Son Quotes

I tried a few times, unsuccessfully, to lose weight. It wasn’t until I joined Weight Watchers that I was finally able to do it. I went to meetings and my son came with me. The best thing was that I could eat what I wanted and still lose weight. Slow and steady, I was getting my pre-pregnancy body back.

Mothers are inscrutable beings to their sons, always.

My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

I listen to my mother, and that keeps me out of trouble. I’m a good son.

A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.

When a father complains that his son has taken to evil ways, what should he do? Love him more than ever.

God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.

He hesitated for a moment. Then he said softly, “I love you, Mother.” He took my hand and kissed it, and folded my fingers round the stem of the rose. He had stripped it of its thorns.

Life guided me to being a bodyguard, protecting people, then in the movies, so I’m happy with everything because basically all I ever wanted to do was be a good son and take care of my mother.