate that Momma!” ― David shamala


327. “Mothers yielding Bibles, contemplating smearing the blood of lamb chops over her doorway. Anything to keep her son alive another day. ― Antonia Perdu


328. “If a man has been his mother’s undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.” ― Sigmund Freud


329. His little hands stole my heart, and his little feet ran away with it.


330. “Men are what their mothers made them.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson


331. “They used to say, ‘Oh, he’s just his mother’s son,’ as a way of dismissing me, and every time I’d say, ‘Oh, yes, thank you! I’m so proud of that.’” — Justin Trudeau


332. “Of course, my son has been the center of my life and will always be the center of my love. When he was young, I was The Rock in his life. Now that I am old, he is the rock in my life.” – Hyacinth Mottley


333. The best way to make children good is to make them happy. – Oscar Wilde


334. “To a mother, a son is never a fully grown man; and a son is never a fully grown man until he understands and accepts this about his mother.”


335. “All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” – Abraham Lincoln


336. And heaven help us always to remember


337. “Mothers will experience life and a new level of happiness through the eyes of her son!”


338. The best gifts in the world are not always wrapped in boxes. They also come in the form of loving sons like you.


339. “I cannot be more grateful for the things that I have because I love my son and I have him.”


340. “I listen to my mother, and that keeps me out of trouble. I’m a good son.” – Mr. T


341. “If love is as sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.” – Stevie Wonder


342. “His little hands stole my heart and his little feet ran away with it.”


343. “More than mother and son, they were accomplices in solitude.” – Gabriel Garcia Marquez


344. My mother carried me for ten months. I asked her ‘Mother, you had an extra month, why you didn’t make me a beautiful face?’ and mother told me, ‘My son, I was busy making your beautiful hands and heart.’ – Mstislav Rostropovich


345. “Being a mother to a little boy and helping him discover the world is one of the greatest experiences in a woman’s life, which makes objective goals dull in comparison. The connection between a mother and her son opens the gate to a new world of wonder and love.”


346. There is an endearing tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that transcends all other affections of the heart. – Washington Irving


347. “Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.” – Louisa May Alcott


348. “You’re not just my son. You are my reason for living, the love of my life, and the king of my heart. I love you, my dearest son!”


349. There is an endearing tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that transcends all other affections of the heart. – Washington Irving.


350. “Being a mother is the role I’m most proud of.” – Arianna Huffington


351. “Our sons grow and change, sometimes before our eyes, and we can barely keep up with their active, inquisitive natures.” – Dr. Gregory L. Jantz


352. “That strong mother doesn’t tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in.” – Lauryn Hill


353. Raising boys has made me a more generous woman than I really am. – Mary Kay Blakely


354. A son is a mother’s most precious treasure.


355. “So there’s this boy. He kinda stole my heart. He calls me ‘mom’.”


356. “To have a son means to have a protector, a buddy, a support system, and to live out one of life’s greatest adventures!”


357. “My son’s the most precious thing to me; he’s changed me from being selfish to selfless.” — Ricardo Antonio Chavira


358. “If you want to understand the purest love of all, have a look at the way a mother loves her son!” –


359. “Grateful, grateful, grateful. That’s the role of mothers.” – Fredrik Backman


360. “A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.” – Cardinal Mermillod


361. “There is no greater privilege in living than bringing a tiny new human being into the world and then trying to raise him or her properly during the next eighteen years.” – James C. Dobson


362. Mother’s love is bliss, is peace, it need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. – Eric Fromm


363. “It’s a bond stronger than anything else – a son caring for his mother, and a mother loving her son in return!”


364. “There is no bigger pride for a mother than knowing she raised an independent, happy and strong son, ready to conquer the world.”


365. “No one will ever love a son more profoundly and more sincerely than his own mother!”


366. “Even more, than the time when she gave birth, a mother feels her greatest joy when she hears others refer to her son as a wise learned one.” –Thiruvalluvar


367. “God gifted me with Loving, Caring, Prayerful and Selfless Momma.” – David Shamala


368. Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged – Louisa May Alcott


369. “I always say if you aren’t yelling at your kids, you’re not spending enough time with them.” — Reese Witherspoon


370. “My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am, I owe to my mother. I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual, and physical education I received from her.” – George Washington


371. To wake up to the sound of my son saying ‘Mama, mama!’ It’s the best sound ever. – Miranda Kerr


372. “A man can love different women during his life, but the love for his mother is timeless.”


373. “God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.”— Rudyard Kipling


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


375. “My mother was the most highly disciplined and hardest working person I have ever known, and this, combined with her love and gentleness, enabled her to make a success of each of her children.” – Arthur Lewis

 
 
 

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