Quotes on Son

With Connery, he does act. He is in complete command. He completely trusts the person first, then the instrument. I've worked with his son also, on a picture in Russia.

Author: F. Abraham

Well, I actually tell my son that I don't have any hair because he asked me the same question that I gave it to him when he was born, so he actually still believes that. He's five years old.

Author: Andre Agassi

I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants.

Author: Sidney Altman

One of the reasons why when Elvis dies or the Son of Sam is captured ABC News' ratings go up is because people who don't normally watch news are watching then. The question is, do you want to attract people who don't watch network news or fight over the people who do?

Author: Roone Arledge

Rather than have it the principal thing in my son's mind, I would gladly have him think that the sun went round the earth, and that the stars were so many spangles set in the bright blue firmament.

Author: Thomas Arnold

To try to raise a son from inside the prison walls is a very difficult thing. But I want to say to the world my son at 16 was the one who tried the most to get me out of prison.

Author: Jim Bakker

A few years after my first son was born, he wanted to know how we chose his name, so I began reading him the story of Noah's Ark.

Author: Boris Becker

My son is not wild about going back to Iraq, but he'd sure rather do that than sacrifice all that he and his fellow soldiers have accomplished by leaving too early and inviting chaos.

Author: Kit Bond

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.

Author: Bono

I do not overlook the fact that the appearance of these new, free nations in the European political community not only celebrates the return of the prodigal son but also creates new sources of friction here and there.

Author: Hjalmar Branting

My son writes songs and plays. He sings like an angel.

Author: Edie Brickell

If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone.

Author: Anne Bronte

My son don't have to say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud. He don't have to be called those crazy names.

Author: James Brown

I named my new son James Joseph Brown II. I think he's going to be a lot better than I was.

Author: James Brown

I think the best thing about being James Brown is looking at my little son. Hopefully I can make my son a role model to a lot of people.

Author: James Brown

I am not ashamed to say that I am the son of a washerwoman.

Author: John Burns

To me, it's a very moral film. If my son were a teenager now, I would drag him to see it.

Author: Ellen Burstyn

It's about avoiding reality through various escape routes that become addictions and lead to Hell. My character is addicted to television, chocolate, coffee, to her dream of her son, which has no basis in reality.

Author: Ellen Burstyn

Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry race: by falling into a daily fit of passion, I proved to the governor and his son, who were profuse in their attentions, that I was in earnest.

Author: Richard Burton

My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?

Author: Barbara Bush

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?

Author: James Caan

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

Author: Andrew Carnegie

Every man is the son of his own works.

Author: Miguel Cervantes

I think, you know, it was something that I really wanted. I wanted so much to have a son or daughter. We adopted a son. And it was just the most wonderful thing. I think the only thing that was difficult for both Maury and myself were the sleepless nights.

Author: Connie Chung

It's awfully hard to be the son of a great man and also of a half-crazy woman.

Author: Henry Commager

My son thinks I'm hilarious, but he's only 1.

Author: Mackenzie Crook

My son now is 22 months old, he's been playing since he was 12 months old and he gets standing ovations on the drums. He's been with us since he was 10 weeks old, he's been on the drums. He's got blisters on his fingers before he can even talk.

Author: Dick Dale

Sure my career means a hell of a lot, but it will never come before Sandy and my son.

Author: Bobby Darin

Son, what kind of pitch would you like to miss.

Author: Dizzy Dean

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.

Author: Robert Downey, Jr.

The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.

Author: John Dryden

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.

Author: Dick Dyke

Though I am not imperial, and though Elizabeth may not deserve it, the Queen of England will easily deserve to have an emperor's son to marry.

Author: Elizabeth Elizabeth I

I try to get them working. My older son is 10 and he's pretty interested. We had a dinner party the other night and he helped a lot. He helped peel asparagus; he hung out. It was great.

Author: Todd English

I'm convinced that Sanford and Son shows middle-class America a lot of what they need to know.

Author: Redd Foxx

My daughter, Anna, is almost 15, and my son, Ben, is almost 10.

Author: Cornelia Funke

My son loves the Hotel du Cap, in the south of France.

Author: Diane Furstenberg

I'm currently raising a 15 year old son and an 18 year old daughter, which a guess is my punishment for a wild youth!

Author: Gil Gerard

Well yes, my son was bar mitzvahed last April, after I made this film.

Author: Jami Gertz

I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old.

Author: Laura Giacomo

I am the son of a small and far-away nation and the other laureates have all come from different countries from all over the world and we all were equally received here with signs of sympathy.

Author: Albert Gyorgyi

I take my son to school and then I drive 45 minutes to practice with my ABA team, the Florida Pit Bulls, from 10 to 1. In the afternoon, I have meetings.

Author: Tim Hardaway

I have amply provided for my son during my lifetime.

Author: William Hart

The son of the victim, you know, has been virtually forgotten until recently.

Author: Patty Hearst

A friend of mine took me to Memphis advised me that I should get in the musicians' union. He gave me a set of drums and said, Stay on the job, son.

Author: Levon Helm

Your prodigal son has left again to exorcise some demons.

