Quotes on Father Son

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

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

And new philosophy calls all in doubt, The element of fire is quite put out; The sun is lost, and the earth, and no man's wit Can well direct him where to look for it. And freely men confess that this world's spent, When in the planets, and the firmament They seek so many new; then see that this Is crumbled out again to his atomies. 'Tis all in pieces, all coherence gone; All just supply, and all relation: Prince, subject, Father, Son, are things forgot.

Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him.

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

I doubt that we can ever successfully impose values or attitudes or behaviors on our children certainly not by threat, guilt, or punishment. But I do believe they can be induced through relationships where parents and children are growing together. Such relationships are, I believe, build on trust, example, talk, and caring.

When a family is free of abuse and oppression, it can be the place where we share our deepest secrets and stand the most exposed, a place where we learn to feel distinct without being better, - and sacrifice for others without losing ourselves.

I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.

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

To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.

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.

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.