I will not debate with you Dark Elf. By the swords of the Noldor alone are your sunless woods defended. Your freedom to wander there wild you owe to my kin and but for them long since you would have laboured in thraldom in the pits of Angband. And here I am King and whether you will it or will it not my doom is law. This choice is given to you: abide here or to die here and so also for your son.
- J R R Tolkien
Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
- Joseph Addison
I have never understood why it is called losing a child. No parent is that careless. We all know exactly where our sons and daughters are; we just don't necessarily want them to be there
- Jodi Picoult
You stared at the stranger in front of you and decided,
categorically, that this was no longer your son. Or you made the decision to find whatever scraps of
your child you still could in what he had become.
Was that even really a choice, if you were a mother?
- Jodi Picoult
This is about us. This is about an intense, deep connection we have. I have loved you since I first laid eyes on you Fallon, and I haven't stopped. I started to fall for you all over again Saturday night and even with how this afternoon went down, I still feel the same way. I am never going to hurt you. I will earn your trust again because I am only going to love you and our son for the rest of our lives.
- Toni Aleo
I didn't literally kill Indians. We were supposed to make you give up being Indian. Your songs and stories and language and dancing. Everything. We weren't trying to kill Indian people. We were trying to kill Indian culture.
- Sherman Alexie
My friend Kate once went to a concert of Mongolian throat singers who were traveling through New York City on a rare world tour. Although she couldn't understand the words to their songs, she found the music almost unbearably sad. After the concert, Kate approached the lead Mongolian singer and asked, "What are your songs about?" He replied, "Our songs are about the same things that everyone else's songs are about: lost love, and somebody stole your fastest horse.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
For three years I looked forward very childishly to the war ending at Christmas. But now I look forward till when our son will be a lieutenant commander.
- Ernest Hemingway
The constitution does not recognize different classes of citizenship based on time spent living in the country. I am a citizen, with the same rights as your son, or you. As a citizen, and as a student, I am protesting the tone of this lesson as racist, intolerant, and xenophobic.
- Laurie Halse Anderson
Where are your sons?" asked the prince.
"Well, it's not so easy to give an answer when you ask a stupid question!" said the woman.
- Hans Christian Anderson
Oh, Black known and unknown poets, how often have your auctioned pains sustained us? Who will compute the lonely nights made less lonely by your songs, or by the empty pots made less tragic by your tales?
If we were a people much given to revealing secrets, we might raise monuments and sacrifice to the memories of our poets, but slavery cured us of that weakness.
- Maya Angelou
Rather than argue, Amanda smiled at him. "And then what will you do while your son or daughter is in charge of your store and your companies?"
"I'll spend my days and nights pleasing you," he said. "It's a challenging occupation, after all." He laughed and dodged as she went to swat his attractive backside.
- Lisa Kleypas
I heard your song the moment we were born. And years later, it dragged me back from the lake of the half-dead when all I wanted to do was die. Each time someone tried to kill me, it sang its tune and gave me hope.
- Melina Marchetta
Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.
- Oscar Wilde
Your days are your sonnets.
- Oscar Wilde
I want your opinion on the best way to proceed. (Eli)
I'd start by killing your son and his crew of idiots before their stupidity spreads to anyone else and infects them. (Varyk)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
who could blame her for that? he personally couldn't think of any woman who would welcome that news. Hey hon, guess what? your son that you nurtured in your body for nine months and then sacrificed your life and dignity to raise is destined to end th world. Aren't you proud?
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops.
- Brendan Behan
All of our songs take these really big creative turns and twists throughout the process, so sometimes songs will start out as a melody or some musical chord progressions.
- Chester Bennington
What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!
- Georges Bernanos
Obviously the biggest change is that it's me by myself. When you don't have another band interpreting your songs or playing them the way that they have, it's bound to sound different.
- Nuno Bettencourt
The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
- John Dryden
Our son shall win.
QUEEN-He is fat and scant of breath. Here Hamlet, Wipe thy brow.
- William Shakespeare
If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone.
- Anne Bronte
I finished your song, she said. Our last song. And I want to play it for you.
- Nicholas Sparks
Take heart, sir," Cazaril consoled him. "It is not your destiny today to win a royacy for your son. It is to win an empire for your grandson.
- Lois Mcmaster Bujold
Percy, lesser beings do many horrible things in the name of the gods. That does not mean we gods approve. The way our sons and daughters act in our names... well, it usually says more about THEM than it does about us.
- Rick Riordan
Poseidon put his weathered hand on my shoulder. Percy, lesser beings do many horrible things in the name of the gods. That does not mean we gods approve. The way our sons and daughters act in our names...well, it usually says more about them than it does about us. And you, Percy, are my favorite son.
- Rick Riordan
By Oppression's woes and pains!
By your sons in servile chains!
We will drain our dearest veins,
But they shall be free!
Lay the proud usurpers low!
Tyrants fall in every foe!
Liberty's in every blow!
Let us do or die!
- Robert Burns
My diagnosis," he said
"for better or worse,
is that your son is the result
of an old pharaoh's curse.
- Tim Burton
So that day, in music assembly, the teacher asked who knew the valley song. Your hand shot right up in the air. She stood you up on a stool and had you sing it for us. And I swear, every bird outside the windows fell silent...and right when your song ended, I knew - just like your mother - I was a goner.
- Suzanne Collins
No, it happened. And right when your song ended, I knew - just like your mother - I was a goner,' Peeta says.
- Suzanne Collins
And right when your song ended I knew - just like your mother - I was a goner," Peeta says. "Then for the next eleven years, I tried to work up the nerve to talk to you.
- Suzanne Collins
your song, what does it know?
Deepinsnow,
Eepinow,
E-i-o.
- Paul Celan
Our son is in school now. You know, he's six-and-a-half and so a big chunk of the day is taken up by school. So I'm hoping that I'll be able to certainly take him to school in the morning, maybe pick him up in the afternoon and come back to work.
- Connie Chung
Do not trouble about those who practice philosophy, whether they are good or bad; but examine the thing itself well and carefully. And if philosophy appears a bad thing to you, turn every man from it, not only your sons; but if it appears to you such as I think it to be, take courage, pursue it, and practice it, as the saying is, 'both you and your house.
