209 Quotes About Fathers-and-sons

Sons want their fathers' attention until the precise moment when fathers want their sons'.

It's terrible never to find a father in a world chock-full of fathers of all sorts.

I can show him how to be the right kind of stupid.

YAEL; He slides the suitcase and pumps my cap over my eyes and back up again. The crow's feet that bloom into a dozen crinkles around his eyes when he smiles warm me. When my father smiles, nothing in the world can hurt us.

As I liked him less and less I became more and more like him. I felt trapped, didn't care for myself.

They won’t turn away a father who has come to find his son.

Like all men with a faculty that surpasses human requirements, his father was very nervous. Then, too, he was sentimental, and, like most sentimental people, he was both cruel and abused. Also, he had much bad luck, and it was not all of it his own. He had died in a trap that he had helped only a little to set, and they had all betrayed him in their various ways before he died.

This book is about our lives and legacy as men connected through blood and– should nature have its way– the ultimate choice we as sons face to preserve our father’s legacy or to torch it to build something new.

He turns to the painting. "I fear Mark was right.""Who is Mark?""A silly little boy who runs after George Boleyn. I once heard him say I looked like a murderer."Gregory says, "Did you not know?