Mother And Son Quotes

• Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Happiness, Mother, Son

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• You're not famous until my mother has heard of you.

  Jay Leno

  Inspirational, Mother, Children

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  There is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that trancends all other affections of the heart

  Washington Irving

  Mother, Heart, Son

  Washington Irving (2013). “The Sketch Book Of Geoffrey Crayon”, p.111, Jazzybee Verlag

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• If I have a monument in this world, it is my son.

  Maya Angelou

  Thank You, Mother, Children

  Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

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• Men are what their mothers made them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Mothers Day, Mom

  The Conduct of Life "Fate" (1860)

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• The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

  Robert Frost

  Family, Mom, Fathers Day

  Robert Frost, Elaine Barry (1973). “Robert Frost on writing”, Rutgers Univ Pr

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• There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.

  Jill Churchill

  Inspirational, Leadership, Mothers Day

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• Moms are as relenless as the tides. They don`t just drive as to practice, they drive us to greatness

  Steve Rushin

  Mom, Mother, Son

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• My daughter and two sons are the flowers in my heart and garden.

  Ana Monnar

  Thank You, Daughter, Mother

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• When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

  Sophia Loren

  Motivational, Family, Mothers Day

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• 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

  Wise, Mother, Son

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• 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.

  Martin Andersen Nexø

  Mother Daughter, Honesty, Father

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• All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Mothers Day, Mom

  The Importance of Being Earnest act 1 (1895). The same lines appear, as a dialogue between Lord Illingworth and Mrs. Allonby, in A Woman of No Importance, act 2 (1893).

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• Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.

  Maxim Gorky

  Mothers Day, Mom, Baby

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• ... 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.

  Cathleen Schine

  Mother Son, Men, Boys

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• As the mother of a son, I do not accept that alienation from me is necessary for his discovery of himself. As a woman, I will not cooperate in demeaning womanly things so that he can be proud to be a man. I like to think the women in my son's future are counting on me.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Mother, Son, Men

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1983). “Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Family, Mothers Day, Mom

  Henry Ward Beecher (1887). “Beecher : Christian Philosopher, Pulpit Orator, Patriot and Philantropist: A Volume of Representative Selections from the Sermons, Lectures, Prayers, and Letters of Henry Ward Beecher”

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• A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.

  Peter De Vries

  Funny, Mothers Day, Mom

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• My number one goal is to love, support and be there for my son.

  Farrah Fawcett

  Love, Son, Numbers

  "Farrah Attacks Son's Drug Dealer" by wenn.com, June 1, 2001.

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• 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.

  William Dean Howells

  Mom, Mother, Men

  William Dean Howells (2015). “The Complete Works of William Dean Howells: 27 Novels & 40+ Short Stories, Including Plays, Poems, Travel Sketches, Historical Works & Autobiography (Illustrated): Christmas Every Day, The Rise of Silas Lapham, A Traveler from Altruria, The Flight of Pony Baker, Venetian Life, Italian Journeys, Imaginary Interviews, A Boy's Town, Years of My Youth…”, p.4063, e-artnow

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• 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

  Mothers Day, Mom, Reading

  Strickland Gillilan, “The Reading Mother”

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• Richer than I you can never be,
  I had a mother who read to me.

  Strickland Gillilan

  Mothers Day, Reading, Mother Son

  Strickland Gillilan, “The Reading Mother”

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

  John Irving

  Mom, Mother, Dark

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

  Marge Piercy

  Mother, Son, Beloved

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Circles on the Water”, p.113, Knopf

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• More than mother and son, they were accomplices in solitude.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Mother, Son, Solitude

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, p.131, Penguin UK

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