Sons To Quotes

#1. [Judaism is] ever ... mighty in wickedness ... when it cursed Moses; when it hated God; when it vowed its sons to demons; when it killed the prophets, and finally when it betrayed to the Praetor and crucified our God Himself and Lord ... And so glorying through all its existence in iniquity.

Hilary Of Poitiers

#2. As for the boys ... vulnerable fathers turn to time-honored defensive responses to maintain the function that father knows best' Parents, especially fathers, teach their sons to obey authority no matter what.

Martha Stout

#3. Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable. Disposable in war; disposable in work. We need warriors and volunteer firefighters, so we label these men heroes.

Warren Farrell

#4. My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.

Benjamin Franklin

#5. I suppose you have already informed God that you will require at least three sons to ensure the Tremore line?

Laura Lee Guhrke

#6. I often think about what I want my sons to fully comprehend in regards to how sport industry unfairly operates.

Eddie George

#7. When one thinks of the wondrous glory of Christ, how astonishing that He can join with us! But more, when one thinks of His bringing many sons to glory at such a cost, one is lost in adoring amazement.

George Wigram

#8. Why don't the men have "Take Our Sons to the Cat-House Night"?

George Carlin

#9. The Bible says that the sins of the fathers are visited upon the sons to the seventh generation. But I believe it's the daughters who bear the brunt of most family sins. At least that's so in my family.

Sherri Wood Emmons

#10. I wanted my sons to know that, whatever kinds of prayers we utter, not matter how wretched, God hears them, even when we pray badly.

Wendy Murray

#11. Better than anything else in our culture, it enables fathers and sons to speak on a level playing field while building up from within a personal history of shared experience - a group history - that may be tapped into at will in years to come.

John Thorn

#12. In feudal times the aristocracy had sent their sons to university, conferring superiority on the institution. Nowadays it was the other way round: the university conferred superiority on the man.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#13. It's particularly important as parents in our conversations with our daughters and our sons to consider ideas intimate justice when we talk about and set them going on their early formative experience.

Peggy Orenstein

#14. Take up the White Man's burden
send forth the best ye breed
go, bind your sons to exile to serve your captives need.

Rudyard Kipling

#15. Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.

William Cowper

#16. I taught my sons to be men. I don't care who they love. I care about how they act. The moment they stop having manners or treat someone poorly, then we'll have words. Other than that, I only want them to be happy, and if you make Kane happy, then all I have to say to ye is welcome to the family.

Rhys Ford

#17. God is looking for sons to send to the world of business to manage it for him.

Sunday Adelaja

#18. Once boys' and men's challenges are clear, the question 'why now' quickly becomes 'why didn't we see this sooner?' The answer? Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable.

Warren Farrell

#19. American parents, on the whole, do not want their sons to be artisans or craftsmen, but business or professional people. As a result, millions of youngsters are being prepared for careers they have little aptitude for - and little interest in except for dubious prestige.

Sydney J. Harris

#20. With all the wonders Moses was performing, there was one I did not think would ever come to pass: that we would finally be reunited. That I would once again kiss his neck as I had loved to do. That I would see him clasp his sons to his breast.

Marek Halter

#21. I know that I have raised my sons to be big, strong, independent men who love God, themselves and care for others. I have to learn to let them have space and learn without me.

Kim Alexis

#22. Not every age allows its sons to reap the results which remain great for all time, and ... not every century is fitted to make the men who live in it distinguished and happy.

Gustav Freytag

#23. I'm a fan of all these genres of music, everything from Mumford & Sons to Beach Boys to doo-wop music to reggae.

B.o.B

#24. Dickens had more energy than anyone in the world, and he expected his sons to be like him, and they couldn't be.

Claire Tomalin

#25. Diana introduced me to Princes William and Harry. Diana just wanted her sons to know what was happening in her life.

Hasnat Khan

#26. We must speed up the time table for fathers, brothers and sons to provide their mothers, daughters and sisters with the same opportunities that they give themselves.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#27. You don't have to have a terrific voice or know how to read music. The only requirement is that you enjoy singing, fun and fellowship. And, this is a great hobby for fathers and sons to share.

