209 Quotes About Fathers-and-sons

There are many things for which I owe gratitude to my dad. Most of all, I am grateful to the only man who could love my mother more than me.

I know you're no worse than most men but I thought you were better. I never saw you as a man. I saw you as my father.

I began to see that he was flawed. We are all flawed, but it is a powerful moment when you realize that about your parents. Still, I loved him no less for it. I know I have flaws, and my children are free to realize this and make their own corrections.

Maybe what a son evoked in a father was different than what a daughter evoked? It would be all right. She was only afraid that when time passed, it would not be these trips to the library he would remember, or his eagerness to learn how she made roti in the kitchen with him as her helper, but how upset he would become when Rafiq scolded him.

I spent half my childhood trying to be like my dad. True for most boys, I think. It turns with adolescence. The last thing I wanted was to be like my dad. It took becoming a man to realize how lucky I’d been. It took a few hard knocks in life to make me realize the only thing my dad had ever wanted or worked for was to give me a chance at being better than him.

He ransacked his mind for something good to say, and found almost nothing. “My father gave me only two pieces of advice,” he said, “and only one of them has stood the test of time. They were: 'Don't touch your principal, and 'Keep the liquor bottle out of the bedroom.

A father is an animal the moment he loves his public reputation more than his children but the father becomes a father of his children, the moment he loves his children more than his public reputation. Fathers are plenty whereas what we lack today is a selfless father.

Every man can provide provision to his children if he is committed and hardworking but a man who fails to enter into the depths of the mind of his children is not is father, but a master who owns a slave!

The more the father doubts his son, the more the son doubts his father. A transparent father is indeed an inevitable blessing a son can get!