- Socrates
You make your son out to be to be almost an idiot; well let me tell you something, Mrs Loan, if he were a complete idiot, drooling at the mouth, he'd still be a better person then you.
- Catherine Cookson
And at the last all shall be safe, and evil thrust out never to return. And so that the trust be kept, he said, I give it into your charge, and your sons', and your sons' sons, until the day come.
- Susan Cooper
It's great when you play to an audience that knows the words to all your songs, and sings them back to you.
- Chris Cornell
Sherlock said, 'He eats Cheerios for breakfast with our son, Sean,' and smiled. 'I eat a slice of wheat toast with crunchy peanut butter.
- Catherine Coulter
Even in the beginning, when we knew there was a legal argument about how much our song sounds like his song, as one songwriter to another, I wasn't sure that Cat Stevens would take that as bad.
- Wayne Coyne
Mother, whose heart hung humble as a button the bright splendid shroud of your son,
Do not weep.
War is kind.
- Stephen Crane
When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting.
- Sheryl Crow
Get haven to my house and fix her before your son resorts to resuscitating people just to kill them again.
- J M Darhower
As Commander in Chief of the United States Military, I will never send our sons and daughters and our brothers and sisters to die in a foreign land without telling the truth about why they're going there.
- Howard Dean
You may choose your song, but know this: Tiny. Cooper. Hates. Over. The. Rainbow.
- John Green
If you had to chose one half of your son, which one would it be?"
What kind of a question is that?!"
No need to snap. It was just a question.
- Johnny Depp
It's amazing when you're playing to a crowd who barely understands English but they're singing parts of your song back to you.
- Jason Derulo
The advantage is I have my family with me all the time. When your daughter takes her first steps or says her first words and your son is going through potty training, I'm not missing any of those things.
- Larry Dixon
Well, sir, embrace me once, as you would embrace your daughter, and I swear to you that that kiss, the only chaste kiss I have ever had, will make me strong against my love, and that within a week your son will be once more at your side, perhaps unhappy for a time, but cured forever.
- Alexandre Dumas Fils
May your heart always be joyful. May your song always be sung.
- Bob Dylan
Grieve not, then, if your sons seem to desert you, but rejoice, rather, seeing the will of God done gladly.
- Jim Elliot
Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
- Epictetus
Our songs travel the earth. We sing to one another. Not a single note is ever lost and no song is original. They all come from the same place and go back to a time when only the stones howled.
- Louise Erdrich
Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science for to fill your heart with love is enough.
- Richard P Feynman
This is much easier than when N left. Our son is unable to grasp and simultaneously turn doorknobs yet. If only this trick could be unlearned by men over thirty, many more families would celebrate Christmas together.
- Suzanne Finnamore
If you only do little clusters - three or four songs by one, and another, and then yet another - you lose the opportunity to think your way into the composer's mind, since, after all, most of these pieces are quite brief.
- Dietrich Fischerdieskau
My family always comes first. My world revolves around my husband, Peter, our daughter, Victoria, and our son, William, but not necessarily in that order. Then, it's this fascinating world of publishing that devours most of my days and many nights.
- Dorothea Benton Frank
Are you - are you sad?"
- No.
"But your - your songs are sad."
- My songs are of time and distance. The sadness is in you. Watch my arms. There is only the dance. These things you treasure are shells.
- William Gibson
Thank God I have four sons. The mother/daughter relationship is one of mankind's great mysteries, and for womankind, it can be hellaciously complicated. My mother and I are quintessential examples of the rewards and frustrations, and the joys and infuriations it can yield.
- Melissa Gilbert
War is good business Invest your son
- Allen Ginsberg
When every piece of furniture and your underwear are taken by the bank, when you lose your house in Florida, in New York, in Amsterdam and L.A., when your wife is dying and your son abandons you, you don't feel very good.
- Al Goldstein
The money is mine, not yours," Reginald reminded her. "You ungrateful wretch. I found you an earl to marry, and your son will be an earl."
"You chose yourself a son-in-law," Regina said. "You traded me for a title."
"You will thank me"
"for dying and leaving me in peace."
"You will regret those words some day."
"I can manage the regret, if not my own finances.
- Patricia Grasso
There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.
- Franz Grillparzer
When you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It's inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting.
- Dave Grohl
There's a lot of people out there who have seen us once somewhere in a pub or heard our songs late night on radio. We'd done four years of it before we'd even released a single. It's put us in good stead.
- Dan Hawkins
Our songs touch people, and take them back to a time when there was no threat of terrorism, when you didn't have to lock your doors and when Mom and Dad took care of everything.
- George Grove
The world is filled with people who are no longer needed. And who try to make slaves of all of us. And they have their music and we have ours. Theirs, the wasted songs of a superstitious nightmare. And without their music and ideological miscarriages to compare our songs of freedom to, we'd not have any opposite to compare music with --- and like the drifting wind, hitting against no obstacle, we'd never know its speed, its power...
- Woody Guthrie
Puffy produced four of the tracks on the album. Those are the four songs that are collaborations between Puffy and me. And he gives me my space to work even when we work together, like with my producer and my vocal coach.
- Jennifer Lopez
The biggest thrill you can have is to tell people one of your songs, and have them be able to hum it.
- Marvin Hamlisch
Real data is messy....It's all very noisy out there. Very hard to spot the tune. Like a piano in the next room, it's playing your song, but unfortunately it's out of whack, some of the strings are missing, and the pianist is tone deaf and drunk- I mean, the noise! Impossible!
- Tom Stoppard
Working with Yahoo! allows us to give our fans a chance to listen to our songs, check out the video, purchase our new album, win tickets to our show, and chat with us all in one place.
- Isaac Hanson
He may be your son, but it was my old boyfriend who got him in trouble. He lied to you. He lied to me. And I'm going up there so I can kick Nick's ass from here to the ever-after.
- Kim Harrison
Piter spoke to Jessica. "I'd thought of binding you by a threat held over your son, but I begin to see that would not have worked. I let emotion cloud reason. Bad policy for a Mentat."
-Piter De Vries
- Frank Herbert
Okay, Charlie, you can do this, all you have to do is convince a career military man that your son shouldn't join the Army. That shouldn't be too hard, right?
- Tamara Hoffa
From a very early age, my wife and I told our son that there are times and places for everything. I told him, look, when you're in class, you have to be quiet and listen to your teacher, but when you go out to the playground, you can scream and be silly.
