My Son Quotes - Page 2

• I will not vote to send my sons, or your sons, daughters, brothers, sisters or friends to fight for a stalemate.

  Rand Paul

  Daughter, Brother, Fighting

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• The biggest change for me as a mom was realizing I needed to put someone else before me. Now the hardest part about the empty nest is learning to put myself first. I know that I have raised my sons to be big, strong, independent men who love God, themselves and care for others. I have to learn to let them have space and learn without me.

  Kim Alexis

  Mom, Strong, Independent

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• The fact my relationship with my son is so good makes me forgiving of my father and also appreciative.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Father, Son, Forgiving

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• I'm a smart girl. There are decisions that I make for reasons, and the most important thing is that my son is happy and he always will be. He's surrounded by love.

  Christina Aguilera

  Girl, Smart, Son

  "Christina Aguilera Interview BURLESQUE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 16, 2010.

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• My son is a hip-hop producer.

  Quincy Jones

  Son, Hip Hop, Hips

  Los Angeles Times interview, articles.latimes.com. April 18, 1997.

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• My son is healthy and happy, so that's all that matters to me.

  Christina Aguilera

  Son, Healthy, Matter

  "Christina Aguilera: Drop Dead Diva". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.marieclaire.com. January 10, 2012.

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• Four years into the life of my son, I realize I'm so in love with him and he's so in love with me that if I don't find that lifelong partner out there, it's okay.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Son, Years, Four

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• I do enjoy wearing a little heel when I'm at work, but when I'm running around with my son, it's a different story!

  Miranda Kerr

  Running, Son, Different

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• To wake up to the sound of my son saying 'Mama, mama!' It's the best sound ever.

  Miranda Kerr

  Son, Sound, Wake Up

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• I would like to have seen my sons growing up.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Growing Up, Son, Growing

  "Aung San Suu Kyi: 'I have personal regrets'" by Eamonn Walsh, www.bbc.com. September 23, 2012.

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• A lot of older parents worry about being older parents. I hear people say, 'I don't want to be too old to play baseball with my son.' They worry that their kids will be embarrassed by their parents' age.

  Penn Jillette

  Baseball, Kids, Son

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is no secret that I believe my son, Attorney General Beau Biden, would make a great United States senator - just as I believe he has been a great attorney general. But Beau has made it clear from the moment he entered public life, that any office he sought, he would earn on his own.

  Joe Biden

  Believe, Son, Office

  "Biden replacement creates blowback" by Andy Barr, www.politico.com. November 24, 2008.

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• I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Son, Dollars

  Andrew Carnegie (2017). “How to win fortune: and The Gospel of Wealth”, p.23, FV Éditions

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• My mother's eyes were large and brown, like my son's, but unlike Sam's, they were always frantic, like a hummingbird who can't quite find the flower but keeps jabbing around.

  Anne Lamott

  Mother, Flower, Eye

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• One night I went over to get some dope from some Hollywood tough guy. After I left, my son Scott, who was only fifteen, went over with a baseball bat to kill him. I was laughing out of one eye and crying out of the other. I thought, Who am I kidding?

  James Caan

  Baseball, Eye, Son

  "James Caan: What I've Learned". Interview with Ross Johnson, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• I take some pride in... representing myself exactly how I would like to have my son remember me to his kids.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Kids, Pride, Son

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• I loved it, it's such fun. I like that people are seeing it and then talking about it. Like when I took my son and his friends to see Napoleon Dynamite last year, we spent the next six weeks trying to explain it.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Fun, Son, Talking

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• I never saw my dad cry. My son saw me cry. My dad never told me he loved me, and consequently I told Scott I loved him every other minute. The point is, I'll make less mistakes than my dad, my sons hopefully will make less mistakes than me, and their sons will make less mistakes than their dads.

  James Caan

  Dad, Mistake, Son

  "James Caan: What I've Learned". Interview with Ross Johnson, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• My son was diagnosed with autism. He's OK, he makes eye contact, but he doesn't talk. He needs eight hours a day of very intensive school, and you wouldn't even believe me if I told you how much it costs.

  Steve Earle

  Believe, School, Eye

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• I took my son's name. I didn't take my husband's name.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Husband, Son, Names

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• I often think about how my sons will come to know about September 11th. Something overheard? A newspaper image? In school? I would prefer that they learn about it from my wife and me, in a deliberate and safe way. But it's hard to imagine ever feeling ready to broach the subject without some impetus.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  School, Son, Thinking

  "Speechless" by Jonathan Safran Foer, www.newyorker.com. September 12, 2011.

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• All my sons are named George Foreman. They all know where they came from.

  George Foreman

  Son, Knows

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My son Barry, of course, has been on from the beginning. And his son Shane is playing now a med student regularly on the show. And at one point or another, I've had all four of his kids on the show.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Kids, Son, Four

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• As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial arts, but he said, 'I don't want to become like Bruce Lee's son, with everybody telling me how good my father was.' I just think my son is too lazy.

  Jackie Chan

  Art, Father, Son

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• My son says I never tell stories about anyone who's living.

  Alan King

  Son, Stories

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