209 Quotes About Fathers-and-sons

If you can't pay your own way, then don't go." ~Billy Noel Meeks (1919-2011)

So that man, the first one, knew what we know now: our hour is short, eternity is long.

Your God simply does not know how to find you. Your God is omnipotent; a fact proven by creating you. Your God is omnibenevolent; a fact proven by giving you a choice in the afterlife, regardless of your moral apathy. Your God, however, is not omniscient; a fact proven by staring into your eyes. Your God does not, in fact, love you.

Dad's like Superman with this muscles though Superman doesn't have a West Ham tattoo on his arm and Dad doesn't wear a suit and cape.

If one could speak two languages well and was raised on tea and baguettes for breakfast,in places where the most mundane daily business on the street is conducted in four languages, where horse carts park at cyber cafes, where would one go? Where could one go? Why,with a smile and a handshake, very far, indeed!

But in so many ways I'm still that kid, not sure exactly how to be emotionally intimate with a girl without feeling weak, not sure my work is good enough, not sure if the people who are clapping would really like me if they got to know me (page 2)

The first few years after Samuel came to Salinas Valley there was a vague distrust of him. And perhaps Will as a little boy heard talk in the San Lucas store. Little boys don't want their fathers to be different from other men. Will might have picked up his conservatism right then.

A father never gives up on a son, not really, no matter how poorly he behaves at times or how many stupid decisions he makes. He tries to help that son learn how to become the man he was meant to be.

My father has a tendency to start conversations in the middle of sentences. He’s also suspicious of anything modern - like nouns.