97 Quotes About Sons

We are all fools with our sons. We wipe them and suckle them and all we expect is for them to be grateful to the end of their days.

Hugged my son todayI'm not used to hugging up

All over now. He is either in joy or nothingness.(So why grieve?The worst of it, for him, is over.)Because I loved him so and am in the habit of loving him and that love must take the form of fussing and worry and doing.

When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother's hand, his fingers could see in the dark.

Mothers see the angel in us because the angel is there. If it's shown to the mother, the son has got an angel to show, hasn't he? When a son cuts somebody's throat the mother only sees it's possible for a misguided angel to act like a devil - and she's entirely right about that!

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.

She never called her son by any name but John; 'love' and 'dear', and such like terms, were reserved for Fanny.

She also understood there was a hole in her heart where her son should be, that she was a wicked, selfish woman for wishing him back.

Could you have seen that mother clinging to her child, when they fastened the irons upon his wrists; could you have heard her heart-rending groans, and seen her bloodshot eyes wander wildly from face to face, vainly pleading for mercy; could you have witnessed that scene as I saw it, you would exclaim, Slavery is damnable!