My Son Quotes - Page 37

• My son is in a band, and he’s a singer, and his vocals … they’re screaming-growling stuff … and he’s got a pretty reasonable voice. Yet he practices really hard to get the screaming-growling thing without losing that voice every five minutes. So I’m, like, “Hats off to you.”

  Bruce Dickinson

  Son, Practice, Voice

  "Iron Maiden’s secret to success". Interview with Ben Wener, www.ocregister.com. May 29, 2008.

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• During the war, there were people wishing me death, wishing my son death, wishing my wife death in very graphic ways. In the past, I would go overseas and I would say, "Israel is like my family: we disagree, but we're all brothers." I can't say that anymore, because life proves me wrong.

  Etgar Keret

  Brother, War, Son

  "Etgar Keret: We Can Try to Be Human". Interview with Meakin Armstrong, www.guernicamag.com. August 17, 2015.

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• My sons are very protective and loving towards me, but I don't know what's in their secret minds about me.

  Kola Boof

  Son, Secret, Mind

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• I'm not a 'strong warrior queen' like people think. I spend most of my day cooking and doing things with my sons.

  Kola Boof

  Strong, Queens, Warrior

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• I've certainly faced some raw, real pain in my life. I lost my father to a car accident when I was young. My mother died ten years ago. My son was very sick as an infant. Eventually, I have attempted to transform this pain into art, to make meaning out of it.

  Dani Shapiro

  Mother, Art, Pain

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Losing hope means ceasing to love my son and my girlfriend and many friends and people around the world.

  Hassan Blasim

  Girlfriend, Mean, Son

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• My son is everything to me. He's the reason why I get up and I work out the way I work out and train the way that I train. He changed everything about me, so he was a blessing.

  Derrick Rose

  Son, Blessing, Work Out

  Source: espn.go.com

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• I often think about what I want my sons to fully comprehend in regards to how sport industry unfairly operates.

  Eddie George

  Sports, Son, Thinking

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I'd be devastated if my son grows up to be a hetero. I mean, I'd still love him ... but as a parent you just envision a certain life for your child. I mean, if he's straight, think of all the fabulous things he's going to miss out on. When I think my son might never know the joys of having a quarter share on Fire Island and walking through Judy Garland Memorial Park on the way to the Meat Rack.

  Debra Messing

  Children, Growing Up, Mean

  "‘Will & Grace’ Stars Eric McCormack, Debra Messing Reunite To Support The Trevor Project". www.huffingtonpost.com. June 6, 2012.

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• Everywhere my sons and I go, we're telling people the good news about Jesus, blowing duck calls, and making people, happy, happy- then down the road we go.

  Phil Robertson

  Jesus, Son, Ducks

  Phil Robertson, Mark Schlabach (2013). “Happy, Happy, Happy: My Life and Legacy as the Duck Commander”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

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• Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, 'Would you take my son with you?' He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die.

  Bono

  Baby, Son, Blow

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• I try to teach my son about sanitation, especially when handling foods like chicken that could be dangerous. I remind him to wash his hands all the time. When my son cooks with me, he stands on a step stool so he can reach the stove. I teach him about safety and fire.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Son, Fire, Hands

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• As a father, my first priority is to help my sons set and attain personal goals so they will develop self-confidence and individual strength. Engaging in regular fitness activities with my children helps me fulfill those responsibilities.

  Alan Thicke

  Children, Father, Responsibility

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• My son has followed fashion since he was a punk. He and I agree that fashion is about sex.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Fashion, Sex, Son

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• I named all my children after flowers. There's Lillie and Rose and my son, Artificial.

  Bert Williams

  Children, Flower, Son

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• If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters.

  Brigham Young

  Education, Daughter, Mother

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• You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isn’t flying a thousand miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn’t have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there.

  Richard Bach

  Son, Light, Numbers

  Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The Complete Edition”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• Leonard asks me if there's anything I need to know before he dies, I think about it for a minute, turn to him, say what's the meaning of life, Leonard? He laughs, says that's an easy one, my son, it's whatever you want it to be.

  James Frey

  Son, Thinking, Laughing

  James Frey (2005). “My Friend Leonard”, p.263, Penguin

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• If you can walk with the crowd and keep your virtue,
  Or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch;
  If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
  If all men count with you, but none too much;
  If you can fill the unforgiving minute
  With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
  Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
  And - which is more - you'll be a man my son!

  Rudyard Kipling

  Life, Running, Hurt

  "If - " st. 4 (1910)

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• If no one had ever challenged religious authority, there’d be no democracy, no public schools, women’s rights, improvements to science and medicine, evolution of slavery and no laws against child abuse or spousal abuse. I was afraid to challenge my religious beliefs because that was the basis of creation—mine anyway. I was afraid to question the Bible or anything in it, and when I did, that’s when I became involved with PFLAG and realized that my son was a perfectly normal human being and there was nothing for God to heal because Bobby was perfect just the way he was.

  Mary Griffith

  Religious, Children, School

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• My son tells me, 'Do you realize you are the last one? The last person who was an eyewitness to the golden age?' Young people, even in Hollywood, ask me, 'Were you really married to Humphrey Bogart?' 'Well, yes, I think I was,' I reply. You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a part of what you are - that you can't ignore it. But I don't look at scrapbooks. I could show you some, but I'd have to climb ladders, and I can't climb

  Lauren Bacall

  Memorable, Son, Thinking

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• I once picked up a woman from a garbage dump and she was burning with fever; she was in her last days and her only lament was: My son did this to me. I begged her: You must forgive your son. In a moment of madness, when he was not himself, he did a thing he regrets. Be a mother to him, forgive him. It took me a long time to make her say: I forgive my son. Just before she died in my arms, she was able to say that with a real forgiveness. She was not concerned that she was dying. The breaking of the heart was that her son did not want her. This is something you and I can understand.

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Regret, Real

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• When my son, James, was doing homework for school, he would have five or six windows open on his computer, Instant Messenger was flashing continuously, his cell phone was constantly ringing, and he was downloading music and watching the TV over his shoulder. I don’t know if he was doing any homework, but he was running an empire as far as I could see, so I didn’t really care.

  Ken Robinson

  Running, School, Son

  Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.21, Penguin

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• It is a matter of great satisfaction to me to hope that my children will be in circumstances to receive a good education. Mine was defective and I feel the inconvenience, if not the misfortune of not receiving a classical education. Knowledge is the food of genius, and my son, let no opportunity escape you to treasure up knowledge.

  Sam Houston

  Children, Son, Opportunity

  Sam Houston (1941). “The Writings of Sam Houston, 1813-1863: 1828-1858”

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• When people saw what had happened to my son, men stood up who had never stood up before.

  Mamie Till

  Son, Men, Lynching

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