Parenting: Son Quotes

Welcome to a curated collection of son quotes that reflect the joys, challenges, and everyday milestones of raising boys. These lines offer calm encouragement, gentle humor, and perspective for parents navigating growth. Use them for reflection, journaling, or sharing with family. From first steps to emerging independence, find words that honor patience, guidance, and mutual respect, while celebrating the bond between parent and son.

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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"

Niccolo Machiavelli, Writer

Niccolo Machiavelli

"If one area I felt it was a tough election was I couldn't see my young son and I couldn't see my wife a lot, but apart from that for her also it was an experience"

Imran Khan, Politician

Imran Khan

"But I know I have a son who doesn't listen to anything I say and if he hears the same thing from someone else, sometimes it has a little more impact"

Tony Dungy, Coach

Tony Dungy

"The day my son was born my life changed completely"

Treat Williams, Actor

"I live for my sons. I would be lost without them"

Princess Diana, Royalty

Princess Diana

"A child is owed the greatest respect; if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't ignore your son's tender years"

Juvenal, Poet

Juvenal

"I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar"

Andrew Carnegie, Businessman

Andrew Carnegie

"How can my son not be straight after all I've said and done for him?"

Rod Stewart, Musician

"I think, you know, it was something that I really wanted. I wanted so much to have a son or daughter. We adopted a son. And it was just the most wonderful thing. I think the only thing that was difficult for both Maury and myself were the sleepless nights"

Connie Chung, Journalist

Connie Chung

"Son, never throw a punch at a redwood"

Tom Selleck, Actor

Tom Selleck

"My son Wesley has just turned 13. He was 12 during the recording of this record and he is quite a drummer already and has been studying drums since he was four, but he's also very interested in African percussion and studies percussion"

Lee Ritenour, Musician

Lee Ritenour

"What is the price of a thousand horses against a son where there is one son only?"

John Millington Synge, Poet

"Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

Aldous Huxley

"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, Philosopher

Epictetus

"Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory"

Douglas MacArthur, Soldier

Douglas MacArthur

"The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one"

John Dryden, Poet

John Dryden

"See things from the boy's point of view"

Robert Baden-Powell, Soldier

Robert Baden-Powell

"He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride"

John Lennon, Musician

John Lennon

"For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms"

William Gibson, Writer

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

Princess Diana, Royalty

Princess Diana

"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, Journalist

"The Jewish people asked nothing of its sons except not to be denied. The world is grateful to every great man when he brings it something; only the paternal home thanks the son who brings nothing but himself"

Theodor Herzl, Journalist

Theodor Herzl

"I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round with Kennedy"

Harold Macmillan, Politician

Harold Macmillan

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

Chanakya, Politician

Chanakya

"Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them"

Evelyn Waugh, Author

Evelyn Waugh

"Yeah, my son likes a lot of guitar bands. He gave me something the other day which was really good. He'll burn a CD for me full of things that he has, so he's a pretty good call if I want to check some of that stuff out... The other two aren't quite into that yet"

Bruce Springsteen, Musician

Bruce Springsteen

"My success? Being born the son of Moses Annenberg"

Walter Annenberg, Businessman

"I think retirement's for old people. I'm still in the business, thank you. I have a young child of nine years old, and I want to live as long as I can to see him grow up. I'm enjoying my life and I want to stick around for as long as I can"

Harrison Ford, Actor

"It's much easier to play supporting roles because that's what I do in my life: I support my son"

Frances McDormand, Actress

Frances McDormand

"I never satisfied that kid but I think he and I have made a deal now"

Anthony Quinn, Actor

"I have a son in Barcelona whom I am madly in love with"

Anthony Quinn, Actor

"There is nothing worse that a thirteen-year-old boy. You're embarrassed by your parents, and you're trying to find your independance because, deep inside, you are so dependent on your mom"

Ben Affleck, Actor

Ben Affleck

"I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway"

Anne McCaffrey, Author

Anne McCaffrey

"I am not ashamed to say that I am the son of a washerwoman"

John Burns, Activist

"My son is racing his first 24-hour this year with Porsche"

Bobby Rahal, Athlete

"Our son is in school now. You know, he's six-and-a-half and so a big chunk of the day is taken up by school. So I'm hoping that I'll be able to certainly take him to school in the morning, maybe pick him up in the afternoon and come back to work"

Connie Chung, Journalist

Connie Chung

"In fact, my son learned his first swear word from E.T. at age five. The way I look at it, E.T. stole a bit of my son's childhood"

John Ratzenberger, Actor

"My son always says I like very weird music"

Cornelia Funke, Author

"I remember once, we got an interview, and he said, 'Dad, these people are writing about me like I'm an adult. Don't they know I'm a kid?' I have never tried to encourage him to get a music image like other musicians have"

Ornette Coleman, Musician

"To me this movie is about what is valuable. To one person it might be a stone; to someone else, a story in a magazine; to another, it is a child. The juxtaposition of one man obsessed with finding a valuable diamond with another man risking his life to find his son is the beating heart of this film"

Edward Zwick, Director

Edward Zwick

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