Sons Quotes

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.

Robertson Davies

Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.

Sir Richard Steele

Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want.

Martha Beck, O Magazine, February 2003

All persons, living or dead, are purely coincidental, and should not be construed.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.

Benjamin Disraeli

We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.

Dora Russell

Experience is a hard teacher becuase she gives the tests first, the lessons afterwards.

Vernon Suanders Law, Chicken Soup for the Teenage soul: Tough Stuff

If it were natural for father to care for their sons, they would not need so many laws commanding them to do so.

Phyllis Chesle

We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

Jacques Maritain

Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.

Horace Mann

Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons and daughters of the earth. We did not weave the web of life We are merely a strand in it. What we do with the web, we do to ourselves...

Chief Seattle

It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.

Simone de Beauvoi

Ideas are like wandering sons. They show up when you least expect them.

Bern Williams

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.

Kahlil Gibran

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to opress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

Frederick Douglass, Speech, April 1886

It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn - which is what life is all about.

Oprah Winfrey, Oprah Magazine, May 2004

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

Jeremy Bentham

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Bertrand Russell

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

Walter Stegne

We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.

Blaise Pascal

Humor the sons of the poor, for they give science its splendor.

The Talmud

The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for His existence. But this is a rash argument, as we should thus be compelled to believe in the existence of cruel and malignant spirits, only a little more powerful than man for the belief in them is far more general than in a beneficent Diety.

Charles Robert Darwin

Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self - Gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Helen Kelle

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.

Warren Bennis

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Charles Dickens

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

Homer, The Odyssey

The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.

Arthur Schopenhaue

Now we are all sons of bitches.

Robert J. Oppenheimer, After viewing 1st full test of manhattan project at trinity, NM. Invention and Technology magazine, 2001

Do definite good first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.

John Lancaster Spalding

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

James Arthur Baldwin

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way. The way we learn those lessons is not to deny the feelings but to find the meanings underlying them.

Stanley Lindquist

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.

Charles Caleb Colton

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.

John Lancaster Spalding

To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.

Nigerian Prove

The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.

Charles Dudley Warne

We can forgive you for killing our sons. But we will never forgive you for making us kill yours.

Golda Meir, to Anwar Saddat just before the peace talks.