Well, he says – and all the blood rushed out of my face, I didn't know what he was fixin' to say – all your grandfather said at the time was: 'I told him, yes, son, God can help you.' And he moved on, didn't quote scripture or anything.
Yes, son, fortunately we can.
Yes son, there's your grit.
"Dad... .. "Yes, son?" "What is this game about?
They loved me, everything is great, people hanging from the rafters, and just for fun, the eighth or ninth question I recognized one of my friends, and I said, "Yes, son, what's your question?" He said, "Well, I have two — how old are you really, and is your hair real?" A lot of those guys, they don't understand why they're not onstage instead of me.
At 5 o'clock on a vacation morn, I tap my sleeping boy on the shoulder and whisper, "Son," and he replies, "Dad?" and I say, "Time to go sport fishing," and he says, "Dad," and I say, "Yes, son?" and he says, "Get out of my room".
Let's pause for a moment to acknowledge that yes, sons often take on this role and handle it splendidly.
"A lot of mothers don't get to hang out with their sons – daughters, yes; sons no.
Let's help them do it safely, so their daughters -- and, yes, sons -- can do it too.
I say, "Yes, yes, my son," and kiss him absentmindedly on his head.
John was the famous Massachusetts patriot, and yes, his son John Quincy was Massachusetts-born, too.
