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“Go on daddy-daughter dates and father-and-sons' outings with your children. As a family, go on campouts and picnics, to ball games and recitals, to school programs, and so forth. Having Dad there makes all the difference.”

Children School Father Games Differences Son Goes On Dad Daughter Program Balls Your Children Daddy Picnics Father And Son Ball Games Recitals

Author:Ezra Taft Benson

“No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.”

War Mother Peace Sacrifice Economic Son Gains Advantage Ideology Anti War Antiwar Peace War Great War Ubuntu No War Territorial

Author:Ronald Reagan

“Since the beginning, a woman's first and most important role has been ushering into mortality spirit sons and daughters of our Father in Heaven.”

Firsts Has Beens Important Spirit Father Heaven Roles Son Daughter Mortality Our Father Son And Daughter Father In Heaven

Book:The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson

Source: The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson

“Being the son of a filmmaker, you are aware of a career as a director. You don't think of it as just movies, but as a life.”

Thinking Careers Son Directors Filmmaker

Author:Jason Reitman

“I've been very, very lucky in my career, in my life - from day one. When aspiring directors say, 'what's your advice?' first I say, 'be born the son of a famous director. It's invaluable.'”

Firsts Born Careers Advice Son Lucky Directors Invaluable

Author:Jason Reitman

“I did as much as I could in Vancouver. You can only play so many ex-'Falcon Crest' sons in so many movies of the week before you burn out.”

Play Week Son Exes Burn Out Vancouver Falcon

Author:Ryan Reynolds

“I feel incredibly fortunate to have had the level of success I've had. I was just writing stories for my own sons.”

Feels Writing Stories My Own Levels Son Fortunate Writing Stories

Author:Rick Riordan

“Make no mistake: Bob Ritchie's up early in the morning taking pictures of his son on the first day of his senior year. Kid Rock is passed out in a hotel room somewhere with four scantily-clad women.”

Years Firsts Kids Rooms Mistake Morning Four Rocks Son Hotel Bob Senior Up Early Hotel Rooms Taking Pictures Senior Year

Author:Kid Rock

“Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm.”

Father Taken Son Achievement Standards Perfection Granted Norm Heirs Father Son Taken For Granted Eldest Taking Things For Granted Took For Granted Eldest Son

Author:David Rockefeller

“That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story. Some of the companies we helped start are names you know. An office supply company called Staples – where I’m pleased to see the Obama campaign has been shopping; The Sports Authority, which became a favorite of my sons. We started an early childhood learning center called Bright Horizons that First Lady Michelle Obama rightly praised. At a time when nobody thought we’d ever see a new steel mill built in America, we took a chance and built one in a corn field in Indiana.”

Knows Firsts Has Beens Names Sports Company Childhood Son Office Authority Campaigns My Son Horizon Shopping First Lady Early Childhood Staples Obama Campaign

Author:Mitt Romney

“Becoming a dad means you have to be a role model for your son and be someone he can look up to.”

Looks Mean Roles Son Becoming Dad Models Look Up Role Models Your Son

Author:Wayne Rooney

“No matter where I go or what title I may achieve, I will always be the son of exiles.”

May Matter Achieve Son Titles Exile

Author:Marco Rubio

“Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons.”

Father Difficult Son Father And Son Difficult Relationship

Author:Salman Rushdie

“Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it's been very important for me to work to try to keep lines of communication open between my sons and myself to try to avoid my father's mistakes. At least if you're making mistakes, make different mistakes.”

Ifs Trying Long Important Different Father Lines Mistake Son Communication Making Mistakes My Son Lines Of Communication

Author:Salman Rushdie

“You know what has made me the happiest I've ever been? Seeing my son and daughter graduate from college. More than wanting them to be educated, I wanted them to be nice people. To see that they have become both is just a wonderful thing.”

People Knows Made Wanted Mother Nice Wonderful Seeing College Son Daughter Educated My Son Graduates Being Nice Wonderful Things Nice People Son And Daughter

Author:Gil Scott-Heron

“Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.”

Inspirational Real Wisdom Strong Peace Leadership Inspiring Strength Son Warrior Gentle Gentleness Don't Give Up Being Strong Real Strength Short Strength

Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“I have a five year-old son and a three year-old daughter. I want my son to have a choice to contribute fully in the workforce or at home. And I want my daughter to have the choice to not just succeed, but to be liked for her accomplishments.”

