Son Quotes

Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, 'Would you take my son with you?' He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die.
Bono

Live, Mind, Die

I don't feel my son should pay the price for what I do.
Daniel Day-Lewis

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

Wife, Play, Tell

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

Life, Money, Try

Oh, there's all these rumors that I'm a lesbian. I have a boyfriend now, Brandon Blackstock; my manager Narvel's son, Reba McEntire's stepson.
Kelly Clarkson

Lesbian, Boyfriend, Rumors

I know children regress after vaccination because it happened to my own son. Why aren't there any tests out there on the safety of how vaccines are administered in the real world, six at a time? Why have only two of the 36 shots our kids receive been looked at for their relationship to autism?
Jenny McCarthy

Time, Children, Real

It's much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself.
George H. W. Bush

Yourself, Read, Criticism

Son, we'd like to keep you around this season but we're going to try and win a pennant.
Casey Stengel

Win, Try, Around

I think if you're the son or daughter of successful actors and actresses, it's a double pressure. More is expected of you.
Liam Neeson

Successful, Pressure, Daughter

The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
John Dryden

I stand before you as the governor of Texas but also stand before you the son of two tenant farmers. Ray Perry who came home after 35 bombing missions over Europe to work his little corner of land out there and Amelia who made sure that my sister Milla and I had everything that we needed, included hand sewing my clothes until I went off to college.
Rick Perry

Work, Home, Everything

The Seventh Day Adventist Church believes that it was specially chosen by God to prepare the world for the Second Coming of His Son Jesus.
Luke Ford

God, Jesus, Church

I had forgotten how thrilling a snow day is until my son started school, and as much as he loves it, he swoons at the idea of a free day arriving unexpectedly, laid out like a gift.
Susan Orlean

School, Snow, Free

When my son was born, and after a day of lying-in I was told that I could leave the hospital and take him home, I burst into tears. It wasn't the emotion of the moment: it was shock and horror.
Susan Orlean

Home, Him, After

I work at home, in the country, and days will go by when, except for my husband and son and the occasional UPS man, the only sentient creatures that see me are my chickens and turkeys.
Susan Orlean

Work, Home, Husband

My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their genomes sequenced.
Henry Louis Gates

History, Father, Made

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

American, Brother, Alive

My son has followed fashion since he was a punk. He and I agree that fashion is about sex.
Vivienne Westwood

Sex, Fashion, Since

But seek till ye find, and, whatever ye find for the present, let your last act be to lay and leave yourselves on the righteousness of His Son, expecting life through His name, according to the promise of the Father.
Donald Cargill

Life, Father, Through

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

Done, Him, After

Every man is the son of his own works.
Miguel de Cervantes

Mom spent the time that she was supposed to be a kid actully raising children, her younger brother and younger sister. She was tough as nails and did not suffer fools at all. And the truth was she could not afford to. She spoke the truth, bluntly, directly, and without much varnish. I am her son.
Chris Christie

Time, Truth, Mom

When I cook with my son, I might chop vegetables and have fun with different shapes. Cooking is a way to teach kids about other things, like reading or math with all of the weights and measures. There are so many things that are part of cooking that are also very educational.
Emeril Lagasse

Fun, Different, Kids

Do I want to be a hero to my son? No. I would like to be a very real human being. That's hard enough.
Robert Downey, Jr.

Human, Real, Hard

I took my son's name. I didn't take my husband's name.
Elizabeth Edwards

Husband, Name, Took

My mother's eyes were large and brown, like my son's, but unlike Sam's, they were always frantic, like a hummingbird who can't quite find the flower but keeps jabbing around.
Anne Lamott

Mother, Find, Eyes

My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.
Mikhail Baryshnikov

Marriage, War, Mother

I had the experience last year of directing my first feature while I had a 1-year-old son and while I was also pregnant, so I am now well aware of the difficulties women who are rearing children face when they're also trying to make headway in mainstream of film.
Diablo Cody

Women, Experience, Children

I just want to be able to keep my house and pay for my son's school tuition in Los Angeles.
Diablo Cody

School, Keep, Able

Though I am not imperial, and though Elizabeth may not deserve it, the Queen of England will easily deserve to have an emperor's son to marry.
Elizabeth I

May, Though, Deserve

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