97 Quotes About Sons

The fourteen-year-old boys, Ashton and Augustus, were the youngest offspring of Mr. and Mrs. Simon Hunt, who had been close friends to the Challons since before Phoebe had been born.

He had always worked for his father, in the family firm, but after his father's reaction to the house Pavel had decided not to do that anymore.'All my life,' he said, 'he criticise. He criticise my work, my idea, he say he don't like the way I talk – even he criticise my wife and my children. But when he criticise my house –' Pavel pursed his lips in a smile – 'then I think, okay, is enough.

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.

Of course he was there, a removed audience of my redemption songs from beyond the grave,the way Kafka and his father continued to shadow-box,long after they quit staring at each otherat the dinner table.

He needed me to do what sons do for their fathers: bear witness that they’re substantial, that they’re not hollow, not ringing absences. That they count for something when little else seems to.

I live in a binary star system, my two suns being my two sons.

One had to reach twenty-six to understand even in part the father one had.

And the sons of Zebulun; Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel.

And the sons of Meshelemiah were, Zechariah the firstborn, Jediael the second, Zebadiah the third, Jathniel the fourth, / Elam the fifth, Jehohanan the sixth, Elioenai the seventh.