“Four years into the life of my son, I realize I'm so in love with him and he's so in love with me that if I don't find that lifelong partner out there, it's okay.” IfsYearsRealizingFourSonOkayPartnersMy SonFour YearsLifelong Author:Anthony Kiedis
“The hardship, the pain, the suffering of my brother and my son in prison, that's absolutely their experience, that's not mine. I don't get any credit for enduring that. I never give myself any credit for enduring that.” GivingPainSufferingSonBrotherPrisonEndureMy BrotherMy SonHardship Author:John Edgar Wideman
“The fact my relationship with my son is so good makes me forgiving of my father and also appreciative.” FactsFatherSonForgivingMy SonAppreciative Author:Anthony Kiedis
“It was difficult showing up in Grade 1 as Pierre Elliott Trudeau's son, it was difficult to become a high school teacher as Pierre Elliott Trudeau's son. That's something that I've lived with all my life. What people don't necessarily remember is that my father was an incredibly present dad as a prime minister.” PeopleSchoolRememberFatherDifficultTeacherSonDadHigh School Author:Justin Trudeau
“The world is upside down, if you can keep your head while everyone around you is losing theirs and blaming it on you, then you will be a man, my son. One of the greatest lines ever written.” MenWorldSonLosingBlameMy SonUpside Down Author:Michael Savage
“Having a son had an immediate impact on me, that's when I started taking my business, my time and having something to show for myself seriously. My time has to be compensated. People may call me materialistic or whatever but if I spend 20 hours away from my son, if I don't bring anything home, then what was I doing with my time? It's simple, it's my son and then everything else.” PeopleHomeHoursSimpleSonCall MeMy SonMaterialistic Author:Dom Kennedy
“I've stood in long lines, in the rain and under the sun, just to buy a pack of butter or a box of paper napkins. I've seen mothers running after the corpses of their martyred sons, oblivious to whether their headscarves or their chadors or their stockings and shoes were slipping off or not. I won't say any more. In the light of all this, how did you expect my poetry to be joyful or, as in my recent poem, to speak of love? Even so, more than half of my poetry is joyful and these are the products of the moments when I've felt happy.” LongMomentsRunningMotherSpeakSonRainPoetry IsJoyfulOblivious Author:Simin Behbahani
“I don't need to live my art and almost die to understand my heroines. I want to love my sons, live quietly, eat good food, have meaningful friendships in and out of work and have a very large wine collection.” ArtSonWineMeaningfulMy SonGood Food Author:Measha Brueggergosman
“I've seen beautiful and profound change and growth in men who are becoming fathers. Women get to carry the baby, so you might get a little head start on them, but watching a man get to know the little person, seeing that bond evolve and seeing the difference in the relationship between fathers and their sons and daughters, is fascinating.” MenBeautifulFatherGrowthSonBabyDaughterProfoundEvolveHead Start Author:Liv Tyler
“Children are all unique, so when you're blending families it's really important to get to know each individual child... Being a stepparent can be a really incredible opportunity. Sometimes children pay attention and listen to someone who's not their blood parent. Sometimes I notice how my son Milo learns things from my best friends and people that have been around him, his grandparents and so on, in a way he can't from his own mum and dad. It takes a village!” PeopleChildrenImportantSometimesOpportunityIndividualParentAttentionSonDadUniqueIncrediblesPay AttentionMy SonMumGrandparentMy Best FriendMum And Dad Author:Liv Tyler
“I think that all people, in some way, have privilege in some way shape or form. I have access to things that others don't, so privilege isn't wrong. But as a believer, we kind of bank on that. We have access to the Father, so we bank on that through the Son, so Christ gave us privilege.” PeopleThinkingKindFatherChristSonBeliever Author:Propaganda
“You come downstairs, turn off the TV, and then and your son says, 'Daddy, I want to get that wrestling set, and all the pieces are sold separately.' The minute he quotes a commercial verbatim, that's when he's had enough TV.” EnoughSonWrestling Author:Morgan Spurlock
“I have to say my relationship with the horses is the biggest thing, and it grows. I love horses more and more every day, and I'm breeding, so when I'm playing a horse that's the son of a horse, the daughter of a horse I used to play, it's like bonding. So I think that's the most amazing part of it. It's the passion that we polo players have for the horses first, and then the game and the strategy of the game and winning and the team and your teammates, all of those things are a big part of it, but the horses are my favorite part.” ThinkingPassionWinningPlayerTeamSonDaughterHorseStrategyMy FavoriteTeammateMost Amazing Author:Nacho Figueras
“I do enjoy the fact that we don't have a king or queen; we have a person with a very unusual temp job for a few years. My favorite moments on the show were always showing the intersection of the person and the job. Any time Bartlet from the West Wing could be something other than the president - a father, or a husband, or a son, or a friend.” MomentsFatherEnjoyPresidentSonHusbandMy FavoriteUnusual Author:Aaron Sorkin
