When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.
It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
Every mother hopes that her daughter will marry a better man than she did, and is convinced that her son will never find a wife as good as his father did.
Mothers are inscrutable beings to their sons, always.
A parent's love is whole, no matter how many times divided.
You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes, even if it's just in your own eyes.
If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.
The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.
What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.
Mothers see the angel in us because the angel is there. If it's shown to the mother, the son has got an angel to show, hasn't he? When a son cuts somebody's throat the mother only sees it's possible for a misguided angel to act like a devil - and she's entirely right about that!
Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.
A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.
One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.
If I Had My Child to Raise Over Again
My son, a perfect little boy of five years and three months, had ended his earthly life. You can never sympathize with me; you can never know how much of me such a young child can take away. A few weeks ago I accounted myself a very rich man, and now the poorest of all.
It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'
My number one goal is to love, support and be there for my son.
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