(1905 quotes found)
“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
Mark Twain
“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
“A single son endowed with good qualities is far better than a hundred devoid of them.”
Chanakya
“When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.”
The Talmud
“When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.”
William Shakespeare
“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.
“As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.”
“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!”
J.R.R. Tolkien
“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
