Son Quotes - Page 4

• The monarchy that I hand over to my son is not going to be the same one that I have inherited.

  Abdallah II

  Hands, My Son, Monarchy

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• When I auditioned for my high school band the band director was excited because my father was known to be a great musician. When he heard me, he said 'Are you sure you're Ellis's son?'

  Wynton Marsalis

  Father, School, Musician

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• Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm.

  David Rockefeller

  Father, Taken, Perfection

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  House, Citizens, Honest

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.14, Open Road Media

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• I've started looking at my own father a bit funny. He assures me, though, that I really am the son of a Scottish postman.

  Craig Ferguson

  Funny, Father, Scottish

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• Sin! Sin! Thou art a hateful and horrible thing, that abominable thing which God hates. And what wonder? Thou hast insulted His holy majesty; thou hast bereaved Him of beloved children; thou hast crucified the Son of His infinite love; thou hast vexed His gracious Spirit; thou hast defied His power; thou hast despised His grace; and in the body and blood of Jesus, as if that were a common thing, thou hast trodden under foot His matchless mercy. Surely, brethren, the wonder of wonders is, that sin is not that abominable thing which we also hate.

  Thomas Guthrie

  Jesus, Art, Children

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 546, 1895.

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• The worst waste of breath, next to playing a saxophone, is advising a son

  Kin Hubbard

  Waste, Next, Saxophone

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• If you're feeling alone, and your weariness has grown, look up above, and thank God for His love. There's nothing you can do, to change His love for you; hold on friend, it's not the end. Something beautiful will come, the clouds will part for the sun, the skies will break for the Son, and the Father will say 'Well done.' But until then, until then, you're not alone. He can make bread from stone. Hold on to Him, and He'll hold on to you. Take one day at a time, pray for faith and be kind, and when forgetful becomes your mind, remember what He said, 'You are mine.'

  Nick Vujicic

  Beautiful, Father, Clouds

  FaceBook post by Nick Vujicic from Jun 20, 2013

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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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• It's hard to kill that father-son bond.

  Adam Driver

  Father, Father Son, Hard

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• My son, your ineptitude is so vast, your incompetence so profound, that I am certain you are inhabited by greater power than I have ever known.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Profound, Ineptitude, Incompetence

  Peter S. Beagle (2003). “A fine and private place: The last unicorn”

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• It is hard to stop seeing your son as a son and to start seeing him as a human being. It is hard to stop seeing your parents as parents and to start seeing them as human beings. It's a two-sided transition, and very few people manage it gracefully.

  David Levithan

  Two, People, Parent

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.52, Egmont UK

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• The earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.

  Chief Seattle

  Mother, Men, Earth

  Seattle (Chief) (1976). “Chief Seattle's Testimony”

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• Obviously the holy practice (of polygamy) will commence again after the Second Coming of the Son of Man and the ushering in of the millennium.

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Men, Practice, Holy

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• I say, Father, the years have brought me here, still your son, they have brought me to a life I cannot understand.

  Philip Levine

  Father, Years, Stills

  Philip Levine (2011). “New Selected Poems”, p.221, Knopf

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• I don't want a God that would go around killing people's little girls. Neither do I want a God who would kill his own son.

  John Shelby Spong

  Girl, God, People

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• Sometimes, son," my father said, prying my fingers free, "you have to help the heroes along.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Father, Hero, Helping

  Brandon Sanderson (2016). “The Reckoners Series”, p.18, Delacorte Press

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• The feeling of patriotism - It is an immoral feeling because, instead of confessing himself a son of God . . . or even a free man guided by his own reason, each man under the influence of patriotism confesses himself the son of his fatherland and the slave of his government, and commits actions contrary to his reason and conscience.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Feelings, Patriotism

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1989). “I Cannot be Silent: Writings on Politics, Art and Religion by Leo Tolstoy”

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• She would do anything, anything to belong to his son after a lifetime of belonging to no one at all.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Lifetime, Belonging

  FaceBook post by Lauren DeStefano from May 22, 2012

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• All I want is to become someone new. In this case, Tobias Johnson, son of Evelyn Johnson. Tobias Johnson may have lived a dull and empty life, but he is at least a whole person, not this fragment of a person that I am, too damaged by pain to become anything useful.

  Veronica Roth

  Pain, Empty Life, Dull

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• We want to be saved from our misery, but not from our sin. We want to sin without misery, just as the prodigal son wanted inheritance without the father. The foremost spiritual law of the physical universe is that this hope can never be realized. Sin always accompanies misery. There is no victimless crime, and all creation is subject to decay because of humanity’s rebellion from God.

  R. C. Sproul

  Spiritual, Father, Law

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• Heroes who shed their blood and lost their lives! You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and Mehmets to us where they lie side by side here in this country of ours. You, the mothers, who sent their sons from far away countries wipe away your tears; your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well.

  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  Life, Country, Mother

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• But sons are a different matter to a man. More a duty than an indulgence.

  Libba Bray

  Men, Different, Matter

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.605, Delacorte Press

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• The failure and the success both believe in their hearts that they have accurately balanced points of view, the success because he's succeeded, and the failure because he's failed. The successful man tells his son to profit by his father's good fortune, and the failure tells his son to profit by his father's mistakes.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Father, Mistake, Believe

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Echoes of the Jazz Age Collection: The Beautiful and Damned, Winter Dreams, The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and many more”, p.458, e-artnow

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• As one old gentleman put it, " Son, I don't care if you're stark nekkid and wear a bone in your nose. If you kin fiddle, you're all right with me. It's the music we make that counts.

  Robert Fulghum

  Gentleman, Noses, Care

  Robert Fulghum (2004). “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things”, p.90, Ballantine Books

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