The Son Quotes

Our sires' age was worse than our grandsires'. We their sons are more worthless than they: so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt.

[King René of Anjou (1409-80)] would not listen to the news of his son having lost the Kingdom of Naples, because he would not bedisturbed when painting a picture of a partridge.

When I was a little baby, my mama she said "Son.Travel where you will and grow to be a manAnd sing what must be sung, poor boySing what must be sung.

I told my sons to remember to always thank people for compliments.

Times change, people change, thought and feeling take new shapes, put on fresh garments, sons bow their heads unwillingly to that which enraptured their fathers.

My sons...I was crazy about my sons and I think I've done a super job in bringing them up.

It's not at all hard to reconcile the two things if you organize your time intelligently. Even when my sons were little, I was working.

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Look, the young woman is with child and shall bear a son, and shall name him Immanuel.

Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.

Your great puddin' of a son don' need fattin' anymore Dursley, don't worry

Her son lives. He has her eyes, precisely her eyes. You remember the shape and color of Lily Evans's eyes, I am sure?

If you mean you think it is my job to go into the secret passage first, O Thorin Thrain’s son Oakenshield, may your beard grow ever longer,” he said crossly, “say so at once and have done!

My own son feels I'm uncool but my grandson loves me. Being cool or uncool is a generational thing. But as a personal thing, I really love everybody in sight.

We also play a Father/Son at home and I play with Steve, too. I try to mix it up. We play two or three times a year, but that's about it.

I play the Father/Son every year on the PGA TOUR Champions. I split it between Jackie and Gary as my playing partners.

Son of Lady Chatterley's Lover had obvious commercial advantages (as a title for this book), but it impugned the marital status of my parents, something that enough critics were already doing.

I would desire for a friend the son who never resisted the tears of his mother.

Like father like son, like mother like daughter!

Never forget, son, when you represent Texas, always go first class.

At cheaper and nearer seats of Learning parents with slender incomes may place their sons in a course of education putting them on a level with the sons of the Richest.

But better far it is to speak One simple word, which now and then Shall waken their free nature in the weak And friendless sons of men.

Had my first son this morning... well, actually, my wife had him. I just caught him. Wo. Heart expanding way faster than my brain...

the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son, and the good fortune to lose him before he reached his twentieth year.

But now I've got a young son and his interest is in science and now when I talk to him, I see that in the science sphere of our lives there is new, there is progress.

I can get motivated seeing a kid at my sons school overcome a learning disability.

Being the son of a filmmaker, you are aware of a career as a director. You don't think of it as just movies, but as a life.

The Mirror interviewed one of Osama bin Laden's sons and said bin Laden has 42 children. That's going to happen when you sleep in a different cave every night.

The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discloses to me His existence. [Fr., L'impossibilite ou je suis de prouver que Dieu n'est pas, me decouvre son existence.]

Christian is a term used to describe a broad range of those who believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God. I think of myself at an Evangelical Christian and regularly attend a Pentecostal church.

Dads, is it too bold to hope that our children might have some small portion of the feeling for us that the Divine Son felt for His Father?

My beautiful son... I can't wait to see his face, hug him, and spend time with him.

I want my marriage to be like th Earth, full of life and revolving around the Son

Could a father not marry his son?

My reward is just to be a better man. You're so close to losing a loved one ... the ultimate goal is to be a better daddy, a better son, a better teammate.

A son or daughter in any human family is either born to or adopted by the parents. By definition, a child can't be both. But with God we're both born of Him and adopted by Him.

I love meeting Israeli people. They look at me like a son

They should ask their parents if it would be all right for their son or daughter to marry a Negro.

Buddha called himself 'The Enlightened One' and Jesus called himself 'The Son of God'. To me the term 'World-Teacher' is of as little importance as 'The Son of God' or 'The Enlightened One'.

You ain't going nowhere, son. You ought to go back to driving a truck.

I have never understood why it is called losing a child. No parent is that careless. We all know exactly where our sons and daughters are; we just don't necessarily want them to be there

What I didn't realize is how completely consumed I would be by my sons. I didn't know that the rest of my life would become so little a priority.

Savor the little moments, son, that's my advice. They're what life is. All the little things that happen while you're waiting for something else.

I'm the luckiest guy in the world to be my parents' son.

I was born here in the city, born in the Bronx. Son of a cop. One grandfather was a taxi driver; the other was a firefighter. New York is in my DNA.

Also, to be honest, my dad wanted me to be an athlete. And I think all sons want to prove something to their dad. So now, aged 35, I want to see what I can achieve physically.

A king there was once reigning, Who had a goodly flea, Him loved he without feigning, As his own son were he!

I am not ashamed to say that I am the son of a washerwoman.

Prodigious actions may as well be done, by weaver's issue, as the prince's son.

To breed up the son to common sense is evermore the parent's least expense.

You don't value families if you force them to take up a collection to buy body armor for a son or daughter in the service.