A mother is the only person who understands her son better than anyone else. Their relationship affects the overall development of the child as years pass by. Boys sharing a healthy relationship with their mothers are observed to be more emotionally intelligent. Their bonds teach gentleness, strength, security, and confidence. Those who have an unhealthy relationship with their mothers tend to be more aggressive and impatient.
1. It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son – and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him. – Helen Rowland
2. 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. – Lauryn Hill
3. 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. – Mary Balogh
4. 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
5. Mother is her son’s first god; she must teach him the most important lesson of all, how to love. – T. F. Hodge
6. Raising boys has made me a more generous woman than I really am. Undoubtedly, there are other routes to learning the wishes and dreams of the presumably opposite sex, but I know of none more direct, or more highly motivating, than being the mother of sons. – Mary Kay Blakely
7. I listen to my mother, and that keeps me out of trouble. I’m a good son. – Mr. T
8. 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
9. If you try singling me out to my mother, she’ll be down your throat. She has three sons, and she’s equally proud of us all. – Lee Pearson
10. A mother will come up to me and say, ‘Will you meet my son? He loves you. He watched ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ a thousand times.’ – T. J. Miller
11. I don’t think the way I portray mother’s and son’s relationships has anything to do with my age or generation. It has to do with what I lived with my own mother and what it’s transformed into and the point of view it has given me on mothers and women. The way I was brought up with women. It’s all about personal background. – Xavier Dolan
12. 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
13. 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. – Letty Cottin Pogrebin
14. 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. – J. Ellen Foster
15. When I was a child, my mother said to me, ‘If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general. If you become a monk you’ll end up as the pope.’ Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso. – Pablo Picasso
16. 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
