Quotes About Sons Growing Up Too Fast

Quotes About Sons Growing Up Too Fast

Are you a parent who can’t believe how fast your son is growing up? Here are the top 99 quotes about sons growing up too fast:

  1. “Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne
  2. “It’s not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can’t tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.” – Joyce Maynard
  3. “The truth is, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married. I don’t know, but until your mom dies it seems like all the other women in your life can never be more than just your mistress.” – Chuck Palahniuk
  4. “I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.” – Sigmund Freud
  5. “A son is a son till he gets a wife; a daughter is a daughter for the rest of her life.” – Irish saying
  6. “The most important mark I will leave on this world is my son.” – Sarah Shahi
  7. “There is nothing more beautiful than a rainbow, but it takes both rain and sunshine to make one. If life is to be rounded and many-colored like the rainbow, both joy and sorrow must come to it.” – Anne of Avonlea
  8. “The only way I can describe [fatherhood]โ€”it sounds stupid, butโ€”at the end of How the Grinch Stole Christmas, you know how his heart grows like five times? Everything is full; itโ€™s just full all the time.” – Matt Damon
  9. “A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.” – Knights of Pythagoras
  10. “When you teach your son, you teach your sonโ€™s son.” – The Talmud
  11. “Every father should remember one day his son will follow his example, not his advice.” – Charles Kettering
  12. “A son is a promise that time makes to a man.” – Unknown
  13. “It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.” – Johann Schiller
  14. “A father is someone you look up to no matter how tall you grow.” – Unknown
  15. “A son may outgrow your lap, but he will never outgrow your heart.” – Unknown
  16. “There’s no vocabulary for love within a family, love that’s lived in but not looked at, love within the light of which all else is seen, the love within which all other love finds speech.” – This Boy’s Life by Tobias Wolff
  17. “A father’s tears and fears are unseen, his love is unexpressed, but his care and protection remain as a pillar of strength throughout our lives.” – Ama H. Vanniarachchy
  18. “You don’t raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they’ll turn out to be heroes, even if it’s just in your own eyes.” – Walter M. Schirra, Sr.
  19. “The greatest gift I ever had came from God; I call him Dad!” – Unknown
  20. “A father carries pictures where his money used to be.” – Steve Martin
  21. “I talk and talk and talk, and I haven’t taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.” – Mario Cuomo
  22. “A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.” – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  23. “A father is someone who carries pictures in his wallet where his money used to be.” – Unknown
  24. “A father is someone who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.” – Cardinal Meymillod
  25. “Becoming a dad means you have to be a role model for your son and be someone he can look up to.” – Wayne Rooney
  26. “My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.” – Jim Valvano
  27. “A son is a miracle that never ceases to be miraculous.” – Unknown
  28. “A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.” – Frank A. Clark
  29. “I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father’s equal, and I never loved any other man as much.” – Hedy Lamarr
  30. “A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.” – Frank A. Clark
  31. “I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.” – Maya Angelou
  32. “A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.” – Enid Bagnold
  33. “I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.” – Sigmund Freud
  34. “I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work fifteen and sixteen hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.” – Mario Cuomo
  35. “My father didn’t tell me how to live. He lived and let me watch him do it.” – Clarence Budington Kelland
  36. “A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.” – Frank A. Clark
  37. “A father is neither an anchor to hold us back nor a sail to take us there, but a guiding light whose love shows us the way.” – Unknown
  38. “Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten.” – Conrad Hall
  39. “The quality of a father can be seen in the goals, dreams and aspirations he sets not only for himself, but for his family.” – Reed Markham
  40. “I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren’t trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.” – Umberto Eco
  41. “I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that.” – Adam Sandler
  42. “A son is a son ’til he takes him a wife, a daughter is a daughter all of her life.” – Irish Saying
  43. “The greatest mark of a father is how he treats his children when no one is looking.” – Dan Pearce
  44. “One of the greatest gifts my father gave me – unintentionally – was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.” – Ben Okri
  45. “A father is someone who carries pictures in his wallet where his money used to be.” – Steve Martin
  46. “I’m a father; that’s what matters most. Nothing matters more.” – Gordon Brown
  47. “A father is someone who has pictures in his wallet where his money used to be.” – Unknown
  48. “My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad.” – Beau Bridges
  49. “In my career, there’s many things I’ve won and many things I’ve achieved, but for me, my greatest achievement is my children and my family. It’s about being a good father, a good husband, just being connected to family as much as possible.” – David Beckham
  50. “A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.” – Frank A. Clark
  51. “My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.” – Pete Rose
  52. “The older I get, the smarter my father seems to get.” – Tim Russert
  53. “I’m a father; that’s what matters most. Nothing matters more.” – Gordon Brown
  54. “My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, ‘You’re tearing up the grass.’ ‘We’re not raising grass,’ Dad would reply. ‘We’re raising boys.'”
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