Son Quotes - Page 2

• Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Happiness, Mother, Filial

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• No love is greater than that of a father for His son.

  Dan Brown

  Birthday, Father, Love Is

  Dan Brown (2005). “Angels & Demons”, p.421, Simon and Schuster

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• Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Thank You, Strong, Children

  Douglas MacArthur, Edward T. Imparato (2001). “General MacArthur: Wisdom and Visions”, p.158, Turner Publishing Company

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• There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.

  Mark Twain

  Time, Baby Boy, Boys

  1876 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, ch.25.

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• I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

  John Adams

  Education, Philosophy, War

  John Adams (2003). “The Letters of John and Abigail Adams”, p.264, Penguin

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  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.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Birthday, Men, World

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• 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.

  Martin Andersen Nexø

  Mother Daughter, Honesty, Father

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• What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fathers Day, Daddy, Secret

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.83, Vintage

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• Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.

  Euripides

  Forgiveness, Men, Forgiving

  Euripides (1958). “Euripides”

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• Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him, for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low, could still be saved; the bitterest enemy and also he who was your friend could again be your friend; love that has grown cold can kindle.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Hope, Falling In Love, Giving Up

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• As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

  Chanakya

  Family, Tree, Religion

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• It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'

  Sam Levenson

  Happy Birthday, Hands, Fortune Cookie

  Sam Levenson (2016). “In One Era and Out the Other: A Life's Journey”, p.5, Open Road Media

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• A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.

  Helen Rowland

  Funny, Fathers Day, Dad

  Helen Rowland (1909). “Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”

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• A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.

  Frank A. Clark

  Funny, Dad, Father

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• God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

  Saint Augustine

  Philosophical, Adversity, Catholic

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• It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.

  Gertrude Stein

  Funny, Father, Men

  Everybody's Autobiography ch. 2 (1937)

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• The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.

  John Dryden

  Birthday, Men, Treats

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• I look at my sons' little faces, and I want to be their superhero. I don't want them to have to look outside to a third party for a hero, for someone to look up to and admire. I want that to be ME. I want that person to be MOMMY for them.

  Lashinda Demus

  Hero, Party, Role Models

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• Do I want to be a hero to my son? No. I would like to be a very real human being. That's hard enough.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Real, Hero, Fatherhood

  "The Complete Robert Downey Jr". Interview with Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. April 16, 2012.

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• Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Mothers Day, Mom, Mother And Son

  "Mama Was My Teacher: Growing Up In A Small Southern Town" by Dozier Cade, (p. 77), 2004.

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• The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

  Voltaire

  Birthday, World, Firsts

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• When we adopt—and when we encourage a culture of adoption in our churches and communities—we’re picturing something that’s true about our God. We, like Jesus, see what our Father is doing and do likewise (John 5:19). And what our Father is doing, it turns out, is fighting for orphans, making them sons and daughters.

  Russell D. Moore

  Daughter, Jesus, Father

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• All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Family, Mothers Day, Thank You

  Abraham Lincoln, James Baird McClure (2006). “Anecdotes and Stories of Abraham Lincoln”, p.46, Stackpole Books

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• 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.

  James A. Baldwin

  Fathers Day, Earth, Being A Father

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• He followed in his father's footsteps, but his gait was somewhat erratic.

  Nicolas Bentley

  Father, Erratic, Bentley

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