Prodigal sons like Barack Obama, Kanye West, and Michael Jordan only come back to Chicago to sell their homes.
On ‘Sons of Anarchy’, Wendy and Nero are the only characters who really don’t have an agenda that has to do with anything but their love for their children, their love for their mates, their love for their friends.
All I’m saying is that there are many different kinds of political theatre and many plays I greatly admire: ‘Antigone,’ ‘Mother Courage,’ ‘All My Sons.’ But, if I tackle a political theme, I have to do it in my own way.
Black fathers are often disappointed if their sons aren’t good at sports. Not excelling at sports as a black boy meant not being cool – even weirder, it meant not really being black.
I would like to have seen my sons growing up.
I still love cricket and being involved. That ranges from commentating on Big Bash cricket to coaching my sons under-15 team.
The experience of creating my adventure games was, other than marrying my husband and bringing into the world my two sons, the most fulfilling, wonderful experience I ever had.
I would definitely love 20 more sons. The mother-son connection is pretty incredible.
I am stopping so I can be a full-time father to my two young sons on a daily basis.
I have got two sons and they are seven and five and I believe that the most difficult thing in this world is to be a working mother. Being a working mother doesn’t give you a chance to be lazy.
I have three sons, and I think we’re both fierce protectors of our children.
Diana introduced me to Princes William and Harry. Diana just wanted her sons to know what was happening in her life.
All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.
I don’t know, maybe my sons will be gay.
I don’t make my own schedule – it’s constructed around my sons’ school schedules.
In marriage, it’s always that give and take and rebalancing that we have to do in how we can help each other. But, I have been known at times by my sons, that is the name that they call me-the Mitt stabilizer.
Abe Ribicoff believes in that American dream. I believe it from the bottom of my heart, and your sons and daughters, too, can have the American dream come true.
We’re all sons and daughters of God, and therefore in a very literal sense, brothers and sisters. And we ought to treat each other that way.
No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.
My sons have such a deep access to my heart.
As a manager you have to be positive to your guys, as a father to his sons, and that was one thing I really didn’t have.
My sons are into German music, but they are into all kinds of music.
I may never know what type of effect I have on my sons, just like Granny never knew the effect she had on me. So I just try and make the best decisions that I can, be the best father that I can.
In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.
I like Drake, I like Rihanna, I like Beyonce, I like Mumford and Sons, and Coldplay.
Mothers unconsciously allow more latitude to sons, and open encouragement, and with daughters they treat them as they would treat themselves.
The dynamic of fathers and sons seems to be more around competition regarding things such as knowledge, accomplishments, expertise.
I don’t watch ‘MTV’. Our sons watch ‘Jersey Shore’ sometimes. I walk through the room, and I get disgusted, and I leave, and I give them a hard time about it.
I think the first thing that my sons will tell you, that I never tried to be their coach. And I didn’t give them as much advice as some people might think, being a former player myself and a former quarterback. If they asked, I gave them my opinion.
Just as a son, to be a son of man, must be of the same nature and spirit of his father; so with the sons of God, and so it will be with all who are born of the spirit of God.
My four sons all knew I was a Jew, but they were allowed to be whatever they wanted to be. The only thing important to me was that they be good people who help other people, because all religion should try to make you a better person and a more caring person. Whenever religion does that for you, it’s a good religion.
I feel incredibly fortunate to have had the level of success I’ve had. I was just writing stories for my own sons.
He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons.
I read the ‘Kapoor & Sons’ script in a half hour, forty five minutes. Not because I skimming through it… I read it like a book. By the end, I was blown away. I picked up the phone and said, ‘This script is gold.’
We went to open-mike night at a comedy club called Stanford & Sons and the comics were terrible. My cousin dared me to get up there and, well, he was challenging my manhood. I had to do it.
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!
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.
When I watch my sons play, I think, God, acting’s the most natural thing in the world. They take the ‘Star Wars’ characters and say, ‘Let’s pretend that I’m Hans and you’re Luke and that we’re on this planet,’ etc.
A kshatriya woman’s highest purpose in life is to support the warriors in her life: her father, brother, husband and sons.
The Jewish people asked nothing of its sons except not to be denied. The world is grateful to every great man when he brings it something; only the paternal home thanks the son who brings nothing but himself.
I love my family, they love me. And my little brothers, they’re like my sons. I raised them.
And we’ve also had now the speaker of the Parliament in Iraq using blatantly anti-Semitic remarks, saying the Jews and sons of Jews are the problem of all the violence that’s in Iraq.
I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
All of our sons and daughters ought to have the same opportunity to experience the joy and stability of marriage.
Ignorant people are apt to overrate the value of what is called education. The sons of the poor, having suffered the privations of poverty, think of wealth as the mother of joy.
Every coal miner I talked to had, in his history, at least one story of a cave-in. ‘Yeah, he got covered up,’ is a way coal miners refer to fathers and brothers and sons who got buried alive.
I sit my three sons down and say, ‘Listen to me. When the police stop you, immediately comply. Don’t walk away, don’t smart-mouth; get your hands up and get down on the ground.’ If you’re not black, you might not have to have that conversation, but I go over and over it with them because I don’t want that phone call.
If you try singling me out to my mother, she’ll be down your throat. She has three sons, and she’s equally proud of us all.
Football is multigenerational. It used to be about fathers taking their sons. Now we’re taking our daughters, too.
Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
It’s not just the players, it’s the culture. Sometimes it’s the people around them; the people who are looking after them – the money they’re given. Some of the families give up their jobs and live off their sons. That would never have happened 10 years ago.
I am the father of twin sons that were born in Philadelphia at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1983. They were 13 weeks premature. Gerry weighed 1 pound 14 ounces, and Zachary 1 pound 11 ounces. They were the first male twins to ever survive at Pennsylvania Hospital.
Once boys’ and men’s challenges are clear, the question ‘why now’ quickly becomes ‘why didn’t we see this sooner?’ The answer? Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable.
I tell my sons, I say, if you’re going somewhere, you don’t have to wear a hoodie – we live in New York, so a hoodie and all that is all good. But sometimes, you know, button up your shirt. Clean up.
To my three sons, Peter, Scott, and Alexander who pulled me from the 18th Century and back into the present on a regular basis and therefore made me a better person, thank you. And to my wife, who sits at the table there. Who is right about almost everything.
Culturally, I have always been part of the proletariat. I lived side by side with the sons of glassblowers, fishermen and smugglers. The stories they told were shaper satires about the hypocrisy of authority and the middle classes, the two-facedness of teachers and lawyers and politicians. I was born politicized.
I deal with my sons like young men. If they have a problem with something, they come to me. I am the type of dad that will drop everything I am doing for them, and always tell them to talk to me about it.
My second wife, the mother of one of my sons, died of murder. I was not with her, but I could have saved her. I think.
Your sons weren’t made to like you. That’s what grandchildren are for.
