209 Quotes About Fathers-and-sons

Hmm. Relationships between fathers and sons can be notoriously difficult, especially for two men who are as different as you and your father are.""Yes, and he's also the king--that makes our relationship impossible.

Son, we are all products of operant conditioning. By daring to think outside the box, you'll be judged. Stay the course. Heightened cognizance is meaningful only when freely sought out and discovered. Not when it is incrementally spoon-fed to you throughout your lifetime.

Looking at the cheerful faces around the table, for a moment Kit hated his own father, for destroying his ability to ever believe someone might be willing to give something for nothing.

When I do something like you you'll be on my mind all through, ‘Cause I forgot you left me behind to remind me of you.

He was all iron outside, but all father within.

We aren't always kind to one another, but want to be, and I believe that is the same thing.

...why can't I stop all the moving and look out over the vast arrangements and find by the contours and colors and qualities of light where my father is, not to solve anything but just simply even to see it again one last time, before what, before it ends, before it stops. But it doesn't stop; it simply ends. It is a final pattern scattered without so much as a pause at the end, at the end of what, at the end of this.

There is nothing like wounded affection for giving poignancy to anger.

When you have kids, you're responsible for their mistakes. Their mistakes, their heartaches, their happiness... you take everything on yourself!