Barack Obama Quotes, Son Quotes, Parent Quotes

My main message is to the parents of Trayvon Martin. You know, if I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon.

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I was age six or seven, and singing, "Jesus wants me for her son, beep, to shine for him," and people smiled and pinched my cheeks till the blood vessels broke, and I knew I was doing something right.

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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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Twenty thousand thieves landed at Hastings. These founders of the House of Lords were greedy and ferocious dragoons, sons of greedy and ferocious pirates... Such, however, is the illusion of antiquity and wealth, that decent and dignified men now existing, boast their descent from these filthy thieves, who showed a far juster conviction of their own merits, by assuming for their types the swine, goat, jackal, leopard, wolf, and snake, which they severally resembled.

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Jekyll had more than a father's interest; Hyde had more than a son's indifference.

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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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In England every man you meet is some man's son; in America, he may be some man's father.

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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.

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When it comes down to pure ornamental cursing, the native American is gifted above the sons of men.

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

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A man cannot make him laugh; but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine.... If I had a thousand sons, the first human principle I would teach them should be, to forswear thin potations and to addict themselves to sack.

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May we incorporate into our own lives the divine principles which he Joseph Smith so beautifully taught by example, that we, ourselves, might live more completely the gospel of Jesus Christ. . . May our lives reflect the knowledge we have that God lives, that Jesus Christ is His son, that Joseph Smith was a prophet and that we are led today by another prophet of God - even President Gordon B. Hinckley.

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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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We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.

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My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

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Tis a happy thing To be the father unto many sons.

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Hear me profess sincerely: had I a dozen sons, each in my love alike, and none less dear than thine and my good Marcius, I had rather have eleven die nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.

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Books are immortal sons deifying their sires.

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The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

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A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.

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