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Son Quotes


"If you listen to the left track on their album, if you get The Best of the Mamas and Papas, you listen to the left track, you can still hear a little bit of my voice. My son discovered that once."


"Your prodigal son has left again to exorcise some demons."



"I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants."


"He wants to live on through something-and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. all of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world."


"One night I went over to get some dope from some Hollywood tough guy. After I left, my son Scott, who was only fifteen, went over with a baseball bat to kill him. I was laughing out of one eye and crying out of the other. I thought, Who am I kidding?"


"I can't say too much about it because I don't know a lot. We're not told what's in store for our characters until we turn up to shoot the episode. But it's fair to say that Betty and her son bring a brand new mystery to the street and they will be around all season."


"My son don't have to say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud. He don't have to be called those crazy names."


"Yeah, my son likes a lot of guitar bands. He gave me something the other day which was really good. He'll burn a CD for me full of things that he has, so he's a pretty good call if I want to check some of that stuff out... The other two aren't quite into that yet."


"The French never allow a distinguished son of France to lack a statue."


"I'd also say having Jack's son Chris living with us from his 13th year on helped in raising Rick."


"If I had known it I would have told my son, I'd rather shoot you than let you join the SS. But I didn't know."
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"We often don't think of them, we think of the great wars and the great battles, but what about losing a son or a daughter, or a girl losing her husband or vice versa? I think of the people who never got the chance to have the opportunities I had."


"I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich."


"The ukulele was the first of many instruments they had bought for me. They got me a guitar when I was eleven, which my son Morgan uses until this day. They paid for 3 years of guitar lessons; they bought me a bass fiddle, which I still play."


"Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson."
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