55 Mother & Son Quotes That Will Warm Your Heart & Make You Weep!

Being a mom to a boy can be crazy, loud, and messy but it is also a great blessing. Seeing your sweet boy grow up into a man is one of my favorite things of being a mom. As a mom of 3 boys, now 16, 14, and 13, I remember the days of hot wheels and soccer games, but now as they are growing older, while I am still there to take care of them, often I find my boys are always the first to help mom. Here are some of our very favorite mother & son quotes.

55 Mother & Son Quotes That Will Warm Your Heart & Probably Make You Cry!

Our Favorite Mother & Son Quotes

“Raising boys has made me a more generous woman than I really am.” -Mary Kay Blakely
“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.” -Shannon L. Alder
“His little hands stole my heart, and his little feet ran away with it.”
“Mother is her son’s first god; she must teach him the most important lesson of all, how to love.” -T.F. Hodge
“Superheroes are often disguised as sons.”
“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.”
“Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.” -Louisa May Alcott
You may have tangible wealth untold; Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I, you can never be. I had a mother who read to me.” -Strickland Gillilan
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“And she loved a little boy very, very much””even more than she loved herself.” -Shel Silverstein
“A son makes love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten and the future worth living for.”
“A mother is the truest friend we have.” -Washington Irving
“A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.”
“To wake up to the sound of my son saying ”˜Mama, mama!’ It’s the best sound ever.” -Miranda Kerr
“Mothers are inscrutable beings to their sons, always.” -A.E. Coppard
“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.” -Michael Jordan
“No matter your age, you always need your mom.”
“Men are what their mothers made them.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Son, you will outgrow my lap, but never my heart.”
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“Heaven on Earth is looking at my little boy.” -Jenny McCarthy
“It doesn’t matter how old a son is. Even big and strong he is always a small boy for his mother.”
“So there’s this boy. He kind of stole my heart. He calls me ‘mom.’”
“No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.” -Godfrey Winn
“Sons are the anchors of a mother’s life.” -Sophocles
“The eternal love between man and woman really exists. It’s the love between a mother and her son.”
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“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.” -Pablo Picasso
“Sometimes when I need a miracle, I look into my son’s eyes and realize I’ve already created one.”
“There has never been, nor will there ever be, anything quite so special as the love between the mother and a son.”
“I asked God to send me a man who will always love me. So he gave me a son.”
“You are loved for the boy you are, the man you will become, and the precious son you will always be.”
“It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son – and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.” -Helen Rowland
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“All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” -Abraham Lincoln
“Moms are as relentless as the tides. They don’t just drive us to practice, they drive us to greatness.” -Steve Rushin
“Silence is golden. Unless you have kids. Then silence is suspicious.”
“You’ve been a blessing from the start. I love you, son, with all my heart.”
“To my son, never forget that I love you. Life is filled with hard times and good times. Learn from everything you can. Be the man I know you can be.”
“My mother is not a CIA agent, but she’s an Italian mother, and she’d do anything for her son.” -Adriano Giannini
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“Your son will hold your hand only for a little while, but he will hold your heart for a lifetime.”
“A man who treats his woman like a princess is a proof that he has been born and raised in the arms of a queen.”
“Mothers are better than the CIA ”“ they know you did it, how you did it, who you did it with and can hear you trying to hide the evidence.”
“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.”
“I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.” -Maya Angelou
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“Home is where your mom is.”
“A woman with all sons will be surrounded by handsome men for the rest of her life.”
“Yet now in my arms, I was holding a helpless baby boy who would grow into a man. I cannot imagine that soft little face one-day having whiskers.” -Rhonda Stoppe
“The only man who has stolen my heart is my son.” -Sandra Bullock
“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
“To have a son means to have a protector, a buddy, a support system, and to live out one of life’s greatest adventures!”
“A woman is not able to re-educate any man. But she is able to bring up her son to be a real man.”
“A man, who has managed to become great, was brought up by a woman, who made him believe himself.”