Sons Quotes
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
What experience and history teach is this - That nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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
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
That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.Paul Tournie
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
Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice.Max Nordau
The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself.James Thurbe
Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons.Walt Whitman
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.Fyodor Dostoevsky
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
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.James Thurber, in Edward R. Murrow television interview
Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.Donald Robert Perry Marquis
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.Rudyard Kipling
One thing is clear to me. You cant know everything youd like to know. You cant do everything youd like to do. You cant read everything youd like to read. You must hold onto some things and let go of others. Learning to make that choice is one of the big lessons of this life.Real Live Preache
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
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.Oscar Wilde
In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character the multitude pass us by like a distant army.Jean Paul Friedrich Richte
A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.Thomas Carlyle
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - - That is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.James Thurbe
The timid and fearful first failures dismay, but the stout heart stays trying by night and by day. He values his failures as lessons that teach The one way to get to the goal he would reach.Edgar Albert Guest
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
Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions their reasons are always different.George Santayana
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.
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.Eustace Budgell
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
Bitterness imprisons life love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life love empowers it. Bitterness sours life love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life love heals it. Bitterness blinds life love anoints its eyes.Harry Emerson Fosdick
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
Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.Dr. Dale E. Turne
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.Oliver Wendell Holmes
The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subltly and feel nobly.Aldous Huxley
The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - - That is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.James Thurbe
Humor the sons of the poor, for they give science its splendor.The Talmud
The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.Leonard Bernstein
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
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
We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear - Brought experience.George Washington