- Mark Hoppus
Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.
- Julia Ward Howe
I'll not always be here on guard. The stars twinkle in the Milky Way and the wind sighs for songs across the empty fields of a planet a Galaxy away.
You won't always be here.
But before you go, whisper this to your sons and their sons - The work was free. Keep it so.
- L Ron Hubbard
You can love someone like your son, even if he's not your biological son, and you can love someone like your father, even if he's not your biological father.
- Oliver Hudson
We need to get our sons and daughters home and their responsibility for the security of Iraq needs to be assumed by Iraqis who will stand up and toe the line for their countries.
- Jay Inslee
You named your son's pet after a rabid monster dog?"
"No," Thanatos growled. "Wraith did. Bastard taught the pup to respond to Cujo, and we couldn't get him to respond to anything else after that.
- Larissa Ione
We know our son. We know he's not a pedophile like some of these newscasters are saying. That is not true.
- Joseph Jackson
Piers looked up at him. 'You're new. What's your name?'
'Neythen, my lord.'
'Sounds like a terrible illness. No, more like a bowel problem. I'm sorry, Lord Sandys, your son has contracted neythen and won't live a month. No, no, there's nothing I can do. Sandys would have preferred hearing that to syphilis.
- Eloisa James
[He] went on to tell her that certain work songs made the work a little easier, but that there were others, depending upon the time of day, that dragged a body down, so 'you just gotta be careful with your songs and your hummin' and whatnot.
- Edward P Jones
I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
- Adam Jones
A child is owed the greatest respect; if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't ignore your son's tender years.
- Juvenal
I have good news and I have bad news. The good news is that your house hasn't burned down, you don't have cancer, and your daughter hasn't been raped or murdered. The bad news is that I ran over your dog. And your son. And his wife. But not before I ran out of gas to achieve all of that.
- Jarod Kintz
A blanket, coupled with an impressive erection, could serve as a suitable replacement for a lost tent at next year's "Bring your son to work night" at NAMBLA's manufacturing plant. What does NAMBLA make? NAMBLA makes me sick.
- Jarod Kintz
I think for new artists the hardest thing is putting the face with a name. People maybe heard our song on the radio or something but until they get several impressions of who you are - from whatever it is, whether TV or a live show, I feel like they don't quite connect the dots.
- Charles Kelley
Even now, my husband Jerry, our son Matthew and I live only five minutes away from my parents home, and my brothers live about ten minutes away. It's been great having such a supportive family.
- Nancy Kerrigan
When you work on an album for three and a half years, you're kind of ready for it to get out there. To have your songs reach people.
- Kimbra
If you can't get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
- B B King
If we have another 2,000 people killed, I want Nancy Pelosi and George Soros, John Conyers and Pat Leahy to go to the funeral and say, 'Your son was vaporized because we didn't want to dump some guy's head under water for 30 seconds.'
- Peter King
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
Hi-Tek is on three or four songs on the new record.
- Talib Kweli
Hail to St. Aegolius
Our Alma Mater.
Hail, our song we raise in praise of thee
Long in the memory of every loyal owl
Thy splendid banner emblazoned be.
Now to thy golden talons
Homage we're bringing.
Guiding symbol of our hopes and fears
Hark to the cries of eternal praises ringing
Long may we triumph in the coming years.
- The Owls of St. Aegolius
- Kathryn Lasky
We have parties at my house. My girlfriends and I play our iPods, with all of our favorite songs. We pick our songs and jump up on the counter and dance, and do runway stuff, and we take video with my camera. When I'm with my girlfriends, I act like I'm 19.
- Avril Lavigne
It's nice if people ask to use your song. You have to make a decision as an artist how you feel about that.
- Jared Leto
I say, Father, the years have brought me here, still your son, they have brought me to a life I cannot understand.
- Philip Levine
I have a beautiful son, I don't regret it, I'm very proud of the way that we handle our relationship and the way that we keep our son first and that's our priority.
- Nia Long
... our sons must become men such men as we hope our daughters, born and unborn, will be pleased to live among. Our sons will not grow into women. Their
way is more difficult than that of our daughters, for they must move away from us, without us. Hopefully ours have what they have learned from us, and a howness to forge into their own image.
- Audre Lorde
You've got to really know your song, inside and out.
- Nick Lowe
Seek not that your sons and your daughters should not see visions, should not dream dreams; seek that they should see true visions, that they should dream noble dreams. Such out-going of the imagination is one with aspiration, and will do more to elevate above what is low and vile than all possible inculcations of morality.
- George Macdonald
Yeah, if someone's selling downloads and collecting money for our songs I would be unhappy about that but if they're trading it I don't mind, obviously if I make a thousand records or CDs or whatever, I like to sell a thousand.
- Ian Mackaye
I probably made a few pictures I shouldn't have done, but I have four sons and I have to pay the rent. If you have a decision to make about whether or not you can buy groceries at the market or whether or not you're going to make a bad movie, you're going to make a bad movie.
- Michael Madsen
Harper, your song has a sorrowful sound,
Though the tune was written as gay.
Your voice is sad and your hands are slow
And your eye meeting mine turns away.
- Anne Mccaffrey
Harper, treat your words with care
For they may cause joy or despair
Sing your songs of health and love
Of dragons flaming from above
- Anne Mccaffrey
Sing your song. Dance your dance. Tell your tale.
- Frank Mccourt
You can't listen to what people who aren't musical have to say. When Anytime was released, I had bad reviews, and at first I was hurt. Your songs are like your children. You don't want to hear, 'Your kid is ugly.' But I knew the record was good and it would sell.
- Brian Mcknight
If you don't like men who physically abuse women, stop telling your son it's okay to hit a little girl if she's bothering him.
- Karen E Quinones Miller
To reminisce with my old friends, a chance to share some memories, and play our songs again.
- Ricky Nelson
Our darling Roberta,
No sorrow shall hurt her
If we can prevent it
Her whole life long.
Her birthday's our fete day,
We'll make it our great day,
And give her our presents
And sing her our song.
May pleasures attend her
And may the Fates send her
The happiest journey
Along her life's way.
With skies bright above her
And dear ones to love her!
Dear Bob! Many happy
Returns of the day!
