Sons

Famous quotes containing the word sons:

“Peter the Hermit, Calvin, and Robespierre, sons of the same soil, at intervals of three centuries were, in a political sense, the levers of Archimedes. Each in turn was an embodied idea finding its fulcrum in the interests of man.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)

“When sons grow up, they listen not to their fathers, nor do daughters to their mothers.”
—Chinese proverb.

“Our sons their fathers’ failing language see,
And such as Chaucer is shall Dryden be.”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)