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| It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~ Friedrich von Schiller |
| You don’t raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they’ll turn out to be heroes, even if it’s just in your own eyes. ~ Walter M. Schirra |
| One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father. ~ George Herbert |
| You are my sonshine. ~ Author Unknown |
| Don’t wait to make your son a great man – make him a great boy. ~ Author Unknown |
| What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche |
| When you teach your son, you teach your son’s son. ~ The Talmud |
| By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong. ~ Charles Wadsworth |
| When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry. ~ William Shakespeare |
| Tiger father begets tiger son. ~ Chinese Proverb |
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| Son, you outgrew my lap, but never my heart. ~ Author Unknown |
| The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother’s always a Democrat. ~ Robert Frost |
| A boy is a magical creature – you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can’t lock him out of your heart. ~ Allan Beck |
Remember that every son had a mother
whose beloved son he was,
and every woman had a mother
whose beloved son she wasn’t.
~ Marge Piercy |
| Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold. ~ Chinese Proverb |
| I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy…. ~ John Adams |
| We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters. ~ Gloria Steinem |
| No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace – in peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons. ~ Croesus of Lydia |
| Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte |
| 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 Baldwin |
| Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers. ~ Aldous Huxley |
| We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so. ~ Alexander Pope |
| A man’s desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world. ~ Helen Rowland |
| Your son at five is your master, at ten your slave, at fifteen your double, and after that, your friend or your foe, depending on his bringing up. ~ Author Unknown |
| Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. ~ Kahlil Gibran |
| He followed in his father’s footsteps, but his gait was somewhat erratic. ~ Nicolas Bentley |
| He who can be a good son will be a good father. ~ Author Unknown |
| 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 |
On the green they watched their sons
Playing till too dark to see,
As their fathers watched them once,
As my father once watched me
~ Edmund Blunden |
| 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 |