Son Quotes - Page 6

• For when last need to desperation driveth,
  Who dareth most he wiseth counsel giveth.
  [It., Che spesso avvien che ne' maggior perigli
  Son piu audaci gli ottimi consigli.]

  Torquato Tasso

  Advice, Needs, Lasts

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• As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.
  As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons.

  Solomon

  Love, Daughter, Apples

  King Solomon, “The Song Of Songs”

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• [On the birth of son William:] Thank goodness he hasn't got ears like his father.

  Princess Diana

  Father, Ears, Birth

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• Those parents who do not educate their sons are their enemies; for as is a crane among swans, so are ignorant so are ignorant sons in a public assembly.

  Chanakya

  Swans, Parent, Ignorant

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• Gordon Keith was the son a gentleman.

  Thomas Nelson Page

  Book, Gentleman, Keith

  Thomas Nelson Page (2012). “Gordon Keith”, p.14, tredition

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• Our mythology tells us so much about fathers and sons. ... What do we know about mothers and daughters? ... Our power is so oblique, so hidden, so ethereal a matter, that we rarely struggle with our daughters over actual kingdoms or corporate shares. On the other hand, our attractiveness dries as theirs blooms, our journey shortens just as theirs begins. We too must be afraid and awed and amazed that we cannot live forever and that our replacements are eager for their turn, indifferent to our wishes, ready to leave us behind.

  Anne Roiphe

  Daughter, Mother, Father

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• Few footprints of the great remain in the sand before the ever-flowing tide. Long ago it washed out Homer's. Curiosity follows him in vain; Greece and Asia perplex us with a rival Stratford-upon-Avon. The rank of Aristophanes is only conjectured from his gift to two poor players in Athens. The age made no sign when Shakespeare, its noblest son, passed away.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Player, Greatness, Two

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• So, think about how you use a disc that you own of an Xbox 360 game. If I buy the disc from a store, I use that disc in my machine, I can give that disc to my son and he can play it on his 360 in his room. We both can't play at the same time, but the disc is the key to playing. I can go round to your house and give you that disc and you can play on that game as well.

  Larry Hryb

  Xbox, Thinking, Keys

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• What we're doing with the digital permissions that we have for Xbox One is no different to that. If I am playing on that disc, which is installed to the hard drive on my Xbox One, everybody in my household who has permission to use my Xbox One can use that piece of content. So I can give that piece of content to my son and he can play it on the same system.

  Larry Hryb

  Xbox, Play, Giving

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• We venture to assert, that if there be any day in the year, of which we may be pretty sure that it was not the day on which the Savior was born, it is the 25th of December. Regarding not the day, let us, nevertheless, give thanks to God for the gift of His dear Son.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Years, Giving, May

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• The Chinese are a knowing people; and I daresay that is why they once made a religious odor about old age; to prevent their sons from seeing their own future.

  Christina Stead

  Religious, Knowing, People

  Christina Stead (2016). “The Man Who Loved Children”, p.147, Head of Zeus

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• A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.

  Christina Stead

  Believe, Men, Self

  'House of All Nations' (1938) 'Credo'

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• our sons and daughters are only passing through. ... If we are lucky, they always will consider our home their harbor, but they are headed out to the open sea, almost from the first.

  Jacquelyn Mitchard

  Daughter, Children, Home

  Jacquelyn Mitchard (1999). “The Rest of Us: Dispatches from the Mother Ship”, p.58, Penguin

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• How sad that men would base an entire civilization on the principle of paternity, upon the legal owership and presumed responsibility for children, and then never really get to know their sons and daughters very well.

  Phyllis Chesler

  Daughter, Children, Responsibility

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• Afghans excel at fighting Afghans. This is what Afghans do, even when they are not being invaded by foreign powers. They fight each other, tribe against tribe, brother against brother, half-brother against half-brother, cousin against cousin, uncle against nephew, father against son.

  Phyllis Chesler

  Cousin, Brother, Uncles

  Phyllis Chesler (2013). “An American Bride in Kabul: A Memoir”, p.115, St. Martin's Press

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• Some of the very heroic and colourful figures in our history are sons of Sabaragamuwa - Parakramabahu I, born in Dedigama, the warrior King Rajasinghe I also known as Sitawaka Rajasingha, Edirille Rala born in Colombo and baptised Domingo Corea, who returned to the village of his ancestors Atulugama near Sitawaka and turned against the Portuguese.

  Dominicus Corea

  Kings, Warrior, Village

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• Dominicus Corea had a posthumous son, Lewis Corea who became the Dissawe of Uva. Sir Paul Peiris wrote that `With the disappearance of Dominicus Corea, came a short lull in military operations of which the Portuguese officials availed themselves to give free rein to that rapacity which so frequently disgraced their careers in the East'. Dominicus Corea was succeeded by his brother Simon, as Dissawe of the Sat Korale, Kotte and Sitawaka.

  Dominicus Corea

  Brother, Military, Careers

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• The nation becomes the master of its fate not only when it has many good sons, but also when it possesses enough strength to restrain its bad ones.

  Roman Dmowski

  Fate, Enough, Masters

  "Podstawy polityki polskiej", Przegląd Wszechpolski, 343, 349, 358-359, July 1905.

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• When a father complains that his son has taken to evil ways, what should he do? Love him more than ever.

  Baal Shem Tov

  Father, Taken, Evil

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• There is neither father, nor mother, nor son, nor any other person whatsoever who can embrace the object beloved with so great a love as that wherewith God embraceth the soul.

  Angela of Foligno

  Mother, Father, Soul

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• If people are worried about unfair advancement, they should look at the sons-in-law of the world running companies. They've truly slept their way to the top.

  Mary Cunningham Agee

  Success, Running, Law

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• Well, it looks like John Boehner will be the new Speaker of the House. He is the son of a bartender, one of 12 children. He grew up in a two room home with just one bathroom, worked his way through school, became the first person in his family to graduate from college. And, sadly, fell in with the wrong crowd and wound up in Congress.

  Jay Leno

  Children, Home, School

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• I have no regrets. I had an amazing surrogate who carried my son for me. I am so grateful to her. I can even say I am grateful for having cancer. I was always meant to be a mom, but if I didnt have cancer, I never would have had Zev. I would have had a kid, but not Zev, and I want Zev - tantrums and all.

  Marissa Jaret Winokur

  Mom, Regret, Cancer

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• The kenosis of the Son reveals the mystery of God who is Love. This gift of life is an extension of a mysterious exchange at the heart of the Deity. In God himself the One does not exclude the Other, it includes it. The Unity of God is so complete, so rich, that it is not solitude enclosed in itself, but rather the fullness of communion. And thereby, the source of all communion.

  Olivier Clement

  Heart, Solitude, Unity

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• I'm interested in art for all. I don't want it to be only the sons and daughters of Tory MPs who get to see my plays.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Daughter, Art, Play

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