- E Nesbit
You let their friendship continue because Maisie looks after your son while you're gallivanting around the country disguised as Sherlock Holmes - Uncle Paton Yewbeam
- Jenny Nimmo
There's an element of tongue-in-cheek in every one of our songs. Walking off into the sunset, holding hands, and being married forever was not exactly a brand new idea.
- Peter Noone
To the families of special needs children all across this country I have a message for you: for years you have sought to make America a more welcoming place for your sons and daughters, and I pledge to you that if we're elected, you will have a friend, an advocate, in The White House.
- Sarah Palin
I'm just one of many moms who will say an extra prayer each night for our sons and daughters going into harm's way.
- Sarah Palin
I'm delighted about the track's success in the sports world, but the frustrating thing is, I don't think I got rich on it. The labels and publishers did very cheap deals on our songs.
- Alan Parsons
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
- Pope John Paul Ii
Sing your song
Dance your dance
Tell your story
I will Listen and remember
- Utah Phillips
I look and there's our boy from Vietnam and our daughter from Ethiopia, and our girl was born in Namibia, and our son is from Cambodia, and they're brothers and sisters, man. They're brothers and sisters and it's a sight for elation.
- Brad Pitt
Sing little box
Don't let sleep overtake you
The world's awake within you
In your four-sided emptiness
We turn distance into nearness
Forgetfulness into memory
Don't let your nails come loose
For the very first time
We watch sights beyond this world
Through your keyhole
Turn your key in our mouths
Swallow words and numbers
Out of your song
Don't let your lid fly open
Your bottom drop
Sing little box
- Vasko Popa
I started listening to and playing other music in the '90s. It was after hearing other bands, like Bad Religion, cover Ramones songs that I started to like our songs again.
- Dee Dee Ramone
But if you want to be a songwriter-based musician, whether you play punk or rock or country or jazz, whatever, you have to work on your songwriting and you have to work on being able to play in front of people, I think. That performance is how you create the groundwork for a lasting career.
- Amy Ray
To this day I get mail from women who say, I went to law school because of your song. But I would hate to think out of the wide spectrum of things I have done in my career, that's all I would be remembered for.
- Helen Reddy
Well, our songwriting process is pretty collective.
- Adam Rich
If I only have ten minutes, Sam, this is what I want to say. You're not the best of us. You're more than that. You're better than all of us. If I only have ten minutes, I would tell you to go out there and live. I'd say...please take your guitar and sing your songs to as many people as you can. Please fold a thousand more of those damn birds of yours. Please kiss that girl a million times.
- Maggie Stiefvater
If you can keep your son off the pipe and your daughter off the pole, you're ahead of the game.
- Chris Rock
I had said to some pastor that I was having thoughts, and the church turned on me. They went to my mom and said, So sorry about your son.
- Jai Rodriguez
Becoming a dad means you have to be a role model for your son and be someone he can look up to.
- Wayne Rooney
How can you approve of them? Does it not bother you that your son, your only son, the very last male to carry the Garrett name, goes home from work every night to another man? That doesn't offend your sensibilities?" "Not one bit," Harrison said. He picked up his newspaper again. "At least he looks forward to going home.
- Abigail Roux
The prospect of calling Zane's parents to tell them he was seriously injured, and oh, by the way, I'm your son's partner who let him go by himself into the building that blew up, nice to meet you, has he told you he likes cock?
- Abigail Roux
We sing songs about love because we love the people we sing our songs to!
- Graham Russell
I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.
- Jeanpaul Sartre
You're not going to throw this away, are you?" she says, and she'll be talking about the grains of rice in the bottom of the salt shaker. "No, Mrs. Peacock, by all means, you take them. They'll come in handy when your son gets out of prison and marries your niece.
- David Sedaris
Claire was going to hate me. Our son was sucked into the pits of hell while I was watching General Hospital. God damn you Brenda and Sonny for making me lose focus.
- Tara Sivec
My daughter is a freshman in college and my son is - well, our daughter and our son - is a sophomore in college. So they come home on selected weekends, they come home on vacations and they're home in the summer, although they have jobs.
- Erika Slezak
Your sons weren't made to like you. That's what grandchildren are for.
- Jane Smiley
We'll leave now, so that this moment will remain a perfect memory...let it be our song and think of me every time you hear it.
- Betty Smith
If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately.
- Robert Smith
And then the second thing you have to do is go and see your son. That is a duty of love, Andrew. It's as simple as that. A duty of love. Do you understand what I'm saying to you?
- Alexander Mccall Smith
When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course.
- Stephen Spender
We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
- Gloria Steinem
Small things such as this have saved me: how much I love my mothereven after all these years. How powerfully I carry her within me. My grief is tremendous but my love is bigger. So is yours. You are not grieving your son's death because his death was ugly and unfair. You're grieving it because you loved him truly. The beauty in that is greater than the bitterness of his death.
- Cheryl Strayed
When you meet a man in the doorway of a Mexican restaurant who later kisses you while explaining that this kiss doesn't "mean anything" because, much as he likes you, he is not interested in having a relationship with you or anyone right now, just laugh and kiss him back. Your daughter will have his sense of humor. Your son will have his eyes.
- Cheryl Strayed
You can go back to blacksmithing in Hintindar and live a quiet happy life. Do me a favor and marry some pretty farm girl and train your son to beat the crap out of imperial knights."
"Sure," Hadrian told him. "And with any luck he'll make friends with a cynical burglar who'll do nothing but torment him.
- Michael J Sullivan
You know, being an entertainer is partly being on the road, and a lot of your songs come from the road.
- Mel Tillis
The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game. He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we drove off. Gosh, I was proud.
- Bob Uecker
The sheriff peered over his eyeglasses and said, Your son is a suspect in the murder.
- Jeannie Walker
I mean, I get letters in the mail because I had a heart defect when I was one, I had surgeries and stuff. And so you get these letters in the mail that just, they are crazy, they are just like, yes, well our son is dealing with the same thing and we saw you on TV and I mean it is such a cool thing to inspire and kind of give hope.
- Shaun White
There is no thing that with a twist of the imagination cannot be something else. Porpoises risen in a green sea, the wind at nightfall bending the rose- red grasses and you- in your apron hurrying to catch- say it seems to you to be your son. How ridiculous! You will pass up into a cloud and look back at me, not count the scribbling foolish that put wings at your heels, at your knees.
