Father And Son Quotes:

To be calm when you've found something going on

- Cat Stevens

source: Song: Father and Son, Album: Saturnight, 1970

topic: Father, Father And Son, Calm

No love is greater than that of a father for His son.

- Dan Brown

topic: Birthday, Father, Son, Father And Son

You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes, even if it's just in your own eyes.

- Wally Schirra

topic: Fathers Day, Hero, Eye, Sons Love, Inspirational Father

There is nothing like wounded affection for giving poignancy to anger.

- Elizabeth Gaskell

source: Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1967, Delphi Classics

topic: Father, Anger, Giving, Father And Son, Poignancy

It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

- Friedrich Schiller

topic: Family, Thank You, Fathers Day, Happy Family, Inspirational Father

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

- Jim Valvano

topic: Basketball, Fathers Day, Dad, Father Died, Inspirational Father

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

- James A. Baldwin

topic: Fathers Day, Son, Earth, Sons Love, Father And Son

The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.

- Confucius

topic: Fathers Day, Son, Doe, Sons Love, Inspirational Father

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

topic: Fathers Day, Teaching, Son, Mother Son, Mother And Son

There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.

- Samuel Johnson

topic: Fathers Day, Struggle, Son, Love My Dad, Father And Son

For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time, each eager to help the other to his side, but neither quite able to desert the loyalties of his contemporaries. The relationship is always changing and hence always fragile; nothing endures except the sense of difference.

- Alan Valentine

topic: Loyalty, Fathers Day, Son, Father And Son

It's a father's duty to give his sons a fine chance.

- George Eliot

topic: Father, Son, Giving, Father And Son

Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.

- Evelyn Waugh

topic: Father, Son, Guests, Father And Son

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

- Theodore Hesburgh

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Happy Family, Marriage Advice

Frank Capra was a prop man, I think. John Ford was a prop man. It was a little bit of a father and son thing, and you kind of worked your way up.

- Francis Ford Coppola

source: "Five Oscars as a Producer, Director and Screenwriter". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. June 17, 1994.

topic: Father, Son, Men, Father And Son

In this movie, you have all the things you love from Tim. All the magic and the whimsy and the surreal, but he also has a fantastic story of a father and son that really gets under your skin.

- Danny DeVito

topic: Father, Son, Magic, Things You Love, Father And Son

I haven't done a lot of things in my career that my kids can watch, because they are 8, 6 and 3, and they are pretty young; so given the concepts that the film was about a superhero, it was a black superhero, and it was a father and son type partnership.

- Blair Underwood

topic: Father, Kids, Son, Father And Son

Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Daughter, Mother, Father, Considerate, Father And Son

What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Fathers Day, Son, Daddy, Sons Love, Father And Son

[My father] loved me tenderly and shyly from a distance, and later on took a naive pride in seeing my name in print.

- Arthur Koestler

source: Arthur Koestler (1952). “Arrow in the blue: an autobiography”

topic: Father, Distance, Pride, Father And Son

Dad - a son's first hero, a daughter's first love.

- John Walter Bratton

topic: Daughter, Dad, Hero, Dad Love, Daughter To Father

With sons and fathers, there's an inexplicable connection and imprint that your father leaves on you.

- Brad Pitt

topic: Father, Son, Connections, Father And Son

My father and I were never intimate in the sense of my coming to him with confidences or seeking advice. Our relationship was rather that of host and guest. Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.

- Evelyn Waugh

topic: Father, Son, Advice, Father And Son

The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.

- Garrison Keillor

topic: Daughter, Fathers Day, Running, Lake Wobegon, Dad Love

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

- Clarence Budington Kelland

topic: Fathers Day, Dad, Loss, Sons Love, Father Died

A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.

- Marlene Dietrich

topic: Fathers Day, Kings, Dad, Sons Love, Moral Dilemma

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

topic: Fathers Day, Dad, Men, Inspirational Father, Daughter To Father

Father and son are natural enemies and each is happier and more secure in keeping it that way.

- John Steinbeck

source: John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.53, Penguin

topic: Father, Son, Enemy, Father And Son, Natural Enemies

That the Father and Son would love sinners that much is beyond our comprehension--but it ought to awaken a response of love and gratitude within our hearts that will change our lives forever!

- Dave Hunt

topic: Gratitude, Father, Heart, Father And Son

To her, the name of father was another name for love.

- Fanny Fern

topic: Dad, Father, Names, Inspirational Father, Great Father

A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.

- Helen Rowland

source: Helen Rowland (1909). “Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”

topic: Fathers Day, Dad, Son, Inspirational Father, Father And Son

The greatest gift I ever had Came from God; I call him Dad!

- John Walter Bratton

topic: Dad, Daddy, Father Died, Inspirational Father, My Dad Died

He followed in his father's footsteps, but his gait was somewhat erratic.

