396 quotes
I don't want to be remembered as the son of Bruce Lee.
Brandon Lee
Actor · American · 1965 – 1993
To lose a son under those circumstances - a violent death like my son went through, it just puts a burden on your heart.
Brian Jones
Musician · British · 1942 – 1969
Son, we'd like to keep you around this season but we're going to try and win a pennant.
Casey Stengel
Athlete · American · 1890 – 1975
I suffer every moment of every day that I am not with my son. All I want is to be reunited with my son.
Craig Kelly
Athlete · American · 1966 – 2003
Well, I actually tell my son that I don't have any hair because he asked me the same question that I gave it to him when he was born, so he actually still believes that. He's five years old.
Andre Agassi
Athlete · American · b. 1970
I'm thinking about naming my first son Emmy so I can say I've got one. I want Emmy, Oscar and Tony - and my daughter Grammy.
Noah Wyle
Actor · American · b. 1971
It was the baseball fantasy of a lifetime - to be able to sit on the bench with all those professional athletes. I got to take my son along because I wasn't sure I would be able to play with them.
Matthew Modine
Actor · American · b. 1959
The ukulele was the first of many instruments they had bought for me. They got me a guitar when I was eleven, which my son Morgan uses until this day. They paid for 3 years of guitar lessons; they bought me a bass fiddle, which I still play.
Tony Visconti
Musician · American · b. 1944
I was 23 years old. It was a wild time. I was covering everything that blew up - blackouts, Studio 54, son of Sam killer, and all of that stuff.
John Tesh
Musician · American · b. 1952
I can't say too much about it because I don't know a lot. We're not told what's in store for our characters until we turn up to shoot the episode. But it's fair to say that Betty and her son bring a brand new mystery to the street and they will be around all season.
Alfre Woodard
Actress · American · b. 1952
My oldest step-son wants to direct or produce. As far as being an actor, I've already told them they have to wait until they're 18; I won't take them to auditions.
Elizabeth Perkins
Actress · American · b. 1960
Yeah, my son likes a lot of guitar bands. He gave me something the other day which was really good. He'll burn a CD for me full of things that he has, so he's a pretty good call if I want to check some of that stuff out... The other two aren't quite into that yet.
Bruce Springsteen
Musician · American · b. 1949
My son gave me the permission to accept my success.
Gary Burghoff
Actor · American · b. 1943
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
Actress · American · b. 1970
My son Wesley has just turned 13. He was 12 during the recording of this record and he is quite a drummer already and has been studying drums since he was four, but he's also very interested in African percussion and studies percussion.
Lee Ritenour
It's about avoiding reality through various escape routes that become addictions and lead to Hell. My character is addicted to television, chocolate, coffee, to her dream of her son, which has no basis in reality.
Ellen Burstyn
Actress · American · b. 1932
I have amply provided for my son during my lifetime.
William S. Hart
Actor · American · 1864 – 1946
My youngest son, who is now the drummer in my band, lives in Brooklyn. My oldest son is about to move out to California, and my daughters are both out of town.
Herbie Mann
Musician · American · 1930 – 2003
But to make a long story short, I decided that I was going to run, and I announced that I was going to run for president in Florida, I would be the favorite son from Florida, and that would stop Johnson and Kennedy from dividing up the state.
George Smathers
Politician · American · 1913 – 2007
I felt (a) it was a great role and (b) I wanted to stay in town. I wanted to stop going to these four month and five month gigs up in Toronto or Montreal or Vancouver or down in Mexico. I wanted to be around my son, Max. This came along and I was like, "I really want to play this guy!"
John C. McGinley
I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old.
Laura San Giacomo
Actress · American · b. 1962
My son walked up to Nicole on the beach and I was throwing the ball for the dogs in the ocean. I was like, 'Max, you get the dogs. I'll talk to the hot blondes.'
One night I went over to get some dope from some Hollywood tough guy. After I left, my son Scott, who was only fifteen, went over with a baseball bat to kill him. I was laughing out of one eye and crying out of the other. I thought, Who am I kidding?
James Caan
Actor · American · b. 1940
Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.
Victor Hugo
Author · French · 1802 – 1885
No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.
Ronald Reagan
President · American · 1911 – 2004
It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.
Helen Rowland
Writer · American
It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son - and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.
A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Writer · English · 1874 – 1936
We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
Gloria Steinem
Activist · American · b. 1934
I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
Khalil Gibran
Poet · 1883 – 1931
The reason why the Son of God took upon him our nature, was, the fall of our first parents.
George Whitefield
Clergyman · American · 1714 – 1770
To hell with them. When history is written they will be the sons of bitches - not I.
Harry S. Truman
President · American · 1884 – 1972
Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
Matthew Arnold
Poet · English · 1822 – 1888
There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.
Franz Grillparzer
Poet · Austrian · 1791 – 1872
A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Writer · Italian · 1469 – 1527
One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.
George Herbert
Poet · British · 1593 – 1633
My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.
Ted Turner
Businessman · American · b. 1938
In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.
Herodotus
Historian · Greek
Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
Joseph Addison
Writer · English · 1672 – 1719
Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
Epictetus
Philosopher · Greek
I was told my son was killed in the war on terror. He was killed by George Bush's war of terror on the world.
Cindy Sheehan
Activist · American · b. 1957
Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.
Sam Rayburn
Politician · American · 1882 – 1961
Many of America's and New York's sons and daughters are around the world fighting for the freedoms that the Statue of Liberty stands for.
Michael Bloomberg
Politician · American · b. 1942
The anxiety of most parents in seeing their sons and daughters enlist does not lie only in the fear of the physical dangers they may encounter.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
Politician · Canadian · 1874 – 1950
The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.
Robertson Davies
Novelist · Canadian · 1913 – 1995
For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business.
Wilfrid Laurier
Statesman · Canadian · 1841 – 1919
A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be, A father is someone who carries pictures where his money used to be.
Frank Howard Clark
Grieve not, then, if your sons seem to desert you, but rejoice, rather, seeing the will of God done gladly.
Jim Elliot
Clergyman · American · 1927 – 1956