- William Carlos Williams
The songs were really complicated. I used to meet people in bar bands who were trying to play our songs and they were really struggling with it. Technically it was really difficult stuff.
- Kip Winger
- J R R Tolkien
Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
- Joseph Addison
I have never understood why it is called losing a child. No parent is that careless. We all know exactly where our sons and daughters are; we just don't necessarily want them to be there
- Jodi Picoult
You stared at the stranger in front of you and decided,
categorically, that this was no longer your son. Or you made the decision to find whatever scraps of
your child you still could in what he had become.
Was that even really a choice, if you were a mother?
- Jodi Picoult
This is about us. This is about an intense, deep connection we have. I have loved you since I first laid eyes on you Fallon, and I haven't stopped. I started to fall for you all over again Saturday night and even with how this afternoon went down, I still feel the same way. I am never going to hurt you. I will earn your trust again because I am only going to love you and our son for the rest of our lives.
- Toni Aleo
I didn't literally kill Indians. We were supposed to make you give up being Indian. Your songs and stories and language and dancing. Everything. We weren't trying to kill Indian people. We were trying to kill Indian culture.
- Sherman Alexie
My friend Kate once went to a concert of Mongolian throat singers who were traveling through New York City on a rare world tour. Although she couldn't understand the words to their songs, she found the music almost unbearably sad. After the concert, Kate approached the lead Mongolian singer and asked, "What are your songs about?" He replied, "Our songs are about the same things that everyone else's songs are about: lost love, and somebody stole your fastest horse.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
For three years I looked forward very childishly to the war ending at Christmas. But now I look forward till when our son will be a lieutenant commander.
- Ernest Hemingway
The constitution does not recognize different classes of citizenship based on time spent living in the country. I am a citizen, with the same rights as your son, or you. As a citizen, and as a student, I am protesting the tone of this lesson as racist, intolerant, and xenophobic.
- Laurie Halse Anderson
Where are your sons?" asked the prince.
"Well, it's not so easy to give an answer when you ask a stupid question!" said the woman.
- Hans Christian Anderson
Oh, Black known and unknown poets, how often have your auctioned pains sustained us? Who will compute the lonely nights made less lonely by your songs, or by the empty pots made less tragic by your tales?
If we were a people much given to revealing secrets, we might raise monuments and sacrifice to the memories of our poets, but slavery cured us of that weakness.
- Maya Angelou
Rather than argue, Amanda smiled at him. "And then what will you do while your son or daughter is in charge of your store and your companies?"
"I'll spend my days and nights pleasing you," he said. "It's a challenging occupation, after all." He laughed and dodged as she went to swat his attractive backside.
- Lisa Kleypas
I heard your song the moment we were born. And years later, it dragged me back from the lake of the half-dead when all I wanted to do was die. Each time someone tried to kill me, it sang its tune and gave me hope.
- Melina Marchetta
Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.
- Oscar Wilde
Your days are your sonnets.
- Oscar Wilde
I want your opinion on the best way to proceed. (Eli)
I'd start by killing your son and his crew of idiots before their stupidity spreads to anyone else and infects them. (Varyk)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
who could blame her for that? he personally couldn't think of any woman who would welcome that news. Hey hon, guess what? your son that you nurtured in your body for nine months and then sacrificed your life and dignity to raise is destined to end th world. Aren't you proud?
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops.
- Brendan Behan
All of our songs take these really big creative turns and twists throughout the process, so sometimes songs will start out as a melody or some musical chord progressions.
- Chester Bennington
What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!
- Georges Bernanos
Obviously the biggest change is that it's me by myself. When you don't have another band interpreting your songs or playing them the way that they have, it's bound to sound different.
- Nuno Bettencourt
The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
- John Dryden
Our son shall win.
QUEEN-He is fat and scant of breath. Here Hamlet, Wipe thy brow.
- William Shakespeare
If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone.
- Anne Bronte
I finished your song, she said. Our last song. And I want to play it for you.
- Nicholas Sparks
Take heart, sir," Cazaril consoled him. "It is not your destiny today to win a royacy for your son. It is to win an empire for your grandson.
- Lois Mcmaster Bujold
Percy, lesser beings do many horrible things in the name of the gods. That does not mean we gods approve. The way our sons and daughters act in our names... well, it usually says more about THEM than it does about us.
- Rick Riordan
Poseidon put his weathered hand on my shoulder. Percy, lesser beings do many horrible things in the name of the gods. That does not mean we gods approve. The way our sons and daughters act in our names...well, it usually says more about them than it does about us. And you, Percy, are my favorite son.
- Rick Riordan
By Oppression's woes and pains!
By your sons in servile chains!
We will drain our dearest veins,
But they shall be free!
Lay the proud usurpers low!
Tyrants fall in every foe!
Liberty's in every blow!
Let us do or die!
- Robert Burns
My diagnosis," he said
"for better or worse,
is that your son is the result
of an old pharaoh's curse.
- Tim Burton
So that day, in music assembly, the teacher asked who knew the valley song. Your hand shot right up in the air. She stood you up on a stool and had you sing it for us. And I swear, every bird outside the windows fell silent...and right when your song ended, I knew - just like your mother - I was a goner.
- Suzanne Collins
No, it happened. And right when your song ended, I knew - just like your mother - I was a goner,' Peeta says.
- Suzanne Collins
And right when your song ended I knew - just like your mother - I was a goner," Peeta says. "Then for the next eleven years, I tried to work up the nerve to talk to you.
- Suzanne Collins
your song, what does it know?
Deepinsnow,
Eepinow,
E-i-o.
- Paul Celan
Our son is in school now. You know, he's six-and-a-half and so a big chunk of the day is taken up by school. So I'm hoping that I'll be able to certainly take him to school in the morning, maybe pick him up in the afternoon and come back to work.
- Connie Chung
Do not trouble about those who practice philosophy, whether they are good or bad; but examine the thing itself well and carefully. And if philosophy appears a bad thing to you, turn every man from it, not only your sons; but if it appears to you such as I think it to be, take courage, pursue it, and practice it, as the saying is, 'both you and your house.
- Socrates
You make your son out to be to be almost an idiot; well let me tell you something, Mrs Loan, if he were a complete idiot, drooling at the mouth, he'd still be a better person then you.
