Sons Quotes

When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother's hand, his fingers could see in the dark.

~ John Irving

Most young men are such bores. They haven't lived long enough to learn that they are not the wonders to the world they are to their mothers.

~ L.m. Montgomery

Mothers see the angel in us because the angel is there. If it's shown to the mother, the son has got an angel to show, hasn't he? When a son cuts somebody's throat the mother only sees it's possible for a misguided angel to act like a devil - and she's entirely right about that!

~ Booth Tarkington

She never called her son by any name but John; 'love' and 'dear', and such like terms, were reserved for Fanny.

~ Elizabeth Gaskell

My mother described her reactions better than I ever could mine: she said she was surprised with thunder that her boy had come back, and that the happiness in her heart was as deep as the sea.

~ Saroo Brierley

The way I saw the world changed in an instant. My eyes were opened to a need in this country that was just beginning to be recognized. The floodgates were opened, and our battle-injured warriors filled our military hospitals.

~ Diana Mankin Phelps

Auntie Wu took special pride in two of her accomplishments--the sons she bore and the flowers she grew. They were equally useless, but the flowers smelled better.

~ Kay Honeyman

We are all fools with our sons. We wipe them and suckle them and all we expect is for them to be grateful to the end of their days.

~ Conn Iggulden

In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.

~ Herodotus

We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

~ Gloria Steinem

Rich men's sons are seldom rich men's fathers.

~ Herbert Kaufman