My Son Quotes - Page 28

• My father built low- and moderate-income housing in Queens and Brooklyn. I learned a lot from him. But I went in a different direction. I built Trump Tower in Manhattan, the most luxurious building in the world. It's not going to be easy for my son, but maybe it shouldn't be easy. Life is, after all, a test.

  Donald Trump

  Queens, Father, Son

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• My son would walk to the refrigerator-freezer and fling both doors open and stand there until the hairs in his nose iced up. After surveying $200 worth of food in varying shapes and forms, he would declare loudly, 'There's nothing to eat!'

  Erma Bombeck

  Food, Son, Hair

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• Take this at least, this last advice, my son:
  Keep a stiff rein, and move but gently on:
  The coursers of themselves will run too fast,
  Your art must be to moderate their haste.

  Ovid

  Running, Art, Moving

  Ovid (1998). “Metamorphoses”, p.41, Wordsworth Editions

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• I love my son, but my daughter has calmed me down.

  Ricardo Antonio Chavira

  Daughter, Son, I Love My Son

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• My son is my routine and priority, period!

  Cory Hardrict

  Son, Priorities, Routine

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• Hip-hop is the fountain of youth. You just don't grow up if you were there. My son's 20. I'm on the same channel he's on. We wear the same clothes, we feel the same thing. It's a weird, weird generation we're in right now.

  Ice T

  Growing Up, Son, Clothes

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I don't have a college degree, and my father didn't have a college degree, so when my son, Zachary, graduated from college, I said, "My boy's got learnin'!"

  Robin Williams

  Father, Son, Boys

  Source: www.today.com

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• For me, hip-hop culture is involved in everything - it's in me, in who I am, in how I dress, how I talk. It's in my son and my wife.

  Chris Paul

  Son, Who I Am, Wife

  Source: espn.go.com

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• I am sharing my faith with my sons. I pray, meditate and read devotionally. But let me be clear: I am a "person of faith" not because I am a saint, but because I am a sinner.

  Van Jones

  Son, Saint, Praying

  Source: www.nydailynews.com

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• I call on God Almighty to have mercy on the German people. More than two million German soldiers went to their death for the fatherland before me. I follow now my sons - all for Germany.

  Wilhelm Keitel

  Son, Two, People

  Last words, quoted in "The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II" by Jon E. Lewis, 2002.

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• What I didn't realize is how completely consumed I would be by my sons. I didn't know that the rest of my life would become so little a priority.

  Jodie Foster

  Son, Priorities, Would Be

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We seem bent upon saving the Vietnamese from Ho Chi Minh, even if we have to kill them and demolish their country to do it....I do not intend to remain silent in the face of what I regard as a policy of madness which, sooner or later, will envelop my son and American youth by the millions for years to come.

  George McGovern

  Country, Son, Years

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• One of the best things about being [joyfully] retired is the freedom to travel when I want. When my son and daughter-in-law asked me to stay at their house for a week to house-sit while they were away on vacation, I had the freedom to do it.

  Helen A. Rosburg

  Daughter, Travel, Son

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• My son, beware of a plain damsel who charmeth thee, for she needeth much wile, and useth diverse weapons.

  Gelett Burgess

  Women, Son, Weapons

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• Find a good teacher, as I found for my sons. I feel the worst thing you can do is to try and teach your own children yourself, because there is a natural rebellion that occurs.

  Keith Emerson

  Teacher, Children, Son

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• It’s an amazing bond with your child. Some cultures do it up to five years, normally. I thought, 'Well, I’ll just do it as long as it feels right for my son.'

  Kelly Rutherford

  Children, Son, Years

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• I spend a lot of time at my son’s school and I really wanted to do a movie that the kids could see. The good thing about being my age and not having to be the ingenue anymore is that I get to be a mom. I get to have kids in my movies.

  Virginia Madsen

  Mom, School, Kids

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• I've been dictating to my son, who's helping me on his computer. I'm spending a lot of time doing research - I've just got up to 1971, when I went crazy and dived through the window. My life is so full of interesting stories.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Crazy, Son, Interesting

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• I made a terrible mistake. I got caught up in the excitement of the moment. I would never intentionally endanger the lives of my children. I love my children. I was holding my son tight. Why would I throw a baby off the balcony? That's the dumbest, stupidest story I ever heard.

  Michael Jackson

  Baby, Children, Mistake

  "Is Michael Jackson out of control?". www.cnn.com. November 21, 2002.

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• My son is 22 years old. If he had not become a Communist at 22, I would have disowned him. If he is still a Communist at 30, I will do it then.

  Georges Clemenceau

  Son, Years, Communist

  Attributed in Bennett Cerf, Try and Stop Me (1944)

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• [Unplugged] was also the cheapest to produce and required the least amount of preparation and work. But if you want to know what it actually cost me, go to Ripley and visit the grave of my son.

  Eric Clapton

  Son, Preparation, Cost

  Eric Clapton (2010). “Eric Clapton: The Autobiography”, p.278, Random House

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• I would be devastated if my son could not have music as part of his curriculum in school. It should not be a choice between culture and technical training - well-rounded students and graduates will make appropriate choices for their careers, but they must also be trained to make appropriate social choices.

  David Cassidy

  School, Son, Careers

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• In marriage, it's always that give and take and rebalancing that we have to do in how we can help each other. But, I have been known at times by my sons, that is the name that they call me-the Mitt stabilizer.

  Ann Romney

  Son, Names, Giving

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• I had no expectation about getting a nomination, but I was watching nonetheless. My wife and my son got really excited. I was sort of surprised — I was like, 'Oh, wow.' And I couldn't hear the latter part of my name.

  Tobey Maguire

  Son, Names, Expectations

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• My sons the same, hes terribly funny. Its a wonderful power to have. Its also fantastically disarming. Women find it unbelievably disarming. You can say the most astonishing things if youre funny. You can tell a woman that shes irresistibly attractive, but do it in such a funny way.

  Robbie Coltraine

  Son, Way, Wonderful

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