George Eliot Quotes About Son

• It's a father's duty to give his sons a fine chance.

  George Eliot

  Father, Son, Giving

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.139, Booklassic

• There comes a terrible moment to many souls when the great movements of the world, the larger destinies of mankind, which have lain aloof in newspapers and other neglected reading, enter like an earthquake into their own lives--when the slow urgency of growing generations turns into the tread of an invading army or the dire clash of civil war, and grey fathers know nothing to seek for but the corpses of their blooming sons, and girls forget all vanity to make lint and bandages which may serve for the shattered limbs of their betrothed husbands.

  George Eliot

  Girl, Husband, War

  George Eliot (2009). “Daniel Deronda”, p.689, Oxford Paperbacks

• Better spend an extra hundred or two on your son's education, than leave it him in your will.

  George Eliot

  Son, Two, Hundred

  George Eliot (1860). “The Mill on the Floss”, p.28

• The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

  George Eliot

  God, Memories, Son

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.468, 谷月社

• It is a fact perhaps kept a little too much in the background, that mothers have a self larger than their maternity, and that when their sons have become taller than themselves, and are gone from them to college or into the world, there are wide spaces of their time which are not filled with praying for their boys, reading old letters, and envying yet blessing those who are attending to their shirt-buttons.

  George Eliot

  Mother, Reading, Son

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1728, Delphi Classics

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