Quotes About My Son

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

Ellen Burstyn

#2. I pulled a dirty black sweatshirt from the laundry basket on my son's floor and tried to drink in his scent, to savor the essence of my sweet boy. I inhaled it long and hard, wanting to permanently implant all of him in my brain, to make him last forever.

Shelley Ramsey

#3. The cliches are all true! My son Max has just turned two, and he's literally turned into this driven young man overnight! The terrible twos are not a myth, but he's such a laugh to be around.

Burn Gorman

#4. All I can hope to teach my son is to tell the truth and fear no man.

Edward R. Murrow

#5. As my son Frankie put it, Humanism has changed the Twenty-third Psalm: They began - I am my shepherd. Then - Sheep are my shepherd. Then - Everything is my shepherd. Finally - Nothing is my shepherd.

Francis A. Schaeffer

#6. The crowd's murmuring rose to a roar, and for the first time in a week the agony of worry for my son was drowned out as his father strode out onto the sand.
Arius.

Kate Quinn

#7. There was a whole newfound confidence that came over me after having my son.

Ciara

#8. 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

#9. I raised you for fifteen years. I fed you and clothed you. I loved you and still do. I love you because you have been with me for fifteen years. I am your mother because we have been together your whole childhood. I have earned you as my son.

Joseph Fink

#10. And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay"
"Well, I'm sorry, my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away.

John Denver

#11. One of the best things about being [joyfully] retired is the freedom to travel when I want. When my son and daughter-in-law asked me to stay at their house for a week to house-sit while they were away on vacation, I had the freedom to do it.

Helen A. Rosburg

#12. I'm not really anti-gang - I was a gang member and so was my son. I'm pro-youth, pro-community, pro-family, pro-arts, and pro-peace.

Luis J. Rodriguez

#13. I didn't know that my son had allergies until he spit up eggs one day, and one day he had a little peanut butter and his face swelled up. I took him to get tested and found out that he is allergic to everything.

Kym Whitley

#14. People used to say my son looked like a Mexican Biggie. And when he was first born, memories of Biggie ... you know, we didn't always have the greatest days. For at least half the length of our marriage we were separated, so everyday was definitely not a good day.

Faith Evans

#15. My son, who sees me almost every day of his life, will look at me and go, "I know that dude! I like that dude!" It's incredibly affirming.

John Darnielle

#16. It's my responsibility to cultivate the man in my son. I can't be passive about that.

Randy Alcorn

#17. Being a mom has affected me in the greatest way possible - and in a necessary way. Having my son has helped me to be grounded, and I feel like with a child you have to really think about things all the way through.

Ciara

#18. I will not have my son grow up in a tension-filled home.

Christina Aguilera

#19. Wealth, my son, should never be your goal in life. Your words are eloquent but they are mere words. True wealth is of the heart, not of the purse.

Og Mandino

#20. Bye, dear ol' Dad." He smiled. "Bye, my son, my son.

R.J. Palacio

#21. What scares me is not living up to be a good enough father to my son and letting down my family - not being there enough and not being able to give enough of yourself.

Morten Tyldum

#22. I really wish that I would have gone to college. Even my son, who's into rap himself, I tell him and tell his children, 'Go to college. Get that education - it is so important. Don't do like I did.' I had all this singing on my mind, and I just didn't have time for it.

Barbara Lynn

#23. They should let my son be Federal Reserve chairman. At least he'll play with his toys and not ruin the economy.

Peter D. Schiff

#24. After we put my son to bed, my husband and I curl up and watch a movie or TV. That's when I finally put up my feet and have my glass of wine and a brownie.

Kara Goucher

#25. I suppose I am a frustrated musician so I annoy my family by playing guitar in the house. I used to be into acoustic stuff but my son Joseph is learning drums, so now I have an electric guitar and we play Metallica. We have an amp and a PA in the garage with his drum kit.

Kevin McKidd

#26. Yellowfang dragged her gaze from Brokenstar and looked at Fireheart. Her eyes clouded with pain and grief as she murmured, "He is my son." Fireheart felt the ground lurch under his paws.

Erin Hunter

#27. 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

#28. She would not let it go. "I had thought to be Queen of England and see my son on the throne," she repeated.

Philippa Gregory

#29. My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'

Randy Pausch

#30. Some people might not like him because he's my son. But be respectful, go out there and enjoy the game.

Karl Malone

#31. If I have a monument in this world, it is my son.

Maya Angelou

#32. As the mother of a son, I do not accept that alienation from me is necessary for his discovery of himself. As a woman, I will not cooperate in demeaning womanly things so that he can be proud to be a man. I like to think the women in my son's future are counting on me.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

#33. When my son came into my life, my priorities changed, because I wanted to have the relationship with him, that I didn't have with my father.

