55 Quotes That Celebrate the Mother and Son Bond
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1) 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.
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2) Mitch Albom
When you look into your mother's eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this Earth.
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3) Princess Diana
A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's.
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4) Milton Berle
If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?
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5) Tillie Olsen
More than in any other human relationship, overwhelmingly more, motherhood means being instantly interruptible, responsive and responsible.
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6) Shannon L. Alder
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 care for the Earth, raise them to be kind, compassionate and honest.
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7) Unknown
A woman is not able to re-educate any man. But she is able to bring up her son to be a real man.
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8) Sandra Bullock
The only man who has stolen my heart is my son.
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9) Rose Kennedy
What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?
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10) Mary Kay Blakely
Raising boys has made me a more generous woman than I really am.
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11) Emerson Eggerichs
A boy needs his mother's respect. Not only her love, but also her respect.
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12) Chinese Proverb
Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold.
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13) C. J. Milbrandt
Let your boys test their wings. They may not be eagles, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't soar free.
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14) Ben Stiller
My mom was the person that I most looked up to for her point of view, her humor.
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15) Alison McGhee
Little boy, you remind me how so much depends on days made of now.
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16) Leonardo DiCaprio
She’s the only reason I’m able to do what I do.
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17) The Talmud
When you teach your son, you teach your son’s son.
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18) Tupac Shakur
And there's no way I can pay you back / But my plan is to show you that I understand / You are appreciated.
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19) Unknown
Moms are guardian angels to us while they are on this earth..and when they go to heaven..they have that much more power to watch over us.
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20) Unknown
Children and mothers never truly part. They're bound in the beating of each other's heart.
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21) Abraham Lincoln
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
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22) Godfrey Winn
No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.
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23) 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.
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24) 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.
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25) Shannon L. Alder
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.
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26) 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.
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27) 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.
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28) Eric Fromm
Mother's love is bliss, is peace, it need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
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29) Louisa May Alcott
Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
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30) 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.
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31) Rumi
We are born of love; love is our mother.
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32) Cheri Fuller
A mother’s love doesn’t make her son more dependent and timid; it actually makes him stronger and more independent.
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33) Irish Proverb
A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.
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34) Shel Silverstein
She loved a boy very, very much — even more than she loved herself.
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35) Unknown
There has never been, nor will there ever be, anything quite so special as the love between the mother and a son.
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36) Sophocles
Sons are the anchors of a mother's life.
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37) Washington Irving
There is an endearing tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that transcends all other affections of the heart.
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38) Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men are what their mothers made them.
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39) Joseph Stefano
A boy's best friend is his mother.
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40) Steve Rushin
Moms are as relentless as the tides. They don't just drive us to practice, they drive us to greatness.
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41) George Washington
All I am I owe to my mother.
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42) Oscar Wilde
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
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43) Stevie Wonder
If love is as sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.
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44) Cheri Fuller
A mother’s love doesn’t make her son more dependent and timid; it actually makes him stronger and more independent.
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45) Jenny McCarthy
Heaven on Earth is looking at my little boy.
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46) Unknown
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.
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47) Victor Hugo
A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
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48) Abraham Lincoln
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
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49) 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.
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50) Unknown
Son, you will outgrow my lap but never my heart.
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51) Sarah Shahi
The most important mark I will leave on this world is my son.
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52) A.E. Coppard
Mothers are inscrutable beings to their sons, always.
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53) 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.
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54) Honore de Balzac
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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55) T. F. Hodge
Mother is her son's first god; she must teach him the most important lesson of all — how to love.
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