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If I have a monument in this world, it is my son.
Sep 30, 2025
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!
Male mastery in marriage is a social illusion, nurtured by women exhorting their creations to play and walk. At the emotional heart of every marriage is a pietà of mother and son.
But a mother-son relationship is not a coequal one, is it? He is lonely with only you just as you are lonely with only him.
... 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.
Little boy, you remind me how so much depends of day made of now
Moms are as relenless as the tides. They don`t just drive as to practice, they drive us to greatness
It's necessary to readjust and then try again. And then readjust and try again. Fathers have to do that with sons and mothers have to do that with daughters. The level of readjustment isn't quite so much when fathers are dealing with daughters and mothers are dealing with sons.
Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
It's not easy for a mother and son to sing a duet. You can't just sing about anything.
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.
My daughter and two sons are the flowers in my heart and garden.
When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother's hand, his fingers could see in the dark.
That strong mother doesn't tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in.
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.
Tranvestism is far more common among men, I noted, because it originates in the primary relation of mother and son.
As I got older, the role that I ended up (playing) on One Life to Live was a mother because, by then, I had a stable marriage - so I thought - and a beautiful son and mother roles became what I was doing well. I was still the Latina mom who very much related to people who love family. All those traditional values (were) coming back into my life.
If every 8 year old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation
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.
Richer than I you can never be, I had a mother who read to me.
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.
...to many a mother's heart has come the disappointment of a loss of power, a limitation of influence when early manhood takes the boy from the home, or when even before that time, in school, or where he touches the great world and begins to be bewildered with its controversies, trade and economics and politics make their imprint even while his lips are dewy with his mother's kiss.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.
Remember that every son had a mother whose beloved son he was, and every woman had a mother whose beloved son she wasn't.
Men are what their mothers made them.
The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
Most mothers kiss and scold together.
By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother.
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.
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
When I played Leonardo DiCaprio's mother, they liked that Leo had very hooded eyes and a rounded nose with a ball. They said, They look like they could be mother and son.
A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.
There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.
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.
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
I am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son; she is the first gesture that creates a quiet that is full enough to make the baby sleep. My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen.
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
A boy's best friend is his mother.
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
A mother is the truest friend we have when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity.
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.
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.
We can Fire a missile across the world with pinpoint accuracy, but we trouble keeping a date with our children to go to the library.
More than mother and son, they were accomplices in solitude.
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.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.