Curtis Jackson

#34. You each name yourself king, yet the kingdom bleeds and no one lefts a sword to defend it but my son.

George R R Martin

#35. A man's got to take care of his family. You live in my house, you sleep your behind on my bedclothes, you put my food in your belly because you are my son; you are my flesh and blood, not because I like you. It is my duty to take care of you. I owe a responsibility to you.

James Earl Jones

#36. And I hope you will not think me foolish when I also extend my thanks.
Thank you, Michael, for letting my son love her first.
- from Janet Stirling, dowager Countess of Kilmartin, to Michael Stirling, Earl of Kilmartin

Julia Quinn

#37. 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

#38. My son is a Liverpool fan, and he was already kicking a ball before he was one. He was born in the football city; he had no choice.

Fernando Torres

#39. Never question your ability or what destiny has called you to do. This is your Star Wars moment, my son. Stand up and do what you were meant to do.

Elisabeth Naughton

#40. Actually, the year anniversary of what you just heard, my son Grahame and I are going to be in a play together, and I'm acting for the first time in front of an audience that doesn't consist of a high school drama class.

Phil Lesh

#41. I had betrayed my daughter, my son, my husband and now my people. I was hollow and empty, nothing more than a shadow. But shadows have the power to kill. And in that shadow, I became the Raven Queen.

R.J. Madigan

#42. My son, there may be a time when I explain these things to you, because there may be a time when I understand them.

Hanif Kureishi

#43. My son Hannibal will be a great general, because of all my soldiers he best knows how to obey.

Hamilcar Barca

#44. They just tested the tap water in Los Angeles and they found traces of estrogen and antidepressants in the tap water. So it's nice to know my son's going to grow up and have huge breasts but it's not going to bother him that much.

Greg Fitzsimmons

#45. My children know I would never call anyone to give my son or daughter a break.

Mithun Chakraborty

#46. The ritual of families watching TV together passed into antiquity around the time I was my son's age; that was when households tended to have a single television and when the choices of what to watch were manageable.

Steve Erickson

#47. My son, a perfect little boy of five years and three months, had ended his earthly life. You can never sympathize with me; you can never know how much of me such a young child can take away. A few weeks ago I accounted myself a very rich man, and now the poorest of all.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#48. I was a class clown. My father was a class clown. My son has been a class clown, and it sort of ran in the family.

Robert Klein

#49. I'm naming my son just what he is. I'm a whore and he is my son. If he grows up ashamed of me, the hell with him. That's what I'm wantin' to name him, and that's what it's goin' to be. Whoreson!

Donald Goines

#50. Nixon had the unique ability to make his enemies seem honorable, and we developed a keen sense of fraternity. Some of my best friends have hated Nixon all their lives. My mother hates Nixon, my son hates Nixon, I hate Nixon, and this hatred has brought us together.

Hunter S. Thompson

#51. My family is number one in my life. I'll blow off writing or just about anything to make sure I take my son to preschool or watch him at his swimming lesson.

Henry Cho

#52. The hardest thing in the world is to have a relationship, to be committed to one person and feel vulnerable. Recently one of my son's came to me and said 'it's hard for me to have a relationship, you and dad have been married three times each.'

Pamela Anderson

#53. People say I look like my father. My son is very much like him.

Carine Roitfeld

#54. 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

#55. I should be an affected women, if I made any pretence of being surprised by my son's inspiring such emotions; but I can't be indifferent to anyone who is so sensible on his merits

Charles Dickens

#56. Ferrin looked at her like she had two heads. "You don't want to marry my son?" "Hell. No." He resumed his seat. "That's the first sensible thing I've heard you say.

Chris Cannon

#57. I noticed that when my daughter was born, my son really, really liked her. But then as she started getting older, and as she started crawling around our house and touching different things that were his, sibling rivalry issues started appearing.

Gene Luen Yang

#58. I cried at my son's sports day, for God's
sake. I'm a huge baby

Jamie Redknapp

#59. 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

#60. It took a long time to get that film made. I went in for it almost right after or like maybe six or seven months after I had my son and actually auditioned for the Regina King part and they just were like, 'No, you're just - you just don't really seem the part.'

Nia Long

#61. I refuse to bring my son up in a world corrupt as it is now.

Dick Dale

#62. Nations are like men - growing old, never young. My son had the misfortune to be a young man of an old nation.

Gene Wolfe

#63. I won't have my son doing drugs to get a
woman that he shall never have.

Initially NO

#64. My son is the best thing that ever happened to me. And through me - to a lot of people.

