Quotes on Father And Son

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

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

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

Our prime minister could embrace and forgive the people who killed our beloved sons and fathers, and so he should, but he could not, would not, apologise to the Aboriginal people for 200 years of murder and abuse. The battle against the Turks, he said in Gallipoli, was our history, our tradition. The war against the Aboriginals, he had already said at home, had happened long ago. The battle had made us; the war that won the continent was best forgotten

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

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

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

Can anyone be a father without beginning to be one? Yes, one who did not begin his existence. What begins to exist begins to be a father - God the Father did not begin at all. He is Father in the true sense, because He is not a son as well. Just as the Son is son in the true sense, because He is not a father as well. In our case, the word 'father' cannot be truly appropriate, because we must be fathers and sons.

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

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

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.

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

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