Sons Quotes
721 Sons quotes by 538 unique authors
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I live for my sons. I would be lost without them.
— Princess Diana
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Any sane person would have left long ago. But I cannot. I have my sons.
— Princess Diana
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A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they…
— Marlene Dietrich
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The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.
— George Eliot
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Grieve not, then, if your sons seem to desert you, but rejoice, rather, seeing the will of God done gladly.
— Jim Elliot
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Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
— Epictetus
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I often think about how my sons will come to know about September 11th. Something overheard? A newspaper image? In school? I would prefer that…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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All my sons are named George Foreman. They all know where they came from.
— George Foreman
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Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for…
— Augustus Hare
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One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.
— George Herbert
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Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of kings…
— Tom Hiddleston
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We're all sons and daughters of God, and therefore in a very literal sense, brothers and sisters. And we ought to treat each other that…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.
— Homer
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Today, Arizona's sons and daughters, mothers and fathers are proudly serving their country.
— Jane D. Hull
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
— Aldous Huxley
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What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they…
— Aldous Huxley
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I think these last 10 years have seen just a huge shift in the psyche of this country as regards gay people. I think AIDS…
— Janis Ian
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I believe our legacy will be defined by the accomplishments and fearless nature by which our daughters and sons take on the global challenges we…
— Naveen Jain
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The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers,…
— Garrison Keillor
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Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
— John F. Kennedy
Who Wrote These Sons Quotes
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