It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.
Friedrich von Schiller

What is the use of having many sons if they cause grief and vexation?

You don’t raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they’ll turn out to be heroes, even if it’s just in your own eyes.
Walter M. Schirra, Sr.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.
George Herbert

Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.

You are my sonshine.

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.

Don’t wait to make your son a great man – make him a great boy.

Books are immortal sons deifying their sires

What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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.

When you teach your son, you teach your son’s son.
The Talmud

You don’t raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they’ll turn out to be heroes, even if it’s just in your own eyes.

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong.
Charles Wadsworth

Now is the hour come, Riders of the Mark, sons of Eorl! Foes and fires are before you, and your homes far behind. Yet, though you fight upon an alien field, the glory that you reap there shall be your own forever. Oaths ye have taken: now fulfil them all, to lord and land and league of friendship!

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
William Shakespeare

Your children are not your children. / They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.

Tiger father begets tiger son.
Chinese Proverb

They alone are sons who are devoted to their father. He is a father who supports his sons. He is a friend in whom we can confide, and she only is a wife in whose company the husband feels contented and peaceful.

Son, you outgrew my lap, but never my heart.

What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother’s always a Democrat.
Robert Frost

You don’t raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they’ll turn out to be heroes, even if it’s just in your own eyes.

A boy is a magical creature – you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can’t lock him out of your heart.
Allan Beck

The people to whom your fathers told of the living God, and taught to call ‘Father,’ and whom the sons now seek to despoil and destroy, are crying aloud to Him in their time of trouble; and He will keep His promise, and will listen to the voices of His Hawaiian children lamenting for their
homes.

When you teach your son, you teach your son’s son.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold.
Chinese Proverb

Books are immortal sons deifying their sires

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy….
John Adams

Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons

We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
Gloria Steinem

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

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

Now is the hour come, Riders of the Mark, sons of Eorl! Foes and fires are before you, and your homes far behind. Yet, though you fight upon an alien field, the glory that you reap there shall be your own forever. Oaths ye have taken: now fulfil them all, to lord and land and league of friendship!

Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.
Napoleon Bonaparte

A single son endowed with good qualities is far better than a hundred devoid of them.
Chanakya

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.
James Baldwin

A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which binds together all the sons of that territory.
Giuseppe Mazzini

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
Aldous Huxley

Affliction’s sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!
Robert Burns

We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
Alexander Pope

Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops.
Brendan Behan

A man’s desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.
Helen Rowland

All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.
Gordon Lightfoot

Your son at five is your master, at ten your slave, at fifteen your double, and after that, your friend or your foe, depending on his bringing up.

Among us all men were created sons of God and stood erect, as conscious of their divinity.
Charles Eastman

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
Kahlil Gibran

And ne’er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, while the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its waves.
Robert Treat Paine

He followed in his father’s footsteps, but his gait was somewhat erratic.
Nicolas Bentley

And we’ve also had now the speaker of the Parliament in Iraq using blatantly anti-Semitic remarks, saying the Jews and sons of Jews are the problem of all the violence that’s in Iraq.
Jan Schakowsky

He who can be a good son will be a good father.

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

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
Epictetus

Any sane person would have left long ago. But I cannot. I have my sons.
Princess Diana

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

As a father, my first priority is to help my sons set and attain personal goals so they will develop self-confidence and individual strength. Engaging in regular fitness activities with my children helps me fulfill those responsibilities.
Alan Thicke

Good fathers make good sons.

As Commander in Chief of the United States Military, I will never send our sons and daughters and our brothers and sisters to die in a foreign land without telling the truth about why they’re going there.
Howard Dean

Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.
Friedrich Nietzsche

As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.
Lord Chesterfield

Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son.
Russian Proverb

As many know, and especially those who may have young sons or daughters at colleges or universities, the last thing you want to hear is a call that perhaps one of your children was injured or, even worse, lost their life in a tragic fire at a dorm or campus housing.
Vito Fossella

Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
Plato

Better than anything else in our culture, it enables fathers and sons to speak on a level playing field while building up from within a personal history of shared experience – a group history – that may be tapped into at will in years to come.
John Thorn

Every mother hopes that her daughter will marry a better man than she did, and is convinced that her son will never find a wife as good as his father did.
Martin Andersen-Nexo

Bush the father did well in placing his sons as governors and did not forget to pass on the expertise in fraud from the leaders of the region to Florida to use it in critical moments.
Osama bin Laden

A son is a son till he takes him a wife, a daughter is a daughter all of her life.

Chaplin was notoriously strict with his sons and rarely gave them spending money.
Gene Tierney

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

Every man is responsible only for his own acts. The sons do not inherit the sins of the fathers. But can we say: that was long ago, they were different?
Aleksander Kaasniewski

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn’t matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
Anne Frank

Find a good teacher, as I found for my sons. I feel the worst thing you can do is to try and teach your own children yourself, because there is a natural rebellion that occurs.
Keith Emerson

It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son – and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.
Helen Rowland

Boys are beyond the range of anyone’s sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.
James Thurber