Maya Angelou

#65. If my father could watch my son for a while, he might realize his own immortality.

Lincoln Steffens

#66. At four that morning my son, Peter Williams Chambliss, slid into the world tiny and red and roaring with life and the awful love that caught and whirled me away when they laid him on my stomach was as strong and old as the earth and would, I knew dimly, abide as long.

Anne Rivers Siddons

#67. 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

#68. I like to sail. My son Caden and I are avid sailors.

Doug Davidson

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

Frances McDormand

#70. How can I know for sure if it's my son speaking and not you?"
"You never can, my lord. Just as no man can ever be sure that he alone is a thinking and feeling creature and everyone else a machine that only pretends to feel and think.

Paul Hoffman

#71. Children do have the potential to kill art. But now I think they kill the bad art. At least that is what my son has done for me.

Kevin Wilson

#72. I'm so happy my son wanted me to jump out of a plane.

Nora Roberts

#73. Percy: Dad-
Poseidon: Very well! It shall be as you say. But my son, pray this works.
Percy: I'm praying, I'm talking to you, right?
Poseidon: Oh ... yes. Good point.

Rick Riordan

#74. I delivered my son. There were other people with me, but I was actively involved.

Michael Rady

#75. My son's an idiot. He sprained his ankle playing golf. He fell off the ballwasher.

Rodney Dangerfield

#76. I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos.

Jill Clayburgh

#77. One day, when my son was eight, he came into the kitchen while I was cooking and said: 'You put bad words in your books, don't you?' No doubt he had overheard my mother, who often tells people who ask about my work: 'Well, you'll never find her books in the Christian bookstore.'

Jill McCorkle

#78. She smiled then, a small smile of such aching sadness that it was hard to look at. "You think I don't love my son," she said. "But I do." "It is because I love him that I will not let him put himself beyond redemption.

Leigh Bardugo

#79. I've had purpose because I've always wanted to be successful, but having my son is the cherry on top. He makes me go harder in achieving all that I've dreamed of.

Ciara

#80. My son is not that emotional. He thought my trip to India is just another conference, But when he hearing about my visit on TV, he too got moved.

Kamla Persad-Bissessar

#81. I can get motivated seeing a kid at my son's school overcome a learning disability.

Jason Alexander

#82. I have one. I may get another during the off-season, I might get my son's name but I'm not sure yet. The one I have is my Hebrew name, which I share with my grandfather, and it's not the best tattoo.

Adam Pally

#83. My priority is my son and my husband, and I have a lot of spinning plates, so I try to make sure they're not one of them.

Sherri Shepherd

#84. 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.

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

Jami Gertz

#86. One time, a burglar came to my apartment, so we called the police. My son was here, so I think they left before they tried to steal something. So the police come to my apartment, and they say, 'Oh my God, did they steal everything?' I was like, 'No, it was like that!'

Carine Roitfeld

#87. To save my son, I would plot with the devil himself.

Philippa Gregory

#88. 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

#89. No matter what, if my son was gay, I'd treat him like a king.

Tracy Morgan

#90. I love my son more than anything. I will do whatever it takes to make sure he is raised the right way.

Bristol Palin

#91. I'm so excited for my son. On Christmas morning I want to see his face, to be there when he opens the gifts. I want the see what my assistants got him for Christmas.

David Letterman

#92. I am praying that the issues from the last 12 generations go into the ground with me so I have NEW issue is to pass on to my son.

Matt Chandler

#93. I've always been a person that, if I'm with a woman, she's in the picture. Even my son's mom, she was on my early (album) covers.

Ice-T

#94. Would my son love me, when he was old enough to know what love meant?
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Melanie Benjamin

#95. Our structure has always been two homes, and that's all my son has ever known. So you balance it. Make sure you have good support with your family and friends and nannies.

Bridget Moynahan

#96. My son John was just under a year old when I collapsed with a life-threatening kidney disease. The shame and guilt resulting from my unplanned pregnancy had continued to fester to the point that my toxic feelings literally poisoned my body.

Mary Manin Morrissey

#97. That was when I fell in love with my son, when I understood how insignificant I was, and how marvelous he was, and how one day he'd feel the exact same thing.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#98. My daddy never really lived before he died, He could never count on justice or know a free man's pride, And now it's almost certain that I, too, will be denied, I've got to make things better for my son and for my tribe

Bob Teague

#99. Hharm lunged forth. "My son!" Without

J.R. Ward

#100. Before my son was born, I use to tell people that I was looking forward to no longer being the star of my own movie; then Harry came along, and it was like, 'Whoa, I'm really not!'

Jack Davenport