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If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters.
Author:
Brigham Young
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Sons of Islam everywhere, the jihad is a duty - to establish the rule of Allah on earth and to liberate your countries and yourselves from America's domination and its Zionist allies, it is your battle - either victory or martyrdom.
Author:
Ahmed Yassin
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Judaism has always been a strong interest of mine. My two sons speak Hebrew and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we live.
Author:
Herman Wouk
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Thanks to the heroic sons and daughters of this country, who have paid sacrifices, we have been able to score a number of victories which are encouraging the nation-building process we are engaged in.
Author:
Girma Woldegiorgis
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The experience of creating my adventure games was, other than marrying my husband and bringing into the world my two sons, the most fulfilling, wonderful experience I ever had.
Author:
Roberta Williams
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Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.
Author:
Izaak Walton
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In many ways we are all sons and daughters of ancient Greece.
Author:
Nia Vardalos
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Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.
Author:
Sun Tzu
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To hell with them. When history is written they will be the sons of bitches - not I.
Author:
Harry Truman
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Chaplin was notoriously strict with his sons and rarely gave them spending money.
Author:
Gene Tierney
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There are now grandmothers and grandfathers coming to see us because they are of that age, they grew up in the '50s and '60s and they bring their sons and their daughters to hear the songs they heard when they were young.
Author:
George Thorogood
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Better than anything else in our culture, it enables fathers and sons to speak on a level playing field while building up from within a personal history of shared experience - a group history - that may be tapped into at will in years to come.
Author:
John Thorn
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As a father, my first priority is to help my sons set and attain personal goals so they will develop self-confidence and individual strength. Engaging in regular fitness activities with my children helps me fulfill those responsibilities.
Author:
Alan Thicke
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I am so glad my wife tolerates me. And we have three wonderful sons.
Author:
Donald Sutherland
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I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation.
Author:
William Sumner
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We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
Author:
Gloria Steinem
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The next day I was in my school's production of All My Sons. This was the performance where I realized something was happening between me and the audience that I hadn't recognized before.
Author:
Kevin Spacey
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The stag tells him that he is the eldest of the sons - the father's favorite - and he warns the father that if he tries to shoot any of the stags, their antlers will tear him to pieces.
Author:
Georg Solti
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Your sons weren't made to like you. That's what grandchildren are for.
Author:
Jane Smiley
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And we've also had now the speaker of the Parliament in Iraq using blatantly anti-Semitic remarks, saying the Jews and sons of Jews are the problem of all the violence that's in Iraq.
Author:
Jan Schakowsky
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I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.
Author:
Jean-Paul Sartre
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I'm not one of those leeching sons of bitches. I want to earn everything I get.
Author:
Dennis Rodman
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Like any other people, like fathers, mothers, sons and daughters in every land, when the issue of peace or war has been put squarely to the American people, they have registered for peace.
Author:
Paul Robeson
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No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.
Author:
Ronald Reagan
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I'm concerned about the insidious influence of the media's bad messages that undermine the lessons parents try to instill in their sons and daughters.
Author:
John Ratzenberger
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Great was the name of Abraham, but all his Sons were not accepted; only Isaac was in the Covenant.
Author:
John Pearson
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Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.
Author:
Jean Paul
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To the families of special needs children all across this country I have a message for you: for years you have sought to make America a more welcoming place for your sons and daughters, and I pledge to you that if we're elected, you will have a friend, an advocate, in The White House.
Author:
Sarah Palin
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I'm just one of many moms who will say an extra prayer each night for our sons and daughters going into harm's way.
Author:
Sarah Palin
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And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, while the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its waves.
Author:
Robert Paine
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Let's say there are 500 sons and daughters like you in each state. Then we could control the government.
Author:
Sun Moon
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A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which binds together all the sons of that territory.
Author:
Giuseppe Mazzini
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My dad was a ham, too. He could sell those women anything. Of all his sons, I was the only one he could trust to sell as well as he could. I was proud of that.
Author:
Paul Lynde
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Most Glorious and eternal Majesty, Thou art righteous and holy in all thou dost to the sons of men, though thou hast suffered men to condemn Thy servant, Thy servant will not condemn Thee.
Author:
Christopher Love
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All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.
Author:
Gordon Lightfoot
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The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from fathers to sons.
Author:
Michael Lewis
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I started listening to music when I wrote when I had three sons at home.
Author:
Philip Levine
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For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business.
Author:
Wilfrid Laurier
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Bush the father did well in placing his sons as governors and did not forget to pass on the expertise in fraud from the leaders of the region to Florida to use it in critical moments.
Author:
Osama Laden
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Every man is responsible only for his own acts. The sons do not inherit the sins of the fathers. But can we say: that was long ago, they were different?
Author:
Aleksander Kwasniewski
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I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.
Author:
Martin King, Jr.
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The anxiety of most parents in seeing their sons and daughters enlist does not lie only in the fear of the physical dangers they may encounter.