- Catherine Cookson
And at the last all shall be safe, and evil thrust out never to return. And so that the trust be kept, he said, I give it into your charge, and your sons', and your sons' sons, until the day come.
- Susan Cooper
It's great when you play to an audience that knows the words to all your songs, and sings them back to you.
- Chris Cornell
Sherlock said, 'He eats Cheerios for breakfast with our son, Sean,' and smiled. 'I eat a slice of wheat toast with crunchy peanut butter.
- Catherine Coulter
Even in the beginning, when we knew there was a legal argument about how much our song sounds like his song, as one songwriter to another, I wasn't sure that Cat Stevens would take that as bad.
- Wayne Coyne
Mother, whose heart hung humble as a button the bright splendid shroud of your son,
Do not weep.
War is kind.
- Stephen Crane
When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting.
- Sheryl Crow
Get haven to my house and fix her before your son resorts to resuscitating people just to kill them again.
- J M Darhower
As Commander in Chief of the United States Military, I will never send our sons and daughters and our brothers and sisters to die in a foreign land without telling the truth about why they're going there.
- Howard Dean
You may choose your song, but know this: Tiny. Cooper. Hates. Over. The. Rainbow.
- John Green
If you had to chose one half of your son, which one would it be?"
What kind of a question is that?!"
No need to snap. It was just a question.
- Johnny Depp
It's amazing when you're playing to a crowd who barely understands English but they're singing parts of your song back to you.
- Jason Derulo
The advantage is I have my family with me all the time. When your daughter takes her first steps or says her first words and your son is going through potty training, I'm not missing any of those things.
- Larry Dixon
Well, sir, embrace me once, as you would embrace your daughter, and I swear to you that that kiss, the only chaste kiss I have ever had, will make me strong against my love, and that within a week your son will be once more at your side, perhaps unhappy for a time, but cured forever.
- Alexandre Dumas Fils
May your heart always be joyful. May your song always be sung.
- Bob Dylan
Grieve not, then, if your sons seem to desert you, but rejoice, rather, seeing the will of God done gladly.
- Jim Elliot
Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
- Epictetus
Our songs travel the earth. We sing to one another. Not a single note is ever lost and no song is original. They all come from the same place and go back to a time when only the stones howled.
- Louise Erdrich
Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science for to fill your heart with love is enough.
- Richard P Feynman
This is much easier than when N left. Our son is unable to grasp and simultaneously turn doorknobs yet. If only this trick could be unlearned by men over thirty, many more families would celebrate Christmas together.
- Suzanne Finnamore
If you only do little clusters - three or four songs by one, and another, and then yet another - you lose the opportunity to think your way into the composer's mind, since, after all, most of these pieces are quite brief.
- Dietrich Fischerdieskau
My family always comes first. My world revolves around my husband, Peter, our daughter, Victoria, and our son, William, but not necessarily in that order. Then, it's this fascinating world of publishing that devours most of my days and many nights.
- Dorothea Benton Frank
Are you - are you sad?"
- No.
"But your - your songs are sad."
- My songs are of time and distance. The sadness is in you. Watch my arms. There is only the dance. These things you treasure are shells.
- William Gibson
Thank God I have four sons. The mother/daughter relationship is one of mankind's great mysteries, and for womankind, it can be hellaciously complicated. My mother and I are quintessential examples of the rewards and frustrations, and the joys and infuriations it can yield.
- Melissa Gilbert
War is good business Invest your son
- Allen Ginsberg
When every piece of furniture and your underwear are taken by the bank, when you lose your house in Florida, in New York, in Amsterdam and L.A., when your wife is dying and your son abandons you, you don't feel very good.
- Al Goldstein
The money is mine, not yours," Reginald reminded her. "You ungrateful wretch. I found you an earl to marry, and your son will be an earl."
"You chose yourself a son-in-law," Regina said. "You traded me for a title."
"You will thank me"
"for dying and leaving me in peace."
"You will regret those words some day."
"I can manage the regret, if not my own finances.
- Patricia Grasso
There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.
- Franz Grillparzer
When you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It's inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting.
- Dave Grohl
There's a lot of people out there who have seen us once somewhere in a pub or heard our songs late night on radio. We'd done four years of it before we'd even released a single. It's put us in good stead.
- Dan Hawkins
Our songs touch people, and take them back to a time when there was no threat of terrorism, when you didn't have to lock your doors and when Mom and Dad took care of everything.
- George Grove
The world is filled with people who are no longer needed. And who try to make slaves of all of us. And they have their music and we have ours. Theirs, the wasted songs of a superstitious nightmare. And without their music and ideological miscarriages to compare our songs of freedom to, we'd not have any opposite to compare music with --- and like the drifting wind, hitting against no obstacle, we'd never know its speed, its power...
- Woody Guthrie
Puffy produced four of the tracks on the album. Those are the four songs that are collaborations between Puffy and me. And he gives me my space to work even when we work together, like with my producer and my vocal coach.
- Jennifer Lopez
The biggest thrill you can have is to tell people one of your songs, and have them be able to hum it.
- Marvin Hamlisch
Real data is messy....It's all very noisy out there. Very hard to spot the tune. Like a piano in the next room, it's playing your song, but unfortunately it's out of whack, some of the strings are missing, and the pianist is tone deaf and drunk- I mean, the noise! Impossible!
- Tom Stoppard
Working with Yahoo! allows us to give our fans a chance to listen to our songs, check out the video, purchase our new album, win tickets to our show, and chat with us all in one place.
- Isaac Hanson
He may be your son, but it was my old boyfriend who got him in trouble. He lied to you. He lied to me. And I'm going up there so I can kick Nick's ass from here to the ever-after.
- Kim Harrison
Piter spoke to Jessica. "I'd thought of binding you by a threat held over your son, but I begin to see that would not have worked. I let emotion cloud reason. Bad policy for a Mentat."
-Piter De Vries
- Frank Herbert
Okay, Charlie, you can do this, all you have to do is convince a career military man that your son shouldn't join the Army. That shouldn't be too hard, right?
- Tamara Hoffa
From a very early age, my wife and I told our son that there are times and places for everything. I told him, look, when you're in class, you have to be quiet and listen to your teacher, but when you go out to the playground, you can scream and be silly.
- Mark Hoppus
Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.
- Julia Ward Howe
I'll not always be here on guard. The stars twinkle in the Milky Way and the wind sighs for songs across the empty fields of a planet a Galaxy away.
