Son Quotes

• Racism isn't born, folks, it's taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list.

  Denis Leary

  Powerful, Hate, Naps

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• How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son's offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!

  Moliere

  Father, Repentance, Offense

  Jean-Baptiste Moliere (2015). “Tartuffe and Other Plays”, p.247, Penguin

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• O war! thou son of Hell!

  William Shakespeare

  War, Hell

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.64, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• The sons of Adam are formed from dust; if not humble as the dust, they fall short of being men.

  Saadi

  Fall, Humble, Humility

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• I'm so proud of my son for being so funny!

  Susan Boyle

  Proud, My Son

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• Labor is cheap, friends are expensive, but sons are priceless.

  Rick Joyner

  Priceless, Labor, Expensive

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  We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

  Gloria Steinem

  Mother Daughter, Courage, Honesty

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• Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, and though they are with you, yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.

  Khalil Gibran

  Wisdom, Daughter, Dream

  Prophet (1923) "On Children"

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• More than anything, it's my son's smile and love that makes me light up!

  Amber Valletta

  Light, And Love, Light Up

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• 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

  Fathers Day, Dad, Hero

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• My son's the most precious thing to me: He's changed me from being selfish to selfless.

  Ricardo Antonio Chavira

  Selfish, Selfless, Precious Things

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• Asking me to describe my son is like asking me to hold the ocean in a paper cup

  Jodi Picoult

  Ocean, Asking, Paper

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• Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

  Epictetus

  Fathers Day, Teacher, Teaching

  Epictetus (1895*). “Discourses: With the Encheiridion and Fragments”

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• We must educate our sons to save our daughters

  Yvette Cooper

  Daughter, Educate, Our Daughter

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• Oh, that God would raise up missionaries. I don't wish the same things your parents want for you. They want for you security and insurance and nice homes. They want for you cars and respect. I want for you the same thing I want for my son, that one day he takes a banner, the banner of Jesus Christ, and he places it on a hill where no one has ever placed a banner before, and he cries out, 'Jesus Christ is Lord,' even if it costs my son his life.

  Paul Washer

  Jesus, Nice, Home

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• All I can hope to teach my son is to tell the truth and fear no man.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Men, Telling The Truth, Fear No Man

  "Edward R. Murrow and the Time of His Time" by Joseph Wershba, www.evesmag.com.

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• Don't ask me for answers, I've only got one. That a man leaves the darkness, when he follows the Son.

  Larry Norman

  Men, Darkness, Answers

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• The true wealth of a nation lies not in it's gold or silver but in it's learning, wisdom and in the uprightness of its sons.

  Khalil Gibran

  Wisdom, Lying, Gold

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• War is good business Invest your son

  Allen Ginsberg

  War, Your Son, Good Business

  Allen Ginsberg (1972). “The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971: Pocket Poets Number 30”, p.137, City Lights Books

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• When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

  William Shakespeare

  Fathers Day, Dad, Giving

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• My number one goal is to love, support and be there for my son.

  Farrah Fawcett

  Love, Numbers, Goal

  "Farrah Attacks Son's Drug Dealer" by wenn.com, June 1, 2001.

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• Being a good human being is very easy: Be a good son, a good husband, a good parent and a good citizen.

  Siddharth Katragadda

  Husband, Parent, Citizens

  "The Other Wife: A Novel in Verse". Book by Siddharth Katragadda, 2003.

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• A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

  Charles Dickens

  Time, Boys, Stories

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Christmas Stories”, p.441, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.

  Confucius

  Fathers Day, Dad, Children

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• Your son at five is your master, at ten your slave, at fifteen your double, and after that, your friend or foe, depending on his bringing up.

  Hasdai ibn Shaprut

  Fifteen, Slave, Masters

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