42+ Best Son Quotes: Exclusive Selection

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Famous Son Quotes

You don’t raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they’ll turn out to be heroes, even if it’s just in your own eyes. Wally Schirra

You don’t raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they’ll turn out to be heroes, even if it’s just in your own eyes. Wally Schirra

Raising boys has made me a more generous woman than I really am. Mary Kay Blakely

A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. Irish Proverb

The years will rush by, and one day you will be watching your son as a man, and feeling incredibly proud that he is caring, safe, making a contribution, and hopefully going far beyond you in the scope of his life. Steve Biddulph

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There is more to a boy than what his mother sees. There is more to a boy then what his father dreams. Inside every boy lies a heart that beats. And sometimes it screams, refusing to take defeat. And sometimes his father’s dreams aren’t big enough, and sometimes his mother’s vision isn’t long enough. And sometimes the boy has to dream his own dreams and break through the clouds with his own sunbeams. Ben Behunin, Remembering Isaac: The Wise and Joyful Potter of Niederbipp

The best love in the world is the love of a man. The love of a man who came from your womb, the love of your son! I don’t have a daughter, but maybe the love of a daughter is the best, too. I am first and foremost me, but right after that, There is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that transcends all other affections of the heart. Washington Irving

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

I am a mother. The best thing that I can ever be, is me. But the best gift that I will ever have, is being a mother. C. JoyBell C

Mother is her son’s first god; she must teach him the most important lesson of all, how to love. T.F. Hodge

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Cute Son Quotes

You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it. A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension. Marilynne Robinson

Let your boys test their wings. They may not be eagles, but that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t soar free. C. J. Milbrandt

It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons. Friedrich von Schiller

To wake up to the sound of my son saying ‘Mama, mama!’ It’s the best sound ever. Miranda Kerr

A wise son makes a glad father, But a foolish son is the grief of his mother… A wise son makes a father glad, But a foolish man despises his mother. The Proverbs of Solomon

Good wombs have borne bad sons. William Shakespeare, The Tempest

A mother’s love doesn’t make her son more dependent and timid; it actually makes him stronger and more independent. Cheri Fuller

Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged. Louisa May Alcott

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Do I want to be a hero to my son? No. I would like to be a very real human being. That’s hard enough. Robert Downey Jr.

You are ugly when you love her, you are beautiful and fresh, vital and free, modern and poetic. When you don’t, you are more beautiful as an orphan than as your mother’s son. Witold Gombrowicz

There is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that transcends all other affections of the heart. Washington Irving

Being a mother to a little boy and helping him discover the world is one of the greatest experiences in a woman’s life, which makes objective goals dull in comparison. The connection between a mother and her son opens the gate to a new world of wonder and love. Anonymous

Heaven on Earth is looking at my little boy. Jenny McCarthy

My wild, wild son, run free. Ooh, you’ll know it when you’re where you’re supposed to be. Armin van Buuren & Sam Martin

Listen, my son, to your father’s instructions and do not forsake your mother’s teaching. Proverbs 1:8 (NIV)

Have a little faith in your sons. This journey will be the making of them. C.J. Milbrandt

Ain’t a woman alive who could take my mama’s place. Tupac Shakur

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Beautiful Son Quotes

A boy’s best friend is his mother. Joseph Stefano

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

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. Rhonda Stoppe

He doesn’t know you’re watching him, but in this special, reflective moment, you realize he’s growing up. I mean, really growing up. Robert Lewis

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his. Oscar Wilde

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

Most young men are such bores. They haven’t lived long enough to learn that they are not the wonders to the world they are to their mothers. L.M. Montgomery

Moms are as relentless as the tides. They just don’t drive us to practice, they drive us to greatness. Steve Rushin

Though our new son is barely a part of our present, we look at his squirming, warm bundle of future potential and say to ourselves, ‘Hello, little man.’ Little do we know the adventure we are beginning! Dr. Gregory L. Jantz

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. W.D. Howells

Let your boys test their wings. They may not be eagles, but that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t soar free. C.J. Milbrandt

And she loved a little boy very, very much — even more than she loved herself. Shel Silverstein

My mother carried me for ten months. I asked her ‘Mother, you had an extra month, why you didn’t make me a beautiful face?’ and mother told me, ‘My son, I was busy making your beautiful hands and heart.’ Mstislav Rostropovich

I listen to my mother, and that keeps me out of trouble. I’m a good son. Mr. T

Mothers are inscrutable beings to their sons, always. A.E. Coppard