- Nicolas Bentley

topic: Father, Son, Erratic, Footsteps, Father And Son

The relationship between officers and men should in no sense be that of superior and inferior, nor that of master and servant, but rather that of teacher and scholar. In fact, it should partake of the nature of the relationship between father and son, to the extent that officers, especially commanding officers, are responsible for the physical, mental, and moral welfare, as well as the discipline and military training of the young men under their command.

- John A. Lejeune

topic: Teacher, Military, Father, Masters And Servants, Military Training

Some fathers and sons don't get along that well when they're younger because they can't find a way to reach each other, ... A father loves you dearly but you don't see it and so you're always trying to please your father, but your father doesn't let you know how he feels, which is, you don't have to please him because he already loves you.

- Braylon Edwards

topic: Father, Love You, Son, Father And Son

Today at school I will learn to read at once; then tomorrow I will begin to write, and the day after tomorrow to cipher. Then with my acquirements I will earn a great deal of money, and with the first money I have in my pocket I will immediately buy for my papa a beautiful new cloth coat. But what am I saying? Cloth, indeed! It shall be all made of gold and silver, and it shall have diamond buttons. That poor man really deserves it; for to buy me books and to have me taught he has remained in his shirt sleeves... And in this cold! It is only fathers who are capable of such sacrifices!...

- Carlo Collodi

topic: Beautiful, Father, Book, Ciphers, Father And Son

We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.

- Alexander Pope

source: Alexander Pope (1850*). “The works of Alexander Pope. With notes by dr. Warburton”, p.203

topic: Funny, Wise, Father, Our Father, Father And Son

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Fathers Day, Son, Giving, Sons Love, Inspirational Father

If I could give you one thought, it would be to lift someone up. Lift a stranger up--lift her up. I would ask you, mother and father, brother and sister, lovers, mother and daughter, father and son, lift someone. The very idea of lifting someone up will lift you, as well.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Daughter, Mother, Brother, Father And Son

Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of kings - stories that taught us of the danger of hubris and the primacy of humility.

- Tom Hiddleston

topic: Stars, Kings, Drama, Martyred, Star Crossed Lovers

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

- Aldous Huxley

source: Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2000). “Complete Essays: 1920-1925”, Ivan R Dee

topic: Fathers Day, Dad, Son, Disillusion, Great Father

How strange it is that Socrates, after having made the children common, should hinder lovers from carnal intercourse only, but should permit love and familiarities between father and son or between brother and brother, than which nothing can be more unseemly, since even without them love of this sort is improper. How strange, too, to forbid intercourse for no other reason than the violence of the pleasure, as though the relationship of father and son or of brothers with one another made no difference.

- Aristotle

topic: Brother, Children, Father, Father And Son

The tie is stronger than that between father and son and father and daughter. The bond is also more complex than the one between mother and daughter. For a woman, a son offers the best chance to know the mysterious male existence.

- Carol Klein

topic: Daughter, Mother, Father, Father And Son

The purpose of a fishing trip is not to catch fish. Bringing home meat is important, but it is more symbolic than necessary, as the new morality of catch-and-release has shown. What is important is what happens between people on fishing trips, especially between uncles and nephews, fathers and sons, old men in general and young boys in particular, it is one of the few times men are together without women.

- Paul G. Quinnett

topic: Uncles, Father, Home, Father And Son

Our mythology tells us so much about fathers and sons. ... What do we know about mothers and daughters? ... Our power is so oblique, so hidden, so ethereal a matter, that we rarely struggle with our daughters over actual kingdoms or corporate shares. On the other hand, our attractiveness dries as theirs blooms, our journey shortens just as theirs begins. We too must be afraid and awed and amazed that we cannot live forever and that our replacements are eager for their turn, indifferent to our wishes, ready to leave us behind.

- Anne Roiphe

topic: Mother, Daughter, Father, Attractiveness, Father And Son

The hero of the beloved Star Wars trilogy is Luke. The principle dynamic is the complicated relationship between Luke and his father. Not coincidentally, George Lucas' last name sounds a lot like Luke. That's the one he identified with. George Lucas had a tumultuous relationship with his own father, and people who know him say that you can't understand the backstory of the movies without knowing that his dad was occasionally difficult but also very loving. They had a big break between them. In those movies, he's very focused on sons and fathers.

- Cass Sunstein

source: Source: www.marieclaire.com

topic: Dad, War, Father, Father And Son

One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.

- George Herbert

topic: Fathers Day, Son, Enough, Sons Love, Inspirational Father

For it is the suffering flesh, it is suffering, it is death, that lovers perpetuate upon the earth. Love is at once the brother, son, and father of death, which is its sister, mother, and daughter. And thus it is that in the depth of love there is a depth

- Miguel de Unamuno

topic: Love, Daughter, Mother, Depth Of Love, Father And Son

I've been a biker, I've been a convict, I've been a husband, father, and son.

- Duane Chapman

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Husband, Father, Son, Bikers, Father And Son