Dick Miller

#28. Each father wants their sons to be just like them, really.

Ziggy Marley

#29. We must educate our sons to save our daughters

Yvette Cooper

#30. Revenge by young men is considered gain, even at the cost of their own lives, but old men who stay at home in times of war, and mothers who have sons to lose, know better.

Chief Seattle

#31. All societies that have survived have survived based on their ability to prepare their sons to be disposable, in war and at work
and therefore as dads.

Warren Farrell

#32. She had so painfully reared three sons to be Christian gentlemen that one of them had become an Omaha bartender, one a professor of Greek, and one, Cyrus N. Bogart, a boy of fourteen who was still at home, the most brazen member of the toughest gang in Boytown.

Sinclair Lewis

#33. Listen, my sons, to a father's discipline, and pay attention so that you may gain understanding. Proverbs 4:1

Beth Moore

#34. They have given their sons to the military services. They have stoked the furnaces and hurried the factory wheels. They have made the planes and welded the tanks. Riveted the ships and rolled the shells.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#35. My parents allowed their two sons to be individuals. My family was a wild and wonderful place, with lots of friends and neighbors visiting and talking loud and eating loud and nobody telling the children to be quiet or putting them down.

John Cassavetes

#36. When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery? When will men who would never for a moment encourage their own sons to enter the work of the public schools cease to tell us that education is the greatest and noblest of all human callings?

William Bagley

#37. The women of the United States are nothing but brood sows, having sons to be put into the army and made into fertilizer.

Kate Richards O'Hare

#38. 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

#39. You would have us encourage our sons to prove all things by their own experience, while our daughters must not even profit by the experience of others.

Anne Bronte

#40. The stag tells him that he is the eldest of the sons - the father's favorite - and he warns the father that if he tries to shoot any of the stags, their antlers will tear him to pieces.

Georg Solti

#41. Middle class families are struggling to send their sons and daughters to school. For many Americans, a college education is essential to future success.

Albio Sires

#42. Don't give your sons money. Give them horses. Many a good son has been ruined through the acquisition of money but no good son has been ruined through the acquisition of horses. Unless they fell and broke their neck, which when taken at the gallop is a very good death to die.

Winston Churchill

#43. My father was a writer; I've known a lot of children of writers - daughters and sons of writers, and it can be a hard way to grow up.

Caitlin Flanagan

#44. My dad was a ham, too. He could sell those women anything. Of all his sons, I was the only one he could trust to sell as well as he could. I was proud of that.

Paul Lynde

#45. You were apt to go from one extreme to the other, in a truly pious environment; which is why ministers' sons in that day were more less expected to become loose livers when they grew up.

Bruce Catton

#46. Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

Joseph Addison

#47. Any chance I'd get to see you in that bikini?"
Zahara punched him in the arm. "No more talk of me in anything remotely skimpy or I'm gonna drop-kick you, got it?" ~Zahara and Bryan

Annabell Cadiz

#48. My first name, Benjamin, dates back a thousand years earlier to Benjamin - Binyamin - the son of Jacob, who was also known as Israel. Jacob and his 12 sons roamed these same hills of Judea and Sumeria 4,000 years ago, and there's been a continuous Jewish presence in the land ever since.

Benjamin Netanyahu

#49. If inciting people to do that is terrorism, and if killing those who kill our sons is terrorism, then let history be witness that we are terrorists.

Osama Bin Laden

#50. A parcel
taken from one place to another, handed from one owner to another, unwrapped and bundled up at will
is all that I am. A vessel, for the bearing of sons, for one nobleman or another: it hardly matters who.

Philippa Gregory

#51. Fraternity means that the father no longer sacrifices the sons; instead the brothers kill one another. Wars between nations have been replaced by civil war. The great settling of accounts, first under national 'pretexts,' led to a rapidly escalating world civil war.

