Quotes About Raising A Son

#1. I do think being a prissy tomboy helps me in raising a son in general. I wrestle with him, play ball, play in the sandbox with him. As a mom, you get bruises, scrapes on your knee.

Jaime Pressly

#2. All the women knitted. They knitted worthless things; but, the mechanical work was a mechanical substitute for eating and drinking; the hands moved for the jaws and the digestive apparatus: if the bony fingers had been still, the stomachs would have been more famine-pinched.

Charles Dickens

#3. Occasionally I'll just pull out a rifle and shoot one of my audience members. So far there have been no complaints filed.

Thom Yorke

#4. I married a Jewish lady, and we're raising our son Jewish, and since I'm not Jewish the whole thing is just a mystery to me. I leave it to her, actually, because it's just a great mystery.

Paul Giamatti

#5. Giving is not God's way of raising money; it is God's way of raising people into the likeness of His Son.

Howard Dayton

#6. I've started running three or four times a week, which prompts millions of sketch ideas.

Nina Conti

#7. There is no worse sickness for the soul, o you who are proud, than this pretense of perfection.

Rumi

#8. I have spied for you and lied for you, put myself in mortal danger for you. Everything was supposed to be to keep Lily Potter's son safe. Now you tell me you have been raising him like a pig for slaughter -

J.K. Rowling

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

Marie Windsor

#10. This is what is ultimate in our human knowledge of God, to know that we do not know.

Anthony De Mello

#11. I will now teach my son Increase (and others of my children) the way of raising a lesson out of every verse in his reading of the Bible; and of turning it into a Prayer; and engage him (and them) unto a daily Course in reading the Bible in such a way

Cotton Mather

#12. I am the Olympic Ambassador. I always promote Olympics. I just want to say, Olympics is Olympics. [You] cannot mix with politics. Olympics for me is love, peace, [being] united.

Jackie Chan

#13. So you've not only somehow married Fraser's wife, but you've accidentally been raising his illegitimate son for the last fifteen years?

Diana Gabaldon

#14. Terrorism is obviously on everybody's mind. The other day my son says to me, 'Daddy, how come the bad men hate us?' How sad is that? I actually got tears in my eyes - because he's 18. What kind of a moron am I raising?

Greg Giraldo

#15. There is nothing like raising a child in a home filled with love and respect ... to watch them blossom as an adult, filled with hopes and dreams and good intentions. Dedicated to our son, my coauthor, J.R. Matheson. We wish you all the best Justin! Love you.

Lee Bice-Matheson

#16. It is no better if your son rapes a woman than when your daughter gets raped. It is equally painful, may be more.

~ Rudransh Kashyap

Kirtida Gautam

#17. Only love with its science makes us so innocent.

Violeta Parra

#18. Obama has no power to change American policy because there are people who specialize in drawing these policies, which have been and still are hostile towards Islam.

Muqtada Al Sadr

#19. I must stop thinking. I'll pretend that everything's all right and then everything will be.

Paulo Coelho

#20. I knew what I was doing, but I never really considered the magnitude of how my images were transformative to people.

Mickalene Thomas

#21. I was drunk at five in the afternoon.

Luckily, we were in Las Vegas. I contemplated the fact that being drunk in Las Vegas was like being sober everywhere else in the world. So... normal.

Penny Reid

#22. Mama gave birth to a hell raising heavenly son. See the doctor tried to smack me, but I smacked him back.

Tupac Shakur

#23. Starvation is the characteristic of some people not having enough food to eat. It is not the characteristic of there being not enough food to eat.

Amartya Sen

#24. What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?

Rose Kennedy

#25. My character Esteban is a guy who really didn't think he was gonna be there at this point in his life. He's in his early 30s. He's got a son. He's raising his son as a single father.

Esai Morales

#26. No one knows the Truth, but those who have the Truth

Samone Sherrell

#27. Every single one of us as Americans need to remember that freedom did not come free, as we get on our knees tonight, thank God we live in a country where people are trying to break into, and not a country people are trying to break out of.

Mike Huckabee

#28. because of the fact I now have a son and I am raising him to avoid the very person who is supposed to protect us. Who is going to protect me from the person that is supposed to be protecting me?

Zachary Turnage

#29. I've lost touch with a lot of that boutique-type music just because of my age, and raising my son and the multiple jobs I have at this point.

Liz Phair

#30. 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!

Gil Gerard

#31. Sleep, sleep, beauty bright,Dreaming o'er the joys of night.Sleep, sleep: in thy sleepLittle sorrows sit and weep.

William Blake

#32. Mom spent the time that she was supposed to be a kid actully raising children, her younger brother and younger sister. She was tough as nails and did not suffer fools at all. And the truth was she could not afford to. She spoke the truth, bluntly, directly, and without much varnish. I am her son.

Chris Christie