Your Son Quotes - Page 4

• Now is the time to keep the promise of equal pay for an equal day's work, because I want my daughters to have exactly the same opportunities as your sons.

  Barack Obama

  Daughter, Son, Opportunity

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

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• There are few things in this world more satisfying than having your son teach you how to play tennis, unless it is having a semi-truck run over your foot.

  Erma Bombeck

  Running, Son, Feet

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist”, p.211, Open Road Media

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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

  Son, Simple, Higher Ground

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

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• Marry your sonne when you will; your daughter when you can.
  [Marry your son when you will, your daughter when you can.]

  George Herbert

  Daughter, Son, Your Daughter

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• I think the best thing to try to do is allow your daughter or your son to know that they can come to you for anything. If you can break down that wall so they don't feel embarrassed by telling you things, that's half the battle.

  Channing Tatum

  Daughter, Wall, Son

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• I'm trying to cause people to be interested in the particulars of their lives because I think that's one thing literature can do for us. It can say to us: pay attention. Pay closer attention. Pay stricter attention to what you say to your son.

  Richard Ford

  Son, Thinking, People

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• Fatherhood is asking your son to make up a name rather than tell anybody who he is.

  Bill Cosby

  Son, Names, Fatherhood

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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, Son, Sea

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

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• May the Lord ordain that your son becomes a man, and never a coward!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Son, Men, Coward

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3372, Manonmani Publishers

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• You can't have an honest fourth grade school teacher. Mr. and Mrs. Jones, Johnny, your son, your only child, the fruit of your loin, is a moron. I have no idea how this kid finds a door to get out of the house in the morning. If I were you, I would waste him and start over. Now, I say that with all due respect.

  Dom Irrera

  Teacher, Morning, Children

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• Christian mothers, if only you knew the future of distress and peril, of shame ill-restrained, that you prepare for your sons and daughters in imprudently accustoming them to live hardly clothed and in making them lose the sense of modesty, you should be ashamed of yourselves and of the harm done the little ones whom heaven entrusted to your care, to be reared in Christian dignity and culture.

  Pope Pius XII

  Christian, Daughter, Mother

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• On Good Friday Jesus died But rose again at Eastertide.....Lord, teach us to understand that your Son died to save us not from suffering but from ourselves, not from injustice...but from being unjust. He died that we might live - but live as he lives, by dying as he died who died to himself.

  George MacDonald

  Friday, Jesus, Son

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• Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.

  William Cowper

  Love, Son, Mercy

  William Cowper (1854). “The Poetical Works of William Cowper”, p.143

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• They're selling razor blades and mirrors in the street
  Pray that when I'm coming down you'll be alseep
  If I ever hurt you your revenge will be so sweet
  Because I'm scum
  And I'm your son
  I come undone

  Robbie Williams

  Song, Sweet, Hurt

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• If you can convince me that we are one in this sense, that you are my father, and I your son; and also that I am your father, and you my son, then I can believe in the trinity.

  Joseph Bates

  Father, Believe, Son

  Joseph Bates (2001). “The Early Life and Later Experience and Labors of Elder Joseph Bates”, p.210, Applewood Books

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• One nice thing about my momma is, she never gets on you for what you are not doing. I mean, she never looks away from the things you do only to notice what isn't on the plan. This is the most important thing in getting along with...anybody, and I can tell you because I copy it from her and it makes good sense. You don't go looking at the things people don't do, when they already be doing plenty in other areas. If your son collects stamps, why you want to go fussing at him because he doesn't play the clarinet? Check out his stamps, man.

  Bruce Brooks

  Nice, Mean, Son

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• To a student: Dear Miss - I have read about sixteen pages of your manuscript . . . I suffered exactly the same treatment at the hands of my teachers who disliked me for my independence and passed over me when they wanted assistants. . . . Keep your manuscript for your sons and daughters, in order that they may derive consolation from it and not give a damn for what their teachers tell them or think of them. . . . There is too much education altogether.

  Albert Einstein

  Daughter, Teacher, Son

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• Some people act as if it were demeaning to their manhood to wish to be well-read but you can no more be a healthy person mentally without reading substantial books than you can be a vigorous person physically without eating solid food. Books should be chosen, not for their freedom from evil, but for their possession of good. Dr. Johnson said: "Whilst you stand deliberating which book your son shall read first, another boy has read both."

  Earl Nightingale

  Reading, Book, Son

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• You can't understand it until you experience the simple joy of the first time your son points at a seagull and says 'Duck!'

  Russell Crowe

  Son, Simple, Ducks

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• After all you grow by experience. But while your son is young, you should try to set before him his ultimate goal.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Son, Goal, Trying

  Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

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• Walk through Santa Monica and try to find somebody who knows a young man or woman who's in this war. Here, war is an intellectual concept. If you lose your son or daughter, it's no longer an intellectual matter.

  Paul Haggis

  Daughter, War, Son

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• Come all you mad and raging fearless friends of war and peace,
  Come all you sad self-righteous frightened friends down on your bended knees,
  All beings on this earth, you must not harm them;
  All weapons you hold deep within your heart, you must disarm them.
  Every man you meet's your son.
  Every woman is your daughter.
  Go find someeone who's thirsty,
  And give them water.

  Butch Hancock

  Music, Daughter, War

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• In my senior year of high school, I was working at a dealership washing cars. For some reason, I asked them to give me a shot as a salesman for a shift. What happened was I sold two cars in one day and they offered me the position. After a while I decided I didn't want the job and so I told the manager I'd contracted HIV from having unprotected sex. It was only half true but I'd been feeling sick and somehow convinced myself I was really dying. I remember I sat in my boss' office, the both of us crying. Later than night he calls my dad and says 'I'm sorry your son has HIV.' It was terrible.

  Nick Thune

  Senior, Jobs, Sex

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• When every piece of furniture and your underwear are taken by the bank, when you lose your house in Florida, in New York, in Amsterdam and L.A., when your wife is dying and your son abandons you, you don't feel very good.

  Al Goldstein

  New York, Taken, Son

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• There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Mother, Home, Son

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