Sons Quotes

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
Khalil Gibran

Love, Religion, Spirit

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
Khalil Gibran

Life, Children, Through

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Together, Dream, Able

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
Jesus Christ

Love, Good, Rain

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

Become, Mothers, President

No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.
Ronald Reagan

Mother, Sacrifice, Her

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

Rich, Rather, Leave

Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.
Sun Tzu

Death, Children, Stand

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
John Adams

Politics, War, May

In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.
Herodotus

Peace, War, Fathers

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
Aldous Huxley

Wish, Fathers, Rebellious

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.
James A. Baldwin

Father, Son, Whole

Some of the companies we helped start are names you know. An office supply company called Staples - where I'm pleased to see the Obama campaign has been shopping; The Sports Authority, which became a favorite of my sons. We started an early childhood learning center called Bright Horizons that First Lady Michelle Obama rightly praised.
Mitt Romney

Learning, Sports, Start

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 would understand the dilemma.
Marlene Dietrich

Father, Understand, Either

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.
Aldous Huxley

Time, Making, Won

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

Quote

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
Miguel de Cervantes

Good, Deeds, Actions

Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!
Honore de Balzac

Mother, Bitter, Brothers

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

God, May, Again

We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
Gloria Steinem

Courage, Few, Daughters

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 their parents; and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?
Augustus Hare

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

Long, Person, Cannot

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 - stories that taught us of the danger of hubris and the primacy of humility.
Tom Hiddleston

Humility, Lovers, Drama

I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Give, Enough, Blood

Grieve not, then, if your sons seem to desert you, but rejoice, rather, seeing the will of God done gladly.
Jim Elliot

God, Done, Rather

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

Men, Wisdom, Few

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

May, Sister, Bless

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

Sons of Islam everywhere, the jihad is a duty - to establish the rule of Allah on earth and to liberate your countries and yourselves from America's domination and its Zionist allies, it is your battle - either victory or martyrdom.
Ahmed Yassin

Islam, Allah, Battle

For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.
Homer

Few, Worse, Rarely

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