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Quotes About Son

Her son must have folded her up, shoved her in, fired up the stove, and burned her into an ashen pile, ideal for fertilizer. That's why our tree kicked ass.
~ Trinie Dalton
A moment later a second guard approached and whispered to him, after which he said to Lumley-Gotham, Your son wishes to see you, sir. Has he been searched? inquired Lumley-Gotham. He has been searched, said the other.
~ Upton Sinclair
Then Raghu's son, as if in sport, Before the thousands of the court, The weapon by the middle raised That all the crowd in wonder gazed.
~ V?lm?ki
He is such an American, this son of mine. He thinks one's life can be distilled to a narrative that has a beginning and an end. He knows nothing about the kind of sacrifice that, once made, can never be either fully forgotten or fully borne. And how could he? I have protected him from all of that.
~ Kristin Hannah
I will tell my son my life story at last. There will be pain in remembering, but there will be joy, too.
~ Kristin Hannah
I am thinking of how it will feel when he leaves, and I am sure the same thought occupies his mind. With a sigh, he reaches into his briefcase and pulls out a stack of envelopes. The sigh is in place of words, a breath of transition. In it, I hear that moment where I go from one life to another. In this new, pared-down version of my life, I am to be cared for by my son instead of vice versa.
~ Kristin Hannah
Joe Willie was a perfect child," Marjorie Simpson said. "We never had any trouble with him.
~ Lacey Fosburgh
You're Valentine's son. I'm sure you're the one the Queen really wants to see. Besides, you're charming. Maybe not at the moment.
~ Cassandra Clare
Maryse: I am fighting for a better world for myself and my son. Magnus: I have no interest in the world you want or in your doubteless repellent brat, I might add.
~ Cassandra Clare
Everyone knows Valentine's son." "I know, but - when Emma saw you, she acted like you were her celebrity crush. Like you were on the cover of Shadowhunters Weekly every month." "You know, when they asked me to pose, they said it would be tasteful..." "As long as you were holding a strategically placed seraph blade, I don't see the problem," Clary said, and Jace laughed, a cut-off sound that indicated that she had surprised the amusement out of him.
~ Cassandra Clare
Magnus began to be truly alarmed. Will's voice would have shaken, betraying that his cruelty had been part of his playacting, but his son's laugh was that of someone genuinely delighted by the chaos erupting all around him
~ Cassandra Clare
You won't cut my son's throat,' said the Unseelie King, gazing down at Julian with a look of disdain. 'You're a Shadowhunter. You have a code of honor.' 'You're thinking of Shadowhunters the way they used to be,' said Julian. 'I came of age in the Dark War. I was baptized in blood and fire.
~ Cassandra Clare
For, as FitzMary knelt to pray, An angel whispered in his ear 'The Holy Land is far away, Prepare another Manger here. Build you a second House of Bread In this fair city of renown, And God His Son,' the angel said, 'Shall come to dwell in London Town.' So spake the angel, bending low Reddens laudes Domino.
~ Catharine Arnold
As one of my sons always says, "normal" is just a setting on a washing machine.)
~ Catherine Gildiner
She stopped herself. He wasn't a boy. A time comes in the life of a mother and son when that kind of mothering crosses the line into critical behavior. At age thirty he could eat and talk in any way he saw fit.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
Aamu, Aamu, I am alive I am so long already I am so black in the black of you I am hungry I am hunger give me seal and salmon and seagull give me love and memory and all the songs you know I cannot get enough I cannot ever get enough, Aamu, I already have teeth so many teeth like yours, Aamu, feed me forever, let me bite down into your soul and shake and shake never let go And I love the song of my son moaning and echoing in the cage of my skeleton where he is safe.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Now the LORD I AM, Yahweh, The one true God, who is Father, Son and Holy Spirit, The LORD bless you and keep you; The LORD make his face to shine upon you, And be gracious unto you. The LORD lift up his countenance upon you, And give you peace, now and always. I conclude with an invitation: "And let God's people reply . . . " Then they answer heartily, "Blessed be the LORD I AM, who is Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen.
~ Gerrit Dawson
Faith in the Trinity rests on God's revelation of himself in the economy of salvation. We do not have access to the Trinity outside what God revealed to us by sending his own Son and giving us his Holy Spirit. This point is crucial.
~ Gilles Emery
If your father was just an ordinary father and told everybody he had no son, people would call him a liar. But if your father was famous for all the saints he was making and said he had no son, then he had no son, period.
~ Gina Berriault
Christmas means giving. The Father gave his Son, and the Son gave his life. Without giving there is no true Christmas, and without sacrifice there is no true worship.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
Britain's first Labour Prime Minister was the illegitimate son of a maidservant, who as a young man had taken it upon himself to continue his education after leaving school at the age of twelve. Ramsey MacDonald
~ Jacqueline Winspear
He did not wonder. He had once told Esther that if the Lord ever gave him a son he would call him Royal, because the line of the faithful was a royal line — his son would be a royal child. And this she had remembered as she thrust him from her; with what had perhaps been her last breath she had mocked him and his father with this name. She had died, then, hating him; she had carried into eternity a curse on him and his.
~ James Baldwin
Trouble is, I feel too paternal towards you, you son of a bitch." "That's the trouble with all you white bastards.
~ James Baldwin
Then John knew that a curse was renewed from moment to moment, from father to son. Time was indifferent, like snow and ice; but the heart, crazed wanderer in the driving waste, carried the curse forever.
~ James Baldwin