Quotes About Sons Growing Up

#1. I would like to have seen my sons growing up.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#2. I think a lot of guys want a son because of all of the things they do while growing up. A lot of guys want to share those experiences with their own sons.

Eli Manning

#3. Growing up, I loved the tale of Peter Rabbit and also books on Pippi Longstocking. Pippi was a girl who had so much fun and was very daring. My sons loved all the Dr. Seuss books

Soraya Diase Coffelt

#4. Eagles live in the darkness,
And the sons of the Alps
Cross over the abyss without fear
On lightly-built bridges.
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Growing weak on the separate mountains
Then give us calm waters;
Give us wings, and loyal minds
To cross over and return.

Friedrich Holderlin

#5. I would like to be on the farm. To ride the horses. To watch the cattle, and the plantations, and the beautiful vegetables that my sons are growing there. I would like it. I am one of those who do not have to worry about what I am doing later. I love the fields.

Ariel Sharon

#6. We could all use the power of prayer now and then, but it seems to me that the people who are sure they have a direct line to heaven are most often calling collect with bad news.

Mark Abramson

#7. Since politicians and bureaucrats can rarely sign real contracts, the best way to prove you'll do something later is to do it now

Garett Jones

#8. But the problem isn't actually that we are sleeping more or worrying about others - these things are necessary and good at times. The problem is that we have a habit, day after day, of not growing - of not reaching the divine potential that we have as a sons and daughters of God. The

Mark Bacera

#9. And though I had misgiving--obvious ones, too--one overwhelming thing drove me on: on the borderlands, my father would need me as much as I'd need him. That's what made me so blindly ready to go off with him. What boy doesn't wait his whole childhood to walk alongside his father on equal terms?

Peter Geye

#10. She has a high opinion of herself," Andrea said. "Oh yes. When she gets into a car, her ego has to ride shotgun.

Ilona Andrews

#11. Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.

Charles Simmons

#12. They both looked at me in a way that was fast becoming familiar: two parts bafflement to one part awe at my talent for making a bad situation worse.

David Bennun

#13. Growing fourteen inches in a summer is easy. It's growing out of a label that's hard.

Jennifer Niven

#14. With women, the more unhappy they are, the more undressed they are.

Miuccia Prada

#15. The Services offer the cleanest and most natural support to an aggressive foreign policy; expansion of the empire appeals powerfully to the aristocracy and the professional classes by offering new and ever-growing fields for the honorable and profitable employment of their sons.

J.A. Hobson