The Only Man I Need Is My Son Quotes

#1. I held my son up so that we were facing eye to eye. We need to have words, young man. You can't keep doing this. Waking up before Daddy gets his boom-boom is just not cool.

Linda Kage

#2. There's so much more to tell about Africa than the usual stories about war, famine and disease.

Komla Dumor

#3. So it is, out here on this island, where we dwell with our faces to the sea and our backs to the wilderness. Like Adam's family after the fall, we all have things to do.

Geraldine Brooks

#4. Take up the White Man's burden
send forth the best ye breed
go, bind your sons to exile to serve your captives need.

Rudyard Kipling

#5. He lay awake, restless, heart thumping so hard with alternating hatred and anger that he wondered if it would burst through his ribs. Panic made it beat even faster, sweat beaded his forehead and bathed his chest.

Anthony Ryan

#6. The Greek poets had praised virtue as taking several specific forms: wisdom; courage; moderation; justice; and piety.

Melissa Lane

#7. What's your name, son?' Sam said. The man looked to be about Sam's age, but Sam always thought calling people 'son' immediately gave the air of imperial authority and opened the door for spanking if need be.

Tod Goldberg

#8. Genres aren't closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time.

Margaret Atwood

#9. The most important word in the language of the working class is "solidarity."

Harry Bridges

#10. When I graduated from Santa Monica High in 1927, I was voted the girl most likely to succeed. I didn't realize it would take so long.

Gloria Stuart