Son Quotes - Page 10

• My son is a better dancer than me. I always try to encourage him in his endeavours.

  Mithun Chakraborty

  Dancer, Trying, Endeavour

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• The best way to clean up a son's room is to close the door and pretend it's not part of the house.

  Art Buchwald

  Doors, House, Modern Life

  Art Buchwald (1986). “"You can fool all of the people all the time"”, Fawcett Books

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• It was a dagger in the haughty father's heart, an arrow in his brain, to see how the flesh and blood he could not disown clung to this obscure stranger, and he sitting by. Not that he cared to whom his daughter turned, or from whom turned away. The swift sharp agony struck through him, as he thought of what his son might do.

  Charles Dickens

  Daughter, Father, Heart

  Charles Dickens (1858). “Dombey and Son ... With frontispiece by H. K. Browne”, p.52

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• Dombey sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great arm-chair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in a little basket bedstead, carefully disposed on a low settee immediately in front of the fire and close to it, as if his constitution were analogous to that of a muffin, and it was essential to toast him brown while he was very new.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Fire

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Dombey and Son”, p.5, Xist Publishing

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• "Well," said my aunt, "this is his boy - his son. He would be as like his father as it's possible to be, if he was not so like his mother, too."

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Mother, Father

  Charles Dickens (1872). “The Works of Charles Dickens”, p.87

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• Dombey and Son had often dealt in hides, but never in hearts. They left that fancy ware to boys and girls, and boarding-schools and books. Mr. Dombey would have reasoned: That a matrimonial alliance with himself must, in the nature of things, be gratifying and honourable to any woman of common sense. That the hope of giving birth to a new partner in such a house, could not fail to awaken a glorious and stirring ambition in the breast of the least ambitious of her sex.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Girl, Sex

  1846-8 Dombey and Son, ch.1.

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• Mr. Bazzard's father, being a Norfolk farmer, would have furiously laid about him with a flail, a pitch-fork, and every agricultural implement available for assaulting purposes, on the slightest hint of his son's having written a play.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Father, Humorous

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Edwin Drood and Miscellaneous”, p.207, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I don't quite recollect how many tumblers of whiskey toddy each man drank after supper; but this I know, that about one o'clock in the morning, the baillie's grown-up son became insensible while attempting the first verse of 'Willie brewed a peck o' maut'; and he having been, for half an hour before, the only other man visible above the mahogany, it occurred to my uncle that it was almost time to think about going.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Morning, Uncles

  Charles Dickens (2016). “The Pickwick Papers: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.554, Pan Macmillan

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• Some philosophers tell us that selfishness is at the root of our best loves and affections. Mr. Dombey's young child was, from the beginning, so distinctly important to him as a part of his own greatness, or (which is the same thing) of the greatness of Dombey and Son, that there is no doubt his parental affection might have been easily traced, like many a goodly superstructure of fair fame, to a very low foundation.

  Charles Dickens

  Best Love, Children, Greatness

  Charles Dickens (1858). “Dombey and Son ... With frontispiece by H. K. Browne”, p.57

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• You cannot show real respect to your parents by perpetuating their errors.... Do you consider that the inventor of a steel plow cast a slur upon his father who scratched the ground with a wooden one? I do not consider that an invention by the son is a slander upon the father; I regard each invention simply as an improvement; and every father should be exceedingly proud of an ingenious son. If Mr. Talmage has a son, it will be impossible for him to honor his father except by differing with him.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Real, Father, Errors

  Joseph Lewis, Robert Green Ingersoll (1957). “Ingersoll the Magnificent: To which Has Been Added a Special Arrangement of Some Gems from Ingersoll for Inspiration, Wisdom, and Courage”

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• When we follow the Savior of the world, the Son of God, we flourish and become glorious despite the many terrible circumstances that surround us.

  Quentin L. Cook

  World, Circumstances, Terrible

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• Just previous to the birth of my little son, my mind gave way and my child was born in the asylum for the insane at Stockton, Cal. My boy was buried there.