Ernst Junger

#52. As many know, and especially those who may have young sons or daughters at colleges or universities, the last thing you want to hear is a call that perhaps one of your children was injured or, even worse, lost their life in a tragic fire at a dorm or campus housing.

Vito Fossella

#53. We need to get our sons and daughters home and their responsibility for the security of Iraq needs to be assumed by Iraqis who will stand up and toe the line for their countries.

Jay Inslee

#54. I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#55. Why did you do it? Give up everything to raise another man's son?'
His father did look up at that. 'I didn't raise another man's son,' he said sharply. 'I raised my own.

Courtney Milan

#56. My vision is to make the most diverse state on earth, and we have people from every planet on the earth in this state. We have the sons and daughters of every, of people from every planet, of every country on earth.

Gray Davis

#57. There are good fathers and bad fathers, good sons and bad sons, good husbands and bad ones, but great friends are all alike. We choose them and keep them. We aren't bound to them by anything but love.

Sarah Manguso

#58. I have three sons, a husband, parents, and I'll fight and get angry, but what is very important that I have found as I've matured, is that I have to move on.

Jami Gertz

#59. 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

#60. I have never understood why it is called losing a child. No parent is that careless. We all know exactly where our sons and daughters are; we just don't necessarily want them to be there

Jodi Picoult

#61. It doesn't matter how hard the world tries to get the sons of God, everything is turned around for their good

Sunday Adelaja

#62. The joy at the dramatic return of the younger son in no way means that the elder son was less loved, less appreciated, less favored. The father does not compare the two sons. He loves them both with a complete love and expresses that love according to their individual journeys.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#63. When you are brought up as a frozen child, you go on freezing. It wasn't until I had my four sons, who have brought me immense joy, that I began to thaw. That I realised how utterly extraordinary my childhood was.

John Le Carre

#64. Everybody's under God's planet, and God is the Almighty, the Beginning, the End, the Alpha, the Omega. He's Big Daddy. He gives out these little soldiers and sons and angels and saints to help everybody else get through to him. I'm not the 'Jesus-only or you're going to Hell' kind of guy.

Duane Chapman

#65. Old women even forget how to love their sons. The heart gets worn out, Monsieur.

Albert Camus

#66. There are three unfilial acts: the greatest of these is the failure to produce sons.

Confucius

#67. 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

#68. Maybe everything the slave catcher said was true, Cora thought, every justification, and the sons of Ham were cursed and the slave master performed the Lord's will. And maybe he was just a man talking to an outhouse door, waiting for someone to wipe her ass. -

Colson Whitehead

#69. We are not scholars researching an ancient Chinese emperor - a matter of objectivity and disinterestedness; we are sons and daughters who want to get to know our father - someone with whom we have an essential relationship.

Brian D. McLaren

#70. The nation becomes the master of its fate not only when it has many good sons, but also when it possesses enough strength to restrain its bad ones.

Roman Dmowski

#71. My husband and I don't have sons, so we never had to ask ourselves how we'd have felt about them playing football.

Nancy Gibbs

#72. I believe that women and girls today have to partner in a powerful way with men - with their fathers, with their sons, with their brothers, with the plumbers, the road builders, the caregivers, the doctors, the lawyers, with our president and with all beings.

Joan Halifax

#73. The division of the Roman world between the sons of Theodosius marks the final establishment of the empire of the East, which, from the reign of Arcadius to the taking of Constantinople by the Turks, subsisted one thousand and fifty-eight years in a state of premature and perpetual decay.

Edward Gibbon

#74. Female Chauvinist Pigs is smart, alarming, and extremely funny. With nuance and humor, Levy has written both a convincing expos of sex and desire in contemporary America and an important cultural history. I'm giving a copy to my mother. And my sons.

Cathleen Schine

#75. I've been in so many funeral scenes from The Sopranos, and I think I've even been in one on Sons of Anarchy. Those scenes, as a human being, are the most tedious scenes, of all time. You're waiting, all day, in the blistering hot heat. So, I didn't need to be there.

