Son Quotes

• Racism isn't born, folks, it's taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list.

  Denis Leary

  Powerful, Hate, Naps

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  We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

  Gloria Steinem

  Mother Daughter, Courage, Honesty

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• More than anything, it's my son's smile and love that makes me light up!

  Amber Valletta

  Light, And Love, Light Up

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• Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, and though they are with you, yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.

  Khalil Gibran

  Wisdom, Daughter, Dream

  Prophet (1923) "On Children"

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• Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

  Epictetus

  Fathers Day, Teacher, Teaching

  Epictetus (1895*). “Discourses: With the Encheiridion and Fragments”

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• You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes, even if it's just in your own eyes.

  Wally Schirra

  Fathers Day, Dad, Hero

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• Asking me to describe my son is like asking me to hold the ocean in a paper cup

  Jodi Picoult

  Ocean, Asking, Paper

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• My number one goal is to love, support and be there for my son.

  Farrah Fawcett

  Love, Numbers, Goal

  "Farrah Attacks Son's Drug Dealer" by wenn.com, June 1, 2001.

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• When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

  William Shakespeare

  Fathers Day, Dad, Giving

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• A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

  Charles Dickens

  Time, Boys, Stories

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Christmas Stories”, p.441, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.

  Confucius

  Fathers Day, Dad, Children

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

  Louisa May Alcott

  Happiness, Mother, Filial

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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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• 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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  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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• Your son at five is your master, at ten your slave, at fifteen your double, and after that, your friend or foe, depending on his bringing up.

  Hasdai ibn Shaprut

  Fifteen, Slave, Masters

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• The true wealth of a nation lies not in it's gold or silver but in it's learning, wisdom and in the uprightness of its sons.

  Khalil Gibran

  Wisdom, Lying, Gold

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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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• 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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• Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

  Anne Frank

  Girl, Boys, Matter

  "The Dolly Dialogues". Book by Anthony Hope, 1893.

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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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