Mother Son Relationship Quotes

A mother is the truest friend we have when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity.

Mothers are inscrutable beings to their sons, always.

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.

A boy’s best friend is his mother.

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.

We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

… there had been the two little boys. Now they were gone, too. They loved her and called her and sent her e-mails and would still snuggle up to her to be petted when they were in the mood, but they were men, and though they would always be at the center of her life, she was no longer at the center of theirs.

Most mothers kiss and scold together.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

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.

Remember that every son had a mother whose beloved son he was, and every woman had a mother whose beloved son she wasn’t.

Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.

Her family had of late been exceedingly fluctuating. For many years of her life she had had two sons; but the crime and annihilation of Edward a few weeks ago, had robbed her of one; the similar annihilation of Robert had left her for a fortnight without any; and now, by the resurrection of Edward, she had one again.

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.

Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.

When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother’s hand, his fingers could see in the dark.

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother’s side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.