209 Quotes About Fathers-and-sons

-أنظر يا أبي، هذا سور الحديقة الذي بنيته بيديك= صحيح، سآخذه معي-لا يمكنك أخذ السور معك!=هذا أمر في منتهى السهولة-هذا مستحيل يا أبي=سترى-أبي، أبي بالله عليك! هذا مستحيل! ربما من الأفضل أن تخبرني كيف ستذهب إلى البيت، وأنت فيه بالفعل.=لا أفهم قصدك-أنت في البيت وتريد الذهاب إليه، ولا يمكن أن نكون في البيت ونذهب إليه!=هذا أمر واضح-إذن ماذا تقصد؟=لا يعنيني ما تقوله كثيرا بالقدر الذي يعنيك.

...the land is moody, waiting.Den turns around and looks at his father who leans into the bike, leans into a long drag on his cigarette, leans into a thought not ready for words. The man is so familiar. They should be at home by now. They should be sitting at the dinner table. This familiarity is deeper than the desert, longer than the miles they’ve traveled. It confuses Dennis.What is the source of this sadness?It’s time to go home. Den holds the camera steady.

Our era has produced many great men--- robber barons, masters of innovation, beast of business---whose staggering wealth, incomparable ruthlessness and personal legends would seem to prove they are dominant species but then one has a look at their son, and doubts the theory of evolution entirely. -DR. Bertrand Legmam Cooper, Problems of Science and Society, Posted by One Who Has Known Both, 1900

Yes, I know. You don't understand—I love you because of what you did, not despite it.

I am the father of three sons, Cameron, Jordan and Tristan. Each is as unique, as are the stars in the sky. Each is his own imposable planet, filled with creative brilliance, blessed with boundless intelligence and imbued with the kind of strength of character, born of an ancient warrior ethos.

The unrequited love of ones' only living offspring has its own particular slow acid burn

Then as he's tucking me into bed, he's supposed to ask, How many stars?On a great day I'm supposed to say nine or ten. But if it was amazing, the best day I ever had, I'm supposed to cheat and say something like ten thousand stars.

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

The fact that we heated most of the old farmhouse with nothing but a woodstove was a source of great pride for my father and endless inspiration for witticisms like, “Chop your own wood it’ll warm you twice!