“If I have a daughter and she plays tennis, and I have a son who plays tennis, I wouldn't say that my son deserves more money because he's a man. I would say they deserve the same amount of money.” MenSonDaughterDeserveTennisMy Son Author:Serena Williams
“The hero of the beloved Star Wars trilogy is Luke. The principle dynamic is the complicated relationship between Luke and his father. Not coincidentally, George Lucas' last name sounds a lot like Luke. That's the one he identified with. George Lucas had a tumultuous relationship with his own father, and people who know him say that you can't understand the backstory of the movies without knowing that his dad was occasionally difficult but also very loving. They had a big break between them. In those movies, he's very focused on sons and fathers.” PeopleWarFatherDifficultBreakSonHeroDadComplicatedFocusedBelovedFather And Son Author:Cass Sunstein
“The new Bond film, will be a big, big hit, because every Bond film is an event. Fathers take their sons to it; probably grandfathers. It's been a long time, and I think that the success of Bond is because the audiences have never been cheated by the producers. They always spend every penny, put it on the screen, and then the things that people expect to see in a Bond film - big action scenes, glamorous ladies - it's pure escapism.” PeopleThinkingLongActionFilmFatherAudienceSonSceneProducersGrandfatherGlamorousCheatedEscapism Author:Roger Moore
“For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of His son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.” EnemySon Author:Paul the Apostle
“There hasn't been a leak from one of the associates of the king saying, "This guy Trump, he already insulted us wanting ketchup with his steak, and then he wanted two scoops of ice cream on the falafel. It's not done. This guy's an absolute barbarian." And there hasn't been a leak from an associate of King Salman telling somebody in the Drive-By Media that Donald Trump looked at his son, the prince, and said, "Man, I hope you live a long time 'cause your son's a nut job." We haven't had leaks like this about the Trump foreign trip.” MenLongDoneGuySonInsultedKetchup Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I had serious reservations about putting my son in the public schools in my area. I have a tremendous amount of fear for the future of my boy. He's nine-and- a-half and dark-skinned. By the time he's 12 or 13, who knows who he's going to be identifying with in these days when you get shot down for wearing expensive Nikes to school...I've heard that if a Latino makes it to 19 years of age, he has a good chance of surviving into adulthood. Up until then, you don't know.” AgeSchoolChanceBoysSeriousSonMy SonAdulthoodSurvivingPublic SchoolLatinoMy BoysNike Author:Ana Castillo
“There is a fact-based belief system available to you if you want to believe in facts. But this is the weirdest time. I mean, after Nixon I thought nothing could be weirder. Then there was Reagan, and after Reagan I thought nothing could be weirder. Then there was Bush and Bush's son, and it all just seemed like nothing could be a badder joke than George W. Bush. And now we're here. It seems to just yo-yo around, but hopefully we'll get to another level.” BelieveMeanBeliefSonJokesHopefully Author:John Flansburgh
“Arthur Miller said one of my favorite lines ever, that he had the mother say to her two sons about a very unstable father in Death of a Salesman. She said, "Attention must be paid." It's one of the most resonant lines that I think he ever wrote, and I think attention must be paid to the truth.” ThinkingMotherFatherAttentionSonMy FavoriteSalesmanArthur Author:Mandy Patinkin
“My own son has a congenital heart condition, where his life was saved by a cardiac surgeon stepping in at 11 days of life to save his life. But he is now 21 years old because of constant monitoring and working with him with a primary care physician. that's the only reason now that he's getting to live a long and healthy life. That's what we're not rewarding. They don't have the kind of resources and commitment that we are giving to people like me. I have millions of dollars of equipment available to me when I go to work every day in an operating room.” PeopleGivingHeartKindLongReasonCareSonHealthyCommitmentSurgeons Author:Atul Gawande
“It should not be harder for our daughters to direct than our sons. It should be an equal playing field.” SonEqualDaughterDirectOur Daughter Author:Lesli Linka Glatter
“The strongest statement ever made about women's rights appears on page one of the Bible. God's first words about his daughters established an indestructible foundation for women's rights because God anchored those rights in himself. By creating his daughters along with his sons in his image and likeness, God elevated every human being to the highest possible rank. Which means any mistreatment - verbal, emotional, or physical - of any woman or girl amounts to defacement of God himself, for she bears his image.” MeanGirlEmotionalSonDaughter Author:Carolyn Custis James
