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Famous Sons Quotes

Oh my son's my son till he gets him a wife, but my daughter's my daughter all her life. β€” Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

A son is a son 'til he gets a wife, but a daughter is a daughter all her life. β€” Emily Giffin

Until you have a son of your own... you will never know the joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a father as he looks upon his son. β€” Kent Nerburn

Few sons are like their fathers - many are worse, few better. β€” Homer

No love is greater than that of a father for His son. - Dan Brown

No love is greater than that of a father for His son. β€” Dan Brown

To a father waxing old, nothing is dearer than a daughter; sons have spirits of a higher pitch, but less inclined to endearing fondness. β€” Euripides

My son's taking drum lessons, and my daughter's taking piano lessons. One day they're going to start a band. β€” Chris Daughtry

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons. β€” James Baldwin

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. β€” 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. β€” Walter Schirra Sr.

There is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that trancends all other affections of the heart β€” Washington Irving

Every father should remember one day his son will follow his example, not his advice. β€” Charles Kettering

To be a good father, you must first be a good son. β€” Prince Ali Salman Aga Khan Aly Khan

When a father praises his son, he flatters himself. β€” American Proverbs

My eldest son, Jack, grew up with me as a 'part-time' dad. β€” Mike McGavick

Short Sons Quotes

  • I am not the man I once was. I do not want to go back in time, to be the second son, the second man. β€” Vasco da Gama
  • Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold. β€” Chinese Proverbs
  • By the time a man realizes that his father was right, he has a son who thinks he's wrong. β€” Charles Wadsworth
  • Abandon your animosities and make your sons Americans! β€” Robert E. Lee
  • My mother always texts me saying 'Fighting! Do well, my handsome son!'. β€” Jay Park
  • When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry. β€” Yiddish Proverbs
  • You see, I was the son of a baptist minister. β€” DeForest Kelley
  • Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans. β€” Homer
  • I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants. β€” Sidney Altman
  • I speak with my father about everything in my life. β€” Jared Kushner

Sons Image Quotes

My son, forbearance is a great virtue; there's no other like it. - Sarada Devi quote

My son, forbearance is a great virtue; there's no other like it. β€” Sarada Devi

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

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

The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long. - Lao Tzu quote

The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long. β€” Lao Tzu

Success has many fathers, failure many sons. - Ryan Ross quote

Success has many fathers, failure many sons. β€” Ryan Ross

Percy scowled. "I-I know you." Nico raised his eyebrows. "Do you? - Rick Riordan quote

Percy scowled. "I-I know you." Nico raised his eyebrows. "Do you? β€” Rick Riordan

My son lives in Nicaragua. My daughters live in the United States. - Gioconda Belli quote

My son lives in Nicaragua. My daughters live in the United States. β€” Gioconda Belli

Sons quote Respect for women is one of the greatest gifts a father can show to a son.
Respect for women is one of the greatest gifts a father can show to a son.

A Mother And Sons Love Quotes

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father s. He's more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat. β€” Robert Frost

Every mother hopes that her daughter will marry a better man than she did, and is convinced that her son will never find a wife as good as his father did. β€” Martin Andersen NexΓΈ

Most mothers kiss and scold together. β€” Pearl S. Buck

Sons quote Every father should remember that one day his will follow his example instead of his advice
Every father should remember that one day his will follow his example instead of his advice

Pakistan is a peace loving, democratic country. Pashtuns want education for their daughters and sons. Islam is a religion of peace, humanity and brotherhood. β€” Malala Yousafzai

A parent's love is whole, no matter how many times divided. β€” Robert Breault

For it is the suffering flesh, it is suffering, it is death, that lovers perpetuate upon the earth. Love is at once the brother, son, and father of death, which is its sister, mother, and daughter. And thus it is that in the depth of love there is a depth β€” Miguel de Unamuno

If fathers are sometimes sulky at the appearance of the destined son-in-law, is it not a fact that mothers become sentimental and, as it were, love their own loves over again. β€” William Makepeace Thackeray

Richer than I you can never be, I had a mother who read to me. β€” Strickland Gillilan

