These Mother-Son Quotes Will Bring Tears to Your Eyes
Life as a mother can be so rewarding. But life as a mother with sons can be an exciting roller coaster ride! Ree Drummond would be the first to tell you this, too! The Pioneer Woman has had her hands full (and then some) with the three young men in her life. Between preparing a breakfast of champions (hi, Jamar!), sending Todd off to college, and having a Woody Harrelson as a son (just kidding, it's Bryce!)—there's never a dull moment for this mama bear! But it's all part of the fun. So, to commemorate that special bond ahead of Mother's Day, we created a list of the best mother-son quotes!
These quotes really just get it right. Whether you're looking for a Mother's Day Instagram caption to tell the world how lucky you feel to be the mom of boys or simply want to read through some sweet sayings in advance of that Sunday in May, you're bound to find something here that fits the bill. In fact, some of these quotes are so good, they practically double as Mother's Day gifts in their own right! Like this quote by Sarah Shahi: "The most important mark I will leave on this world is my son," And don't worry, funny moms: We've definitely got some cute mom jokes among our finds. (Now, to get the boys to prepare you a fabulous Mother's Day brunch... that's a real feat!)
Emerson Eggerichs
“A boy needs his mother’s respect. Not only her love but also her respect.”
Moroccan Proverb
“Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother.”
Thiruvalluvar
“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.”
Hyacinth Mottley
“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.”
Prince William
“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.”
Washington Irving
“A mother is the truest friend we have.”
Rhonda Stoppe
“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.”
Henry Ward Beecher
“The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.”
Karen Salmansohn
“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.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.”
Kirsten Wreggitt
“Be strong out there, my son. Look for the love and kindness in others. Forgive yourself when you make mistakes and enjoy the journey.”
Mr. T
“I listen to my mother, and that keeps me out of trouble. I’m a good son.”
Alison McGhee
“Son, you remind me how so much depends on days made of now.”
C.J. Milbrandt
“Let your boys test their wings. They may not be eagles, but that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t soar free.”
Sandra Bullock
“The only man who has stolen my heart is my son.”
Barbara Kingsolver
“Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.”
Monica Swanson
“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.”
Cardinal Mermillod
“A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.”
Tupac Shakur
“Ain’t a woman alive who could take my mama’s place.”
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“More than mother and son, they were accomplices in solitude.”
Lance Conrad
"I can imagine no heroism greater than motherhood."
Leroy Brownlow
"Mother is the heartbeat in the home; and without her, there seems to be no heart throb."
Hoda Kotb
"The biggest adjustment is I just didn't know there was that much room in a house for that much joy."
Leonardo DiCaprio
"She's the only reason I'm able to do what I do."
George Eliot
"Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face."
Lisa Leslie
"My mother was my role model before I even knew what that word was."
Elder M. Russell Ballard
"There is no role in life that is more essential than that of motherhood."
Gilda Radner
"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."
Maya Angelou
"My mother is so full of joy and life. I am her child. And that is better than being the child of anyone else in the world."
The Talmud
"When you teach your son, you teach your son's son."
Augustus Hare
"Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it."
Princess Diana
"A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's."
Thomas Edison
"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."
Honore de Balzac
"The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness."
Rumi
"We are born of love; love is our mother."
Stephanie Precourt
"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."
George Washington
"All I am I owe to my mother."
Miranda Kerr
"To wake up to the sound of my son saying, 'Mama, mama!' It's the best sound ever."
Victor Hugo
"A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them."
Sarah Shahi
"The most important mark I will leave on this world is my son."
Mary Kay Blakely
"Raising boys has made me a more generous woman than I really am."
Stevie Wonder
"If love is as sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love."
Mitch Albom
"When you look into your mother's eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this Earth."
Jenny McCarthy
"Heaven on Earth is looking at my little boy."
A.E. Coppard
"Mothers are inscrutable beings to their sons, always."
Washington Irving
"There is an endearing tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that transcends all other affections of the heart."
Abraham Lincoln
"I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life."
Louisa May Alcott
"Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged."
Godfrey Winn
"No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed."
Shel Silverstein
"She loved a boy very, very much—even more than she loved herself."
Pablo Picasso
"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."
Eric Fromm
"Mother's love is bliss, is peace, it need not be acquired, it need not be deserved."
Denzel Washington
"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."
Ben Stiller
"My mom was the person that I most looked up to for her point of view, her humor."
Abraham Lincoln
"All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother."
Sophocles
"Sons are the anchors of a mother's life."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Men are what their mothers made them."
Rose Kennedy
"What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?"
Joseph Stefano
"A boy's best friend is his mother."
Cheri Fuller
"A mother's love doesn't make her son more dependent and timid; it actually makes him stronger and more independent."
Michael Jordan
"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."
Irish Proverb
"A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest."
Steve Rushin
"Moms are as relentless as the tides. They don't just drive us to practice, they drive us to greatness."
Shannon L. Adler
"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."
W.D. Howells
"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."
Walter M. Schirra, Sr.
"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."
Sarah Shahi
"The most important mark I will leave on this world is my son."
Maya Angelou
"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."
Oscar Wilde
"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all."
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