Sons Quotes

When I was born, my mother dressed me as a boy because she could not afford to feed any more daughters. By the mystic laws of gender and economics, it ruins a peasant to place half a bowl of figs in front of his daughter, while his son may gorge on the whole tree, burn it for firewood and piss on the stump, and still be reckoned a blessing to his father.

Jeanette Winterson

On this Mother's Day and every day before and after, I thank you God for the precious gift of my three children. I love them unconditionally.

God is in desperate search for those sons he could send to the world of sports to rule and manage it for him

How easily such a thing can become a mania, how the most normal and sensible of women once this passion to be thin is upon them, can lose completely their sense of balance and proportion and spend years dealing with this madness.

People wishes their friends to be in politics, but their sons in professions.