I lost my mother two years ago to cancer. But the greatest gift she gave to me was showing me how to be a wonderful and loving mom to my two sons, even now that they are grown men. β€” Carla Hall

I'll see a beautiful girl walking up to me and I'll think, Oh, my God, I can't believe my good luck. But then she'll say, 'Where's your son?' or 'My mother loves you'. β€” James Caan

Father And Sons Love Quotes

What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father. β€” Friedrich Nietzsche

I trust everyone. I just don't trust the devil inside them. β€” Troy Kennedy Martin

I love my father, but I have worked to develop a separate and distinct identity in different projects I have worked on. β€” Jared Kushner

The first secret to loving others is to immerse yourself in a love relationship with God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit - and abide there. β€” Anne Graham Lotz

May all your expectations be frustrated, may all your plans be thwarted, may all your desires be withered into nothingness, that you may experience the powerlessness and poverty of a child and sing and dance in the love of God who is the Father, Son and Spirit. β€” Brennan Manning

It is a foolish thing to think that anyone can love us like God the Father and His only begotten Son does. β€” Enoch Adeboye

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

Parkour does not have to be liked or disliked! Parkour is here and it will stay here forever! Because it was born from a pure heart and nourished from all the love that a son can give to his father! β€” David Belle

Ultimately, there can be no complete healing until we have restored our primal trust in life. β€” Georg Feuerstein

I tried to stick to my game plan, which was always being aware of what my A story was - the love story between a father and his son, and that son and his daughter. β€” Ted Demme

I Love My Sons Quotes

I love my country. I love my guns. I love my family. I love the way it is now, and anybody that tries to change it has to come through me. That should be all of our attitudes. Cause this is America, and a country boy is good enough for me, son. β€” Charlie Daniels

My younger son, Cordell, aka Lil Snoop, loves me like a fan loves Snoop Dogg. He's inspired by making me happy. My older son, Corde, aka Spank, does everything I say, with effort and determination - but he does it for himself. He gets his thrill out of seeing his own results on the football field. β€” Snoop Dogg

I'm so sick of the words 'gay' and 'lesbian'. They're just people... One day I want my son to come home from school and be like, 'I found this guy, and I love him.' And I'm gonna be like, 'Yes, you do, and that's ok.' β€” Josh Hutcherson

[My son] he loves music, but right now, cars are his thing. He told me when he gets older he wants to be a "Ferrari man" and I was like, "A Ferrari man? Do you want to drive Ferraris or do you want to build them?" He was like, "I want to build them." β€” Tyga

I have a son. I love my son. I want everything that I do to be so safe that I would be happy to have my son operating it. That's my fundamental rule. β€” Hyman Rickover

In my travels, I also noticed that kids in Thailand like spicy food, and kids in India love curry. I'm hoping to introduce my son, Hudson, to lots of veggies and spices when he's young. I say that before he's started on solid foods, so it could be easier in theory than practice! β€” Curtis Stone

I love my son and am proud of my son. β€” Robert H. Schuller

I saw pure love when my son looked at me, and I knew that I had to make a good life for the two of us. β€” Suzanne Somers

I will not leave you, I cannot leave you, for you are My creation and My product, My daughter and My son, My purpose and My... Self. Call on Me, therefore, wherever and whenever you are separate from the peace that I am. I will be there. With Truth. And Light. And Love. β€” Neale Donald Walsch

It makes me feel like a brother, or a son that people still care for me... that I have so many fans, who write to me and share with me that I am loved and have been an inspiration. My Dear Fans This I Promise I Will Never Forget. One Love! β€” Asafa Powell

Love My Son Quotes

My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav'n is sent, Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content! β€” Robert Burns

O SON OF MAN! For everything there is a sign. The sign of love is fortitude under My decree and patience under My trials. β€” BahΓ‘'u'llΓ‘h

My number one goal is to love, support and be there for my son. β€” Farrah Fawcett

My son has two loving parents and an extended family, whether it's cousins or stepmothers or boyfriends. My son is surrounded by love. β€” Bridget Moynahan

To her, the name of father was another name for love. β€” Fanny Fern

Sometimes people say that kids with autism aren't capable of love. That's ridiculous. My son loves deeply. He's just doesn't communicate well. β€” Claire LaZebnik

