| There are 250 quotations for your search 'fathers sons'. QUOTES AND QUOTATIONS. | |
You can also search for a word.
| Or search for author: |
|
|
| One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland --and no other. | E. M. Cioran | 1911-, Rumanian-born French Philosopher |
| My son, observe the postage stamp! Its usefulness depends upon its ability to stick to one thing until it gets there. | Henry Wheeler Shaw | 1818-1885, American Humorist |
| The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring. | Robertson Davies | 1913-, Canadian Novelist, Journalist |
| I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs. | Source Unknown | |
| At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks. | E.E. | Edward. E.) Cummings (1894-1962, American Poet |
| I can write good songs. I can sing 'em, and I mean it, I mean it deeply, and I pour everything into that. Other than that, I suck. | Adam Duritz | 1965-, American Musician, Singer, Songwriter |
| Be ye therefore perfect, eve as your Father who is in heaven is perfect. | Bible | Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism |
| Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. | Josh Billings | 1815-1885, American Humorist, Lecturer |
| My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more. | Pete Rose | 1942-, American Baseball Player, Manager |
| Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life. | Thomas B. Macaulay | 1800-1859, American Essayist and Historian |
|
| Marry for money, my little sonny, a rich man's joke is always funny. | Hebrew Proverb | Sayings of Hebrew Origin |
| My father said: ''You must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let the other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for always making all the money, you won't have many deals.'' | J. Paul Getty | 1892-1976, American Oil Tycoon, Billionaire |
| Gold's father is dirt, yet it regards itself as noble. | Yiddish Proverb | Sayings of Yiddish Origin |
| My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it. | Abraham Lincoln | 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA |
| How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons. | Adrienne Rich | 1929-, American Poet |
| Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers. | Aldous Huxley | 1894-1963, British Author |
| 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 | 1894-1963, British Author |
| We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so. | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
| But thousands die without or this or that, die, and endow a college, or a cat: To some, indeed, Heaven grants the happier fate, Tenrich a bastard, or a son they hate. | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
| I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory. | Alexander Smith | 1830-1867, Scottish Poet, Author |
|
| It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all. | Alice Walker | 1944-, American Author, Critic |
| The Pilgrim Fathers landed on the shores of America and fell on their knees; then they fell upon the aborigines. | American Saying | |
| I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern. | Anais Nin | 1914-1977, French-born American Novelist, Dancer |
| I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar. | Andrew Carnegie | 1835-1919, American Industrialist, Philanthropist |
| Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place. | Angela Carter | 1940-1992, British Author |
| It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was. | Anne Sexton | 1928-1974, American Poet |
| We are supposed to be the children of Seth; but Seth is too much of an effete nonentity to deserve ancestral regard. No, we are the sons of Cain, and with violence can be associated the attacks on sound, stone, wood and metal that produced civilization. | Anthony Burgess | 1917-1993, British Writer, Critic |
| If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to it. Because that's what soul is all about. | Aretha Franklin | 1942-, American Musician, Singer, Composer, Pianist |
| This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own. | Aristotle | BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher |
| The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father. | Austin O'Malley | |
|
| The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mother and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all. | Benjamin Spock | 1903-, American Pediatrician |
| The fundamental defect with fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbours for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all. | Betty Friedan | 1921-, American Feminist Writer |
| Take care that you do not despise one of these little ones; for I tell you, in heaven their angels continually see the face of my Father. [Matthew 18:10] | Bible | Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism |
| Call no man your father upon the earth, for one is your Father, which is in heaven. | Bible | Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism |
| God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent; has he not said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good? [Numbers 23:19] | Bible | Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism |
| Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5] | Bible | Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism |
| Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24] | Bible | Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism |
| He that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death. [Exodus 21:17] | Bible | Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism |
| Where were you... when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons (and daughters) of God shouted for joy? [4-7, Job 38:} | Bible | Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism |
|
| I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. | Bible | Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism |
| If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right. | Bill Cosby | 1937-, American Actor, Comedian, Producer |
| I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close-order drill or exercise or yodelling or something, not music. | Billie Holiday | 1915-1959, American Jazz Singer |
| If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm. | Bruce Barton | 1886-1967, American Author, Advertising Executive |
| The future looks extremely bright indeed, with lots of possibilities ahead -- big possibilities. Like the song says, ''We've just begun.'' | Bruce Lee | 1940-1973, Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist |
| There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book. | Carson Mccullers | 1917-1967, American Author |
| An now the silences come in a single lifetime, in a single year... when species die, leaving a silent space in the world song that can never be filled. | Charles Delint | |
| Take example by your father, my boy, and be very careful of vidders all your life, specially if they've kept a public house, Sammy. | Charles Dickens | 1812-1870, British Novelist |
| By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong. | Charles Wadworth | |
| I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again, | Charlotte Barnard | |
Quotes pages: 1 ~ 50
|
