Sires Quotes
- Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand! — Walter Scott
- My days – the blossom of my youth and the flower of my manhood – have been darkened by the dreariness of servitude. In this… — Daniel O'Connell
- When you take the sires of the cage apart, you do not hurt the bird, but you help it. You let it out of its… — Randolph Sinks Foster
- If your descent is from heroic sires, Show in your life a remnant of their fires. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
- Books are immortal sons deifying their sires. — Plato
- Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- What a country wants to make it richer is never consumption, but production. Where there is the latter, we may be sure that there is… — John Stuart Mill
- Few sons attain the praise Of their great sires and most their sires disgrace. — Homer