“In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.”

“A son is not a judge of his father, but the conscience of the father is in his son.”

Simon Soloveychik (1930–1996) Russia writer and philosopher

“What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

“404. One father is enough to governe one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.”

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest

“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

“While the Father is self-dependent, the son is completely dependent upon the Father.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.”

Solomon (-990–-931 BC) king of Israel and the son of David

“Lawrence, of virtuous father virtuous son”

John Milton (1608–1674) English epic poet

“Arabs are not the sons of the desert, but its father.”

Claude Scudamore Jarvis (1879–1953) British journalist

“I am the son of an illiterate father and mother.”

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (1945) Brazilian politician, 35th president of Brazil