Your Son Quotes - Page 5

• Look, Mrs. McGillicuddy, it's not my fault your son jumped out a dorm room window on Christmas eve. I've written over fifty books as a Columbia professor, all right? You don't do that by holding hands with every at-risk undergraduate who says he's homesick, or he's turning gay, or the dog ate his term paper. I write about Lincoln, and freedom, and great ideas. I don't always have time for students. It's like Dean Martin used to say: if you want to talk, go to a priest. Hey -- what's the gun for?

  Eric Foner

  Dog, Book, Writing

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• You let their friendship continue because Maisie looks after your son while you're gallivanting around the country disguised as Sherlock Holmes" - Uncle Paton Yewbeam

  Jenny Nimmo

  Country, Uncles, Son

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• You can't have an honest fourth grade school teacher. Mr. and Mrs. Jones, Johnny, your son, your only child, the fruit of your loin, is a moron. I have no idea how this kid finds a door to get out of the house in the morning. If I were you, I would waste him and start over. Now, I say that with all due respect.

  Dom Irrera

  Teacher, Morning, Children

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• Husbands, love your wives well! Your children are noticing how you treat her. You are teaching your sons how they should treat women, and you are teaching your daughters what they should expect from men.

  Dave Willis

  Daughter, Children, Husband

  Dave Willis (2013). “iVow: Secrets to a Stronger Marriage”, p.62, BookBaby

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• War is good business Invest your son

  Allen Ginsberg

  War, 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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• Time machine... wouldn't you like to travel through time? I would. I'd go back... mess with people. You know what I would do? I would go back to when my mom and dad were having sex, to have me. Ya'know, come in, spank my dad on the ass I'm your son from the future! Ahaha!

  Dane Cook

  Mom, Sex, Dad

  "Tourgasm", 2006.

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• Why does anyone do anything? Belief. A belief that they are right and just in their actions. Abraham was willing to sacrifice his son, Isaac, because he believed that God had commanded it. To kill your son is unthinkable. A crime. But if you are acting in the belief that your God, your supreme deity whom you must obey, has demanded it of you, is it still a crime?

  Libba Bray

  Son, Sacrifice, Acting

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• I think the best thing to try to do is allow your daughter or your son to know that they can come to you for anything. If you can break down that wall so they don't feel embarrassed by telling you things, that's half the battle.

  Channing Tatum

  Daughter, Wall, Son

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• Fatherhood is asking your son to make up a name rather than tell anybody who he is.

  Bill Cosby

  Son, Names, Fatherhood

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• My third grade teacher called my mother and said, 'Ms. Cox, your son is going to end up in New Orleans in a dress if we don't get him into therapy.' And wouldn't you know, just last week I spoke at Tulane University, and I wore a lovely green and black dress.

  Laverne Cox

  Mother, Teacher, Son

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• Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science - for to fill your heart with love is enough!

  Richard P. Feynman

  Life, Heart, Son

  "No Ordinary Genius: The Illustrated Richard Feynman". Book by Christopher Sykes, 1996.

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• It's daylight, the sky is cloudy, and human beings believe that beyond the clouds lives an all-powerful God, guiding the fate of men. Meanwhile, look at your son, look at your feet, listen to the sounds around you: down here is the Mother, so much closer, bringing joy to children and energy to those who walk over her body. Why do people prefer to believe in something far away and forget what is there before their eyes, a true manifestation of the miracle?

  Paulo Coelho

  God, Mother, Powerful

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• Talk with your daughters, Play with your sons. You need to be a better friend to them than anyone else. This society offers lots of evil friends. Before they make those kinds of friends, they need to find their best friend in you.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Daughter, Son, Play

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• God changes appearances every second. Blessed is the man who can recognize him in all his disguises. One moment he is a glass of fresh water, the next, your son bouncing on your knees or an enchanting woman, or perhaps merely a morning walk.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Morning, Blessed, Son

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• What's a good investment? Go home from work early and spend the afternoon throwing a ball around with your son.

  Ben Stein

  Inspirational, Home, Parenting

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• I once picked up a woman from a garbage dump and she was burning with fever; she was in her last days and her only lament was: My son did this to me. I begged her: You must forgive your son. In a moment of madness, when he was not himself, he did a thing he regrets. Be a mother to him, forgive him. It took me a long time to make her say: I forgive my son. Just before she died in my arms, she was able to say that with a real forgiveness. She was not concerned that she was dying. The breaking of the heart was that her son did not want her. This is something you and I can understand.

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Regret, Real

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• Jesus kept it simple. The lesson wasn't complicated. 'I speak; you believe My word; your son will be fine.' We complicate what God has made simple by seeing the world through human eyes. We want to see in order to believe and presume that our limitations are His.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Jesus, Believe, Eye

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• I do understand what love is, and that is one of the reasons I can never again be a Christian. Love is not self denial. Love is not blood and suffering. Love is not murdering your son to appease your own vanity. Love is not hatred or wrath, consigning billions of people to eternal torture because they have offended your ego or disobeyed your rules. Love is not obedience, conformity, or submission. It is a counterfeit love that is contingent upon authority, punishment, or reward. True love is respect and admiration, compassion and kindness, freely given by a healthy, unafraid human being.

  Dan Barker

  Love, God, Christian

  Dan Barker (2009). “Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists”, p.89, Ulysses Press

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• I would ask every man and every woman who's had the blessing of having children, 'Would you deny your son or your daughter the ecstasy of finding someone to love?' To love someone takes a lot of courage. So how much more is one challenged when the love is of the same sex and the laws say, 'I forbid you from loving this person'?

  Maya Angelou

  Daughter, Sex, Children

  "Maya Angelou Called On New York State Senators To Back Gay Marriage In 2009" by Curtis M. Wong, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2014.

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• If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone.

  Anne Bronte

  Love, Son, Hands

  Anne Bronte (2016). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Diversion Illustrated Classics)”, p.39, Diversion Books

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• It's a great joy but no test of love or commitment to take your son to a ball game. You really prove your credentials as a good dad when you are willing to take your daughter shopping - more than once.

  Michael Josephson

  Daughter, Dad, Father

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• I will not vote to send my sons, or your sons, daughters, brothers, sisters or friends to fight for a stalemate.

  Rand Paul

  Daughter, Brother, Fighting

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• Would you deny your son or your daughter the ecstasy of finding someone to love?

  Maya Angelou

  Daughter, Son, Finding Someone

  "Maya Angelou Called On New York State Senators To Back Gay Marriage In 2009" by Curtis M. Wong, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2014.

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

  John Dryden

  Birthday, Son, Men

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• Abandon your animosities and make your sons Americans!

  Robert E. Lee

  4th Of July, Son, Abandon

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