Your Son Quotes - Page 2

I believe it from the bottom of my heart, and your sons and daughters, too, can have the American dream come true.

Abraham A. Ribicoff

Daughter, Dream, Believe

5 Copy quote
When you meet a man in the doorway of a Mexican restaurant who later kisses you while explaining that this kiss doesn’t “mean anything” because, much as he likes you, he is not interested in having a relationship with you or anyone right now, just laugh and kiss him back. Your daughter will have his sense of humor. Your son will have his eyes.

Cheryl Strayed

Daughter, Mean, Eye

Cheryl Strayed (2013). “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There”, p.248, Atlantic Books Ltd

4 Copy quote

Show source
I'll not always be here on guard. The stars twinkle in the Milky Way and the wind sighs for songs across the empty fields of a planet a Galaxy away. You won't always be here. But before you go, whisper this to your sons and their sons - "The work was free. Keep it so.

L. Ron Hubbard

Song, Stars, Wind

17 Copy quote
By Oppression's woes and pains! By your sons in servile chains! We will drain our dearest veins, But they shall be free! Lay the proud usurpers low! Tyrants fall in every foe! Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die!

Robert Burns

Pain, Fall, Son

'Robert Bruce's March to Bannockburn' (1799)

6 Copy quote

Show source
I say, Father, the years have brought me here, still your son, they have brought me to a life I cannot understand.

Philip Levine

Father, Son, Years

Philip Levine (2011). “New Selected Poems”, p.221, Knopf

4 Copy quote

Show source
If you question your thoughts about when your son is not healthy, you come to see that you're the only one you're worried about. It's like without him, you're not happy - so it's all about your happiness. You want him to live for you - for your happiness.

Byron Katie

Son, Healthy, Want

Source: rayhemachandra.com

7 Copy quote

Show source
Can you let your son's body become the same temperature as your son's head before you turn this into a political campaign against the president? Could you do that?

Glenn Beck

Son, Political, President

"The Glenn Beck Program", May 14, 2004.

4 Copy quote

Show source
To think, "I am a sinner, oh Father, save me," is a defective approach! You should say, "I am your son, I am your daughter, oh Father, take me on your lap, I am your child." This will be the approach. You should forget what you do not want.

Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar

Daughter, Children, Father

29 Copy quote
As a dad, it's kind of exciting to see that your son follows what you believe in so strongly.

Connie Mack IV

Dad, Believe, Son

4 Copy quote
For a Jewish mother, having a country wage war on your son is the worst. If Kim Jong-un only knew what he was doing to my mother!

Seth Rogen

Country, Mother, War

10 Copy quote
You, that have toiled during youth, to set your son upon higher ground, and to enable him to begin where you left off, do not expect that son to be what you were, - diligent, modest, active, simple in his tastes, fertile in resources. You have put him under quite a different master. Poverty educated you; wealth will educate him. You cannot suppose the result will be the same.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

Son, Simple, Higher Ground

Anna Letitia Barbauld (2001). “Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.384, Broadview Press

4 Copy quote

Show source
Take up the White Man's burden -- send forth the best ye breed -- go, bind your sons to exile to serve your captives need.

Rudyard Kipling

Son, Men, White Man

"The White Man's Burden" st. 1 (1899)

11 Copy quote

Show source
Some people act as if it were demeaning to their manhood to wish to be well-read but you can no more be a healthy person mentally without reading substantial books than you can be a vigorous person physically without eating solid food. Books should be chosen, not for their freedom from evil, but for their possession of good. Dr. Johnson said: "Whilst you stand deliberating which book your son shall read first, another boy has read both."

Earl Nightingale

Reading, Book, Son

14 Copy quote
Marry your sonne when you will; your daughter when you can.
[Marry your son when you will, your daughter when you can.]

George Herbert

Daughter, Son, Your Daughter

4 Copy quote
O German mother dreaming by the fire, While you are knitting socks to send your son His face is trodden deeper in the mud.

Siegfried Sassoon

Mother, Dream, Son

Siegfried Sassoon (2012). “War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon”, p.65, Courier Corporation

4 Copy quote

Show source
Joe Mauer's the real deal. He is absolutely wonderful. Not only is he a great player, but he's a great human being. He's the kind of guy you'd like to see be your son.

Harmon Killebrew

Real, Son, Player

11 Copy quote
It is cruel for you to leave your daughter, so full of hope and resolve, to suffer the humiliations of disfranchisement she already feels so keenly, and which she will find more and more galling as she grows into the stronger and grander woman she is sure to be. If it were your son who for any cause was denied his right to have his opinion counted, you would compass sea and land to lift the ban from him.

Susan B. Anthony

Daughter, Son, Sea

Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown

5 Copy quote

Show source
I went to my father's at night. He spoke of poor John [Boswell's brother] with disgust. I was shocked and said, "He's your son, and God made him." He answered very harshly, "If my sons are idiots, can I help it?

James Boswell

Brother, Father, Son

4 Copy quote
Your son and your daughter needs an excellent father more than an excellent college.

Nick Vujicic

Daughter, Father, Son

Interview with Lucky Severson, www.pbs.org. March 29, 2013.

7 Copy quote

Show source
There are times where you can't do it yourself and the system takes over, or it's appropriate to do things differently. But I think driving your son and your wife away from hospital was really important to me.

Prince William

Son, Thinking, Wife

"Prince William speaks for first time about fatherhood" by Caroline Davies, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2013.

6 Copy quote

Show source
I shall clasp my hands together and bow to the corners of the world. May your villages remain ignorant of tax collectors, and may your sons be many and ugly and strong and willing workers, and may your daughters be few and beautiful and excellent providers of love gifts from eminent families that live very far away, and may your lives be blessed by the beauty that has touched mine. Farewell.

Barry Hughart

Love, Beautiful, Daughter

5 Copy quote
There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.

Franz Grillparzer

Mother, Home, Son

4 Copy quote
To a student: Dear Miss - I have read about sixteen pages of your manuscript . . . I suffered exactly the same treatment at the hands of my teachers who disliked me for my independence and passed over me when they wanted assistants. . . . Keep your manuscript for your sons and daughters, in order that they may derive consolation from it and not give a damn for what their teachers tell them or think of them. . . . There is too much education altogether.

Albert Einstein

Daughter, Teacher, Son

4 Copy quote
One nice thing about my momma is, she never gets on you for what you are not doing. I mean, she never looks away from the things you do only to notice what isn't on the plan. This is the most important thing in getting along with...anybody, and I can tell you because I copy it from her and it makes good sense. You don't go looking at the things people don't do, when they already be doing plenty in other areas. If your son collects stamps, why you want to go fussing at him because he doesn't play the clarinet? Check out his stamps, man.

Bruce Brooks

Nice, Mean, Son

5 Copy quote
If you can convince me that we are one in this sense, that you are my father, and I your son; and also that I am your father, and you my son, then I can believe in the trinity.

Joseph Bates

Father, Believe, Son

Joseph Bates (2001). “The Early Life and Later Experience and Labors of Elder Joseph Bates”, p.210, Applewood Books

13 Copy quote

Show source