My Son Quotes - Page 12

• I remember being in a comic shop with my son, with my ten year-old son and he put his hand over my eyes. He was embarrassed about me seeing the comics at Forbidden Planet.

  Francoise Mouly

  Eye, Son, Hands

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• I'm a mom, and I'm always looking for ways to encourage, support, and embolden my son to help make him believe in himself.

  Debra Messing

  Mom, Believe, Son

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I think there's evil on both sides [of Syria], and I think that's one reason I don't want to be involved in civil war. I see things in personal terms. I just can't see sending one of my sons - or your son or daughter - to fight in a civil war, where on one side we have a dictator, who in all likelihood gassed his people.

  Rand Paul

  Daughter, War, Fighting

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• My favorite Elton John song is "Daniel"; my son is named Daniel and he's partly named after my wife's father, but also partly named after that song.

  Steven Drozd

  Song, Father, Wife

  "Keep the Things You Forgot: An Elliott Smith Oral History" by Jayson Greene, pitchfork.com. October 21, 2013.

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• In order for me to parent well I have to empathize and stay open with my son.

  Amber Valletta

  Son, Order, Parent

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• I was doing 100 pushups by 8 years old. My dad was the type like he'd have friends over and be like, "My son can do that, Ryan drop and give me 100 pushups!" and would have me do it for his friends. It was that type of household.

  Ryan Montgomery

  Dad, Son, Years

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• My primary reason for bringing my son on was to have a voice on the show [Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll] that would bring a 25 or 26 year old point of view to it, and my son is very capable of writing that stuff.

  Denis Leary

  Sex, Writing, Son

  "Denis Leary on ‘Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll’ Season 2 and Playing Johnny Rock". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 30, 2016.

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• I have a 22-year-old son, and when my son was born I made a decision to raise him. My husband and I took turns working, and it's easier to raise a kid in the documentary world, where you go away for two weeks or three weeks rather than the months that you spend on a feature. That was and still is much more open to women DPs than the world of fiction.

  Maryse Alberti

  Husband, Kids, Son

  "The Female Cinematographers of Neon Demon, Creed, and Dope Discuss Their Experiences in a Male-Dominated Field". Interview with Kevin Lincoln, www.vulture.com. June 27, 2016.

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• I have two definitions of success - one on the basketball court and one in my personal life. In basketball, success means making my teammates better, winning basketball games and winning championships. In my personal life, success means being a good father to my sons and raising them to be strong men; taking care of my family and being a good friend; and using my influence to make a difference in the community.

  Dwyane Wade

  Basketball, Strong, Father

  Source: mochamanstyle.com

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• I think there can always be beauty in struggle. I mean, as far as childbirth, I had my son in the hospital, but then I had my daughter at home. There's no doubt that there's a struggling in birth, and a beauty and a horror and fear and joy too.

  Patricia Arquette

  Daughter, Struggle, Mean

  "Patricia Arquette: On Boyhood, Motherhood, and Womanhood". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• More than anything, it's my son's smile and love that makes me light up!

  Amber Valletta

  Son, Light, And Love

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• I'm interested in questions my son asks me, like, "Why do animals fight? Why do you have to leave us to go on the road?" Everything he asks gets me thinking.

  Ben Sollee

  Fighting, Son, Animal

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• My son is now fourteen, and from the moment he was born, I understood that forevermore my heart would be walking around outside my body.

  Dani Shapiro

  Heart, Son, Would Be

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• When I was a child I could do math and art, so I had left- and right-brain capabilities. But I've seen my children, who are more right-brained, struggling. My son was told he wouldn't make it to college, but he dogged it through and ended up being accepted by 10 major art schools after the high school advisor said, "Please don't apply. You're going to be disappointed." That kid's an artist now.

  Frank Gehry

  Art, Children, Struggle

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

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• The Lord givith and the Lord takith away. I was given a lot of signs from the universe and looking at it in retrospect made me feel like God was telling me I needed to follow my dream. My granny getting in that car accident and being at that hospital when I was going there to see my girl... that whole part of the story where I go to the show and come back to the hospital... and it was almost like as soon as I found out that my granny didn't make it as soon as I got back, I also found out that my son had just come out.

  Ryan Montgomery

  Girl, Dream, Son

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• I'm pretty quiet. But I love to play sports. I like playing all sports. I'll act goofy at times around my wife and my son, around my own family. I like to have fun in general.

  Steve Blake

  Sports, Fun, Son

  Interview with Marc J. Spears, www.denverpost.com. March 24, 2007.

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• My husband is a former Air Force pilot and my son is an active duty Army surgeon, recently returned from Iraq, so my pride in our military is passionate... and personal.

  Robyn Carr

  Husband, Military, Pride

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• My son, he is the reason I got involved. It's been a joy to be around him and teach him the stuff that I know, and to the other kids as well. When he started playing I wanted to be involved in his hockey career. It's a lot of fun for both of us.

  Mario Lemieux

  Fun, Kids, Son

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• About 1911 I had the idea of making for my son, who had just been born, a blanket composed of bits of fabric like those I had seen in the houses of Russian peasants. When it was finished, the arrangement of the pieces of material seemed to me to evoke cubist conceptions and we then tried to apply the same process to other objects and paintings.

  Sonia Delaunay

  Son, Ideas, House

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• My son ask for thyself another Kingdom, for that which I leave is too small for thee

  Philip II of Macedon

  Son, Kingdoms, Thee

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• My son was staying with me, and we got up to watch it, just before they announced supporting actress, he came up and put his arm around me. I think it was like, 'Either way, mom, I still love you.' But then it was funny because I saw it. I saw my picture, and I heard them announce it, but I had to ask him, 'Did I really see that?' I wasn't sure I was seeing it, but he assured me that yes, I was nominated for the Academy Award. We just sort of cried a little bit.

  June Squibb

  Mom, Love You, Son

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• My sons served excellent missions, and returned to participate in college athletics. In their letters home, and even now that they have been back for some time, they frequently mention that the experiences in the mission field were the choicest and most gratifying of their lives. You young men, begin to prepare yourselves now for this marvelous experience.

  LaVell Edwards

  Life, Home, Son

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• ...I got a call from a record company offering me a contract, I did not want to take it because the Lord had pointed me in the direction of spiritual activity...And then it was disclosed to me that I could do both spiritual and musical work. So for five years I executed that contract, and when it was finished, after I made the album Transfiguration, I didn't make another album until twenty-six years later. This new album, Translinear Light, came out of the pleading and constant appealing from my son Ravi Coltrane: 'Ma, please make a CD.' So I eventually agreed.

  Alice Coltrane

  Music, Spiritual, Son

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• You could be my son. You even look like me a little bit... Say, who's your mother?

  Fats Waller

  Mother, Son, Littles

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• My feelings about my mortality are less selfish than they used to be. I used to affect a cavalier attitude to death; now I see it from my son's perspective.

  Rufus Sewell

  Attitude, Selfish, Son

  "Rufus Sewell: 'Hollywood is my domestic idyll'" by Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. January 12, 2013.

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