Mother Son Quotes

• My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother.

  George Washington

  Mothers Day, Beautiful, Mom

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Louisa May Alcott

  Happiness, Mother, Son

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• 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.

  Epictetus

  Fathers Day, Teacher, Teaching

  Epictetus (1895*). “Discourses: With the Encheiridion and Fragments”

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

  Jay Leno

  Inspirational, Mother, Children

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• A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

  Victor Hugo

  Mothers Day, Mom, Mother Daughter

  Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (Fantine)”, p.160, Wildside Press LLC

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

  Abraham Lincoln

  Family, Mothers Day, Thank You

  Abraham Lincoln, James Baird McClure (2006). “Anecdotes and Stories of Abraham Lincoln”, p.46, Stackpole Books

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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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• 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

  Confidence, Mother, Son

  "A Childhood Recollection from Dichtung und Wahrheit" (1917)

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

  Washington Irving

  Mothers Day, Mom, Mother Daughter

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• Mothers are inscrutable beings to their sons, always.

  A. E. Coppard

  Mom, Mother, Son

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• 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

  Best Friend, Family, Mothers Day

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• The older I become, the more I think about my mother.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Mom, Mother, Thinking

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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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• Mothers see the angel in us because the angel is there. If it's shown to the mother, the son has got an angel to show, hasn't he? When a son cuts somebody's throat the mother only sees it's possible for a misguided angel to act like a devil - and she's entirely right about that!

  Booth Tarkington

  Mother, Angel, Son

  Newton Booth Tarkington (2015). “The Magnificent Ambersons”, p.56, Booklassic

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• 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.

  Thomas Huxley

  Life, Mother, Method

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1908). “Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.5, Library of Alexandria

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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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• What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Mom, Mother, Son

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

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Mothers Day, Mom, Mother And Son

  "Mama Was My Teacher: Growing Up In A Small Southern Town" by Dozier Cade, (p. 77), 2004.

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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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• A boy's best friend is his mother.

  Joseph Stefano

  Movie, Family, Mom

  "Fictional character: Norman Bates". "Psycho", www.imdb.com. 1960.

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• 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.

  Jane Austen

  Mother, Son, Years

  Jane Austen (2008). “Sense and Sensibility”, p.285, Penguin

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

  Strickland Gillilan

  Mothers Day, Reading, Mother And Son

  Strickland Gillilan, “The Reading Mother”

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• My mother was an authority on pig sties. This is the worst looking pigsty I have ever seen in my life, and I want it cleaned up right now.

  Bill Cosby

  Mother, Son, Pigs

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