“In the beginning no power differential existed between male and female. God empowered both with full rights and responsibility to rule outward over all creation, not over each other. As we know all too well, the fall changed everything, precipitating male rule over women and also the rule of some men over other men, a.k.a., patriarchy. Within patriarchy, women no longer derive their value from their Creator, but from men - father, husband, and sons. Within patriarchy, a woman's value is gauged by counting her sons.” MenValuesFallFatherResponsibilityCreationChangedSonHusbandFemalePatriarchyEmpowered Author:Carolyn Custis James
“I am noticing that we're getting more and more people - and I don't know how to handle this - who come to me saying, "Would you pray for my son? Would you pray for my daughter?" I've been saying, "Pray for them yourself." But they don't want that because they think I've got something that's greater than what they have. I keep saying, "I don't! Not really. I got the title 'minister; but I don't want to exploit you. You do it, too." I think the way to solve it is to do it together. We're going to pray in community, you see?” PeopleThinkingTogetherCommunitySonPrayingDaughterMy DaughterMy SonNoticing Author:Cecil Williams
“American cops are the ones who are in the emergency rooms. They're the ones who go to the morgues. They're the ones who have to go tell the families that their son is not coming back, their husband, their wife, is not coming home that night. So when we talk about guns and gun violence and police, let's understand that as well. No one wants guns off the streets more than cops because cops are killed by those guns.” HomeNightWifeViolenceSonHusbandGunPoliceComing HomeCopEmergency Room Author:Don Winslow
“I have a life, I have a wife. I have an adult son who I'm very close to, and friends. I go hiking almost every day, four to six miles. In the summer, I'm out surfing or swimming. I think that real, human relationships with people mostly balance dark places in my work.” PeopleThinkingRealDarkWifeSonBalanceSummerSwimmingSurfingHuman RelationsHuman Relationships Author:Don Winslow
“Because Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama failed to provide a status of forces agreement and leave sufficient troops in there, we are back at war. The president just ordered more troops on the ground. We are back at war in Iraq. And Scott Zubowski, whose mom would always come to Memorial Day events in Newcastle, Indiana, to see me, and I'd give her a hug and tell her we're never going to forget her son and we never will, Scott Zubowski and the sacrifices the American soldier made were squandered in Iraq because this administration created a vacuum in which ISIS was able to grow.” GivingWarPresidentForgetSacrificeSonMomClintonSoldierBarackHugMemorialMemorial DayAmerican Soldier Author:Mike Pence
“I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.” DreamAbleTogetherSonKingsOne DayRacismRedTablesSlaveEqualityFormerHillsOwnersBrotherhoodAmerican DreamGeorgiaI Had A DreamBe A SlaveEquality And JusticeEquality Of PeopleI Have A Dream SpeechGood KingsSlave OwnersAbolition Of SlaveryJustice EqualityMarch On WashingtonMasters And SlavesSitting Together Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“I love Maude Pearson character from Agel. I love that she walls her son up because he has a girlfriend! In fact, I have that clip on my reel - her walling him up and saying, "What are you going to do about that streetwalker now? You belong to me! What are you going to do?" And did you know the ghost mom has her own Angel trading card?” CharacterSonWallMomAngelGhostGirlfriendTrading Author:Beth Grant
“The problem or the fundamental flaw of Obamacare was that they put regulations on the insurance, about 12 regulations, which increased the cost of the insurance. And so President Obama wanted to help poor, working-class people, but he actually hurts them by making the insurance too expensive to want to buy. I had someone at the house just recently was doing some work, and he said: "Oh, my son doesn't have insurance, he's paying the penalty because it's too expensive."” PeopleHelpingProblemHousePresidentHurtPoorSonFlawsMy SonPresident ObamaHelp The Poor Author:Rand Paul
“I have often wished in the past few years that my mom were here to help me as I raised my own teenage son. As a girl, with my own mom, I thought I knew it all; now I know better. Somewhere, I know my mom is smiling.” HelpingPastGirlSonMomMy MomHelp MeTeenage Author:Kristin Hannah
“My favorite leader is George Washington. Because he came from very modest circumstances. He wasn't the son of a plantation owner. He was the son of a farmer. He had no formal education, very frustrated. He started writing a diary when he was in his teens, and he wrote things like, "When I grow up, I want to be respected. When I grow up, I want to be successful. When I grow up, I want to know things." What I find fascinating about Washington is he wanted to make something of himself.” WritingLeaderGrowing UpSuccessfulSonCircumstancesMy FavoriteBeing SuccessfulFarmersFrustratedModest Author:Les Wexner
“The first book was out and for the first time we were on a book tour. Being the son of an immigrant, I'd never dreamt of being on book tours. Suddenly the attention was huge.” BookAttentionSonFirst Time Author:Rene Redzepi
“It's censorship, really. I don't see why it's not okay for somebody under the age of 17 watch someone smoking when they can watch someone have their brains blown out? My son and I were watching an ad on the television the other day. And it said, "Rated R." He said, "What does 'rated R' mean?" I said, "God, I don't know. You can't watch it unless you're over a certain age."” MeanAgeBrainSonOkaySmokingMy SonCensorshipNot Okay Author:Emily Mortimer
