73 Short Mother and Son Quotes for a Special Bond

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.

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Our Favorite Mother and Son Quotes for Instagram

Mother Son Quotes

“All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” — Abraham Lincoln
“Sons are the anchors of a mother’s life.” — Sophocles
“There is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that transcends all other affections of the heart.” — Washington Irving
“Men are what their mothers made them.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A mother’s love for her child knows no law, no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.” — Agatha Christie
“And she loved a little boy very, very much, even more than she loved herself.” — Shel Silverstein
“The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.” — Honoré de Balzac
“A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.” — Victor Hugo
“A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.” — Irish Proverb
“A boy’s best friend is his mother.” — Joseph Stefano
“Ain’t a woman alive who could take my mama’s place.” — Tupac Shakur
“I have a son who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.” — Maya Angelou
“To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.” — Maya Angelou
“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.” — Sigmund Freud
“A mother’s love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.” — Marion C. Garretty
“It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.” — Friedrich von Schiller
“Raising boys has made me a more generous woman than I really am. Undoubtedly, there are other routes to learning the wishes and dreams of the presumably opposite sex, but I know of none more direct, or more highly motivating, than being the mother of sons.” — Mary Kay Blakely
“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.” — Thiruvalluvar
“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.” — Walter M. Schirra, Sr.
“Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.” — Louisa May Alcott
“A mother’s love doesn’t make her son more dependent and timid; it actually makes him stronger and more independent.” — Cheri Fuller
“My mother carried me for ten months. I asked her: ‘Mother, you had an extra month, why didn’t you make me a beautiful face?’ And mother told me: ‘My son, I was busy making your beautiful hands and heart.'” — Mstislav Rostropovich
“There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.” — Jill Churchill
“I listen to my mother, and that keeps me out of trouble. I’m a good son.” — Mr. T
“Mothers are inscrutable beings to their sons, always.” — A.E. Coppard
“A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.” — Cardinal Mermillod
“Motherhood: all love begins and ends there.” — Robert Browning
“A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s.” — Princess Diana
“My mother was my role model before I even knew what that word was.” — Lisa Leslie
“A son may outgrow a mother’s lap, but he will never outgrow her heart.” — Unknown
“Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.” — Unknown
“The bond between a mother and son is forever. It remains unchanged by time or distance.” — Unknown
“Successful mothers are not the ones who have never struggled. They are the ones who never give up, no matter the struggles.” — Unknown
“Sons worship their mothers, seeing them as flawless, almighty beings who spread love and who are able to do anything. That is why the most important lesson a mother can teach her son is to respect, love, and understand women.” — Unknown
“A man loves his mother more as the years go by, because he begins to understand how much she sacrificed.” — Unknown
“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
“Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.” — Kahlil Gibran
“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
“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
“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
“Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs — since the payment is pure love.” — Mildred B. Vermont
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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.” — Washington Irving
“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
“No one worries about you like your mother.” — Adriana Trigiani
“There is none, in all this cold and hollow world, no fount 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
“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
“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
“There is no velvet so soft as a mother’s lap, no rose as lovely as her smile, no path as lovely as that imprinted with her footsteps.” — Archibald Thompson
“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
“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
“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
“This is what we do, my mother’s life said. We find ourselves in the sacrifices we make.” — Cammie McGovern
“Mothers are like glue. Even when you can’t see them, they’re still holding the family together.” — Susan Gale
“Mother is the heartbeat in the home; and without her, there seems to be no heartbeat.” — Leroy Brownlow
“Mothers give up so much, so that their children can have so much.” — Catherine Pulsifer