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Son Quotes – Page 2

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I am not ashamed to say that I am the son of a washerwoman.

John Burns

The first American ancestor of our name was a younger son of these old Devonshire people, and came to the Virginia colony in the reign of Charles the First.

John Sergeant Wise

Just as a son, to be a son of man, must be of the same nature and spirit of his father; so with the sons of God, and so it will be with all who are born of the spirit of God.

Elias Hicks

Every man is the son of his own works.

Miguel de Cervantes

Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops.

Brendan Behan

But I like to go to movies with my son because it's still fun; it reminds me of why I make movies.

Antoine Fuqua

This thing that Colin Powell's son is expected to do is kind of scary when you think that television and radio and newspapers are what make people think what they think.

Jim McKay

I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation.

William Graham Sumner

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

Douglas MacArthur

In 1947 I married Rowena Palmer, and we have two daughters, Alison and Claire, and a son, John.

Martin Ryle

My son is not wild about going back to Iraq, but he'd sure rather do that than sacrifice all that he and his fellow soldiers have accomplished by leaving too early and inviting chaos.

Kit Bond

Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say 'I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me' free you shall be.

Ramakrishna

My son loves the Hotel du Cap, in the south of France.

Diane von Furstenberg

The Jewish people asked nothing of its sons except not to be denied. The world is grateful to every great man when he brings it something; only the paternal home thanks the son who brings nothing but himself.

Theodor Herzl

Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him.

Charles Peguy

My older son who is, I think, here tonight, is forty-one years old. Which is odd because so am I.

Robert B. Parker

If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters.

Brigham Young

Great was the name of Abraham, but all his Sons were not accepted; only Isaac was in the Covenant.

John Pearson

God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing.

William Lyon Phelps

I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich.

Pierre Salinger

His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son.

John Phillips Marquand

Any sane person would have left long ago. But I cannot. I have my sons.

Princess Diana

Today, Arizona's sons and daughters, mothers and fathers are proudly serving their country.

Jane D. Hull

Like father, like son, four years and this president is done.

Dick Gephardt

And we've also had now the speaker of the Parliament in Iraq using blatantly anti-Semitic remarks, saying the Jews and sons of Jews are the problem of all the violence that's in Iraq.

Jan Schakowsky

I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.

Nancy Astor

My son was killed in 2004. I am not paying my taxes for 2004. You killed my son, George Bush, and I don't owe you a penny.

Cindy Sheehan

When every piece of furniture and your underwear are taken by the bank, when you lose your house in Florida, in New York, in Amsterdam and L.A., when your wife is dying and your son abandons you, you don't feel very good.

Al Goldstein

I am truly my mother's son.

David Geffen

I am the son of a small and far-away nation and the other laureates have all come from different countries from all over the world and we all were equally received here with signs of sympathy.

Albert Szent Gyorgyi

I do not overlook the fact that the appearance of these new, free nations in the European political community not only celebrates the return of the prodigal son but also creates new sources of friction here and there.

Hjalmar Branting

The Cross is the approbation of our existence, not in words, but in an act so completely radical that it caused God to become flesh and pierced this flesh to the quick; that, to God, it was worth the death of his incarnate Son.

Joseph Ratzinger

People just automatically say 'If this guy is George and Barbara Bush's son, we don't have any question about those personal qualities that we were fooled on by Clinton.'

Robert Teeter

I had life threats, because people accused me of approaching Brando as God and his son was Jesus. I literally had people saying my blood would run in the streets for doing that.

Richard Donner

I live for my sons. I would be lost without them.

Princess Diana

Someone had to do it. That son of a bitch killed my President.

Jack Ruby

Is it possible that the portrait of the divine Son of God is an exaggeration, at best, or a complete fabrication, at worst, of the original Jesus?

John Clayton

He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons.

Carlo Goldoni

Your sons weren't made to like you. That's what grandchildren are for.

Jane Smiley

The King's son, who was told that a great princess, whom nobody knew, was come, ran out to receive her. He gave her his hand as she alighted from the coach, and led her into the hall where the company were assembled.

Charles Perrault

O that unbelievers would learn of faithful Abraham, and believe whatever is revealed from God, though they cannot fully comprehend it! Abraham knew God commanded him to offer up his son, and therefore believed, notwithstanding carnal reasoning might suggest may objections.

George Whitefield

The next day the two sisters went to the ball, and so did Cinderella, but dressed more magnificently than before. The King's son was always by her side, and his pretty speeches to her never ceased.

Charles Perrault

What's funny about Jesus' Son is that I never even wrote that book, I just wrote it down. I would tell these stories and people would say, You should write these things down.

Denis Johnson

I played with Eddie Taylor's son, Tim Taylor and Carey Bells son Lurie Bell.

Jimmy Smith

To me this movie is about what is valuable. To one person it might be a stone; to someone else, a story in a magazine; to another, it is a child. The juxtaposition of one man obsessed with finding a valuable diamond with another man risking his life to find his son is the beating heart of this film.

Edward Zwick

One of the reasons why when Elvis dies or the Son of Sam is captured ABC News' ratings go up is because people who don't normally watch news are watching then. The question is, do you want to attract people who don't watch network news or fight over the people who do?

Roone Arledge

If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home.

Vance Havner

You can't tell a millionaire's son from a billionaire's.

Vance Packard