Quotes About Sons

Gentle Mother, font of mercy, save our sons from war, we pray, stay the swords and stay the arrows, let them know a better day, Gentle Mother, strength of women, help our daughters through this fray, soothe the wrath and tame the fury, teach us all a kinder way.

Many promised him their voices: Fralegg the Strong, clever Alvyn Sharp, humpbacked Hotho Harlaw. Hotho offered him a daughter for his queen. "I have no luck with wives," Victarion told him. His first wife died in childbed, giving him a stillborn daughter. His second had been stricken by a pox. And his third … "A king must have an heir," Hotho insisted. "The Crow's Eye brings three sons to show before the kingsmoot." "Bastards

The new-made Lord Quenton had two strong sons and a plump grandson to assure the succession, but as his first wife had been carried off by spotted fever three years earlier, he further agreed to take one of Lord Tully's daughters as his bride.

His little brother, Prince Daeron, was the most popular of the queen's sons, as clever as he was courteous, and most comely as well.

What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!

Peace is the first thing the angels sang. Peace is the mark of the sons of God. Peace is the nurse of love. Peace is the mother of unity. Peace is the rest of blessed souls. Peace is the dwelling place of eternity.

The morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy.

I have seen America's sons, daughters, mothers, and fathers fight valiantly for our freedom and pay the ultimate sacrifice to defend us.

Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.

Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons.

In peace sons bury their fathers in war fathers bury their sons.

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

I set my mind to seek and explore by wisdom concerning all that has been done under heaven. It is a grievous task which God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.

The moment we put an end to speculation in land, we put an end to making money at the expense of our sons and daughters.

In Christ we become God's sons, man's servants and the devil's masters.

The only men who become Gods, even the Sons of God, are those who enter into polygamy

Men call their sons Paul and their dogs Nero today.

Intercessory prayer is an act of communion with Christ, for Jesus pleads for the sons of men.

Jack could sound them out only through carousing with them over a period of weeks. Jack had long since lost interest in carousing per se, but he recalled how it was done, and could still put on a performance of carousing that looked sincere but was in fact wholly affected, shrewd, and calculating. He was helped in this by his two sons, who really meant it.

Great was the name of Abraham, but all his Sons were not accepted; only Isaac was in the Covenant.

I can imagine you with me in the swamp, helping to raise our sons, shotgun right at your side, everywhere you go." "Daughters." "Baby. Really? I'm a manly man and I have manly sperm, the kind that only throws sons. Way, way too much testosterone for the female children. You're going to have to let that dream go." "I have my heart set on daughters, so you're going to have to tone down the male craziness and get the feminine vibe going.

Justice favors the favored sons.

Glorifying the pioneers was a way to justify what had been done in the past and perhaps ease anxieties about the future—the solidity of stone and metal suggesting that the sons and daughters of the pioneers would continue to prevail.

Olli punched in with the cymbal-whack of her typewriter by the alley-side window while a happy neon sign six stories down flashing Hobart and Sons' Fine Smokables got its purple light all tangled up in her eyelashes.