These 70 Heartfelt Quotes Perfectly Capture That Special Mother and Son Bond (2024)

That's why, when it comes time for Mother's Day, and you're the son trying to craft that perfect message in her Mother's Day card to attach to the gift you just know she'll love, or are trying to find the right words to kick off the champagne toast at Mother's Day brunch (or even dinner), it can be hard to find the perfect words that encompass the heartfelt and one-of-a-kind relationship you sure with mom. Lucky for you, with some inspiration from our favorite mother and son quotes from actors, authors, public figures, former Presidents and more who have found the sweetest ways to succinctly and eloquently say just what you feel, you'll be prepped and ready to let that special lady know just how much you treasure your relationship.

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That strong mother doesn’t tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, toughen up, this is the reality we are living in.

I’m glad we’ve begun to raise our daughters more like our sons – but it will never work until we raise our sons more like our daughters.

How beautifully everything is arranged by nature; as soon as a child enters the world, it finds a mother ready to take care of it.

I listen to my mother, and that keeps me out of trouble. I’m a good son.

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.

I spent a lifetime being small for those closest to me but this is not the woman my son will know.

There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.

The moment that little bundle of pink, squirming flesh slips into our arms, love touches us. We feel it, not just in our hearts, but also on our skin. He is there. Our son.

His little hands stole my heart, and his little feet ran away with it.

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.

I am a boy mom, and I keep my eyes on the goal: raising the boy I love into a man who will make this world a better place.

Son, you will outgrow my lap, but never my heart.

Be strong out there, my son. Look for the love and kindness in others. Forgive yourself when you make mistakes and enjoy the journey.

You know you’re a boy mom when everything in your house is either lost, dirty or broken.

Little boys can test your patience, run you ragged, and make you want to pull your hair out. But they will also melt your heart with just one look, and make you wonder how you ever existed before them.

I’m always gonna love you no matter what. No matter what happens. You’re my son and you’re my blood. You’re the best thing in my life.

That’s the wonderful thing about mothers, you can because you must, and you just do.

A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.