There is, however, equally great incentive to worship and love God in the thought that, for some unfathomable reason, He wants me as His friend, and desires to be my friend, and has given His Son to die for me in order to realize this purpose. not merely that we know God, but that He knows us. β€” J. I. Packer

I love to run. I was challenged to run the New York marathon four months after having my youngest son, and since running isn't a big part of softball, the thought of a marathon was a stretch for me. β€” Jennie Finch

I love my son. I love my kids, my family. Like I said after I took the misdemeanor plea, I take full responsibility for my actions. β€” Adrian Peterson

I found out that I'm a pretty bad father. I make a lot of mistakes and I don't know what I'm doing. But my kids love me. Go figure. β€” Louis C. K.

I Love My Son Quotes

I don't need to live my art and almost die to understand my heroines. I want to love my sons, live quietly, eat good food, have meaningful friendships in and out of work and have a very large wine collection. β€” Measha Brueggergosman

My son is two weeks old today. The minute he came in my arms and looked at me it changed my life. Literally changed my life. When I say changed my life, I mean he showed me love I thought... I know... the word love, there is no way to describe this love. It's so powerful. β€” DJ Khaled

I love my son more than any of you can imagine. β€” Adrian Peterson

I am utterly in love with my son and my boyfriend and live in the most magical place on Earth. I've been in Norway for ten months now and I have loved every minute of it. β€” Rebecca Loos

I have said to you before that even if Libya and the United States enter into war, God forbid, you will always remain my son, and I have all the love for you as a son, and I do not want your image to change with me. β€” Muammar al-Gaddafi

Dad - a son's first hero, a daughter's first love. β€” John Walter Bratton

Mom...In my next life I have to be your son again. Then, I will definitely be a kind-hearted son that you love I love you, mom. I love you, mom. There has never been a moment that thoughts of you left my mind. Mom. That you gave birth to me. Thank you. β€” Kang Min-hyuk

Well, my son really loves wildlife. And everytime he draws a polar bear I want to tell him there probably won't any by the time... he's my age. That's kinda hard to deal with. β€” Thom Yorke

When you say your Rosary, the angels rejoice, the Blessed Trinity delights in it, my Son finds joy in it too, and I myself am happier than you can possibly guess. After the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, there is nothing in the Church that I love as much as the Rosary. β€” Alanus de Rupe

If I Had My Child to Raise Over Again β€” Diana Loomans

Young Sons Quotes

I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here. β€” Magic Johnson

For the other people, the babies, the young ones, I did not order them to be killed. For Son Sen and his family, yes. I feel sorry for that. That was a mistake that occurred when we put our plan into practice. I feel sorry. β€” Pol Pot

Discipline your son when he’s young, and be his friend when he grows up. β€” Arabic Proverbs

The young bloods of the South: sons of planters, lawyers about towns, good billiard-players and sportsmen, men who never did any work and never will... They are splendid riders, first-rate shots and utterly reckless. These men must all be killed or employed by us before we can hope for peace. β€” William Tecumseh Sherman

Remember when you're young and you think your dad is Superman? And then you grow up and realized he's just a drunk who wears a cape. β€” Dave Attell

It is not the rich man's son that the young struggler for advancement has to fear in the race for life, nor his nephew, nor his cousin. Let him look out for the dark horse in the boy who begins by sweeping out the office. β€” Andrew Carnegie

When I was just a little young boy, Papa said Son, you'll never get far, I'll tell you the reason if you want to know, 'cause child of mine, there isn't really very far to go. β€” Robert Hunter

Landowners and influential men of all kinds, especially members of political councils, ought to set an example to the people. The young members of rich families should offer themselves for military service. If not one of two sons, at least one of three sons should be ready to do so. β€” Chiang Kai-shek

I am the son of poor peasants who came at a very young age to live in Algeria. I only recently saw the place where they were born, near the city of Marrakech. β€” Ahmed Ben Bella

I think Romeo and Juliet is uplifting. That's how much a son wishes to avenge his father. That is how much two young people can love each other. β€” Ben Kingsley

