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The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father is an amazing storyteller and one of the tales that he tells is how he met his wife.
Danny DeVito
Actor · American · b. 1944
I'm convinced that Sanford and Son shows middle-class America a lot of what they need to know.
Redd Foxx
Actor · American · 1922 – 1991
I'm a widower with three sons and seven grandchildren. One of my sons is my partner on the ranch.
Wilford Brimley
Actor · American · b. 1924
Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson.
Mercedes McCambridge
Actress · American · 1916 – 2004
I'm not one of those leeching sons of bitches. I want to earn everything I get.
Dennis Rodman
Athlete · American · b. 1961
No, my son's a songwriter and he does that.
Mel Tillis
Musician · American · b. 1932
On her son Rene: Oh my God, when he's 20 years old what's going to happen to me? I'm gonna marry him.
Celine Dion
Musician · b. 1968
It's much easier to play supporting roles because that's what I do in my life: I support my son.
Frances McDormand
Actress · American · b. 1957
I named my new son James Joseph Brown II. I think he's going to be a lot better than I was.
James Brown
Musician · American · 1920 – 2006
All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.
Gordon Lightfoot
Musician · Canadian · b. 1938
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.
What goes on between a father and a son, which is usually such a private matter, is that they are able to be honest with each other, and be honest with me, as a director. It's just remarkable.
Lee Grant
Actress · American · b. 1927
I have a wife and a son, but the gay rumors have started. I guess it's a sign that I'm moving up the ladder.
Hugh Jackman
Actor · Australian · b. 1968
In fact, my son learned his first swear word from E.T. at age five. The way I look at it, E.T. stole a bit of my son's childhood.
John Ratzenberger
Actor · American · b. 1947
You see, I was the son of a baptist minister.
DeForest Kelley
Actor · American · 1920 – 1999
If I had a rocket launcher, some son of a bitch would die.
Bruce Cockburn
Musician · Canadian · b. 1945
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.
Todd English
Celebrity · American · b. 1960
My son has been a class clown and it sort of ran in the family.
Robert Klein
Comedian · American · b. 1942
Son, what kind of pitch would you like to miss.
Dizzy Dean
Athlete · American · 1910 – 1974
My number one goal is to love, support and be there for my son.
Farrah Fawcett
Actress · American · 1947 – 2009
Everyone is a son or daughter of god.
David Icke
Athlete · English · b. 1952
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.
Barry McGuire
Musician · American · b. 1937
In the fall of 1943 we brought home our second son, whom we named Alexander.
Harpo Marx
Comedian · American · 1888 – 1964
My son thinks I'm hilarious, but he's only 1.
Mackenzie Crook
Actor · English · b. 1971
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.
Of course, my family has been a big reason for me to come back, especially my son who loves the game of hockey - he was a big reason for me coming back.
Mario Lemieux
Athlete · Canadian · b. 1965
I'm a rompin', stompin', piano playing son of a bitch. A mean son of a bitch.
Jerry Lee Lewis
Musician · American · b. 1935
I play chess badly and I've been beaten by my 10-year old son.
John Turturro
Actor · American · b. 1957
If one area I felt it was a tough election was I couldn't see my young son and I couldn't see my wife a lot, but apart from that for her also it was an experience.
Imran Khan
Athlete · Pakistani · b. 1952
I want to make someone walk straight, but I've left my sons nothing but wars.
Broderick Crawford
Actor · American · 1911 – 1986
Son, never throw a punch at a redwood.
Tom Selleck
Actor · American · b. 1945
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.
Cindy Margolis
Model · American · b. 1965
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.
Dick Dale
Well, my son really loves wildlife. And everytime he draws a polar bear I want to tell him there probably won't any by the time... he's my age. That's kinda hard to deal with.
Thom Yorke
Musician · English · b. 1968
You can love someone like your son, even if he's not your biological son, and you can love someone like your father, even if he's not your biological father.
Oliver Hudson
Actor · American · b. 1976
I knew Henry Fonda was my father, but I didn't know who I was. They all thought of me as Henry Fonda's son. Unfortunately for them, they never got to know me.
Peter Fonda
Actor · American · b. 1940
In many ways we are all sons and daughters of ancient Greece.
Nia Vardalos
Actress · Canadian · b. 1962
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.
John Philip Sousa
Musician · American · 1854 – 1932
I think what I came through is great, but my son can take it to another level, not having to fight racism. His mother's a Norwegian and I'm mixed up four or five times, so he can face the world.
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.
Nia Long
Actress · American · b. 1970
I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it.
Omar Sharif
Actor · Egyptian · b. 1932
You know, he likes me because I'm his son. I have to go long and far to find someone who knows me just as me, rather than me the songwriter or whatever.
Paul Westerberg
Musician · American · b. 1960
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.
Jim Bakker
Celebrity · American · b. 1939
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.
Suzanne Somers
Actress · American · b. 1946
I got my first guitar at age of 7 and never laid it down. Momma taught me G, C, and D. I was off to the races son!
Jerry Reed
I never let any of my sons beat me at videogames.
Coolio
Musician · American · b. 1963
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.
A lot of people think Christianity is about always being perfect. It's actually the opposite of that. It's realizing that we're all humans, and that's why God sent his Son to this earth - to save people.
Billy Ray Cyrus
Musician · American · b. 1961