Mother Son Relationship Quotes

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!

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.

Mothers are inscrutable beings to their sons, always.

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.

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

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.

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.

Most mothers kiss and scold together.

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.

Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.

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.

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.

We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

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 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.

It is one of the many merits of this admirable biography of Proust's mother that it invites one to return to the novel with perhaps a fuller understanding of Proust's heredity, hinterland, and upbringing. . . . This fascinating book is full of interesting social and cultural observation, of information about French Jewish life, the position of Jews in society and, of course, the Dreyfus case. But it is essentially a study of one of the most remarkable and fruitful of mother-son relationships. As such it is a book that every Proustian will want to read.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.