Share These Boy Mom Quotes on Mother's Day and Beyond
Every relationship between a parent and child is different, but few things in this world can compare to the bond between a mother and son! Boy moms in general are just built differently, something that Ree Drummond can vouch for. She's a mother of five with three boys (Bryce, Todd, and Jamar), so Ree has experienced all of what being a boy mom entails! While a sense of patience and understanding is required for such a venture, it can also be one of the most exciting things in this world. As we get closer to Mother's Day, we wanted to spotlight this sweet relationship by creating a list of the best boy mom quotes.
If you loved our mother-son quotes, then you'll also love these! They make it clear just how much your son means to you (and vice versa). Whether you're looking for a winning Mother's Day Instagram caption or just a quick text message that will remind him to get moving on that Mother's Day gift, you'll find something here that fits the bill. Oh, and there are several subtle-but-hilarious mom jokes here, too, in case sentimentality isn't exactly what you're after. As Mary Kay Blakely says in one of our favorite Mother's Day quotes, "Raising boys has made me a more generous woman than I really am." 😅
Louisa May Alcott
“Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.”
Tyler Perry
“Children love their mothers. Especially with a boy child and his mother, there’s a bond that’s unbreakable.”
Sigmund Freud
“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.”
Jennie Baranczyk
“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.”
Shannon L. Alder
“To be a mother of a son is one of the most important things you can do to change the world.”
Katie Bingham Smith
“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...”
Emerson Eggerichs
“A boy needs his mother’s respect. Not only her love but also her respect.”
Mr. T
“I listen to my mother, and that keeps me out of trouble. I’m a good son.”
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“More than mother and son, they were accomplices in solitude.”
Alison McGhee
“Son, you remind me how so much depends on days made of now.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Men are what their mothers made them.”
Princess Diana
“I live for my sons. I would be lost without them.”
Abraham Lincoln
“All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”
Stevie Wonder
“If love is as sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.”
Donald E. Westlake
“Who’s a boy gonna talk to if not 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.”
Elder M. Russell Ballard
“There is no role in life that is more essential than that of motherhood.”
Katie Clemons
“You are his definition of home, the place where he feels most confident and comfortable.”
Shel Silverstein
“And she loved a little boy very, very much — even more than she loved herself.”
Sarah Shahi
“The most important mark I will leave on this world is my son.”
Lance Conrad
"I can imagine no heroism greater than motherhood."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall;A mother's secret hope outlives them all."
Rose Kennedy
"What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?"
Hoda Kotb
"The biggest adjustment is I just didn't know there was that much room in a house for that much joy."
Elder M. Russell Ballard
"There is no role in life that is more essential than that of motherhood."
Mitch Albom
"When you look into your mother's eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this Earth."
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."
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."
George Washington
"All I am I owe to my mother."
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."
Victor Hugo
"A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them."
Abraham Lincoln
"I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life."
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."
Rumi
"We are born of love; love is our mother."
Godfrey Winn
"No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed."
Jenny McCarthy
"Heaven on earth is looking at my little boy."
Maya Angelou
"I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind."
Mary Kay Blakely
"Raising boys has made me a more generous woman than I really am."
Sandra Bullock
"The only man who has stolen my heart is my son."
A.E. Coppard
"Mothers are inscrutable beings to their sons, always."
Irish Proverb
"A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest."
Washington Irving
"There is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that transcends all other affections of the heart."
Miranda Kerr
"To wake up to the sound of my son saying 'Mama, mama!' It's the best sound ever."
Anne Lamott
"One thing about having a baby is that each step of the way you simply cannot imagine loving him any more than you already do... And then you do, you love him even more."
Michael Jordan
"My mother is my root, my foundation."
Jenny McCarthy
"The minute he was born, I knew that if I never did anything other than being a mom, I'd be fine."
Washington Irving
"A mother is the truest friend we have."
Meg Meeker
"In my practice, I've seen something extraordinary, almost spiritual, in the eyes of young mothers who hold their sons for the first time."
Sophocles
"Sons are the anchors of a mother's life."
Joseph Stefano
"A boy's best friend is his mother."
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