Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Christian Quotes, Son Quotes

When I left Springfield [to become President] I asked the people to pray for me. I was not a Christian. When I buried my son, the severest trial of my life, I was not a Christian. But when I went to Gettysburg and saw the graves of thousands of our soldiers, I then and there consecrated myself to Christ.

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When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.

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Don't call me son unless you're going to include me in your will. (When Adolph Rupp called him, "Son.")

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We are the sons of Sorrow; we are the poets and the prophets and the musicians.

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I'm a big football fan, but I have to tell you if I had a son, I'd have to think long and hard before I let him play football.

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I breastfeed and I'll be breastfeeding until my son is finished and he weans.

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For this is England's greatest son, He that gain'd a hundred fights, And never lost an English gun.

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The fool says, "These are my sons, this is my land, this is my money." In reality, the fool does not own himself, much less sons, land, or money.

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I'm sure no intelligent white person, in his or her right white mind, want black men and women marrying their white sons and daughters and in return introducing their grandchildren to half brown, kinky haired black people.

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It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.

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Don't give your son money. As far as you can afford it, give him horses.

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I know nothing more worthy of a man's ambition than that his son be the best of men.

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

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If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too;!

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From the Son of Heaven down to the mass of the people, all must consider the cultivation of the person the root of everything besides.

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Recently, I took my son to see The Haunted Mansion, which was one of the worst things (I hesitate even to call it a movie) that I have ever seen. He thought it was better than Finding Nemo and we had a fruitless argument which I'm sure made him acutely aware of the disadvantages of having a film critic for a dad.

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Beware the Jabberwock, my son The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!

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I came from the South and I know what war is, for I have seen its wreckage and terrible ruin. It is easy for me as President to declare war. I do not have to fight, and neither do the gentlemen on the Hill who now clamour for it. It is some poor farmer's boy, or son of some poor widow away off in some modest community, or perhaps the scion of a great family, who will have to do the fighting.

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When there are duties to perform [true] servants and sons serve their labors.

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God sees us perfect in His Son while He disciplines and chastens and purges us that we may be partakers of His holiness.

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