Three Sons Quotes

Christ is the Son of God. He died to atone for men's sin, and after three days rose again. This is the most important fact in the universe. I die believing in Christ. β€” Watchman Nee

At another house two women learned very fast; I say women, but one was a girl about twelve or thirteen, already married, however. There was a little child about three years old. My sister asked, 'Who is the True God's Son?' The little thing replied, in a very sweet voice, 'Jesus.' β€” Lottie Moon

God eternally exists as three persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and each person is fully God, and there is one God. β€” Wayne Grudem

Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island. β€” Lactantius

To my three sons, Peter, Scott, and Alexander who pulled me from the 18th Century and back into the present on a regular basis and therefore made me a better person, thank you. And to my wife, who sits at the table there. Who is right about almost everything. β€” Joseph J. Ellis

Thus the connection of the Father in the Son, and of the Son in the Paraclete, produces three coherent Persons, who are yet distinct One from Another. These three are one [thing], not one [Person], as it is said, 'I and my Father are One,' in respect of unity of substance not singularity of number. β€” Tertullian

The theory of three person in one God (that is, a personal Trinity or Tri-unity) suggests polytheism, rather than the one ever-present I AM. Jesus Christ is not God, as Jesus himself declared, but is the Son of God. β€” Mary Baker Eddy

I met a girl who sang the blues and I asked her for some happy news, but she just smiled and turned away. And the three men I admire most, The Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost, They caught the last train to the coast The day the music died. β€” Don McLean

My son, there is no rest for me. That which Sri Ramakrishna called "Kali" took possession of my body and soul three or four days before his passing away. That makes me work and work and never lets me keep still or look to my personal comfort. β€” Swami Vivekananda

What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must. Who is God, the one and only true? Money is God. Gold and Greenbacks and Stock-father, son, and ghosts of same, three persons in one; These are the true and only God, mighty and supreme. β€” Mark Twain

Beloved Son Quotes

In this is love, not that we loved God but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. β€” John the Apostle

Since peace is alone the gift of God, and as it is He who gives it, why should we be afraid? His unspeakable gift in His beloved Son is the ground of no doubtful hope. β€” Michael Faraday

I am the god Apostolos. The Harbinger of Telikos. The Final Fate of all. Beloved son of Apollymi the Great Destroyer. My will makes the will of the universe. [Apostolos / Acheron Parthenopaeus] β€” Sherrilyn Kenyon

Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death. β€” Sun Tzu

Remember that every son had a mother whose beloved son he was, and every woman had a mother whose beloved son she wasn't. β€” Marge Piercy

Spiritual identity means we are not what we do or what people say about us. And we are not what we have. We are the beloved daughters and sons of God. β€” Henri Nouwen

The Father to whom we pray is the glorious God who created worlds through His Beloved Son. β€” Henry B. Eyring

As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters. As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. β€” Solomon

Eternal Father, I offer You the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Your dearly beloved Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, in atonement for our sins and those of the whole world. β€” Divine

Each of the patriots whom we remember on this day was first a beloved son or daughter, a brother or sister, or a spouse, friend, and neighbor. β€” George H. W. Bush

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More Sons Quotes

I'm Ric Flair! The Stylin', profilin', limousine riding, jet flying, kiss-stealing, wheelin' n' dealin' son of a gun! β€” Ric Flair

I am involved in the land of a leonine and brave people, where every foot of the ground is like a well of steel, confronting my soldier. You have brought only one son into the world, but everyone in this land can be called an Alexander. β€” Alexander The Great

Until the killing of black men, black mothers' sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the killing of a white mother's sons, we who believe in freedom cannot rest until this happens. β€” Ella Baker

Have you ever sent a loved son on vacation, and had him returned to you in a pine box, so horribly battered and water-logged that someone needs to tell you this sickening sight is your son, lynched? β€” Mamie Till

You, the sons and daughters, the future of Turkiye, even under such circumstances and conditions, your duty is to save the Turkish independence and the Republic, you will find the power you need in the noble blood in your veins. β€” Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

I live right in front of my daughter. I have a little house right in front of her because I can stay in touch. It's like a little commune, and it's very nice, because you can be close. I can see my granddaughter. I live very close to my brother, too, and my son. We're a very close family. β€” Debbie Reynolds

