Your Son Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science for to fill your heart with love is enough.
- Richard P Feynman

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sing your song
Dance your dance
Tell your story
I will Listen and remember
- Utah Phillips

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

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

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

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

Your sons weren't made to like you. That's what grandchildren are for.
- Jane Smiley

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

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

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