209 Quotes About Fathers-and-sons

IN LIFE, MY FATHER HAS GIVEN ME SUCH A GIFT, THAT IS, HE ALWAYS BELIEVED IN ME.

I must be old, Pyotr thought to himself, if my son is being kind to me.

With the sensation that he was passing through the Looking-Glass, Max stared at his father as if he had never seen him before—simultaneously impressed and unnerved at the thought that, after all these years, he still knew so little about him.

That had been the end of Communism. I had a feeling watching the tape that America would be next, but for once I kept my mouth shut. In my silence I felt our common ground: here we were, two men, neither young, neither with money, neither earning a penny or holding down a job or owning a house, both thoroughly confused by the way the world was turning.

No love is greater than that of a father for His son.

We may never speak about this again. But I hope you’ll never hold it against me that we did. I will have been a terrible father if, one day, you’d want to speak to me and felt that the door was shut or not sufficiently open.

[My father] loved me tenderly and shyly from a distance, and later on took a naive pride in seeing my name in print.

Haven't you learned by now? Fathers and sons are always against one another. Me against mine. You against yours. Cole against his. Hell, Thomas against you. The only way it's ever, ever been. You put your blood and name on a man, you better expect at some point he's going to fight to make it his own. You either give in and become like your father, or you make a different man of yourself--but you don't get through it without a fight.

Omar went to the funeral, but watched from afar. So distant that his brother, who hadn’t even come, seemed closer to his father’s final departure. Yaqub ordered a wreath to be delivered, along with an epitaph. “Fond memories of my father, who even from a distance, was always present.