Mother And Son Sayings and Quotes

Although their relationship may change and take on different forms as they age, the bond between a mother and son is a special one. The love and nurturing from our mothers plays an important role in shaping our later years. Enjoy the wise, inspirational and humorous mother and son quotes below.

A boy's best friend is his mother. Joseph Stefano
A boy needs his mother’s respect. Not only her love, but also her respect. Emerson Eggerichs
I often scratch my head in bewilderment over the lack of understanding of mothers about their precious baby boys. They love their sons more than they love their very lives, but they readily confess ignorance and confusion. Emerson Eggerichs
A mother must rear her son outside/beyond motherhood, they argued in order to raise a nonsexist, nonmusculine(as it is traditionally defined)boy and to improve relations between mothers and sons, and men and women generally. Andrea O' Reilly
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. Anonymous
Now go, my son; a mother's prayers will ever follow thee; And in the thickest of the fight strike home for liberty. Anonymous Americas
Mothers yielding Bibles, contemplating smearing the blood of lamb chops over her doorway. Anything to keep her son alive another day. Antonia Perdu
Is it not so that a son what is bad to his mother is bad to his wife? Betty Smith
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! I don't have a daughter, but maybe the love of a daughter is the best, too. I am first and foremost me, but right after that, I am a mother. The best thing that I can ever be, is me. But the best gift that I will ever have, is being a mother. C.Joybell C
A mother’s love doesn’t make her son more dependent and timid; it actually makes him stronger and more independent. Cheri Fuller
There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. Chinese Proverb
A mother's love is indeed the golden link that binds youth to age; and he is still but a child, however time may have furrowed his cheek, or silvered his brow, who can recall with a softened heart, the fond devotion or the gentle chidings of the best friend that God ever give us. Christian Nestell Bovee
After my mother died, I found, a little book of hers which recorded everything I had ever done, how I had done it, and how proud she was of her son Conrad. Conrad Viedt
Moms yearn to learn anything that better helps them with their sons. After all, they love their boys, but many find them more difficult to parent than their girls, especially from age four and up. Emerson Eggerichs
More than mother and son, they were accomplices in solitude. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed. Godfrey Winn
The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom. Henry Ward Beecher
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
Please write my mother, tell her the shape I'm in. Tell her to pray for her son forgive me for my sins James B. Odden
No little boy could be more loved by his parents. Inquisitive, fiercely affectionate, staunchly opinionated, he sees the world through eyes of wonder and has yet to become jaded by society's cruelty. Jasmine L. Holmes
My compliments go to you proactive mothers who are raising their sons with your eyes on their future. John Lee
As the mother of a son with disabilities, I try to keep an eye out for news that affects people in the large community of which he is a part. Judy Woodruff
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. Kahlil Gibran
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
I remember my oldest son, Steve, saying to me once, 'I don't ever remember seeing you with an apron on.' And I thought, that's right, honey, you did not. That was his concept of what a mother should be. Loren Bacali
A boy needs his mother's respect. Not only her love but also her respect. Meg Meeker
As mothers, our job, if we believe what both Aristotle and Augustine tell us, is to help our sons seek knowledge and truth, because these are the things that bring true satisfaction of the soul. Meg Meeker
From the moment your son is born, he knows that you are different from him-not just because you are an adult but because you are female. Even as a tiny infant, he realizes on some level that you are his introduction to female love. Meg Meeker
When a mother holds her baby boy for the first time, she also instinctively knows something else: If she does her job right and raises her son with self-esteem, support, and wisdom, he will become the man she knows he was meant to be. Meg Meeker
Realize that your son will love you more intensely than anyone or anything else in this world. Melissa Harrison & Harry H. Harrison Jr