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How’s the son? Father Ted s1e3: The Passion of St Tibulus, Dougal to Bishop Brennan, Channel 4 1995
I have just killed my parents! I am a horrible son. I wish I had been aborted. Kip Kinkel, journal entry
Incredible. I have a son. Nicholas and Alexandra 1971 starring Michael Jayston & Janet Suzman & Laurence Olivier & Tom Baker & Timothy West & & Jack Hawkins & Brian Cox et al, director Franklin J Schaffner, Nicholas
No father ever had a better son. Troy 2004 starring Brad Pitt & Eric Bana & Orlando Bloom & Rose Byrne & Peter O'Toole & Diane Kruger & Brian Cox & Sean Bean & Julie Christie & Saffron Burrows et al, director Wolfgang Petersen, Priam to Hector
Natural law: sons are put on this Earth to trouble their fathers. Road to Perdition 2002 starring Tom Hanks & Tyler Hoechlin & Paul Newman & Jude Law & Daniel Craig & Stanley Tucci & Jennifer Jason Leigh et al, director Sam Mendes, Newman
He has his father’s eyes. Satan is his father not Guy. He came up from Hell and begat a son from mortal woman. Satan is his father and his name is Adrian. Rosemary’s Baby 1968 starring Mia Farrow & John Cassavetes & Ruth Gordon & Sidney Blackmer & Marurice Evans & Ralph Bellamy & Charles Grodin & Patsy Kelly & Angela Dorian et al, director Roman Polanski, Roman
He’s becoming a very fine officer ... He’s his father’s son. Star Trek: The Next Generation s3e1: Evolution, Picard to Dr Crusher, re Wesley
This is my son – Q. Star Trek: Voyager s7e19: Q2, Q to Janeway
D’you know, over these last few years I’ve come to think of you as a sort of son. Not a favourite son of course. Lord, no. More a sort of illegitimate backstairs sprog. Sort of spotty squit that nobody really likes. Blackadder Goes Forth: Plan F – Goodbyeee, Melcett to Darling, BBC 1989
I don’t care whether he’s straight, gay or homosexual, he’s still our son. The Royle Family s3e1, Barbara, BBC 2000
Dr Evil: Scott, who is going to take over the world when I die?. Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery 1997 starring Mike Myers & Elizabeth Hurley & Robert Wagner & Seth Green & Mindy Sterling & Michael York & Fabiana Udenio & Will Ferrell & Mimi Rogers & Joe Son & Paul Dillon & Charles Napier et al, director Jay Roach, Dr Evil & son Scott counselling session
My Father is Evil and Wants to Take Over the World. Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me 1999 starring Mike Myers & Heather Graham & Michael York & Robert Wagner & Rob Lowe & Mindy Sterling & Seth Green & Verne Troyer & Elizabeth Hurley & Will Ferrell et al, director Jay Roach, Jerry Springer Show
Dad is the Head of a Worldwide Organisation that Wants to Dominate the World. ibid.
Because you’re not quite evil enough. Well it’s true. You’re quasi-evil. ibid. Dr Evil to Scott
Scott, you had your chance, OK? I already had someone created in my image – who is evil, who wants to take over the world, and he fits easily into most overhead storage bins. ibid.
You are young, my son, and as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters. Plato, Dialogues, Theatetus
A son who is the theme of honour’s tongue,
Amongst a grove the very straightest plant,
Who is sweet fortune’s minion and her pride. William Shakespeare, I Henry IV I i 80-82, King Henry
I know not whether God will have it so
For some displeasing service I have done,
That in his secret doom out of my doom out of my blood
He’ll breed revengement and a scourge for me. ibid. III ii 4-7, King Harry to Prince Harry
The hope and expectation of thy time
Is ruined, and the soul of every man
Prophetically do forethink thy fall. ibid. III ii 36-38, King Harry to Prince Harry
Good wombs have borne bad sons. William Shakespeare, The Tempest I ii 120, Miranda
My son – and what’s a song? A thing begot
Within a pair of minutes, thereabout,
A lump bred up in darkness. Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedy 1592
He dotes on you: you don’t see it. Road to Perdition 2002 starring Tom Hanks & Jude Law & Daniel Craig & Paul Newman & Tyler Hoechlin & Stanley Tucci & Liam Aiken & Jennifer Jason Leigh & David Darlow & Dylan Baker & Ciaran Hinds et al, director Sam Mendes, aunt to Hanks
You – you’re more like me. ibid. father to son
Natural law: sons are put on this Earth to trouble their fathers. ibid. Newman
My father’s only fear was that his son would follow the same road. ibid. son as narrator
And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.
And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree: Deuteronomy 21:20-22
A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother. Proverbs 10:1
A wise son heareth his father’s instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke. Proverbs 13:1
He that spareth his rod hateth his son. Proverbs 13:24
A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causeth shame, and shall have part of the inheritance among the brethren. Proverbs 17:2
The younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. Luke 15:13
This my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. Luke 15:24
Woman, behold thy son! John 19:26
He that loveth his son causeth him oft to feel the rod, that he may have joy of him in the end.
Bow down his neck while he is young, and beat him on the sides while he is a child, lest he wax stubborn, and be disobedient unto thee, and so bring sorrow to thine heart.
Chastise thy son, and hold him to labour, lest his lewd behaviour be an offence unto thee. Sirach/Ecclesiasticus 30:1&12&13
As he grew older, which was mostly in my absence, my firstborn son, Alexander, became ever more humorous and courageous. There came a time, as the confrontation with the enemies of our civilization became more acute, when he sent off various applications to enlist in the armed forces. I didn’t want to be involved in this decision either way, especially since I was being regularly taunted for not having ‘sent’ any of my children to fight in the wars of resistance that I supported. (As if I could ‘send’ anybody, let alone a grown-up and tough and smart young man: what moral imbeciles the ‘anti-war’ people have become.) Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
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