Son Quotes - Page 29

• I'm a bit of a speed demon. I ride my motorbike every weekend. I've had bikes since I was a kid and my 11-year-old brother, who's like my son, has an identical motocross bike to me, except smaller. Everything I do he wants to do.

  Kelvin Fletcher

  Brother, Kids, Weekend

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Who doesn't love Game of Thrones? Sons of Anarchy is funny and thug-ish. I love Shameless. I just sit with my hat tipped, waiting for something to happen, more than going out after the shows.

  Gavin Rossdale

  Thug, Games, Waiting

  Source: collider.com

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• From the Son of Heaven down to the mass of the people, all must consider the cultivation of the person the root of everything besides.

  Confucius

  Roots, People, Heaven

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.359, Courier Corporation

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• From the earliest times the Welsh have been looked upon as an unclean people. It is thus that they have preserved their racial integrity. Their sons and daughters rarely mate with humankind except their own blood relations.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Daughter, Integrity, Blood

  Evelyn Waugh (1958). “The world of Evelyn Waugh”

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• My father and I were never intimate in the sense of my coming to him with confidences or seeking advice. Our relationship was rather that of host and guest. Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Father, Advice, Guests

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• Father and son are natural enemies and each is happier and more secure in keeping it that way.

  John Steinbeck

  Father, Enemy, Way

  John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.53, Penguin

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• I am gagged and imprisoned. I can't even speak. I want to kick a football in a park with my son. Ordinary, banal life: my impossible dream.

  Salman Rushdie

  Football, Dream, Ordinary

  Salman Rushdie (2012). “Joseph Anton”, p.170, Random House

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• There is a moment when the interior light of the "eyes of faith" becomes one with the exterior light that shines from Christ, and this occurs because man's thirst, as he strives and seeks after God, is quenched as he finds repose in the revealed form of the Son.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Eye, Men, Light

  Hans Urs von Balthasar (1982). “Glory of the Lord VOL 1: Seeing The Form”, p.190, A&C Black

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• A great matter calls her son with terms like deal, and love.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  And Love, Matter, Term

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• I charge [my sons] never to let the motives of private interest or ambition to influence them to betray, nor the terrors of poverty and disgrace, or the fear of danger or of death deter them from asserting the liberty of their country, and endeavoring to transmit to their posterity those sacred rights to which themselves were born

  George Mason

  Country, Ambition, Rights

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• We have a commitment to serve our Lord. We have an assurance that the cause is just and worthy. But, above all, we have a knowledge that God lives and is in His Heavens and that His Son Jesus Christ has laid out a plan for us which will bring us and our loved ones eternal life if we are faithful. That life will be a busy, purposeful life with accomplishments and joys and development.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Jesus, Commitment, Accomplishment

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• My name is very important to me. I'm representing the Wade name. I've got the name on the back of my jersey when I play. I walk around with that name. That's my family name, the name my son will grow up with. So it's very important to me to keep the level of maturity that I have.

  Dwyane Wade

  Growing Up, Maturity, Play

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• I have a son. I love my son. I want everything that I do to be so safe that I would be happy to have my son operating it. That's my fundamental rule.

  Hyman Rickover

  Safe, Want, Would Be

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• I've won a lot of times with my wife and son here, and I've won solo. I don't think there's a formula for when the come out and when they don't I'm simply happy to win.

  Vijay Singh

  Winning, Thinking, Simply Happy

  Interview with Jim Gorant, www.si.com. May 2, 2005.

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• My reward is just to be a better man. You're so close to losing a loved one ... the ultimate goal is to be a better daddy, a better son, a better teammate.

  Jermaine O'Neal

  Losing A Loved One, Men, Daddy

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• We're children of God through our blood kinship with Christ. We're also sons and daughters of Adam and Eve, with a hereditary craving for forbidden fruit salad.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Daughter, Children, Blood

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• Growing up in Boston, I was always Matt, Son of Former New England Patriot Don. And then when my brother Tim was a senior in high school, I became Matt, Brother of Tim.

  Matt Hasselbeck

  Senior, Brother, Growing Up

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• Al Davis treated me like son. That man helped me become the man I am today.

  Sebastian Janikowski

  Men, Als, Today

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• I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, sons of former slaves and sons of former slave-owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day, even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into a oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by content of their character. I have a dream today!

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dream, Children, Character

  Speech at Civil Rights March,Washington, D.C., 28 Aug. 1963

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• The extortions and oppressions of government will go on so long as such bare fraudulence deceives and disarms the victims; so long as they are ready to swallow the immemorial official theory that protesting against the stealings of the archbishop's secretary's nephew's mistress' illegitimate son is a sin against the Holy Ghost.

  H. L. Mencken

  Government, Long, Nephew

  H.L. MENCKEN (1958). “PREJUDICES A SELECTION”

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• You are a fool in four letters, my son.

  Moliere

  Four, Letters, Fool

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• You marry a non-graduate, then you are going to worry if your son or daughter is going to make it to the university.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Daughter, Worry, Graduates

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• This great son of the world, Madiba, showed us the way. Whether you are white, black yellow or brown you are all God's children, come together, work together and God will show you the way.

  Kenneth Kaunda

  Children, Yellow, White

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• There is scarcely room for doubt that something in the psychological relation of a mother-in-law to a son-in-law breeds hostility between them and makes it hard for them to live together. But the fact that in civilized societies mothers-in-law are such a favourite subject for jokes seems to me to suggest that the emotional relation involved includes sharply contrasted components. I believe, that is, that this relation is in fact an 'ambivalent' one, composed of conflicting affectionate and hostile impulses.

  Sigmund Freud

  Mother, Believe, Emotional

  Sigmund Freud (2003). “Totem and Taboo”, p.17, Routledge

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• God...should never have been expelled from America's schools. As we struggle to teach our children...we dare not forget that our civilization was built by men and women who placed their faith in a loving God. If Congress can begin each day with a moment of prayer...so then can our sons and daughters.

  Ronald Reagan

  Daughter, Prayer, Children

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