My Son Quotes - Page 29

• You can only lead by example, and you can only say it might be better for you if. But nobody can do anything until they're ready to do it. So you can sit down with a strong-minded young man of 24, as my son was at a point, and say now listen, this, this, this, and this.

  Frank Langella

  Strong, Son, Men

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I enjoy doing fun things outdoors with my son to stay in shape. We like camping together. After a weekend in the woods, I'm sorer than after a week at the gym!

  Beth Riesgraf

  Fun, Son, Weekend

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

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• I was named after the great emperor Cyrus as my father, Farokh Broacha, was a great admirer of the Persian emperor. Continuing the tradition, I have named my son after Mikhail Gorbachev, someone whom I admire. He gave his people freedom.

  Cyrus Broacha

  Father, Son, People

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• I love my family, they love me. And my little brothers, they're like my sons. I raised them.

  Mosab Hassan Yousef

  Brother, Son, I Love My Family

  "Son of Hamas Leader Turns Back on Islam and Embraces Christianity". Interview with Jonathan Hunt, www.foxnews.com. August 12, 2008.

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• I am not going to bury my son! My son is going to bury me!

  Denzel Washington

  Son

  "Fictional Character: John Q. Archibald". "John Q", www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• One thing I want to teach my son is sensitivity to other people. I want to teach him not to be this macho freak.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Son, People, Want

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

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• I had no idea that such a thing could happen. It never occurred to me.My son told me. He called me and said, "Darling, I just wanted you to know that you have been chosen to receive an honorary Academy Award." I was in the back of this car, and I said, "Oh," and burst into tears, of course, because it was so unexpected and quite wonderful. I thought it's been worth hanging around all these years.

  Angela Lansbury

  Son, Years, Ideas

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I do feel like the world is a better and happier place now that my son is here. That's so cliche, but it's true. I just have a new perspective; I'm more driven. Also, the thing that stands out to me is that I'm not as selfish. Before you have a child, you're doing everything for yourself. But now it's about what's best for him, and I'm enjoying that shift.

  Tia Mowry

  Children, Selfish, Son

  "Tia and Tamera Dish About Their TV Show, Motherhood, and Taking Over the World". Interview with Phoebe Robinson, www.glamour.com. July 14, 2013.

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• My son traveled the world with me on every tour. He wasn't a lover of school, so it was easy with him. I had a tutor on the road, keep him at the same level, so when he'd pop back home he'd go right back in.

  Gloria Estefan

  Home, School, Son

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When I became a father acting sort of took the place of what I did in my free time and my children became the main focus. I play a lot and my children play. Both my sons - my daughter's still too young really - have surpassed me with their music skills, which is wildly irritating.

  Paul Bettany

  Daughter, Children, Father

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superintendent in northern California, and my son-in-law is a high school principal. I am surrounded.

  Loni Anderson

  Daughter, Mother, Teacher

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• My son, all my life I have loved this science so deeply that I can now hear my heart beat for joy.
  Commenting about Pasteur's accomplishment of separating two asymmetric forms of tartaric acid crystals.

  Jean-Baptiste Biot

  Life, Heart, Son

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• My daughter is a freshman in college and my son is - well, our daughter and our son - is a sophomore in college. So they come home on selected weekends, they come home on vacations and they're home in the summer, although they have jobs.

  Erika Slezak

  Summer, Daughter, Mother

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• My son, you are now flesh of our flesh and bone of our bone. By the ceremony performed this day, every drop of white blood was washed from your veins; you were taken into the Shawnee Nation.

  Chief Blackfish

  Taken, Native American, Son

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• Some people want to amass a great amount of wealth and make a great looking obituary. I'm going to die with more money than is good to leave my son.

  Darrell Issa

  Son, People, Want

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• My son tried to work in films and he ultimately gave it up, he finally couldn't make a living, he couldn't support himself. He worked all the time and he didn't make enough money to have a house, have an apartment.

  Jeffrey Jones

  Son, House, Support

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• My son, Max, was born the day Princess Di died.

  John C. McGinley

  Princess, Son, Max

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• I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.

  Kate Mulgrew

  Son, Wonderful, Rich

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

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• I watched my life as if it were happening to someone else. My son died. And I was hurt, but I watched my hurt, and even relished it, a little, for now I could write a real death, a true loss. My heart was broken by my dark lady, and I wept, in my room, alone; but while I wept, somewhere inside I smiled.

  Neil Gaiman

  Hurt, Real, Writing

  "The Sandman. Issue #75: The Tempest". Book by Neil Gaiman, 1996.

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• Basically, I wake up, take care of my son for a little while, and then like, "I am gonna write!" And then I wind up.

  Joel Stein

  Writing, Son, Wind

  Source: therumpus.net

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• O chime of sweet Saint Charity, Peal soon that Easter morn When Christ for all shall risen be, And in all hearts new-born! That Pentecost when utterance clear To all men shall be given, When all shall say My Brother here, And hear My Son in heaven!

  James Russell Lowell

  Sweet, Brother, Easter

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.385

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• To that Providence, my sons, I hereby commend you, and I counsel you by way of caution to forbear from crossing the moor in those dark hours when the powers of evil are exalted.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Dark, Son, Evil

  SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, Choi Hyun (2016). “The Hound of the Baskervilles”, p.17, ebookspub

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• I called my son Jett and I wanted to call my daughter Qantas, but my wife wouldn't let me.

  John Travolta

  Daughter, Son, Wife

  "'Hi honey, I'm home'". Interview with Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2004.

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• Wayne's like my son, Brooklyn, who goes out in the garden to play and have fun.

  David Beckham

  Fun, Son, Garden

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• I guess there was some Casper guy, like, 10 generations ago who I'm named after. I'm the 11th. My son is Casper the XII.

  Casper Van Dien

  Son, Guy, Generations

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