Want Years Home Mother Choices Three Five Son Succeed Daughter Accomplishment Five Years My Daughter My Son Three Years Workforce Five Year Olds Three Year Olds

Author:Sheryl Sandberg

“You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.”

House Honest Son Citizens My Son

Book:Essays in Aesthetics

Source: Essays in Aesthetics

“I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.”

Ifs Giving Enough Blood Son Virtuous Shed

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“I love my son and am proud of my son.”

Son Proud My Son Love My Son I Love My Son

Author:Robert H. Schuller

“My son is trying to be a sports writer, and my daughter is a college student. She wants to be a comedy writer, and she's at film school. I discouraged both of them early on from getting involved in Starbucks. I didn't think it would be fair; plus, they didn't have any interest anyway.”

Thinking Want Trying Would Be School Film Sports Interest Comedy Students College Son Involved Daughter Fairs My Daughter Plus My Son Discouraged Starbucks Film School College Students

Author:Howard Schultz

“I don't want to force anything on anyone. I'm not trying to bust you over the head and make you buy this record or this song or whatever. I'm presenting it to you so you can take it in. You know, it's like trying to force a kid to eat broccoli. If I present it as trees that make your muscles grow, my son is like, 'I'm down with getting muscles.'”

Ifs Knows Want Trying Kids Song Force Grows Records Tree Son Muscles My Son Presenting Broccoli

Author:Jill Scott

“I panicked when my son, Jett, stopped eating baby food. He's only two but his food vocabulary is fantastic. He likes my baked tilapia and string beans with chopped garlic. But he really likes pizza. Sometimes every inanimate object to him is pizza.”

Two Sometimes Objects Son Baby Eating Likes Fantastic Strings My Son Vocabulary Pizza Beans Garlic Inanimate Objects

Author:Jill Scott

“I truly have a village supporting me. My son has godmothers, godfathers, grandparents and so many others in his life who love him as much as I do. They're there for both of us. I may not have a mate or husband, but I'm definitely not a single parent.”

May Parent Son Husband My Son Village Mates Grandparent Single Parent Godmother

Author:Jill Scott

“My son, Jett, is two, and when I was pregnant my nose got bigger, so I got a new one. Everything was bigger for a while after having Jet, but I knew I needed to be able to walk up my stairs without being winded. It took me two years to lose 60 lbs - lots of walking, bike-riding, kick-boxing and performing.”

Years Two Able Loses Walks Son Needed Walking Bigger Noses Performing Kicks Boxing Two Years My Son Riding Pregnant Bike Stairs Jet Were Pregnant Bike Riding

Author:Jill Scott

“It is no secret that I believe my son, Attorney General Beau Biden, would make a great United States senator - just as I believe he has been a great attorney general. But Beau has made it clear from the moment he entered public life, that any office he sought, he would earn on his own.”

Believe Has Beens Made States Moments I Believe United Secret United States Clear Son Office Made It My Son Senators Public Life Attorney Biden

Author:Joe Biden

“When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.”

“I would like to be on the farm. To ride the horses. To watch the cattle, and the plantations, and the beautiful vegetables that my sons are growing there. I would like it. I am one of those who do not have to worry about what I am doing later. I love the fields.”

Beautiful Watches Worry Growing Fields Son Horse My Son Farms Vegetables Cattle Plantations

Author:Ariel Sharon

“We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.”

Deals Son Defeated Crow Jim Crow

Author:Al Sharpton

“Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.”

Ideas Son Failure Fatherhood Only Son

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“I burn a lot of stuff. My son, bless his heart, eats it anyway. But he makes a face!”

Heart Faces Stuff Son My Son Bless

Author:Sherri Shepherd

“My priority is my son and my husband, and I have a lot of spinning plates, so I try to make sure they're not one of them.”

Trying Son Husband Priorities My Husband My Son Plates Spinning Spinning Plates

Author:Sherri Shepherd

“I didn't see my son the entire time I did 'Dancing With the Stars.' The only time I saw Jeffrey was when he came to the show Monday and Tuesday nights to watch me dance. You literally rehearse six to eight hours every single day - 40 to 50 hours a week.”

Inspirational Shows Night Stars Hours Watches Saws Week Son Six Dancing Dance Eight My Son Monday Only Time Tuesday Watch Me Dancing With The Stars Tuesday Night

Author:Sherri Shepherd

“I have hair that I audition with, my sitcom hair which is a curly wig. I have my long chic hair that I wear to my son's school so they know I'm not playing around. I always tell people that my husband gets a different woman every night when I come home from 'The View.' Hair makes you feel a certain way, like putting a power suit on.”

People Knows Way Feels Long Different Home School Night Certain Views Son Hair Husband Suits My Husband My Son Coming Home Every Night Auditions Sitcom Wigs Chic Playing Around

Author:Sherri Shepherd

“I've taken salsa classes. I love dancing and I love to karaoke. So I bought a microphone with some tapes and my son and I karaoke. I know the entire 'Dora the Explorer' soundtrack.”

Knows Class Taken Son Dancing My Son Tape Explorers Microphones Soundtracks Salsa Karaoke

Author:Sherri Shepherd

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

Knows Littles Pay Football Son Nfl My Son Pension Tuition Little Money

Author:O. J. Simpson

“Your sons weren't made to like you. That's what grandchildren are for.”

Made Son Like You Grandchildren Your Son Children And Grandchildren My Grandchildren Grandchildren And Grandparents Grandparents From Grandchildren

Book:Ordinary Love and Good Will: Two Novellas

Source: Ordinary Love and Good Will: Two Novellas

“I was born and trained to communicate music, just as the sons were born and trained to hunt, and I was lucky to have grown up in Hungary, a country that lives and breathes music-that has a passionate belief in the power of music as a celebration of life.”

Country Belief Born Son Lucky Passionate Communicate Breathe Celebration Hunts Power Of Music Hungary Celebration Of Life

Book:Memoirs

Source: Memoirs

“I happen to have the benefit of having a son-in-law who was the former Mr. France and a trainer. I like being his benefactor and I like the way he works.”

Way Happens Law Son Benefits Former France In-laws Trainers Benefactors Son-in-law Having A Son

Author:Suzanne Somers

“A father and two sons run Adelphia. It's a cable company. And they took from that company a billion dollars. A billion. Three people - three people took a billion dollars. What were they gonna do, start their own space program? 'Let's send the monkey to Mars, Dad!'”

People Two Running Three Father Space Company Son Dad Program Dollars Billions Mars Monkeys Cables Space Program Colonizing Mars

Author:Lewis Black

“I think people feel threatened by homosexuality. The problem isn't about gay people, the problem is about the attitude towards gay people. People think that all gays are Hannibal Lecters. But gay people are sons and daughters, politicians and doctors, American heroes and daughters of American heroes.”

People Thinking Feels Problem Mother Attitude Son Hero Politician Gay Daughter Doctors Homosexuality Threatened Gay People Son And Daughter American Hero

Author:Hollis Stacy

“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.”

Two Memories Son Lovely Dull Personal Life Good Memories Hiroshima

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“Thank the Lord for using each person as a tool in your life to deepen your insight into His grace and conforming you to the image of His Son.”

Persons Lord Grace Son Tools Insight Conform

Book:The Gift of Forgiveness

Source: The Gift of Forgiveness

“When you become an instrument in God's hands as He transfers someone from the realm of darkness into the kingdom of His Son, you make a difference in the person's eternal destiny. Not only that, but Satan also receives a devastating blow.”

Persons Hands Differences Destiny Darkness Son Eternal Instruments Blow Kingdoms Realms Satan Making A Difference Transfers You Make A Difference

Author:Charles Stanley

“It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.”

Men Way Doe Two Funny Father Literature Can Do Son Drunk Two Things Funny Things Father Son Being Drunk

Author:Gertrude Stein

“We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.”

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

Trying Winning Son Baseball Seasons

Author:Casey Stengel

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

Said Done Son My Son Said And Done

Author:Rod Stewart

“My son had toyed with the idea of writing and trying to write a little bit, so that kind of gave me the bug to write also.”

Writing Trying Kind Littles Ideas Bits Son Little Bit My Son Bugs

Author:George Strait

“I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.”

Done Feelings Growing Son

Author:Barbra Streisand

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