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son. β€” Rudyard Kipling

The sons of Adam are limbs of each other, Having been created of one essence. When the calamity of time affects one limb, the other limbs cannot remain at rest. If you have no sympathy for the troubles of others, You are unworthy to be called by the name of a human. β€” Saadi Shirazi

It does not matter what your personal deficiency, or whether it be a hundred and one different things, God has always one sufficient answer, His Son Jesus Christ, and he is the answer to every need. β€” Watchman Nee

Now may the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the eternal high priest himself, the Son of God Jesus Christ, build you up in faith and truth and in all gentleness and in all freedom from anger and forbearance and steadfastness and patient endurance and purity. β€” Polycarp

If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth. β€” Chief Seattle

Son, if you really want something in life, you have to work for it. Now quiet, they're about to announce the lottery numbers. β€” Matt Groening

I am a missionary, heart and soul. God had an only Son, and He was a missionary and a physician. I am a poor, poor imitation of Him, or wish to be. In this service I hope to live; in it I wish to die! β€” David Livingstone

God is more concerned with conforming me to the likeness of His Son than leaving me in my comfort zones. God is more interested in inward qualities than outward circumstances - things like refining my faith, humbling my heart, cleaning up my thought life and strengthening my character. β€” Joni Eareckson Tada

We had a beautiful dream and that was all. The interest of my son is the only guide I have, and whatever happiness I could achieve by being free of this place I cannot consent to separate my self from him. I could not have any pleasure in the world if I abandoned my children. I do not even have any regrets. β€” Marie Antoinette

Talk with your daughters, Play with your sons. You need to be a better friend to them than anyone else. This society offers lots of evil friends. Before they make those kinds of friends, they need to find their best friend in you. β€” Nouman Ali Khan

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong. β€” Charles Wadworth

I yearn for that livin' large, but mama I ain't done yet/Sit back and watch your son rise, kick back and know your son set β€” J. Cole

If every 8 year old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation β€” Dalai Lama

Live every day as if the Son of Man were at the door, and gear your thinking to the fleeting moment. Just how can it be redeemed? Walk as if the next step would carry you across the threshold of Heaven. Pray. That saint who advances on his knees never retreats. β€” Jim Elliot

Two months ago I had a nice apartment in Chicago. I had a good job. I had a son. When something happened to the Negroes in the South I said, `That's their business, not mine.' Now I know how wrong. I was. The murder of my son has shown me that what happens to any of us, anywhere in the world, had better be the business of us all. β€” Mamie Till

When we say that Jesus Christ was produced without sexual union, was crucified and died, and rose again, and ascended to heaven, we propound nothing new or different from what you believe regarding those whom you call the sons of Jupiter. β€” Justin Martyr

From Mary we learn to surrender to God's Will in all things. From Mary we learn to trust even when all hope seems gone. From Mary we learn to love Christ her Son and the Son of God! β€” Pope John Paul II

When Jesus Christ came upon the Earth, you killed Him. The son of your own God. And only after He was dead did you worship Him and start killing those who would not. β€” Tecumseh

It's a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn't think of a better way to forgive us our sins than to come down to Earth in his alter ego as his son and have himself hideously tortured and executed so that he could forgive himself. β€” Richard Dawkins

We worship unity in trinity, and trinity in unity; neither confounding the person nor dividing the substance. There is one person of the Father, another of the Son, and another of the Holy Ghost; but the Godhead of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, is all one; the glory equal, the majesty co-eternal. β€” Tertullian

God changes appearances every second. Blessed is the man who can recognize him in all his disguises. One moment he is a glass of fresh water, the next, your son bouncing on your knees or an enchanting woman, or perhaps merely a morning walk. β€” Nikos Kazantzakis

I honor the father in his son, not the son in his father. Each one receives a reward or punishment for his deeds, but not for the acts of others. β€” Jose Rizal

We never give more honour to Jesus than when we honour his Mother, and we honour her simply and solely to honour him all the more perfectly. We go to her only as a way leading to the goal we seek - Jesus, her Son. β€” Louis de Montfort

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit. β€” Kahlil Gibran

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