Drea De Matteo

#76. The goddess shrugged. 'One of my sons recently traded an eye for the ability to make a real difference in the world.

Rick Riordan

#77. Ignorant people are apt to overrate the value of what is called education. The sons of the poor, having suffered the privations of poverty, think of wealth as the mother of joy.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#78. Every man and woman is made in the Father's image and likeness and thus shares in the dominion and dignity of the one God and King. This is one of the most astonishing elements of the story: God desires to relate to his creatures, not as a master to a slave but as a Father to his sons and daughters!

Tim Gray

#79. There are sons of God who do not yet appear so to us, but now do so to God; and there are those who, on account of some arrogated or temporal grace, are called so by us, but are not so to God.

John Calvin

#80. The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from fathers to sons.

Michael Lewis

#81. I do not know how to thank you.'
'I can tell you,' said Obierika. 'Kill one of your sons for me.'
'That will not be enough,' said Okonkwo.
'Then kill yourself,' said Obierika.

Chinua Achebe

#82. Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves.

Nancy Gibbs

#83. In Hindu societies, especially overprotected patriarchal families like mine, daughters are not at all desirable. They are trouble. And a mother who, as mine did, has three daughters, no sons, is supposed to go and hang herself, kill herself, because it is such an unlucky kind of motherhood to have.

Bharati Mukherjee

#84. If I had a thousand sons, the first humane principle I would teach them should be to forswear thin potations and to addict themselves to sack.

William Shakespeare

#85. I'm interested in art for all. I don't want it to be only the sons and daughters of Tory MPs who get to see my plays.

Benedict Cumberbatch

#86. As Commander in Chief of the United States Military, I will never send our sons and daughters and our brothers and sisters to die in a foreign land without telling the truth about why they're going there.

Howard Dean

#87. I photographed Arthur Coble and his sons Milton and Darrel as they did chores, but the vicious winds made it difficult to see and breathe.

Arthur Rothstein

#88. Roman matrons used to say to their sons: 'Come back with your shield or on it.' Later on, this custom declined. So did Rome ... (but not before it created an Empire that changed the world -EM).

Robert A. Heinlein

#89. The conundrum that I face on a daily basis is that I have two sons who have grown up watching 'The Simpsons,' so they know exactly what buttons to push. They know how Bart irritates Homer, and they use these lines against me to tell me that I'm not funny anymore.

Matt Groening

#90. Amongst the sons of men how few are known Who dare be just to merit not their own.

Charles Churchill

#91. I came from a Halloween-friendly home. My dad, Spencer, was a U.S. Marine captain. But when it came to Halloween, my dad had a soft spot. He would take his three sons and friends on escapades on Halloween night.

Bill Moseley

#92. Would we send our daughters off to have sex if it would benefit our country? Yet, we send our sons off to kill when we think it would benefit our country!

Leonard Ravenhill

#93. Our assurance, our glory, and the sole anchor of our salvation are that Christ the Son of God is ours, and we in turn are in him sons of God and heirs of the Kingdom of Heaven, called to the hope of eternal blessedness by God's grace, not by our worth.

John Calvin

#94. Also, to be honest, my dad wanted me to be an athlete. And I think all sons want to prove something to their dad. So now, aged 35, I want to see what I can achieve physically.

Joe Manganiello

#95. You must know life to see decay.

Mumford And Sons

#96. After an hour's drive, he pulled off onto a gravel road and followed it back to a lake surrounded by woods. At one time, the place had been special. He had gone fishing there with his sons when they were younger.

Angela Roquet

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

Aung San Suu Kyi

#98. My sons remember me most as a Cardinal. My one son is 26 years old, and I don't think he's ever seen me without a beard. It's not as black as it used to be, but it's still there.

Bruce Sutter

#99. I say to all fathers - be as good as you can be- because your sons and daughters will follow in your footsteps.

Duane Chapman

#100. Women are not always what we seem to be. What our reputations would tell you. Nor do we only exist in reference to our fathers, husbands, and sons.

Ruth Downie