Son Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 don't enjoy "Dust in the Wind"as much. But I do enjoy "Song for America," "Carry on, Wayward Son," and many songs- Kansas is really a drummer's dream to play in. And I like 'em all.

  Phil Ehart

  Dream, Song, Dust

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• My father built low- and moderate-income housing in Queens and Brooklyn. I learned a lot from him. But I went in a different direction. I built Trump Tower in Manhattan, the most luxurious building in the world. It's not going to be easy for my son, but maybe it shouldn't be easy. Life is, after all, a test.

  Donald Trump

  Queens, Father, Different

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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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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• Where is the reward of virtue? and what recompense has nature provided for such important sacrifices as those of life and fortune, which we must often make to it? O sons of earth! Are ye ignorant of the value of this celestial mistress? And do ye meanly inquire for her portion, when ye observe her genuine beauty?

  David Hume

  Sacrifice, Ignorant, Mistress

  David Hume, Stephen Copley, Andrew Edgar (2008). “Selected Essays”, p.90, Oxford University Press

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• You also, O son Brutus.
  [Lat., Et tu, Brute fili.]

  Julius Caesar

  Brutus, Murder, Brutes

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• War is a thing of fearful and curious anomalies ... It has shown that government by men only is not an appeal to reason, but an appeal to arms; that on women, without a voice to protest, must fall the burden. It is easier to die than to send a son to death.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  War, Fall, Men

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1915). “Kings, queens and pawns: an American woman at the front”

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• You, that have toiled during youth, to set your son upon higher ground, and to enable him to begin where you left off, do not expect that son to be what you were, - diligent, modest, active, simple in his tastes, fertile in resources. You have put him under quite a different master. Poverty educated you; wealth will educate him. You cannot suppose the result will be the same.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Simple, Higher Ground, Different

  Anna Letitia Barbauld (2001). “Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.384, Broadview Press

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• She [a mother] never outgrows the burden of love, and to the end she carries the weight of hope for those she bore. Oddly, very oddly, she is forever surprised and even faintly wronged that her sons and daughters are just people, for many mothers hope and half expect that their new-born child will make the world better, will somehow be a redeemer. Perhaps they are right, and they can believe that the rare quality they glimpsed in the child is active in the burdened adult.

  Florida Scott-Maxwell

  Mother, Daughter, Children

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• It maketh God man, and man God; things temporal, eternal; mortal, immortal; it maketh an enemy a friend, a servant a son, vile things glorious, cold hearts fiery, and hard thing liquid.

  Bonaventure

  Heart, Men, Enemy

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• It is my intention to make no provision herein for my son Christopher or my daughter Christina for reasons which are well known to them.

  Joan Crawford

  Daughter, Well Known, Intention

  "Fictional character: Joan Crawford". "Mommie Dearest", 1981.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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