Son Quotes - Page 26

• The Navy is the asylum for the perverse, the home of the unfortunate. Here the sons of adversity meet the children of calamity, and here the children of calamity meet the offspring of sin.

  Herman Melville

  Children, Home, Adversity

  Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.4823, Delphi Classics

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• 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, Sea, Land

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

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• Old women even forget how to love their sons. The heart gets worn out, Monsieur.

  Albert Camus

  Heart, How To Love, Aging

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• My darling boy whom I shall never know,
  My son, I love you in my deepest fears.

  Allen Tate

  Love You, Boys, Darling

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.142, Macmillan

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• It is this that, finally, I will try to teach my sons about sex, after I've explained fertile periods and birth control and all the other mechanics that are important to understand but never really go to the heart of the matter: I believe I will say that when you sleep with someone you take off a lot more than your clothes.

  Anna Quindlen

  Sex, Believe, Heart

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.219, Ballantine Books

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• 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, Night

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• [King René of Anjou (1409-80)] would not listen to the news of his son having lost the Kingdom of Naples, because he would not bedisturbed when painting a picture of a partridge.

  Horace Walpole

  Kings, News, Kingdoms

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• During the years when the barely educated immigrants were being replaced by barely educated native sons, Hollywood . . . proved a more reliable, cost-effective means of securing world domination than any nuclear arsenal or diplomatic démarche.

  Frederic Raphael

  Mean, Years, Hollywood

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• It may be true of all relationships, not only between fathers and sons, but between men and women. Nothing seems fixed. Everything is always changing. We seem to have very little control over our emotional life.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Father, Men, Emotional

  Sherwood Anderson (1953). “Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout”

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• However patriarchal the world, at home the child knows that his mother is the source of all power. The hand that rocks the cradlerules his world. . . . The son never forgets that he owes his life to his mother, not just the creation of it but the maintenance of it, and that he owes her a debt he cannot conceivably repay, but which she may call in at any time.

  Frank Pittman

  Mother, Children, Home

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• The mother must teach her son how to respect and follow the rules. She must teach him how to compete successfully with the other boys. And she must teach him how to find a woman to take care of him and finish the job she began of training him how to live in a family. But no matter how good a job a woman does in teaching a boy how to be a man, he knows that she is not the real thing, and so he tends to exaggerate the differences between men and women that she embodies.

  Frank Pittman

  Mother, Jobs, Real

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• Some men live with an invisible limp,
  stagger, or drag
  a leg. Their sons are often angry.

  Robert Bly

  Men, Legs, Invisible

  Robert Bly (1981). “The man in the black coat turns: poems”

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• Believing that fundamental conditions of the country are sound and there is nothing in the business situation to warrant the destruction of values that has taken place on the exchanges during the past week, my son and I have for some days been purchasing sound common stocks. We are continuing and will continue our purchases in substantial amounts at levels which we believe represent sound investment values.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Country, Business, Believe

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• A woman who'd lost her first son
  consoled us with an angel gone ahead
  to pray for our family--
  gone into that sky
  seeking oxygen,
  gone into autopsy

  Michael S. Harper

  Angel, Oxygen, Sky

  Michael S. Harper (1977). “Images of Kin: New and Selected Poems”, p.197, University of Illinois Press

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• I'm always amazed... I took my 11-year-old to an oceanography camp, and these girls came over to me, and my son was like 'Oh here we go, Dad,' because they had been looking. They were like, 'You're the guy, aren't you?' And I said, 'Well, maybe.' They said, 'He is, he's the guy on 'Charmed!''

  Tobin Bell

  Girl, Dad, Years

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• Make us eternal truths receive,
  And practice all that we believe:
  Give us thyself, that we may see
  The Father and the Son, by thee.

  Charlemagne

  God, Faith, Father

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• I was the rector's son, born to the anglican order,
  Banned for ever from the candles of the Irish poor;
  The Chichesters knelt in marble at the end of a transept
  With ruffs about their necks, their portion sure.

  Louis MacNeice

  Order, Necks, Poor

  Louis MacNeice (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.91, Faber & Faber

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• It is so easy to take the violet flame and to use it that I am certain that once you begin you will recognize that the violet flame and the angels of the violet flame are the servants of the sons and daughters of God and the children of the Light, that the violet flame joyously serves you and acts to cleanse your entire being so that, as Jesus said, your whole body can be full of light.

  Elizabeth Clare Prophet

  Daughter, Jesus, Children

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• Sweet death, small son, our instrument
  Of immortality,
  Your cries and hungers document
  Our bodily decay.

  Donald Hall

  Sweet, Decay, Cry

  Donald Hall (1990). “Old and New Poems”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Is it possible that my sons-in-law will do toilets? If we raise boys to know that diapers need to be changed and refrigerators need to be cleaned, there's hope for the next generation.

  Anne Roiphe

  Boys, Law, Needs

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• Did you see Walker's father? 'My son loves America.' Yeah, like O.J. loved his wife.

  Jay Leno

  Father, America, Wife

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• Quite interesting, North Korea is as if it's an entirely secular dictatorship. In North Korea you might think that was the case since it has an officially Communistic ideology, but it's not, it's the most religious state it's possible to imagine. It's actually two people who have been fused into one, maybe this is reminding you of something, there's the father and there's the son. It's one short of a trinity.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Religious, Father, Thinking

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• When the [US] president writes to Kim Jong Il, the son, the Dear Leader, he doesn't call him Dear Mr President, he calls him Dear Mr Secretary. Have you ever noticed that? Why is that? Because he's not the president of North Korea, he's the head of the Communist Party, the North Korean Workers' Party and he's the head of the Army. He's not head of the state. The head of the state is his father, who's been dead for 15 years.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Father, Party, Writing

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• You can't help but change when you have a kid, and for me it was just a sense of I didn't feel like anything was missing in my life and it wasn't. It all came at just the right time, and now if I am absent from my son, I do feel like something is missing.

  Chris Pratt

  Kids, Missing, Helping

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I was sowing wild oats and doing the kind of things that you should do when you don't have kids. Now, I'm just doing less of that, but I earned it, you know. I feel like just spending quiet evenings with my wife and son and sitting in bed in the morning and watching him marvel over the curtains opening or whatever little thing. That all feels really good. And so, I've changed because I'm impressed.

  Chris Pratt

  Morning, Kids, Oats

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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