Son Quotes and Sayings
You are my sonshine.
Don’t wait to make your son a great man – make him a great boy.
When you teach your son, you teach your son’s son.
- The Talmud
Tiger father begets tiger son.
- Chinese Proverb
He who can be a good son will be a good father.
Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
- Plato
It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son – and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.
~ Helen Rowland
When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
~William Shakespeare
He who can be a good son will be a good father.
Son, you outgrew my lap, but never my heart.
Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
~Aldous Huxley
We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
~Alexander Pope
Every father should remember that one day his son will follow his example instead of his advice.
- Charles F Kettering
Every son quotes his father, in words and in deeds.
- Terri Guillemets
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
I should no longer define myself as the son of a father who couldn’t or hasn’t or wouldn’t or wasn’t.
- Cameron Conaway
We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
~ Gloria Steinem
When you teach your son, you teach your son’s son.
The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother’s always a Democrat.
~ Robert Frost