Quotations About / On: SON

  • 41.
    Show me a Puritan and I'll show you a son-of-a-bitch.
    (H.L. (Henry Lewis) Mencken (18801956), U.S. journalist, critic. A Mencken Chrestomathy, ch. 30, p. 625, Knopf (1949).)
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  • 42.
    There's one thing I do know, son, and that is you are here for a reason.
    (David Newman (b. 1937), U.S. screenwriter, and Richard Donner. Jonathan Kent (Glenn Ford), SupermanThe Movie, speaking to young Clark Kent (1978).)
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  • 43.
    There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.
    (Franz Grillparzer (1791-1872), Austrian author. Libussa, in Libussa, act 2 (1872).)
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  • 44.
    In the untimely loss of your noble son, our affliction here, is scarcely less than your own.
    (Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), U.S. president. Letter to Ephraim D. and Phoebe Ellsworth, May 25, 1861. Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, vol. 4, p. 385, Rutgers University Press (1953, 1990).)
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  • 45.
    My son and daughter tell me where they are in very different ways. I know where my son is because I hear him. I know where my daughter is because she tells me.
    (Anonymous Father. Raising a Daughter by Jeanne Elium and Don Elium, ch. 1 (1994).)
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  • 46.
    Prizing a male child, although seemingly an old fashioned notion, is still widespread.... This strong desire for boys in the family translates into a difference in fathering. Studies show that men play with boy babies more than girl babies and in general are more involved with their families if they have at least one son. Marriages, on average, last longer if there is a son. Even divorced fathers tend to see their sons more than their daughters (at least until adolescence).
    (Elyse Zorn Karlin (20th century), U.S. journalist, author. Sons: A Mother's Manual, ch. 1 (1994).)
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  • 47.
    As the mother of a son, I do not accept that alienation from me is necessary for his discovery of himself. As a woman, I will not cooperate in demeaning womanly things so that he can be proud to be a man. I like to think the women in my son's future are counting on me.
    (Letty Cottin Pogrebin (20th century), U.S. editor, writer. Family and Politics, ch. 5 (1983).)
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  • 48.
    Martin Luther King, Jr., was the conscience of his generation.... He and I grew up in the same South, he the son of a clergyman, I the son of a farmer. We both knew from opposite sides, the invisible wall of racial segregation.
    (Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.) (b. 1924), U.S. president. A Government as Good as Its People, pp. 109-10, New York: Simon and Schuster (1977). From a speech dedicating a new wing of the Martin Luther King Hospital in Los Angeles, June 1, 1976.)
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  • 49.
    Till by and came Our Blessed Lady,
    Her dear young son her wi.

    "Will ye gang to your men again?
    Or will ye gang wi me?
    Will ye gang to the high heavens,
    Wi my dear son and me?"
    (Unknown. Brown Robyn's Confession (l. 23-28). . . Anthology of Catholic Poets, An. Shane Leslie, ed. (Rev. ed., 1952) The Macmillan Company (later published by The Newman Press).)
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  • 50.
    After a month or so I get used to the book's final stage, to its having been weaned from my brain. I now regard it with a kind of amused tenderness as a man regards not his son, but the young wife of his son.
    (Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), Russian-born U.S. novelist, poet. The Listener, interview (1969).)
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