Author: John Hinckley, Jr.

We know our son. We know he's not a pedophile like some of these newscasters are saying. That is not true.

Author: Joseph Jackson

I think it's silly for anyone to think you could write under the influence, but if they'd like to think that, I'd like to keep the legend alive. Maybe I was under the influence when I wrote Jesus' Son and I just didn't know it.

Author: Denis Johnson

A child is owed the greatest respect; if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't ignore your son's tender years.

Author: Juvenal

If I had known it I would have told my son, I'd rather shoot you than let you join the SS. But I didn't know.

Author: Wilhelm Keitel

You see, I was the son of a baptist minister.

Author: DeForest Kelley

I suffer every moment of every day that I am not with my son. All I want is to be reunited with my son.

Author: Craig Kelly

If we have another 2,000 people killed, I want Nancy Pelosi and George Soros, John Conyers and Pat Leahy to go to the funeral and say, 'Your son was vaporized because we didn't want to dump some guy's head under water for 30 seconds.'

Author: Peter King

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.

Author: Rudyard Kipling

My son - and what's a song? A thing begot within a pair of minutes, thereabout, a lump bred up in darkness.

Author: Thomas Kyd

In fact my son subscribes to Pro Bull Rider magazine.

Author: Chris LeDoux

I don't want to be remembered as the son of Bruce Lee.

Author: Brandon Lee

I'm a rompin', stompin', piano playing son of a bitch. A mean son of a bitch.

Author: Jerry Lewis

I have a beautiful son, I don't regret it, I'm very proud of the way that we handle our relationship and the way that we keep our son first and that's our priority.

Author: Nia Long

The French never allow a distinguished son of France to lack a statue.

Author: Edward Lucas

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

Author: Douglas MacArthur

I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round with Kennedy.

Author: Harold MacMillan

And I'm in favor of that because I have a gay son, who's a very successful theater designer.

Author: Robert MacNeil

My youngest son, who is now the drummer in my band, lives in Brooklyn. My oldest son is about to move out to California, and my daughters are both out of town.

Author: Herbie Mann

Being on the cover of a magazine with my son is the best thing ever. It took me 18 years to get my first cover, he gets one at 8 months.

Author: Cindy Margolis

Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson.

Author: Mercedes McCambridge

It's much easier to play supporting roles because that's what I do in my life: I support my son.

Author: Frances McDormand

My son walked up to Nicole on the beach and I was throwing the ball for the dogs in the ocean. I was like, 'Max, you get the dogs. I'll talk to the hot blondes.'

Author: John McGinley

I felt (a) it was a great role and (b) I wanted to stay in town. I wanted to stop going to these four month and five month gigs up in Toronto or Montreal or Vancouver or down in Mexico. I wanted to be around my son, Max. This came along and I was like, "I really want to play this guy!"

Author: John McGinley

If you listen to the left track on their album, if you get The Best of the Mamas and Papas, you listen to the left track, you can still hear a little bit of my voice. My son discovered that once.

Author: Barry McGuire

This thing that Colin Powell's son is expected to do is kind of scary when you think that television and radio and newspapers are what make people think what they think.

Author: Jim McKay

My thought was I should try to stick with names that people may recognize like Robert Johnson, Son House, and Hoagy Carmichael, so if somebody cared to research, they would find a wealth of material.

Author: John Mellencamp

'Project Runway' was my guilty pleasure while my son was napping or nursing.

Author: Debra Messing

Well you can be the son of a Marxist and not necessarily be a Marxist in all your views.

Author: Ed Miliband

He wants to live on through something-and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. all of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world.

Author: Arthur Miller

It was the baseball fantasy of a lifetime - to be able to sit on the bench with all those professional athletes. I got to take my son along because I wasn't sure I would be able to play with them.

Author: Matthew Modine

My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son, a clever little boy, to show me the road leading to Windsor.

Author: Karl Moritz

Lee was such a fine, high-class boy. If my son killed the president he would have said so. That's the way he was brought up.

Author: Marguerite Oswald

Mr Johnson should remember that I am not just anyone and that he is only president of the United States by the grace of my son's action.

Author: Marguerite Oswald

You can't tell a millionaire's son from a billionaire's.

Author: Vance Packard

I agree completely with my son James when he says 'Internet is like electricity. The latter lights up everything, while the former lights up knowledge'.

Author: Kerry Packer

My older son who is, I think, here tonight, is forty-one years old. Which is odd because so am I.

Author: Robert Parker

The next day the two sisters went to the ball, and so did Cinderella, but dressed more magnificently than before. The King's son was always by her side, and his pretty speeches to her never ceased.

Author: Charles Perrault

The King's son, who was told that a great princess, whom nobody knew, was come, ran out to receive her. He gave her his hand as she alighted from the coach, and led her into the hall where the company were assembled.

Author: Charles Perrault

I thought it was such a unique concept to play parents who happen to be super heroes and have a son who is going through puberty and starting high school.

Author: Kelly Preston

I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing.

Author: Gavrilo Princip

My son is racing his first 24-hour this year with Porsche.

