Being a mom is hard. Being a boy mom is even harder. But it’s also the most rewarding thing in the world. There are so many things that only boy moms can understand. That’s why we’ve put together this list of 100 quotes about being a boy mom. These quotes will make you laugh, cry and everything in between. So sit back, relax and enjoy these hilarious, touching and downright adorable quotes about raising boys!
Boy Mom Quote
- “All I am I owe to my mother.” — George Washington
- “That’s my ideal day, time with my boys.” — Kenny G
- “A boy’s best friend is his mother. – Joseph Stefano
- “Sons are the anchors of a mother’s life.” – Sophocles
- “Sons are the anchors of a mother’s life.” — Sophocles
- “Men are what their mothers made them.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Ain’t a woman alive who could take my mama’s place.” — Tupac
- “A boy’s story is the best that is ever told.” — Charles Dickens
- “The only man who has stolen my heart is my son.” – Sandra Bullock
- “If I have a monument in this world, it is my son.” – Maya Angelou
- “Who’s a boy gonna talk to if not his mother?” — Donald E. Westlake
- “The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.” – Henry Ward Beecher
- “I live for my sons. I would be lost without them.” — Princess Diana
- “Mothers are inscrutable beings to their sons, always.” — A.E. Coppard
- “All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “The most important mark I will leave on this world is my son.” – Sarah Shahi
- “A small son can charm himself into, and out of, most things.” – Jenny de Vries
- “Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
- “The very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.” – Jane Austen
- “Raising boys has made me a more generous woman than I really am.” — Mary Kay Blakely
- “Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.” – Louisa May Alcott
- “Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.” – Erich Fromm
- “Little boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older.” — J.M. Barrie
- “If love is as sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.” — Stevie Wonder
- “Prove yourself brave, truthful, and unselfish, and someday you will be a real boy.” — Pinocchio
- “To wake up to the sound of my son saying ‘Mama, mama!’ It’s the best sound ever.” – Miranda Kerr
- “Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.” — Proverbs 23:25
- “And she loved a little boy very, very much, even more than she loved herself.” – Shel Silverstein
- “Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold.” — Chinese Proverb
- “And she loved a little boy very, very much – even more than she loved herself.” — Shel Silverstein
- “Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.” – James Joyce
- “A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.” – Irish Proverb
- “He didn’t realize that love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark.” — J.K. Rowling
- “Older people sit down and ask, “What is it?” but the boy asks, “What can I do with it?”” — Steve Jobs
- “When my kids become unruly, I use a nice playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out.” — Erma Bombeck
- “For this child I prayed, and the Lord hath given me my petition which I asked of him.” — 1 Samuel 1: 27
- “You are his definition of home, the place where he feels most confident and comfortable. – Katie Clemons
- “Listen, my son, to your father’s instructions, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.” — Proverbs 1:8
- “I have a son who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.” — Maya Angelou
- “Mother is her son’s first god; she must teach him the most important lesson of all, how to love.” — TF Hodge
- “When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth.” — Mitch Albom
- “I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Moms are as relentless as the tides. They don’t just drive us to practice, they drive us to greatness.” – Steve Rushin
- “Let your boys test their wings. They may not be eagles, but that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t soar free.” – C.J. Milbrandt
- “Children love their mothers. Especially with a boy child and his mother, there’s a bond that’s unbreakable.” — Tyler Perry
- “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
- “No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.” — Godfrey Winn
- “Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.” — Augustus Hare
- “A son will search for the ultimate love his entire love, but will finally realize it was within his mother all along.”- Anonymous
- “A mother’s love doesn’t make her son more dependent and timid; it actually makes him stronger and more independent.”- Cheri Fuller
- “You are loved for the baby boy you are, the man you will become, and the precious son you will always be.” — Proud, Happy, Mama Blog
- “There is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that transcends all other affections of the heart.” – Washington Irving
- “I like unkempt; I don’t mind if I have holes in my jacket or whatever. I think people should look more the way they feel.” — Chris Robinson
- “I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it’s good to make thoughtful good choices. – Karen Salmansohn
- “My mother never gave up on me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.” — Denzel Washington
- “My son makes me smile when he stands up for what he believes in, even if it’s his right to have a second portion of dessert.” — Jennie Baranczyk
- “There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy’s life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.” — Mark Twain
- “My mother was the making of me. She was so true, so sure of me, and I felt I had something to live for, someone I must not disappoint.” — Thomas Edison
- “In my practice, I’ve seen something extraordinary, almost spiritual, in the eyes of young mothers who hold their sons for the first time.” — Meg Meeker
- “Be strong out there, my son. Look for the love and kindness in others. Forgive yourself when you make mistakes, and enjoy the journey.” — Kirsten Wreggi
- “Heaven on earth is looking at my little boy. The minute he was born, I knew if I never did anything other than being a mom, I’d be fine.” — Jenny McCarthy
- “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
- “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
- “My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart—a heart so large that everybody’s joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.” – Mark Twain
- “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
- “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
- “If boy puberty hired a marketing firm to design a logo, it would be an image of a closed door; if it were animated, the door would be slamming.” – Cara Natterson
- “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.”” — Lauryn Hill
- “Here’s what I’ve learned about raising boys… if you keep ’em busy, they’re fine. You let ’em get bored, they’ll dismantle your house board by board.” – Kenny Rogers
- “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.” — Walter M. Schirra, Sr.