Author:
William King
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My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now.
Author:
John Kennedy
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Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
Author:
John Kennedy
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I have two delightful sons, who I love dearly.
Author:
Charles Keating
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Rich men's sons are seldom rich men's fathers.
Author:
Herbert Kaufman
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I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here. And I want to walk my daughter down the aisle and give her away to somebody some day. I want to make sure I am still here to make sure my two young sons become men.
Author:
Magic Johnson
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My sons are a hell of a lot easier to get through to than my daughter is. She seems to have my number. She can just run through the buttons.
Author:
Don Johnson
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We need to get our sons and daughters home and their responsibility for the security of Iraq needs to be assumed by Iraqis who will stand up and toe the line for their countries.
Author:
Jay Inslee
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What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.
Author:
Aldous Huxley
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
Author:
Aldous Huxley
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I enjoy what I do every minute of the day, even when the going gets tough. When I first began writing, I used to work at a desk in the bedroom, of a small development house. My three sons all under the age of 3 would come running in and out of the room every minute.
Author:
Evan Hunter
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Today, Arizona's sons and daughters, mothers and fathers are proudly serving their country.
Author:
Jane Hull
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For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.
Author:
Homer
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Just as a son, to be a son of man, must be of the same nature and spirit of his father; so with the sons of God, and so it will be with all who are born of the spirit of God.
Author:
Elias Hicks
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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.
Author:
Theodor Herzl
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In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.
Author:
Herodotus
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One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.
Author:
George Herbert
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Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents; and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?
Author:
Augustus Hare
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I don't make my own schedule - it's constructed around my sons' school schedules.
Author:
Jane Haddam
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He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons.
Author:
Carlo Goldoni
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I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
Author:
Khalil Gibran
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I have three sons, and I think we're both fierce protectors of our children.
Author:
Jami Gertz
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I have three sons, a husband, parents, and I'll fight and get angry, but what is very important that I have found as I've matured, is that I have to move on.
Author:
Jami Gertz
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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.
Author:
Epictetus
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Find a good teacher, as I found for my sons. I feel the worst thing you can do is to try and teach your own children yourself, because there is a natural rebellion that occurs.
Author:
Keith Emerson
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My sons are into German music, but they are into all kinds of music.
Author:
Keith Emerson
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To my three sons, Peter, Scott, and Alexander who pulled me from the 18th Century and back into the present on a regular basis and therefore made me a better person, thank you. And to my wife, who sits at the table there. Who is right about almost everything.
Author:
Joseph Ellis
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Grieve not, then, if your sons seem to desert you, but rejoice, rather, seeing the will of God done gladly.
Author:
Jim Elliot
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The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.
Author:
George Eliot
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Among us all men were created sons of God and stood erect, as conscious of their divinity.
Author:
Charles Eastman
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A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.
Author:
Marlene Dietrich
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Any sane person would have left long ago. But I cannot. I have my sons.
Author:
Princess Diana
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I live for my sons. I would be lost without them.
Author:
Princess Diana
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As Commander in Chief of the United States Military, I will never send our sons and daughters and our brothers and sisters to die in a foreign land without telling the truth about why they're going there.
Author:
Howard Dean
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When my friends and I would act out movies as kids, we'd play the guys' roles, since they had the most interesting things to do. Decades later, I can hardly believe my sons and daughter are seeing many of the same limited choices in current films.
Author:
Geena Davis
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The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.
Author:
Robertson Davies
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I want to make someone walk straight, but I've left my sons nothing but wars.
Author:
Broderick Crawford
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I never let any of my sons beat me at videogames.
Author:
Coolio
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I am stopping so I can be a full-time father to my two young sons on a daily basis.
Author:
Phil Collins
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As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.
Author:
Lord Chesterfield
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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
Author:
Miguel Cervantes
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Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!
Author:
Robert Burns
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I believe in the freedom of God's sons and daughters.
Author:
Pat Buckley
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I'm a widower with three sons and seven grandchildren. One of my sons is my partner on the ranch.
Author:
Wilford Brimley
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Many of America's and New York's sons and daughters are around the world fighting for the freedoms that the Statue of Liberty stands for.
Author:
Michael Bloomberg
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A father and two sons run Adelphia. It's a cable company. And they took from that company a billion dollars. A billion. Three people - three people took a billion dollars. What were they gonna do, start their own space program? 'Let's send the monkey to Mars, Dad!'
Author:
Lewis Black
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What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!
Author:
Georges Bernanos
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Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops.
Author:
Brendan Behan
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Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!
Author:
Honore Balzac
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If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.
Author:
James Baldwin
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I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
Author:
Nancy Astor
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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
Author:
Matthew Arnold
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I have sons, and they have never said the word hell in front of me or my wife. That's the truth.
Author:
Danny Aiello
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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
Author:
Joseph Addison
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I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
Author:
John Adams
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My current companion, Gerard de Battista, is the father of my two sons.
Author:
Victoria Abril
