“I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.”

— John Quincy Adams

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American politician, 6th president of the United States (in… 1767–1848

Michael Joyce (1945) American academic and writer

"afternoon, a story" (1990)

“If a father commands a son to commit a crime so terrible that the son can't do it and live with himself, then is it betrayal for the son to disobey his father?”

Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist

Homecoming saga, Earthborn (1995)

“A son honors his father,
And a servant his master.
If then I am the Father,
Where is my honor?
And if I am a Master,
Where is My reverence?”

Malachi Biblical prophet

Source: Book of Malachi, Chapter 1, Verse 6, Lines 1-6 (NKJV)

“A man should also take heart that life is like a revolving wheel, and in the end he or his son or his son's son may be reduced to taking tzedaka. He should not think, therefore, "How shall I diminish my property in order to give to the poor." Instead, he should realize that his property is not his own, but only deposited with him in trust to do with as the Depositor (God) wishes.”

Shlomo Ganzfried book Kitzur Shulchan Aruch

Kitzur Shulchan Aruch

“I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.”

Samuel Johnson book A Dictionary of the English Language

Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas: I wish, however, that the instrument might be less apt to decay, and that signs might be permanent, like the things which they denote.
Preface http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/preface.html
A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)