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Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.

Jack Vance

Author · American · b. 1916

Once upon a time there was a Queen who had a son so ugly and so misshapen that it was long disputed whether he had human form. A fairy who was at his birth said, however, that he would be very amiable for all that, since he would have uncommon good sense.

Charles Perrault

Author · French · 1628 – 1703

When I sent those scripts, that was the lowest point of my life. We'd just had our second son, and when I went to collect them from hospital, I went to the bank to try and get some money to buy some diapers, the screen showed I've got $26 left.

Ang Lee

Director · Chinese · b. 1954

If I know that I shall be as an angel, and more; if I shall behold all God has made; if he shall own me for his son and exalt me to honor in his presence, I shall not fear to die, nor shall I dread the grave where Christ once lay.

Matthew Simpson

Clergyman · American · 1811 – 1884

My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught me and what he spoke to me. America's strength is not our diversity; it is our ability to unite around common principles even when we come from different backgrounds.

Ernest Istook

Politician · American · b. 1950

Thanks to the heroic sons and daughters of this country, who have paid sacrifices, we have been able to score a number of victories which are encouraging the nation-building process we are engaged in.

Girma Woldegiorgis

Statesman · Ethiopian

You know my father as governor, as president, but I knew him as dad. I was so proud to have the Reagan name and to be Ronald Reagan's son.

Michael Reagan

My son is 7 years old. I am 54. It has taken me a great many years to reach that age. I am more respected in the community, I am stronger, I am more intelligent and I think I am better than he is. I don't want to be a pal, I want to be a father.

Clifton Paul Fadiman

Writer

It's not like the original movie where you thought it was the mother committing the murders, but it was actually the son. I don't think it's possible to create the kind of shock today that we created in 1959. And I don't even want to try.

Joseph Stefano

Writer · American · 1922 – 2006

I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.

Hamilton Jordan

Civil Servant · American · b. 1944

A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which binds together all the sons of that territory.

Giuseppe Mazzini

Activist · Italian · 1805 – 1872

Well I live in Vienna with my wife and son, and I teach in Hamburg, there will be no changes in that respect.

Gyorgy Legeti

The great thing about being the son of Maya Angelou is that I had the good fortune to grow up around some of the greatest black artists, dancers, singers, musicians, and actors of our time.

Guy Johnson

The advantage is I have my family with me all the time. When your daughter takes her first steps or says her first words and your son is going through potty training, I'm not missing any of those things.

Larry Dixon

On the day I was born, or possibly on one of the following days, my father went on a walk in the forested hills and thought of a name for me. His first son was called Daniel, and Samuel in memory of one of his forefathers.

Immanuel Velikovsky

Historian · Belarusian · 1895 – 1979

To my three sons, Peter, Scott, and Alexander who pulled me from the 18th Century and back into the present on a regular basis and therefore made me a better person, thank you. And to my wife, who sits at the table there. Who is right about almost everything.

Joseph J. Ellis

Writer · American

My 10 year old son likes it. He's trying to play guitar and everything. He likes that kind of music.

Merle Haggard

Musician · American · b. 1937

Chaplin was notoriously strict with his sons and rarely gave them spending money.

Gene Tierney

Actress · American · 1920 – 1991

I think Romeo and Juliet is uplifting. That's how much a son wishes to avenge his father. That is how much two young people can love each other.

Ben Kingsley

Actor · English · b. 1943

I'm the son of an everyman. My father is a teacher. He teaches physics at a boys' school in Sydney.

Alex O'Loughlin

Actor · Australian

I'm concerned about the insidious influence of the media's bad messages that undermine the lessons parents try to instill in their sons and daughters.

John Ratzenberger

Actor · American · b. 1947

That strong mother doesn't tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in.

Lauryn Hill

Musician · American · b. 1975

A few years after my first son was born, he wanted to know how we chose his name, so I began reading him the story of Noah's Ark.

Boris Becker

Athlete · German · b. 1967

You know what they should call this war - Son of Bush vs. Son of a Bitch.

Jay Leno

Comedian · American · b. 1950

My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.

Jack Nicholson

Actor · American · b. 1937

I have three sons, and I think we're both fierce protectors of our children.

Jami Gertz

Actress · American · b. 1965

My NFL pension can barely pay my son's tuition. You know, it's very little money.

O. J. Simpson

Athlete · American · b. 1947

My sons are into German music, but they are into all kinds of music.

Keith Emerson

Musician · British · b. 1944

My current companion, Gerard de Battista, is the father of my two sons.

Victoria Abril

Actress · Spanish · b. 1959

I thought it was such a unique concept to play parents who happen to be super heroes and have a son who is going through puberty and starting high school.

Kelly Preston

Actress · American · b. 1962

My last son is leaving to go to college; my grandchildren are being born. My mother is living with me.

Sally Field

Actress · American · b. 1946

I am stopping so I can be a full-time father to my two young sons on a daily basis.

Phil Collins

Musician · English · b. 1951

A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.

Marlene Dietrich

Actress · American · 1901 – 1992

Like any other people, like fathers, mothers, sons and daughters in every land, when the issue of peace or war has been put squarely to the American people, they have registered for peace.

Paul Robeson

Actor · American · 1898 – 1976

David and Dad didn't get along too well growing up. I mean we all got along, but it was harder on David, because David wasn't going to be the son that Dad wanted. But now they're like best friends.

Amy Sedaris

Actress · American · b. 1961

The powerful men in my life have always believed in me: my husband, my son.

Judy Collins

Musician · American · b. 1939

In this movie, you have all the things you love from Tim. All the magic and the whimsy and the surreal, but he also has a fantastic story of a father and son that really gets under your skin.

Danny DeVito

Actor · American · b. 1944

I have sons, and they have never said the word hell in front of me or my wife. That's the truth.

Danny Aiello

Actor · American · b. 1933

A friend of mine took me to Memphis advised me that I should get in the musicians' union. He gave me a set of drums and said, Stay on the job, son.

Levon Helm

Musician · American · b. 1940

My son is old enough to respond to my work. To me, that's what it is all about.

Tara Strong

Actress · Canadian · b. 1973

I have two lovely sons and some good memories, but I've had a rather tumultuous personal life. It hasn't been dull; I've been the Hiroshima of love.

Sylvester Stallone

Actor · American · b. 1946

My thought was I should try to stick with names that people may recognize like Robert Johnson, Son House, and Hoagy Carmichael, so if somebody cared to research, they would find a wealth of material.

John Mellencamp

Musician · American · b. 1951

My sons are a hell of a lot easier to get through to than my daughter is. She seems to have my number. She can just run through the buttons.

Don Johnson

Actor · American · b. 1949

My son tried to work in films and he ultimately gave it up, he finally couldn't make a living, he couldn't support himself. He worked all the time and he didn't make enough money to have a house, have an apartment.

Jeffrey Jones

Actor · American · b. 1946

If I came in to recruit your son, I would tell you, your wife, and your son, that I will be the most demanding coach your son can play for.

Bobby Knight

Coach · American · b. 1940

I would want my legacy to be that I was a great son, father and friend.

Dante Hall

Athlete · American · b. 1978

There are now grandmothers and grandfathers coming to see us because they are of that age, they grew up in the '50s and '60s and they bring their sons and their daughters to hear the songs they heard when they were young.

George Thorogood

Musician · American · b. 1950

We often don't think of them, we think of the great wars and the great battles, but what about losing a son or a daughter, or a girl losing her husband or vice versa? I think of the people who never got the chance to have the opportunities I had.

Tony Curtis

Actor · American · 1925 – 2010

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