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Quotes About Son

It's much easier to play supporting roles because that's what I do in my life: I support my son.
~ Frances McDormand
I say, Father, the years have brought me here, still your son, they have brought me to a life I cannot understand.
~ Philip Levine
Venus, when her son was lost, Cried him up and down the coast, In hamlets, palaces, and parks, And told the truant by his marks,- Golden curls, and quiver, and bow.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a great moment in life when a father sees a son grow taller than he or reach farther.
~ Richard L. Evans
I feel, you know, empowered because I gave life. I have a son now. I feel like I'm stronger.
~ Tia Mowry
Man and Height 7.7 million pounds of thrust pushing Apollo 16 up into the speechless oceans of space. Its exhaust plume disappeared about 4 to 5 miles up, and turning from the television I saw my baby son achieving a record 5 building bricks high. John Rice
~ John Foster
Catharine Finlay, alias Knight, was first converted by her son's expounding the Scriptures to her,
~ John Foxe
If the church ever succeeds in doing that which God purposes we should do, it can only be when we enter into that divine compassion of the Son of God.
~ John G. Lake
Our Lord, the Son in whom God has spoken full and final truth (Heb. 1:1-3), has replaced Moses, the servant through whom God had spoken partial and preparatory truth.
~ John G. Reisinger
In 1906, J. J. Thomson had received the Nobel Prize for proving that electrons are particles; in 1937 he saw his son awarded the Nobel Prize for proving that electrons are waves. Both father and son were correct, and both awards were fully merited.
~ John Gribbin
Was it worth it, Peredur?" Richard said. "So I am now undisputed King. Do I have a son, or brothers? Is the land renewed? Shall I decree happiness, on pain of death?
~ John M. Ford
I seek a father who most need a son.
~ John Malcolm Brinnin
He was a bad son, a bad husband and a bad king, but a gallant and splendid soldier.
~ John Man
Zack, who has a penchant for arcane knowledge, informs Ava that a family of a boy followed by a girl is known as the king's choice. There is the son to carry on the family name, and the daughter to marry off and create a dynasty.
~ Elin Hilderbrand
And when Italy's made, for what end is it done If we have not a son? When you have your country from mountain to sea, When King Victor has Italy's crown on his head. (And I have my dead.)
~ Eliza Calvert Hall
I hear that George Sand is seldom at Paris now. She has devoted herself to play-writing, and employs a houseful of men, her son's friends and her own, in acting privately with her what she writes — trying it on a home stage before she tries it at Paris. Her son is a very ordinary young man of three-and-twenty, but she is fond of him....
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Devil can quote scripture, after all. And monsters can say "please" and "thank you" same as any mother's son.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Love's the son stood stammering elocution while the poor ship in flames went down
~ Elizabeth Bishop
Love's the boy stood on the burning deck trying to recite "The boy stood on the burning deck." Love's the son stood stammering elocution while the poor ship in flames went down. Love's the obstinate boy, the ship, even the swimming sailors, who would like a schoolroom platform, too, or an excuse to stay on deck. And love's the burning boy.
~ Elizabeth Bishop
no ideology can protect a son from the unwelcome inheritance of his father's ambitions.
~ Elizabeth Strout
The house where she had raised her son—never, ever realizing that she herself had been raising a motherless child, now a long, long way from home.
~ Elizabeth Strout
She remembered what hope was, and this was it. That inner churning that moves you forward, plows you through life the way the boats below plowed the shiny water, the way the plane was plowing forward to a place new, and where she was needed. She had been asked to be part of her son's life. But
~ Elizabeth Strout
She remembered what hope was, and this was it. That inner churning that moves you forward, plows you through life the way the boats below plowed the shiny water, the way the plane was plowing forward to a place new, and where she was needed. She had been asked to be part of her son's life.
~ Elizabeth Strout
Isaac Newton was hardly the person people would pick to be the cultural guru of his age. Everyone recognized that this son of a clergyman from northwestern England (born the same year Galileo died, in 1642) was an incredible math prodigy.
~ Arthur Herman