Sons Quotes

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.

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.

He who can be a good son will be a good father.

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.
Martin Andersen-Nexö

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.

No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace--in peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons.
Croesus of Lydia

In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.
Croesus

Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.

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.

A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

Every man is the son of his own works.

For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.

Everyone is a son or daughter of god.
David Icke

Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.

The relative property of the Son is to be begotten, that is, so to proceed from the Father as to be a participant of the same essence and perfectly carry on the Father's nature.
William Ames

Your son at five is your master, at ten your slave, at fifteen your double, and after that, your friend or your foe, depending on his bringing up.

Your son at five is your master, at ten your slave, at fifteen your double, and after that, your friend or your foe, depending on his bringing up.

A son could bear complacently the death of his father while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to despair.

Books are immortal sons deifying their sires.







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