68 Short Mother and Son Quotes for a Special Bond

Byabraham benzellat QUOTES

The bond between a mother and son is unique. That’s why we’ve compiled the best mother and son quotes to celebrate this special relationship.

If you need short sayings for Instagram, we’ve got that too.

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Our Favorite Mother and Son Quotes for Instagram

“Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe

“Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.” – Aristotle

“Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.” – Anonymous

“The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men — from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

“M-O-T-H-E-R: ‘M’ is for the million things she gave me, ‘O’ means only that she’s growing old, ‘T’ is for the tears she shed to save me, ‘H’ is for her heart of purest gold, ‘E’ is for her eyes, with love-light shining, ‘R’ means right, and right she’ll always be, Put them all together, they spell ‘MOTHER,’ A word that means the world to me.” – Howard Johnson

“Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.” – Kahlil Gibran

“A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.” – Cardinal Mermillod

“Some mothers are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.” – Pearl S. Buck

“Only mothers can think of the future because they give birth to it in their children.” – Maxim Gorky

“There is more power in a mother’s hand than in a king’s scepter.” – Billy Sunday

“A mother’s role is God-ordained. Mothers are to conceive, bear, nourish, love, and train. They are to be helpmates and are to counsel with their husbands.” – Ezra Taft Benson

“Mother that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.” – T. DeWitt Talmage

“Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs—since the payment is pure love.” – Mildred B. Vermont

“A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.” – Cardinal Mermillod

“Mothers are the necessity of invention.” – Bill Watterson

“Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it’s the most exquisite love of all.” – Maggie Gallagher

“A mother’s love is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, it never fails or falters, even though the heart is breaking.” – Helen Steiner Rice

“The patience of a mother might be likened to a tube of toothpaste – it’s never quite all gone.” – Unknown

“Men are what their mothers made them.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A mother understands what a child does not say.” – Jewish Proverb

“Mothers have as powerful an influence over the welfare of future generations as all other earthly causes combined.” – John S C Abbott

“Mother is the heartbeat in the home; and without her, there seems to be no heart throb.” – Leroy Brownlow

“Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.” – Amos Bronson Alcott

“Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There’s no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving.” – Gail Tsukiyama

“The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.” – Washington Irving

“Mothers give up so much, so that their children can have so much.” – Catherine Pulsifer

“Mothers are the place that we call home. On them we rest our heads and close our eyes. There’s no one else who grants the same soft peace, happiness, contentment, sweet release, erasing nighttime tears with lullabies, restoring the bright sun that makes us bloom.” – Nicholas Gordon

“By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.” – Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.” – Tenneva Jordan

“When a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.” – Erica Jong

“A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s.” – Princess Diana

“No one worries about you like your mother.” – Adriana Trigiani

“There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.” – Billy Sunday

“There is none, in all this cold and hollow world, no found of deep, strong, deathless love, save that within a mother’s heart.” – Felicia Hemans

“No one in this world can take the place of your mother.” – Harry Truman

“A mother is she who can take the place of all others.” – Gaspard Mermillod

“When God thought of mother, he must have laughed with satisfaction, and framed it quickly – so rich, so divine, so full of soul, power, and beauty was the conception.” – Henry Ward Beecher

“Mother is the one we count on for the things that matter most of all.” – Katharine Butler Hathaway

“Love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark. To have been loved so deeply will give us some protection forever.” – J.K. Rowling

“A mother’s love perceives no impossibilities.” – Jena Pincott

“A mother’s joy begins when new life is stirring inside. When a tiny heartbeat is heard for the very first time, and a playful kick reminds her that she is never alone.” – Jena Pincott

“Mother is a verb. It’s something you do. Not just who you are.” – Cheryl Lacey Donovan

“To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.” – Brandi Snyder

“Mother – that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.” – T. DeWitt Talmage

“There is no velvet so soft as a mother’s lap, no rose as lovely as her smile, no path as that imprinted with her footsteps.” – Archibald Thompson

“The mother is everything; she is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness. She is the source of love, mercy, sympathy, and forgiveness.” – Kahlil Gibran

“Mothers, I believe, intoxicate us. We idolize them and take them for granted. We hate them and blame them and exalt them more thoroughly than anyone else in our lives. We sift through the evidence of their love, reassure ourselves of their affection and its biological genesis. We can steal and lie and leave and they will love us.” – Megan Mayhew Bergman

“A mother who loves her child unconditionally may draw boundaries, discipline, and indeed punish when she feels it is appropriate. But there is something deeper present, an enduring positive emotion that seems unaffected by transient disapproval.” – Alyce Faye Cleese

“To a child’s ear, ‘mother’ is magic in any language.” – Arlene Benedict

“A mother’s love endures through all; in good repute, in bad repute, in the face of the world’s condemnation, a mother still loves on, and still hopes that her child may turn from his evil ways, and repent; still she remembers the infant smiles that once filled her bosom with rapture, the merry laugh, the joyful shout of his childhood, the opening promise of his youth; and she can never be brought to think him all unworthy.” – Washington Irving

“Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.” – Pearl S. Buck

“A mother’s love for her child is nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.” – Agatha Christie

“Mother’s intuition can tell you everything with kids. Mothers have a sixth sense. You’re in tune with your child. You can hear them calling for help.” – Jane Seymour

“When your mother asks, ‘Do you want a piece of advice?’ It’s a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.” – Erma Bombeck

“God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.” – David C. Gross

“You count the hours you could have spent with your mother; it’s a lifetime in itself.” – Mitch Albom

“There’s nothing like your mother’s sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears.” – Sophie Kinsella

“Sometimes, mothers say and do things that seem like they don’t want their kids… but when you look more closely, you realize that they’re doing those kids a favor. They’re just trying to give them a better life.” – Jodi Picoult

“Mothers were the only ones you could depend on to tell the whole, unvarnished truth.” – Margaret Dilloway

“A mother’s love is the strongest energy known to man. You must feel that love, and its power.” – Jamie McGuire

“This is what we do, my mother’s life said. We find ourselves in the sacrifices we make.” – Cammie McGovern

“A mother’s love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.” – Marion C. Garretty

“There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.” – Jill Churchill

“A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.” – Victor Hugo

“Mothers are like glue. Even when you can’t see them, they’re still holding the family together.” – Susan Gale

“Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.” – Robert Browning

“To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.” – Maya Angelou

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