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Quotes About Sons

I am so glad my wife tolerates me. And we have three wonderful sons.
~ Donald Sutherland
O sacred light, walking there upon us, restlessly potent in its tremendous realm, disclosing its soul to me as well, in the rays that I drink, your luck be mine! From their deeds the sons of the sun nourish themselves; they live by victory; with own spirit they rouse themselves, and their force is their mirth.
~ Friedrich Hölderlin
Woe to the generation of sons who find their censers empty of the rich incense of prayer, whose fathers have been too busy or too unbelieving to pray, and perils inexpressible and consequences untold are their unhappy heritage.
~ Edward McKendree Bounds
Compared with the rest of the Royal Family, Charles is a thoroughly Renaissance man, moved by beauty, music, and art in a way that largely passes his parents, his siblings, and his sons by.
~ Penny Junor
Henry Hudson was in his forties when he stepped into the light of history, a seasoned mariner, a man with a strong and resourceful wife and three sons, a man born and raised not only to the sea but to the quest for a northern passage to Asia, who, weaned from infancy on the legends of his predecessors, probably couldn't help but be obsessed by it.
~ Russell Shorto
Even more striking and revealing is how he interweaves "sons of God" twice in Romans 8:14, 19 with "children of God" twice in Romans 8:16, 21—and again in Romans 9:8. It is, for Paul, all about family values—but divine family values, and that is what makes him very, very radical.
~ Marcus J. Borg
With all the wonders Moses was performing, there was one I did not think would ever come to pass: that we would finally be reunited. That I would once again kiss his neck as I had loved to do. That I would see him clasp his sons to his breast.
~ Marek Halter
I remember thinking when the girls were born, first one and then the other, that I should have had sons and not daughters. I didn't feel up to daughters, I didn't know how they worked. I must have been afraid of hating them. With sons I would have known what to do.
~ Margaret Atwood
Why is it we still see our sons as children who can be excused, given time and love and patience, even when they are grown men and need to know better?
~ Anne Perry
I believe in Free Will, the Force Almighty by which we conduct ourselves as if we were the sons and daughters of a just and wise God, even if there is no such Supreme Being. And by free will, we can choose to do good on this earth, no
~ Anne Rice
Those who have no sons rarely attach any importance to the priorities of those who do, but they resent them deeply.)
~ Shashi Tharoor
America is on its way into Europe. You can be as isolationist as you want to be, but there is a fact. Our armies are on their way in. Just as truly as Europe once invaded us, with wave after wave of immigrants, now we are invading Europe, with wave after wave of sons of immigrants.
~ John Hersey
I don't know about you, but the reason I left my parents was because I wanted the freedom to sleep with girls. My sons have that – and they still have their mother to wash their clothes and cook their meals. No wonder they don't want to go!
~ John Hooper
Each of his sons had been his favorite child.
~ Elizabeth Strout
I told my three sons stories about germs more than fifty years ago as fanciful bedtime tales.
~ Arthur Kornberg
What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.
~ Aldous Huxley
That's my ideal day, time with my boys.
~ Kenny G
The world will be different for our daughters and sons because of our tears, our bravery, and our breakthroughs.
~ Marianne Williamson
I suppose the mothers of most twelve-year-old boys live with the uneasy conviction that their sons are embarked upon a secret life of crime.
~ Shirley Jackson
My mother spoke about being a widow with two sons, one swimming in chicken fat and the other the poor little fellow sitting next to her.
~ Sholom Aleichem
Feelings of longing seemed to burst from her heart; they ran in all directions, like streams of blood, seeking out paths to all the places in the wide landscape where she had lived, to all her sons roaming through the world, to all her dead lying under the earth. She wondered: Had she turned cowardly? She had never felt this way before.
~ Sigrid Undset
Once upon a time there lived an old woman, called Janet Gellatley, who was suspected to be a witch, on the infallible grounds that she was very old, very ugly, very poor, and had two sons, one of whom was a poet, and the other a fool, which visitation, all the neighbourhood agreed, had come upon her for the sin of witchcraft.
~ Sir Walter Scott
When nightDarkens the streets, then wander forth the sonsOf Belial, flown with insolence and wine.
~ John Milton
Adam the goodliest man of men since bornHis sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve.
~ John Milton