Son Quotes
3362 Son quotes by 2069 unique authors
-
Oh, Adam’s sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good!
— C.S. Lewis
-
A son is a son 'til he gets a wife, but a daughter is a daughter all her life.
— Emily Giffin
-
She grabbed his arm. "Let it be, son!" she cried. "That child ain't hurt!" "Not hurt! You look into her eyes and tell me she…
— Mildred D. Taylor
-
Angels are those beings who have been on an earth like this, and have passed through the same ordeals that we are now passing through.…
— Brigham Young
-
Being sorry won't get you into heaven. Get happy, son. Get that old spring into your step and stay on your toes.
— Robert A. Heinlein
-
Is there nothing I have done which will outlive me, other than the opprobrium of my first wife and sons and grandchildren? Do I care?…
— Kurt Vonnegut
-
Fathers are always so proud the first time they see their sons in uniform," she said. "I know Big John Karpinski was," I said. He…
— Kurt Vonnegut
-
If thou art indeed my father, then hast thou stained thy sword in the life-blood of thy son. And thous didst it of thine obstinacy.…
— Khaled Hosseini
-
I couldn't be fonder of you if you were my own son. But, well, if you lose a son, its possible to get another. There's…
— Dashiell Hammett
-
Klaus Wulfenbach: Was my son upset? Bangladesh DuPree: Oh, him? Yeah! He's all set to be a hero and rescue her--and then he finds out…
— Phil Foglio
-
I am the god Apostolos. The Harbinger of Telikos. The Final Fate of all. Beloved son of Apollymi the Great Destroyer. My will makes the…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
-
Come, Friend, you too must die. Why moan about it so? Even Patroclus died, a far, far better man than you. And look, you see…
— Homer
-
A son ain't what a woman say. A son is what a man do.
— Toni Morrison
-
Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans.
— Homer
-
and every day I thank [God] that I am alive, not because I fear death, but because my wife has a husband and my son…
— Khaled Hosseini
-
Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.
— Albert Camus
-
What this country needs... what this great land of ours needs is something to happen to it. Something ferocious and tragic, like what happened to…
— William Styron
-
Long ago, in a burst of friendliness, Aunty and Uncle Jimmy produced a son named Henry…
— Harper Lee
-
A child should never even think about being a "good son." A parent decides that fate for the child. The parent encourages that. Not the…
— Bret Easton Ellis
-
O Mistress mine, where are you roaming? O, stay and hear; your true love's coming, That can sing both high and low: Trip no further,…
— William Shakespeare
-
Mother, whose heart hung humble as a button the bright splendid shroud of your son, Do not weep. War is kind.
— Stephen Crane
-
The boy, who did everything well and with a natural unslumped grace the wraith himself had always lacked, and whom the wraith had been so…
— David Foster Wallace
-
Today the logic goes something like this: 'Calling a ruler Son of God is out of style. No one really does that nowadays. We can…
— Shane Claiborne
-
When the church takes affairs of the state more seriously than they do Jesus, Pax Romana becomes its gospel and the president becomes the Son…
— Shane Claiborne
-
Rage - Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles, murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses, hurling down to the House of Death…
— Homer
Who Wrote These Son Quotes
2,069 authors contributed a total of 3,362 Son Quotes, led by these top contributors: