“I'm so blessed to have such enlightened parents. It must have been very hard to watch their able-bodied son lock himself up in his old room for most of his 20s.” Has BeensHardAbleParentRoomsWatchesSonBlessedEnlightenedLocks Author:A. Scott Berg
“My son is in a band, and he’s a singer, and his vocals … they’re screaming-growling stuff … and he’s got a pretty reasonable voice. Yet he practices really hard to get the screaming-growling thing without losing that voice every five minutes. So I’m, like, “Hats off to you.”” HardStuffVoicePracticeFiveMinutesSonBandLosingSingersReasonableHatsMy SonFive MinutesVocalHats OffGrowling Author:Bruce Dickinson
“The monarchy that I hand over to my son is not going to be the same one that I have inherited. ... There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people. Because today, if you're appointed by the king, they don't feel that they're responsible for the people. If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work — because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.” PeopleIfsNeedsFeelsHardHandsGovernmentTodayNextBehindsResponsibilityFrontsSonHard WorkKingsResponsibleBoxesTendenciesOfficialsMy SonNext TimeMonarchyBallots Author:Abdallah II
“Not only are Puerto Ricans citizens by birth, but one would be hard-pressed to find a Puerto Rican without a sister in New York or a son in Chicago, a cousin in Orlando or a daughter in Honolulu or Oklahoma City.” HardWould BeCitiesNew YorkSonBirthCitizensDaughterChicagoCousinOklahomaOrlandoHonoluluOklahoma City Author:Luis A. Ferre
“The biggest thing is having a son. I got attached to him. Seeing him periodically is hard. Watching him grow up on pictures and videos is hard.” HardGrowsGrowing UpSeeingSonVideoHaving A Son Author:Shawn Marion
“It maketh God man, and man God; things temporal, eternal; mortal, immortal; it maketh an enemy a friend, a servant a son, vile things glorious, cold hearts fiery, and hard thing liquid.” MenHeartHardEnemySonColdEternalCharityMortalsServantGloriousImmortalLiquidFieryHard ThingsCold Heart Author:Bonaventure
“What we're doing with the digital permissions that we have for Xbox One is no different to that. If I am playing on that disc, which is installed to the hard drive on my Xbox One, everybody in my household who has permission to use my Xbox One can use that piece of content. So I can give that piece of content to my son and he can play it on the same system.” IfsGivingI CanDifferentHardPlayUsePiecesSonDigitalMy SonHouseholdPermissionDiscsXboxXbox One Author:Larry Hryb
“Note to self: being Kurt's son, being an ex-mental patient, getting into Harvard, having written a book, and being a doctor are all things that in and of themselves do not make a life. If you lean on them too hard, you'll find that there's not much there. But if you add up a lot of things that aren't in and of themselves enough, it almost starts to add up to something.” IfsBookSelfHardEnoughWrittenSonAll ThingsDoctorsAddNotesPatientExesHarvardNote To SelfSelf Being Author:Mark Vonnegut
“Fathers who compete hard with their kids are monstrous. The father, for a throw-away victory, is sacrificing the very heart of hischild's sense of being good enough. He may believe he is making his son tough, as he was made tough by a similarly contending father, but he is only making his child desperate and mean like himself. Fathers must let their sons (and daughters) have their victories.” BelieveHeartMayMeanChildrenMadeHardEnoughKidsFatherSacrificeSonVictoryDaughterToughBe GoodDesperateGood EnoughMonstrousSon And DaughterContendingBeing Good Enough Author:Frank Pittman
“Aristocracy is an atmosphere; it is sometimes a healthy atmosphere; but it is very hard to say when it becomes an unhealthy atmosphere. You can prove that a man is not the son of a king, or that he is not the delegate of a definite number of people. But you cannot prove that a man is not a gentleman.” PeopleMenSometimesHardNumbersClassSonKingsHealthyProveAtmosphereGentlemanDefiniteUnhealthyAristocracyDelegates Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“My son is a great kid and does super well in school. I couldn't be prouder of him. What I tell him is, 'You don't want to just be known for being the son of a rich rock 'n' roll star.' I've seen a lot of kids like that. I want him to be happy, work hard and create his own thing. I tell him, 'You're not gonna be one of these kids up on stage playing with me. If you wanna have hits - write your own. Then we can play together.'” IfsWantWritingWellsDoeHardPlayKidsSchoolTogetherStarsKnownRichRocksStageSonHard WorkMy SonRock N RollWant HimWrite Your Own Author:Kid Rock
“Wiped the cold dew-drops from his cheek And sought the mourner's side again. "Once more, dear lady, I must speak: Your last remaining son was slain Just at the closing of the fight; Twas he who sent me here to-night." "God knows," the man said afterward, "The fight itself was not so hard."” KnowsMenSaidHardLastsNightFightingSpeakSidesSadnessHe ManSonColdSadDearCheeksGod KnowsClosingDew Book:Picked Poems Source: Picked Poems
“I was not a comic book reader, but my son is. My son wasn't really interested in reading books, which was hard for me because I love to read. It just didn't come naturally to my boy. So we kind of found comic books because they were fascinating to him. They were great stories.” KindBookHardStoriesReadingFoundBoysSonReaderComicFascinatingMy SonReading BooksComic BookMy BoysLove To ReadBook Readers Author:Virginia Madsen
“The hardest thing in the world is to have a relationship, to be committed to one person and feel vulnerable. Recently one of my son's came to me and said ''it's hard for me to have a relationship, you and dad have been married three times each.''” WorldFeelsPersonsHas BeensSaidHardThreeSonDadMarriedCommittedHardestVulnerableMy SonHardest ThingThree Times Author:Pamela Anderson
“I'm a big football fan, but I have to tell you if I had a son, I'd have to think long and hard before I let him play football.” IfsThinkingLongHardPlayBigsFansFootballSonFootball Fan Author:Barack Obama
“There is scarcely room for doubt that something in the psychological relation of a mother-in-law to a son-in-law breeds hostility between them and makes it hard for them to live together. But the fact that in civilized societies mothers-in-law are such a favourite subject for jokes seems to me to suggest that the emotional relation involved includes sharply contrasted components. I believe, that is, that this relation is in fact an 'ambivalent' one, composed of conflicting affectionate and hostile impulses.” BelieveHardFactsSeemsTogetherLawMotherI BelieveRoomsDoubtSubjectsEmotionalSonInvolvedJokesRelationPsychologicalImpulseCivilizedFavouriteHostileComponentsHostilityIn-lawsAffectionateCivilized SocietyMother In LawAmbivalentSon-in-law Book:Totem and Taboo Source: Totem and Taboo
“You live in a time of great challenges and opportunities. As spirit sons of heavenly parents, you are free to make the right choices. This requires hard work, self-discipline, and an optimistic outlook, which will bring joy and freedom into your life now and in the future.” SelfHardJoySpiritChoicesOpportunityParentChallengesSonHard WorkDisciplineOptimisticHeavenlySelf DisciplineOutlookRight ChoicesMake The Right ChoiceOpportunities And Challenges Author:Dieter F. Uchtdorf
“My favorite place in L.A. is Manhattan Beach. It's an intimate, friendly little beachside city within a city-smaller than most of its neighbors, so it reminds me of a British seaside resort. If my three teenage sons are in town, we'll play some cricket on the flat, hard sand where the water breaks, just to really confuse the locals!” IfsLittlesHardPlayThreeWaterCitiesBreakSonTownsMy FavoriteBritishNeighborLocalsBeachIntimateSandFriendlyFlatsTeenageCricketResortsManhattanFavorite Places Author:Piers Morgan
“I try so hard to be the best mom that I can be and usually I'm always thinking about how to better my son's life.” ThinkingTryingI CanHardSonMomBeing The BestMy SonAlways ThinkingBest Mom Author:Tamera Mowry
“Doing the show. That 10 AM feeling when the doors open up. Forget about it! Also, my son coming home with a respectable grade on something that I know he's worked hard on. And good health excites me, too.” KnowsHardShowsFeelingsHomeForgetDoorsSonGradesMy SonComing HomeRespectableGood Health Author:Wendy Williams
“The south really wants Abyei; they have a core constituency who reside in the area who believe that Abyei belongs to the south. There are a number of those sons of Abyei in high positions of government in South Sudan, so it's pretty hard for South Sudan to just walk away.” WantBelieveHardGovernmentWalksNumbersPositionSonAreasSouthCoreSudan Author:Rebecca Hamilton
“Let's just put the business aside and talk about family. Family's just amazing. My wife Jenny-Lynn is an incredible mother. Our son Geddy is just unbelievable. Nothing but love and laughter and that's what life should be. It's so hard when you're in the industry we're in. It can be very negative. I've tried my whole life to stay positive with this gig, and I do. I just love what I do - but more importantly - I love life.” ShouldHardWholeMotherWifeSonIndustryLaughterNegativeIncrediblesMy WifeWhole LifeLove LifeUnbelievableGigsStay PositiveAbout FamilyI Love LifeJennyLove And Laughter Author:J. Robert Spencer
“You do the best you can. But it's hard. When I find things egregiously misrepresentative of women, I'll make a point to say to my son, "Turn that off. I don't want to see women behave that way.” WayWantHardTurnsSonBehaveMy SonDo The Best Author:Reese Witherspoon
“When I had my confirmation hearing for the Court of Appeals, [my son] Philip was 3 years old. And when I was called up to the chair he took it upon himself to run up and sit next to me in case any hard questions came up.” YearsHardRunningNextCasesSonCourtHearingAppealsChairsMy SonConfirmationPhilipHard Questions Author:Samuel Alito
“The stunning part was that one time Neil McElroy the Secretary of Defense who was the father of one of our classmates spoke and basically at commencement, he told us all that our job after graduation was to get married and have interesting sons...and we all found that hard to believe.” BelieveHardJobsFoundFatherInterestingSonMarriedDefenseSpokesOne TimeSecretaryStunningHard To BelieveCommencementClassmates Author:Madeleine Albright
“My biggest vulnerability now is my son, Hudson. I am often plagued with fear: Is he ok? Is he safe? I'm in the process of trying to work through this fear. It's a hard one.” TryingHardProcessSonSafeVulnerabilityMy Son Author:Nikki DeLoach
“I'm divorced and have a son and a grandson and it is a problem being away most of the time. Living as I do, if I had a wife and children I think it would be really hard to do.” IfsThinkingChildrenHardProblemWould BeWifeSonDivorcedGrandson Author:Doug Rice
“It's not at all hard to reconcile the two things if you organize your time intelligently. Even when my sons were little, I was working.” IfsLittlesTwoHardSonTwo ThingsMy SonOrganizeReconcile Author:Indira Gandhi
“It's hard to explain. It's a love that I never knew existed until I had my first son. Basically what I'm saying is it's the most beautiful thing in the world. It's the biggest blessing I ever had in my life.” WorldFirstsHardBeautifulSonBlessingBeautiful Things Author:DJ Khaled
“One night my son was downstairs studying, and he had been up so late all that week, and my husband said, "I feel so sorry for him." I said, "Look, if he's going to become a surgeon" - he is studying to be a doctor - "he's going to have his hard times. I feel sorry for him too, but if he lives in this world he's going to have more hard times. He's going to stay up some more nights." I think we can't shield them from the hard times, even though we'd like to. I say to the children that I teach and to my own - I can't test the ground for you and tell you that's a safe step there.” IfsThinkingWorldFeelsLooksChildrenSaidI CanHardNightMy OwnStepsTeachStudyWeekThis WorldSonSafeHusbandLateDoctorsTestsSorryHard TimesMy HusbandMy SonShieldsOne NightSurgeonsSorry For Him Author:Marva Collins
“It wasn't [Barack] Obama per se; it was the feeling on the ground; it was seeing an old black woman in a wheelchair being wheeled by her son waving a big American flag, and then seeing a guy with his baby in his arms saying, "I didn't want her to miss tonight! I wanted to be able to tell her!" And to see all these people, a Hispanic cop dancing with an old white woman, wow! I mean, that's the world I want to live in, and because it's the world I want to live in, I had a hard time leaving.” PeopleWorldWantMeanHardFeelingsBigsAbleWantedGuyBlackWhiteSeeingMissingSonBabyArmsDancingLeavingBarackHard TimesTonightWowFlagsCopBlack WomenHispanicWheelchairsAmerican Flag Author:Bill Ayers