“A son is a son 'til he gets a wife, but a daughter is a daughter all her life.”
Source: Love the One You're With
Source: The Serpent's Tale
“A son is a son 'til he gets a wife, but a daughter is a daughter all her life.”
Source: Love the One You're With
“Oh my son's my son till he gets a wife,
But my daughter's my daughter all her life.”
"Young and Old"
Dated 1498 or earlier. Quoted in Sarah Bradford, Cesare Borgia / His Life and Times (1976, George Weidenfeld and Nicolson Limited. London. Reprinted 1981. ISBN 0-297-77124-8), p. 72
“I want babies too," he said huskily. "Daughters as beautiful as you are.”
Source: Rush
2010s, 2016 Democratic National Convention (2016)
Brown : The Last Discovery of America (2003)
John The Beloved Disciple In His Old Age: On Jesus The Word
Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)
Context: We are all sons and daughters of the Most High, but the Anointed One was His first-born, who dwelt in the body of Jesus of Nazareth, and He walked among us and we beheld Him.
All this I say that you may understand not only in the mind but rather in the spirit. The mind weighs and measures but it is the spirit that reaches the heart of life and embraces the secret; and the seed of the spirit is deathless.
The wind may blow and then cease, and the sea shall swell and then weary, but the heart of life is a sphere quiet and serene, and the star that shines therein is fixed for evermore.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 412.