  Belle Boyd

  Children, Boys, Mind

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• My son Cary's generation likely won't know who my father was, but it's something nice for him that his grandfather was an icon. I had one chance to pass along that name.

  Jennifer Grant

  Father, Nice, Names

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's a lot of kids who look up to me, and that's humbling. Because being human, I don't want to fail them. But being human, I will. That's why it's so important to have your faith put in something that won't fail you. And that means the Son of God's kingdom.

  Si Robertson

  Mean, Kids, Important

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• In the winter, things are dead and dull, but then there is an explosion of life. That's what He promises people who believe in His Son. That's what all the Robertsons are banking on.

  Si Robertson

  Believe, Winter, People

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• It is not in the bright, happy day, but only in the solemn night, that other worlds are to be seen shining in their long, long distances. And it is in sorrow - the night of the soul - that we see farthest, and know ourselves natives of infinity, and sons and daughters of the Most High.

  William Mountford

  Daughter, Distance, Night

  William Mountford (1858). “Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life”, p.379

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• My opinion has always been this, that you ought to never give up as long as you live, even though they have stolen everything from you. If nothing else, you can always call the air you breath your own, or at any rate you can claim that you have it on loan. Yes, lass, last night I ate stolen bread and left my son among men who are going to use pick-handles on the authorities, so I thought I might just as well look you up this morning.

  Halldór Laxness

  Morning, Giving Up, Night

  "Independent People" by Halldór Laxness, translated by J. A. Thompson, published by Vintage Books, (Book Two), 1997.

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• God created us so that the joy He has in Himself might be ours. God doesn't simply think about Himself or talk to Himself. He enjoys Himself! He celebrates with infinite and eternal intensity the beauty of who He is as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. And we've been created to join the party!

  Sam Storms

  Inspiring, Music, Christian

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• Wherefore, as I have said to you, I, God, have become man, and man has become God by the union of My Divine Nature with your human nature. This greatness is given in general to all rational creatures, but, among these I have especially chosen My ministers for the sake of your salvation, so that, through them, the Blood of the humble and immaculate Lamb, My only-begotten Son, may be administered to you.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Humble, Greatness, Men

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• In the particular dwells the tawdry. In the conceptual dwells the grand, the transcendent, the everlasting. Earthly countries and single malignant boys can go to hell; the idea of countries and the idea of sons triumph for eternity.

  Lionel Shriver

  Country, Boys, Ideas

  Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.88, Counterpoint Press

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• Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son, Turbulent, fleshy, sensual, eating, drinking and breeding, No sentimentalist, no stander above men and women or apart from them, No more modest than immodest.

  Walt Whitman

  Drinking, Men, Sensual

  "Song of Myself " l. 497 (written 1855)

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• I only eat organic. I love salads and believe food is our best medicine. My son is so brainwashed, he thinks McDonald's is the devil.

  Deborra-Lee Furness

  Believe, Thinking, Mcdonalds

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• From the onset, I saw victims on both ends of the gun. I will mourn my son's death for the rest of my life. Now, however, my grief has been transformed into a powerful commitment to change. Change is urgently needed in a society where children kill children.

  Azim Khamisa

  Children, Powerful, Grief

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• Angry Black White Boy is bananas! Actually, it's a banana split with razor blades in it. Adam Mansbach is the white Richard Wright, and Angry Black White Boy is our generation's Native Son.

  William Upski Wimsatt

  Boys, Our Generation, White

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• God loves us so much that he crushed his Son so that we might be his and that this love isn't based on our worthiness or performance. His love doesn't fluctuate from day-to-day. It was settled the moment he set it upon you before the foundation of the world.

  Elyse Fitzpatrick

  Love Is, Foundation, World

  Elyse M. Fitzpatrick “Because He Loves Me: How Christ Transforms Our Daily Life”, Crossway

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