Author: Bobby Rahal

This kid's excited because he's with Bad Company and I'm excited because I'm with Chuck Berrys' son.

Author: Mick Ralphs

Hugh Lynn Cayce, Edgar Cayce's son, is quoted as saying, The best interpretation of a dream is one you apply.

Author: Henry Reed

My son Wesley has just turned 13. He was 12 during the recording of this record and he is quite a drummer already and has been studying drums since he was four, but he's also very interested in African percussion and studies percussion.

Author: Lee Ritenour

Somoza may be a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch.

Author: Franklin Roosevelt

In a way, you might say that David Duke is the son of Willie Horton. Duke is more overt, of course, but he's really just pushing the same buttons and sending the same coded messages that the Horton ads did so effectively for the Bush campaign last year.

Author: Judd Rose

It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son - and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.

Author: Helen Rowland

It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.

Author: Helen Rowland

A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.

Author: Helen Rowland

Someone had to do it. That son of a bitch killed my President.

Author: Jack Ruby

In 1947 I married Rowena Palmer, and we have two daughters, Alison and Claire, and a son, John.

Author: Martin Ryle

I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich.

Author: Pierre Salinger

Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye.

Author: Jacopo Sannazaro

You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

Author: Jean-Paul Sartre

Son, never throw a punch at a redwood.

Author: Tom Selleck

We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.

Author: Al Sharpton

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

Author: George Shaw

My son was killed in 2004. I am not paying my taxes for 2004. You killed my son, George Bush, and I don't owe you a penny.

Author: Cindy Sheehan

But to make a long story short, I decided that I was going to run, and I announced that I was going to run for president in Florida, I would be the favorite son from Florida, and that would stop Johnson and Kennedy from dividing up the state.

Author: George Smathers

I played with Eddie Taylor's son, Tim Taylor and Carey Bells son Lurie Bell.

Author: Jimmy Smith

I happen to have the benefit of having a son-in-law who was the former Mr. France and a trainer. I like being his benefactor and I like the way he works.

Author: Suzanne Somers

I am happy now, to recall that I was no only his son but his companion, and whenever there was a hunting expedition or any other pleasure, I was always with him.

Author: John Sousa

Yeah, my son likes a lot of guitar bands. He gave me something the other day which was really good. He'll burn a CD for me full of things that he has, so he's a pretty good call if I want to check some of that stuff out... The other two aren't quite into that yet.

Author: Bruce Springsteen

I just hope it grows into where it was before because I want my son to see it. I want him to have a positive memory of it going forward, so he can be proud of his daddy.

Author: Scott Stapp

Son, we'd like to keep you around this season but we're going to try and win a pennant.

Author: Casey Stengel

How can my son not be straight after all I've said and done for him?

Author: Rod Stewart

What is the price of a thousand horses against a son where there is one son only?

Author: John Synge

People just automatically say 'If this guy is George and Barbara Bush's son, we don't have any question about those personal qualities that we were fooled on by Clinton.'

Author: Robert Teeter

No, my son's a songwriter and he does that.

Author: Mel Tillis

My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.

Author: Ted Turner

I play chess badly and I've been beaten by my 10-year old son.

Author: John Turturro

The ukulele was the first of many instruments they had bought for me. They got me a guitar when I was eleven, which my son Morgan uses until this day. They paid for 3 years of guitar lessons; they bought me a bass fiddle, which I still play.

Author: Tony Visconti

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

Author: Voltaire

He didn't want to tell his son what to do, but told me to write the president a letter. I didn't name a country, but there are many countries we have a fragile relationship with.

Author: George Walker

Our children, two daughters and a son, were born in 1874, 1876, and 1879.

Author: Mary Ward

Of course that was my idol, Son House. I think he did a lot for the Mississippi slide down there.

Author: Muddy Waters

I want to try and do as much as I can as an actor. So far I think I've done pretty well with being a minister's son. And now I know I'm pretty darn good at playing a woman too.

Author: Barry Watson

Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.

Author: Evelyn Waugh

It's my first record since my son is old enough to understand and I can't even show it to him. Yes, it's affected me, probably in the opposite of how anyone would have thought.

Author: Paul Westerberg

My son does a little photography, but he's not involved the way I was.

Author: Kim Weston

My oldest son, Gary, is a seasoned minister and travels with me for ministers' conferences.

Author: David Wilkerson

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

Author: Bert Williams

I'd also say having Jack's son Chris living with us from his 13th year on helped in raising Rick.

Author: Marie Windsor

The first American ancestor of our name was a younger son of these old Devonshire people, and came to the Virginia colony in the reign of Charles the First.

Author: John Wise

I can't say too much about it because I don't know a lot. We're not told what's in store for our characters until we turn up to shoot the episode. But it's fair to say that Betty and her son bring a brand new mystery to the street and they will be around all season.

Author: Alfre Woodard

The care of a wise and good man for his only son is inferior to the regard of the great Parent of the universe for his creatures.

Author: John Woolman

I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.

Author: Gary Wright

I'm thinking about naming my first son Emmy so I can say I've got one. I want Emmy, Oscar and Tony - and my daughter Grammy.

Author: Noah Wyle