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Quotes About Sons

We've begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
~ Gloria Steinem
The Lord would want you to be successful. He would. You are His sons and His daughters. He has the same kind of love and ambition for you that your earthly parents have. They want you to do well and you can do it.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
In peace sons bury their fathers; in war fathers bury their sons.
~ James A. Michener
From the beginning of history there have been mothers, and mothers have sons.
~ James A. Michener
As part of the ritual of becoming a man, my maternal uncle, a judge, and his four sons, each older than me, took me deer hunting.
~ Hisham Matar
My energy is undoubtedly my two sons Yatra and Linga, and they are my all-time inspirations.
~ Dhanush
I have fabulous sons, but unfortunately, they both have that thrill-seeker gene - bigger, higher, faster, scarier. I have a deal with God. If I'm breathing, that's a prayer for my sons' safety.
~ Linda Thompson
My sons are coming out with music. Square Off, they're called.
~ Doug E. Fresh
Rich men's sons are seldom rich men's fathers.
~ Herbert Kaufman
Sons or fathers, poor men or rich men, sacred or secular: all are homosexual in their worship of everything phallic.
~ Phyllis Chesler
Except the Christ be born again tonight In dreams of all men, saints and sons of shame, The world will never see his kingdom bright.
~ Vachel Lindsay
Humor the sons of the poor, for they give science its splendor.
~ The Talmud
Make me the father, O Lord, who will show my sons enough of a sense of humor, so that they will always be serious, but never take themselves too seriously. Give them humility, so they will always remember the simplicity of true greatness, the open mind of true wisdom, the meekness of true strength.
~ Thom S. Rainer
Look for loyal ministers in homes with filial sons
~ Thomas Cleary
It's much easier being a father to girls. Boys are just horrible. Then girls come into their own around 12 when they're nightmares too.
~ Keith Allen
Time like an ever rolling stream bears all its sons away They fly forgotten as a dream dies at the opening day.
~ Colin Wilson
Discriminating and broad-minded criticism is what the South needs,--needs it for the sake of own white sons and so daughters, and for the insurance of robust, healthy mental and moral development.
~ W E B Du Bois
When I was 14 years old, I went with my father to visit some family. This guy said, "Sam, you have five sons -- which one of those sons do you like the best?" I thought my father would say me! He thought for a moment, and then he raised his hand, and said, "which one of those fingers do you like the best?"
~ lasorda tommy ii
Gnostic manuscripts lead people to an understanding of themselves as sons and daughters of God, sharing God's Divinity.
~ Laurence Galian
What the mud had been doing with itself, or where it came from, who could say? But it seemed to collect in a moment, as a crowd will, and in five minutes to have splashed all the sons and daughters of Adam.
~ Charles Dickens
Surely, surely, if we are not simple animals that live to fight, there must be a reason for bloodshed." "And the reason is? for you?" "Power, Jehane. A bastion. A way to be as secure as this uncertain world allows, with a chance to build something for my sons to hold onto after I die.
~ Guy Gavriel Kay
Sons of Confederate Veterans.
~ James M. McPherson
It has never made any sense to argue that, unique among the people of the world, Arabs are more concerned on a day-to-day basis about the treatment of people they don't know than they are about how they're going to put food on their own tables, or whether their sons will ever find a job.
~ John Podhoretz
My dad was a ham, too. He could sell those women anything. Of all his sons, I was the only one he could trust to sell as well as he could. I was proud of that.
~ Paul Lynde