209 Quotes About Fathers-and-sons

I've internalized my father- his impatience, his perfectionism, his rage. I no longer need my father to torture me. From this day on, I can do it all by myself.

Once I said to my father, 'Why do you want me?'I still think that's the bravest thing I've ever done.

All the men in Daddy's records sang of love with drastically imbalanced emotion. In the span of three minutes, they begged for it and kicked it to the curb. They turned to anybody, even to God, with a perpetual request: Please send me someone to love. But once they got it, love scrambled them.

⭐He did not say no, I realize.So I try again,just like I would havewith my own father.Sometimes if you ask enough fathers turn maybeinto yes.

Not long after our final lesson, on one of our Sundays at the lake, my father and I were walking along the shore when he noticed a small rock shaped like a bird. When he picked it up, I saw the quick gleam of satisfaction in his face and felt in an instant that I had less power to please him than a stone.

But with all this said, wine was given to gladden the heart of man (Ps. 104:15), and one of the duties a father has is that of teaching his son to drink.

Seldom if ever again in your eyesWas I to rise to these heights.

Next thing he spoke and I nearly said I loved him.

He thought of how it would be if his father returned some time in he future, when Cody was a man. "Look at what I've accomplished," Cody would tell him. "Notice where I've got to, how far I've come without you." Was it something I said? Was it something I did? Was it something I didn't do, that made you go away?