You won't always be here.
But before you go, whisper this to your sons and their sons - The work was free. Keep it so.
- L Ron Hubbard
You can love someone like your son, even if he's not your biological son, and you can love someone like your father, even if he's not your biological father.
- Oliver Hudson
We need to get our sons and daughters home and their responsibility for the security of Iraq needs to be assumed by Iraqis who will stand up and toe the line for their countries.
- Jay Inslee
You named your son's pet after a rabid monster dog?"
"No," Thanatos growled. "Wraith did. Bastard taught the pup to respond to Cujo, and we couldn't get him to respond to anything else after that.
- Larissa Ione
We know our son. We know he's not a pedophile like some of these newscasters are saying. That is not true.
- Joseph Jackson
Piers looked up at him. 'You're new. What's your name?'
'Neythen, my lord.'
'Sounds like a terrible illness. No, more like a bowel problem. I'm sorry, Lord Sandys, your son has contracted neythen and won't live a month. No, no, there's nothing I can do. Sandys would have preferred hearing that to syphilis.
- Eloisa James
[He] went on to tell her that certain work songs made the work a little easier, but that there were others, depending upon the time of day, that dragged a body down, so 'you just gotta be careful with your songs and your hummin' and whatnot.
- Edward P Jones
I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
- Adam Jones
A child is owed the greatest respect; if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't ignore your son's tender years.
- Juvenal
I have good news and I have bad news. The good news is that your house hasn't burned down, you don't have cancer, and your daughter hasn't been raped or murdered. The bad news is that I ran over your dog. And your son. And his wife. But not before I ran out of gas to achieve all of that.
- Jarod Kintz
A blanket, coupled with an impressive erection, could serve as a suitable replacement for a lost tent at next year's "Bring your son to work night" at NAMBLA's manufacturing plant. What does NAMBLA make? NAMBLA makes me sick.
- Jarod Kintz
I think for new artists the hardest thing is putting the face with a name. People maybe heard our song on the radio or something but until they get several impressions of who you are - from whatever it is, whether TV or a live show, I feel like they don't quite connect the dots.
- Charles Kelley
Even now, my husband Jerry, our son Matthew and I live only five minutes away from my parents home, and my brothers live about ten minutes away. It's been great having such a supportive family.
- Nancy Kerrigan
When you work on an album for three and a half years, you're kind of ready for it to get out there. To have your songs reach people.
- Kimbra
If you can't get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
- B B King
If we have another 2,000 people killed, I want Nancy Pelosi and George Soros, John Conyers and Pat Leahy to go to the funeral and say, 'Your son was vaporized because we didn't want to dump some guy's head under water for 30 seconds.'
- Peter King
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
Hi-Tek is on three or four songs on the new record.
- Talib Kweli
Hail to St. Aegolius
Our Alma Mater.
Hail, our song we raise in praise of thee
Long in the memory of every loyal owl
Thy splendid banner emblazoned be.
Now to thy golden talons
Homage we're bringing.
Guiding symbol of our hopes and fears
Hark to the cries of eternal praises ringing
Long may we triumph in the coming years.
- The Owls of St. Aegolius
- Kathryn Lasky
We have parties at my house. My girlfriends and I play our iPods, with all of our favorite songs. We pick our songs and jump up on the counter and dance, and do runway stuff, and we take video with my camera. When I'm with my girlfriends, I act like I'm 19.
- Avril Lavigne
It's nice if people ask to use your song. You have to make a decision as an artist how you feel about that.
- Jared Leto
I say, Father, the years have brought me here, still your son, they have brought me to a life I cannot understand.
- Philip Levine
I have a beautiful son, I don't regret it, I'm very proud of the way that we handle our relationship and the way that we keep our son first and that's our priority.
- Nia Long
... our sons must become men such men as we hope our daughters, born and unborn, will be pleased to live among. Our sons will not grow into women. Their
way is more difficult than that of our daughters, for they must move away from us, without us. Hopefully ours have what they have learned from us, and a howness to forge into their own image.
- Audre Lorde
You've got to really know your song, inside and out.
- Nick Lowe
Seek not that your sons and your daughters should not see visions, should not dream dreams; seek that they should see true visions, that they should dream noble dreams. Such out-going of the imagination is one with aspiration, and will do more to elevate above what is low and vile than all possible inculcations of morality.
- George Macdonald
Yeah, if someone's selling downloads and collecting money for our songs I would be unhappy about that but if they're trading it I don't mind, obviously if I make a thousand records or CDs or whatever, I like to sell a thousand.
- Ian Mackaye
I probably made a few pictures I shouldn't have done, but I have four sons and I have to pay the rent. If you have a decision to make about whether or not you can buy groceries at the market or whether or not you're going to make a bad movie, you're going to make a bad movie.
- Michael Madsen
Harper, your song has a sorrowful sound,
Though the tune was written as gay.
Your voice is sad and your hands are slow
And your eye meeting mine turns away.
- Anne Mccaffrey
Harper, treat your words with care
For they may cause joy or despair
Sing your songs of health and love
Of dragons flaming from above
- Anne Mccaffrey
Sing your song. Dance your dance. Tell your tale.
- Frank Mccourt
You can't listen to what people who aren't musical have to say. When Anytime was released, I had bad reviews, and at first I was hurt. Your songs are like your children. You don't want to hear, 'Your kid is ugly.' But I knew the record was good and it would sell.
- Brian Mcknight
If you don't like men who physically abuse women, stop telling your son it's okay to hit a little girl if she's bothering him.
- Karen E Quinones Miller
To reminisce with my old friends, a chance to share some memories, and play our songs again.
- Ricky Nelson
Our darling Roberta,
No sorrow shall hurt her
If we can prevent it
Her whole life long.
Her birthday's our fete day,
We'll make it our great day,
And give her our presents
And sing her our song.
May pleasures attend her
And may the Fates send her
The happiest journey
Along her life's way.
With skies bright above her
And dear ones to love her!
Dear Bob! Many happy
Returns of the day!
- E Nesbit
You let their friendship continue because Maisie looks after your son while you're gallivanting around the country disguised as Sherlock Holmes - Uncle Paton Yewbeam
- Jenny Nimmo
There's an element of tongue-in-cheek in every one of our songs. Walking off into the sunset, holding hands, and being married forever was not exactly a brand new idea.