“I'd seen her name on a call sheet for so many years and been called Jo so many times. If people said Jo in the street, I used to turn round because I was so used to being called Jo for five years on Spooks. You do get so used to being called something. Often, it was someone calling their young son... but sometimes it was people calling after me because they recognised me from the show. So, it was a big deal when it happened and it was quite an emotional end.” PeopleSometimesEmotionalSon Author:Miranda Raison
“This is the kind of upbringing we had instead of sitting in front of a damn television set all day long and never answering to anybody else unless somebody spoke up from a television set. It's an altogether different way of living today that you wonder how it really affects the family? I know how it affects the family because I have my own son who has his children and also my daughter. It's one of those things. Everybody eats in their own way and off they go. You know? It's not family oriented anymore."” KindChildrenLongDifferentTodayWonderSonDaughterMy DaughterUpbringing Author:Ernest Borgnine
“I feel my life has more meaning because I am responsible for another life, although I don't have control over what Lucian - my son - is going to do. He's definitely going to carve his own way.” SonResponsibleMy Son Author:Steve Buscemi
“I was a writer first, and knew I'd be a storyteller at age seven. But since my parents are very practical, they urged me to go into a profession that would be far more secure so I went to medical school. But after practicing medicine for a few years, while raising two sons (with a husband who was also a doctor) I realized that combining medicine with motherhood was more of a challenge than I could handle. So I left medicine and stayed home. And that's when I once again picked up the pen and began to write.” WritingHomeAgeSchoolParentChallengesSonHusbandSevenMotherhoodProfessionMedicalI RealizedPensStorytellerMedical School Author:Tess Gerritsen
“Absent parents aren't abusive per se. They're neglectful. They love in a very imperfect way. There are parents like that, and they do love their daughters and sons, but they're not parents in the way that we might think of it.” ThinkingParentSonDaughterImperfectAbusive Author:Benjamin Alire Saenz
“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.” PeopleThinkingTwoYoungFatherWishSonUpliftingLove Each OtherJuliet Author:Ben Kingsley
“It's difficult to parent one kid, let alone five! It's insane. It's this strange, overwhelming mess that I would not trade for anything. I think it's more difficult in New York City. It's not like we can hop in the minivan and go somewhere. I don't own a car. It's chaos anywhere. Being a parent is difficult. Being a son and a daughter is difficult. It's a human relationship.” ThinkingKidsParentDifficultCarStrangeSonDaughterTradeChaosInsaneMessOverwhelmingHuman RelationsHuman RelationshipsBeing A Parent Author:Jim Gaffigan
“As the son of a director, I really believe an actor's place is just to shut-up and do what you're told to some agree.” BelieveSonAgree Author:Max Minghella
“I would want my son to value himself as a person. To hold himself to a higher standard, and to not listen to all the stuff that's shoved down men's throats about what they're supposed to do and how they're not supposed to feel. I want him to know that he's a person and he's allowed to have emotions and be vulnerable. That doesn't mean he's not strong.” MeanValuesStrongEmotionSonVulnerableMy Son Author:Evan Rachel Wood
“I really put the fear of God into my son, because children are such sponges. The earlier you teach them the law of the land, the easier they'll accept it as an adult. I think parents who shelter their children are making a huge mistake. Kids are really pretty amazing. They can handle a lot. It's just us parents. We think we need to protect them, and then when the real world comes in, they're shattered. So I think I did the right thing in my parenting.” ThinkingWorldChildrenRealKidsParentMistakeAcceptingTeachSonProtectRight ThingMy SonReal WorldReally Pretty Author:Cherie Currie
“I met Harrison Ford when I was at Comic Con. I didn't know what to say. He was standing behind these two bodyguards - I think he was going up next for Ender's Game - and I had just come off the panel. I saw him sitting over there and I couldn't believe it, so I just walked over to him. He looked right at me and said, "Are you Michael Madsen's son? You look a lot like your dad. You've got a great look, man. I think you're going to have a good future." I just couldn't believe he said that, and then he walked right onto the panel.” ThinkingMenBelieveSonLike YouDadComicYour DadBodyguardGood Future Author:Christian Madsen
“For 13 years I have been teaching my daughter and talking to her to have faith in her God, to have faith in her family, to trust herself, to be in control and in charge of her body. Same thing for my son. Hopefully, you keep that in mind as you make decisions in life, whether it's consent, whether it's drinking, whether it's running naked across the quad in college, whatever it is!” MindRunningDecisionTeachingCollegeSonDaughterDrinkingHopefullyMy DaughterMy SonHave Faith Author:Chris Harrison