Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old sons quotes, sons sayings, and sons proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
The years will rush by, and one day you will be watching your son as a man, and feeling incredibly proud that he is caring, safe, making a contribution, and hopefully going far beyond you in the scope of his life. Steve Biddulph
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There is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that transcends all other affections of the heart.Washington Irving
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If a man has been his mother’s undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it. Sigmund Freud
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Though our new son is barely a part of our present, we look at his squirming, warm bundle of future potential and say to ourselves, ‘Hello, little man.’ Little do we know the adventure we are beginning!Dr. Gregory L. Jantz
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Let your boys test their wings. They may not be eagles, but that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t soar free. C. J. Milbrandt
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Men are what their mothers made them.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The most important mark I will leave on this world is my son.Sarah Shahi
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To wake up to the sound of my son saying 'Mama, mama!' It's the best sound ever.Miranda Kerr
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Of course, my son has been the center of my life and will always be the center of my love. When he was young, I was the rock in his life. Now that I am old, he is the rock in my life.Hyacinth Mottley
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But boys are different from girls and not just physically. Acknowledging, appreciating, and understanding that boys are boys is essential in raising a son.Catherine Musco Garcia-Prats
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Never fret for an only son. The idea of failure will never occur to him. George Bernard Shaw
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It was like dealing with Dad—all give and no take.John F. Kennedy
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If the past cannot teach the present, and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time. Russell Hoban
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Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't. L. L. Henderson
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I distrust any man who claims to have had a continuous friendship with his father. How did he get from fourteen to twenty-six? Verlyn Kunkenborg
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For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and few are better. Homer
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There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence. Samuel Johnson
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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. Kahlil Gibran
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Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things. Samuel Madden
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We've begun to raise daughters more like sons, but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.Gloria Steinem
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And a son has done been imparted with the knowledge of a father.Earlie Cuyler
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Here they stand brothers them all / All the sons divided they'd fall / Here await the birth of the son / The seventh, the heavenly, the chosen one.Stephen Percy Harris
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Tell me why you are crying, my son / I know you're frightened like everyone / Is it the thunder in the distance you fear / Will it help if I stay very near? / I am here / And if you take my hand, my son / All will be well when the day is done.Peter Yarrow
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Sons of the thief, sons of the saint / Who is the child with no complaint / Sons of the great or sons unknown / All were children like your own / The same sweet smiles, the same sad tears / The cries at night, the nightmare fears / Sons of the great or sons unknown / All were children like your own.Eric Blau; Gerard Jouannest; Jacques Roman Brel; Mort Shuman
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And his love will be his vision, / And he'll take you where you stand. / And will you stand your life by his, / And help the boy become a man? / Will he be the son of his father? / His father, the teacher? / Teachin' love and honesty, / An' bein' his own manhandler. / Or the son of, / The son of a run of the mill, / Run rotten gambler?Chip Taylor
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One from the ends of the earth -- gifts at an open door -- / Treason has much, but we, Mother, thy sons have more! / From the whine of a dying man, from the snarl of a wolf-pack freed, / Turn, and the world is thine. Mother, be proud of thy seed! / Count, are we feeble or few? Hear, is our speech so rude? / Look, are we poor in the land? Judge, are we men of The Blood?Rudyard Kipling
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The two of you—father and son—should take walks in the evening and talk about this and that. Because his father is a wise man, and the son I think is wise too for they have the same opinions I had when I was a father and when I was a son too. These don't exactly agree, of course, but the deeper wisdom of the older man will grow out of the concentrated energetic attention of the younger. Patience.Richard P. Feynman
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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son. Evelyn Waugh
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The son is building his own identity. He needs to find his own way in the world.Lewis Yablonsky
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A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.Proverbs 10:1