Filial Son Quotes

#1. A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.

Han Fei

#2. Do you know what would hold me together on a battlefield? The sense that I was perpetuating the language in which Keats and the rest of them wrote!

Wilfred Owen

#3. Even a tourist can tell in a Roman street that he is in something and not outside of something as he would be in most cities. In Rome to go out is to go home.

Eleanor Clark

#4. If we never shift our perspective from the standpoint of life, no matter how much we want to think on death, it will only be an extension of our thinking on life

Shinmon Aoki

#5. It's a beautiful thing, to my people who keep an impressive wingspan, even when the cubicle shrink.

Aesop Rock

#6. My preference for clear structures is the result of my desire - perhaps illusory - to keep track of things and maintain my grip on the world.

Andreas Gursky

#7. A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than by all the dry volumes of ethics, and divinity that ever were written.

Thomas Jefferson

#8. The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.

Hume Cronyn

#9. I turned to Thalia. 'I'll hold the flower while you beat up the thief?'
She sighed. 'Fine. Let's go catch this jerk.

Rick Riordan

#10. I think people in Montreal smoke a lot, and I used to smoke when I was 17-18, and just picked it up when I was playing juniors. But I think I stopped when I was 22, which was a big decision in my life.

Mario Lemieux

#11. Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.

John Milton

#12. There were no ghosts. Only memory.

Stephen King

#13. He has mercy on those who fear Him, from generation to generation." Fear is here understood as filial, that is, a shrinking from hurting one who is loved. Such is the fear a son has for a devoted father and the fear a Christian has of Christ. Fear is here related to love.

Fulton J. Sheen