- “Here’s what I’ve learned about raising boys . . . if you keep ’em busy, they’re fine. You let ’em get bored, they’ll dismantle your house board by board.” — Kenny Rogers
- “My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.” — Michael Jordan
- “The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.” — Theodore Roosevelt
- “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.” — Meg Meeker
- “One thing about having a baby is that each step of the way, you simply cannot imagine loving him any more than you already do . . . And then you do; you love him even more.” – Anne Lamott
- “But boys are different from girls and not just physically. Acknowledging, appreciating, and understanding that boys are boys is essential in raising a son.” – Catherine Musco Garcia Prats
- “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.” – Meg Meeker Md
- “To be a mother of a son is one of the most important things you can do to change the world. Raise them to respect women, raise them to stand up for others, raise them to be kind.” – Shannon L. Alder
- “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
- “My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.” George Washington
- “Of course, my son has been the center of my life and will always be the center of my love. When he was young, I was the rock in his life. Now that I am old, he is the rock in my life.” – Hyacinth Mottley
- “My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, “You’re tearing up the *****.” “We’re not raising *****,” Dad would reply. “We’re raising boys.”” — Harmon Killebrew
- “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
- “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. – Katie Bingham Smith
- “Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat and humble and gentle in victory.” — Douglas MacArthur
- “My mother was the one constant in my life. When I think about my mom raising me alone when she was 20, and working and paying the bills, and, you know, trying to pursue your own dreams, I think is a feat that is unmatched.” – Barack Obama
- “Having a child makes you realize the importance of life, narcissism goes out the window. Heaven on earth is looking at my little boy. The minute he was born, I knew if I never did anything other than being a mom, I’d be fine.” – Jenny McCarthy
- “If you would have your son walk honorably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path but teach him to walk firmly over them – not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone.” — Anne Bronte
- “One thing about having a baby is that each step of the way you simply cannot imagine loving him any more than you already do, because you are bursting with love, loving as much as you are humanly capable of—and then you do, you love him even more.” – Anne Lamott
- “In my practice, I’ve seen something extraordinary, almost spiritual, in the eyes of young mothers who hold their sons for the first time. It’s as though we know we have to hold on tightly while we can because, deep down, we realize that we can’t keep them.” — Meg Meeker
- “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 ***, but I know of none more direct, or more highly motivating, than being the mother of sons.” – Mary Kay Blakely
- “If God had let me choose a son, there is no doubt you’d be the one. It seems it was just yesterday, I read to you and watched you play. Today I see myself in you. The way you act, the things you do. I’m thankful I was in God’s plan to help my boy become a man. – Larry Howland
- “My son, you will always be my greatest gift, my biggest joy and my reason for living. May you grow up to be a strong, kind and courageous man of integrity who loves life and makes the world a better place.” – Unknown
- “When I look into my son’s eyes, I know the joy of life and what it means to be alive. It has given me strength in moments of weakness and warmth in times of despair.” – Unknown
- “My sons are not just boys that fill my heart with love each day—they are signs from God that I’m doing something right.” – Unknown
- “My son, you are a blessing from the heavens above and a reason for me to never give up on true love. You make each day sweeter than before and fill my life with joy forevermore.” – Unknown
- “My son is the sunshine in my life, the force that drives me to keep going and the love of my life.” – Unknown
- “My son stands on his own two feet, but I’ll always be ready to catch him if he ever falls. He is young and strong, but I am here for support when he needs it most.” – Unknown
- “My son is my biggest inspiration. He is the reason I wake up each morning, and his ambition and drive make me proud to be his mother every single day.” – Unknown
- “My son brings out the best in me. His smile lights up my world and it’s impossible not to feel happy when he is around. He’s my little ray of sunshine.” – Unknown
Wrapping Up
No matter what kind of day you’re having, these boy mom quotes will bring a smile to your face! With so many inspirational and heartwarming sentiments shared by others, it’s certain that all moms of boys can find something to relate to in this collection. Whether you need a daily reminder of how much your son means to you or an extra helping of motivation to get through a difficult situation, these quotes will provide you with the encouragement and inspiration you need. So go ahead and bookmark your favorite boy mom quote – it’s sure to come in handy!
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