Best said & son Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Once upon a time there was a Queen who had a son so ugly and so misshapen that it was long disputed whether he had human form. A fairy who was at his birth said, however, that he would be very amiable for all that, since he would have uncommon good sense.”

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Book:Classic Fairy Tales: Fairy Stories Every Child Should Know

Source: Classic Fairy Tales: Fairy Stories Every Child Should Know

“...the Lord said as He drew near His passion, 'Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in Him. If God is glorified in Him, God will also glorify Him in Himself; and He will glorify Him at once' (Jn. 13:31-32). From This it is clear that divine gifts follow sufferings endured for the sake of virtue.”

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Author:Maximus the Confessor

“We don't build,' I said to my son, 'we just destroy.”

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Author:Bernard Cornwell

“Here was a period where I was particularly attacked, and in untrue ways, some people online said some things that were not true about me - but it was very hurtful. And there was like, a period of time that it was very panicky, I was very upset. And my son at the time was, I guess seven, eight months old, and I would wake up early with him and let my wife sleep.”

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Author:David Plotz

“And when children begin to use their reason, fathers and mothers should take great pains to fill their hearts with the fear of God. This the good Queen Blanche did most earnestly by St. Louis, her son: witness her oft-repeated words, "My son, I would sooner see you die than guilty of a mortal sin;" words which sank so deeply into the saintly monarch's heart, that he himself said there was no day on which they did not recur to his mind, and strengthen him in treading God's ways.”

Way Should Mind Heart Children Said Reason Use Pain Mother Dies Father Sin Son Guilty Witness Mortals Queens My Son Monarchs Treading Mortal Sin Blanche

Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“Amy Poehler did a really cute thing, [] [her son] said his prayers before he went to sleep that she was going to win [a Golden Globe] and when she got home she put [the trophy] in his bedroom. So when he woke up, he was like “Yes I did it, I did it”. He was so excited, he felt like he had somehow engendered the trophy into existence, which is so cute.”

Said Home Winning Felt Prayer Sleep Existence Son Excited Golden Cute Globes Bedroom Trophies Amy Really Cute Cute Things

Author:Michael Schur

“Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island.”

Said Three Son Thirds Add Islands Theologian Tombs Jupiter Saturn Crete

Book:The Works of Lactantius: Of the false worship of the gods

Source: The Works of Lactantius: Of the false worship of the gods

“When my son said, "I can't stop thinking about girls," I said, "That's not gonna stop. Congratulations. You're in the club. From now until the day you die, one way or another you'll be thinking about girls.”

Thinking Way Said I Can Dies Girl Women Son Clubs One Way My Son Congratulations

Author:Paul Reiser

“Honor thy Father and thy Mother was once said, but then someone said: What if I don't know your Father? A still voice said: Does that makes him the devil? He is still someone's Father, his name has been changed, but his story is the same. Why hate when we should Celebrate. In this world of two's, you got the Mourning Son, and the Daughter of the Night. They both equal light once you make it through the night. Now, wake the funk up!”

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Author:Bootsy Collins

“To Harmodius, descended from the ancient Harmodius, when he reviled Iphicrates [a shoemaker's son] for his mean birth, "My nobility," said he, "begins in me, but yours ends in you.”

Mean Said Ends Son Birth Ancient Nobility

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)

“Aristodemus, a friend of Antigonus, supposed to be a cook's son, advised him to moderate his gifts and expenses. "Thy words," said he, "Aristodemus, smell of the apron.”

Said Son Smell Supposed To Be Cooks Expenses Moderates Aprons

Book:Plutarch's Morals

Source: Plutarch's Morals

“Democracy is the best revenge. After Benazir Bhutto's death, her son's brief public remarks were captured on video, and they were reported in international newspapers. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari announced, "My mother always said, ' Democracy is the best revenge.”

Said Mother Democracy Son International Revenge Newspapers Video Remarks Captured Best Revenge Bhutto

Author:Benazir Bhutto

“Last night me and Kate we laid in bed talking about getting out, Packing up our bags, maybe heading south. I'm thirty-five, we got a boy of our own now. Last night I sat him up behind the wheel and said, "Son, take a good look around, This is your hometown.”

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Author:Bruce Springsteen

“Le mot 'psychologie'est un de ceux qu'aucun auteur d'aujourd'hui ne peut entendre prononcer a' son sujet sans baisser les yeux et rougir. The word 'psychology' is one that no author today can hear said about her work without lowering her eyes and blushing.”

Said Eye Today Psychology Son Her Eyes Blushing Auteurs

Author:Nathalie Sarraute

“When I was a little baby, my mama she said "Son.Travel where you will and grow to be a manAnd sing what must be sung, poor boySing what must be sung.”

Littles Said Grows Poor Son Baby Mama

Author:Hoyt Axton

“Yesterday, my son was out in the yard playing with his friend, and he hit his friend. I walked up to him, and I said, "Hey... We don't hit". He looked at me like, "Here's your sign, Dad".”

Said Son Dad Yesterday Hey My Son Hitting Yards Pantomime

Author:Bill Engvall

“There is no accounting for tastes, as the woman said when someone told her her son was wanted by the police.”

Life Said Wanted Success Son Taste Police Accounting

Author:Franklin P. Adams

“It's rumored that Arnold Schwarzenegger's son is cheating on his girlfriend Miley Cyrus. After hearing about it Arnold said, 'That's my boy.'”

Said Boys Son Hearing Girlfriend Cheating My Boys Schwarzenegger Miley

Author:Conan O'Brien

“I just wanted to make a million dollars. But I couldn't sing and I couldn't play ball, so I said to my mother, 'How am I going to make a million dollars?' And she said to me, 'Son, if you believe you can do it, you will.'”

Ifs Believe Said Play Wanted Mother Can Do Millions Son Balls Dollars You Can Do It If You Believe Million Dollars Believe You Can

Author:Chris Gardner

“And when I told my sons I might be in City of Ember, they said, 'Oh! You're gonna be the mayor?' And I hadn't even read the script yet.”

Said Might Cities Son Scripts My Son They Said Mayors Embers

Author:Bill Murray

“The circumstance that any man could suppose that Matthew when he said, 'Jacob begat Joseph,' or Luke, when he said, 'Joseph was the son of Heli' could refer to the wife of the one, or the daughter-in-law of the other, shows to what desperate stratagems polemical orthodoxy will resort in order to defend an untenable position.”

Source: The creed of Christendom: its foundations and superstructure

“He said, Son, I've made a life out of readin' people's faces, and knowin' what their cards were by the way they held their eyes.”

People Way Made Said Eye Faces Son Cards Gambling

Author:Kenny Rogers

“I don't have a college degree, and my father didn't have a college degree, so when my son, Zachary, graduated from college, I said, "My boy's got learnin'!"”

Said Father Boys College Son Degrees My Son My Boys College Degree

Author:Robin Williams

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