- Peter Noone
To the families of special needs children all across this country I have a message for you: for years you have sought to make America a more welcoming place for your sons and daughters, and I pledge to you that if we're elected, you will have a friend, an advocate, in The White House.
- Sarah Palin
I'm just one of many moms who will say an extra prayer each night for our sons and daughters going into harm's way.
- Sarah Palin
I'm delighted about the track's success in the sports world, but the frustrating thing is, I don't think I got rich on it. The labels and publishers did very cheap deals on our songs.
- Alan Parsons
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
- Pope John Paul Ii
Sing your song
Dance your dance
Tell your story
I will Listen and remember
- Utah Phillips
I look and there's our boy from Vietnam and our daughter from Ethiopia, and our girl was born in Namibia, and our son is from Cambodia, and they're brothers and sisters, man. They're brothers and sisters and it's a sight for elation.
- Brad Pitt
Sing little box
Don't let sleep overtake you
The world's awake within you
In your four-sided emptiness
We turn distance into nearness
Forgetfulness into memory
Don't let your nails come loose
For the very first time
We watch sights beyond this world
Through your keyhole
Turn your key in our mouths
Swallow words and numbers
Out of your song
Don't let your lid fly open
Your bottom drop
Sing little box
- Vasko Popa
I started listening to and playing other music in the '90s. It was after hearing other bands, like Bad Religion, cover Ramones songs that I started to like our songs again.
- Dee Dee Ramone
But if you want to be a songwriter-based musician, whether you play punk or rock or country or jazz, whatever, you have to work on your songwriting and you have to work on being able to play in front of people, I think. That performance is how you create the groundwork for a lasting career.
- Amy Ray
To this day I get mail from women who say, I went to law school because of your song. But I would hate to think out of the wide spectrum of things I have done in my career, that's all I would be remembered for.
- Helen Reddy
Well, our songwriting process is pretty collective.
- Adam Rich
If I only have ten minutes, Sam, this is what I want to say. You're not the best of us. You're more than that. You're better than all of us. If I only have ten minutes, I would tell you to go out there and live. I'd say...please take your guitar and sing your songs to as many people as you can. Please fold a thousand more of those damn birds of yours. Please kiss that girl a million times.
- Maggie Stiefvater
If you can keep your son off the pipe and your daughter off the pole, you're ahead of the game.
- Chris Rock
I had said to some pastor that I was having thoughts, and the church turned on me. They went to my mom and said, So sorry about your son.
- Jai Rodriguez
Becoming a dad means you have to be a role model for your son and be someone he can look up to.
- Wayne Rooney
How can you approve of them? Does it not bother you that your son, your only son, the very last male to carry the Garrett name, goes home from work every night to another man? That doesn't offend your sensibilities?" "Not one bit," Harrison said. He picked up his newspaper again. "At least he looks forward to going home.
- Abigail Roux
The prospect of calling Zane's parents to tell them he was seriously injured, and oh, by the way, I'm your son's partner who let him go by himself into the building that blew up, nice to meet you, has he told you he likes cock?
- Abigail Roux
We sing songs about love because we love the people we sing our songs to!
- Graham Russell
I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.
- Jeanpaul Sartre
You're not going to throw this away, are you?" she says, and she'll be talking about the grains of rice in the bottom of the salt shaker. "No, Mrs. Peacock, by all means, you take them. They'll come in handy when your son gets out of prison and marries your niece.
- David Sedaris
Claire was going to hate me. Our son was sucked into the pits of hell while I was watching General Hospital. God damn you Brenda and Sonny for making me lose focus.
- Tara Sivec
My daughter is a freshman in college and my son is - well, our daughter and our son - is a sophomore in college. So they come home on selected weekends, they come home on vacations and they're home in the summer, although they have jobs.
- Erika Slezak
Your sons weren't made to like you. That's what grandchildren are for.
- Jane Smiley
We'll leave now, so that this moment will remain a perfect memory...let it be our song and think of me every time you hear it.
- Betty Smith
If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately.
- Robert Smith
And then the second thing you have to do is go and see your son. That is a duty of love, Andrew. It's as simple as that. A duty of love. Do you understand what I'm saying to you?
- Alexander Mccall Smith
When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course.
- Stephen Spender
We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
- Gloria Steinem
Small things such as this have saved me: how much I love my mothereven after all these years. How powerfully I carry her within me. My grief is tremendous but my love is bigger. So is yours. You are not grieving your son's death because his death was ugly and unfair. You're grieving it because you loved him truly. The beauty in that is greater than the bitterness of his death.
- Cheryl Strayed
When you meet a man in the doorway of a Mexican restaurant who later kisses you while explaining that this kiss doesn't "mean anything" because, much as he likes you, he is not interested in having a relationship with you or anyone right now, just laugh and kiss him back. Your daughter will have his sense of humor. Your son will have his eyes.
- Cheryl Strayed
You can go back to blacksmithing in Hintindar and live a quiet happy life. Do me a favor and marry some pretty farm girl and train your son to beat the crap out of imperial knights."
"Sure," Hadrian told him. "And with any luck he'll make friends with a cynical burglar who'll do nothing but torment him.
- Michael J Sullivan
You know, being an entertainer is partly being on the road, and a lot of your songs come from the road.
- Mel Tillis
The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game. He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we drove off. Gosh, I was proud.
- Bob Uecker
The sheriff peered over his eyeglasses and said, Your son is a suspect in the murder.
- Jeannie Walker
I mean, I get letters in the mail because I had a heart defect when I was one, I had surgeries and stuff. And so you get these letters in the mail that just, they are crazy, they are just like, yes, well our son is dealing with the same thing and we saw you on TV and I mean it is such a cool thing to inspire and kind of give hope.
- Shaun White
There is no thing that with a twist of the imagination cannot be something else. Porpoises risen in a green sea, the wind at nightfall bending the rose- red grasses and you- in your apron hurrying to catch- say it seems to you to be your son. How ridiculous! You will pass up into a cloud and look back at me, not count the scribbling foolish that put wings at your heels, at your knees.
- William Carlos Williams
The songs were really complicated. I used to meet people in bar bands who were trying to play our songs and they were really struggling with it. Technically it was really difficult stuff.
- Kip Winger
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