MOTHER AND SON QUOTES

I was pleased to find a number of mother and son quotes from men in all walks of life.

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

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.

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

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

Certainly a very true mother and son quote:

Mother—that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.
T. Dewitt Talmage

She was such a good loving mother, my best friend.  Oh, who was happier than I when I could still say the dear name "Mother," and it was heard, and whom can I say it to now?
Ludwig van Beethoven

Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall.  A mother's love outlives them all.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

This has to be one of the earliest mother and sons quotes that we have:

Dear Mother: I'm all right. Stop worrying about me.
Egyptian letter, 2000 b.c.

Nearly every President credits his mother with making him who he became with a beautiful mother and son quote:

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

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.
Abraham Lincoln

My mother made a brilliant impression upon my childhood life. She shone for me like the evening star—I loved her dearly.
Winston Churchill

Lenny always wanted an audience. And in the beginning, I was his audience.
Jennie Bernstein, mother of Leonard Bernstein

Oscar Wilde's rapier wit shines through in this snappy mother and son quote from The Importance of Being Earnest:

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895

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

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 who rejoice with us in our sunshine 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

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

That best academy, a mother's knee.
James Russell Lowell

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

How very many mothers inspired their sons as in this mother and son quote from the painter Marc Chagall:

My mother's love for me was so great that I have worked hard to justify it.
Marc Chagall

You must never feel that you less than anybody else.  You must always feel that you are somebody.
Alberta Williams King,
mother of Martin Luther King, Jr.

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