Glory Quotes

Son Quotes – Page 3

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If there's anything I'd hate as a son-in-law, it's an actor; and if there's anything I think I'd hate worse than an actor as a son-in-law, it's an English actor.

Joseph P. Kennedy

The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from fathers to sons.

Michael Lewis

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.

Thomas Arnold

I became the unnatural son of a few score of beaten men.

Neal Cassady

The single moment when I knew that I had to get busy and do more was around the death of my son.

Bobby Rush

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'.

Kerry Packer

You are ugly when you love her, you are beautiful and fresh, vital and free, modern and poetic when you don't... you are more beautiful as an orphan than as your mother's son.

Witold Gombrowicz

It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'

Sam Levenson

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.'

Peter King

Out all of these zillions of letters, one of the first ones that came was, as it turned out from Johnny Carson within the last five or six weeks of his life. I had worked with him. He lost a son who had worked for me.

Dick Ebersol

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.

George Herbert Walker

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.

Richard Francis Burton

The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures.

Stewart Udall

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.

Gavrilo Princip

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.

Anne Bronte

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.

Denis Johnson

When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course.

Stephen Spender

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

Edward V. Lucas

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.

Marguerite Oswald

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.

Connie Chung

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.

Marguerite Oswald

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.

Karl Philipp Moritz

Your prodigal son has left again to exorcise some demons.

John W. Hinckley, Jr.

He that spareth the rod hateth his son.

John Skelton

The old sergeant from headquarters treats me like a son and takes the greatest pride in whatever I do or write. He regularly assigns me now to certain doors, and I always obey orders like the little gentleman that I am.

Richard H. Davis

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.

Judd Rose

We've always been involved with America - I have a son who lives there and it's a big part of my life.

Colin Firth

My son complains about headaches. I tell him all the time, when you get out of bed, it's feet first!

Henny Youngman

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

Marie Windsor

Not every father gets a chance to start his son off in his own footsteps.

Alan Ladd

Henry Fonda's son: That's how everybody identified me until Easy Rider came along. Good old Captain America.

Peter Fonda

I'm having a good time watching Shooter. He's a good kid. He's been a good son to me. He has never failed.

Jessi Colter

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

Jami Gertz

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

Mick Ralphs

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

Without a doubt, Ozzy is the craziest person I've ever met. Son of Sam is a close second.

Geezer Butler

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

Muddy Waters

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

Patty Hearst

Racism isn't born, folks, it's taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list.

Denis Leary

I have a son in Barcelona whom I am madly in love with.

Anthony Quinn

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

Edie Brickell

The day my son was born my life changed completely.

Treat Williams

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

Debra Messing

In fact my son subscribes to Pro Bull Rider magazine.

Chris LeDoux

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

Bobby Rahal

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.

F. Murray Abraham

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

Ellen Burstyn

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

Rod Stewart