Father And Son Quotes

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

  Dan Brown

  Birthday, Father, Son

  Dan Brown (2005). “Angels & Demons”, p.421, Simon and Schuster

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• You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes, even if it's just in your own eyes.

  Wally Schirra

  Fathers Day, Dad, Hero

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

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Father, Anger, Giving

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1967, Delphi Classics

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• It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Family, Thank You, Fathers Day

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  My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

  Jim Valvano

  Inspirational, Basketball, Daughter

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• If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

  James A. Baldwin

  Fathers Day, Son, Earth

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• The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.

  Confucius

  Fathers Day, Dad, Children

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• Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

  Epictetus

  Fathers Day, Teacher, Teaching

  Epictetus (1895*). “Discourses: With the Encheiridion and Fragments”

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• There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.

  Samuel Johnson

  Fathers Day, Dad, Struggle

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). “Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales”, p.494

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• For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time, each eager to help the other to his side, but neither quite able to desert the loyalties of his contemporaries. The relationship is always changing and hence always fragile; nothing endures except the sense of difference.

  Alan Valentine

  Loyalty, Fathers Day, Son

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• It's a father's duty to give his sons a fine chance.

  George Eliot

  Father, Son, Giving

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.139, Booklassic

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• Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Father, Son, Guests

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  The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

  Theodore Hesburgh

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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• Frank Capra was a prop man, I think. John Ford was a prop man. It was a little bit of a father and son thing, and you kind of worked your way up.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Father, Son, Men

  "Five Oscars as a Producer, Director and Screenwriter". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. June 17, 1994.

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• In this movie, you have all the things you love from Tim. All the magic and the whimsy and the surreal, but he also has a fantastic story of a father and son that really gets under your skin.

  Danny DeVito

  Father, Son, Magic

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• I haven't done a lot of things in my career that my kids can watch, because they are 8, 6 and 3, and they are pretty young; so given the concepts that the film was about a superhero, it was a black superhero, and it was a father and son type partnership.

  Blair Underwood

  Father, Kids, Son

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• Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Daughter, Mother, Father

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “The Gay Science”, p.111, Courier Corporation

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• For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time.

  Alan Valentine

  Fathers Day, Son, Hands

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• What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fathers Day, Son, Daddy

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.83, Vintage

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• To be calm when you've found something going on

  Cat Stevens

  Father, Calm, Found

  Song: Father and Son, Album: Saturnight, 1970

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

  Arthur Koestler

  Father, Distance, Pride

  Arthur Koestler (1952). “Arrow in the blue: an autobiography”

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• Dad - a son's first hero, a daughter's first love.

  John Walter Bratton

  Daughter, Dad, Hero

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• With sons and fathers, there's an inexplicable connection and imprint that your father leaves on you.

  Brad Pitt

  Father, Son, Connections

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• My father and I were never intimate in the sense of my coming to him with confidences or seeking advice. Our relationship was rather that of host and guest. Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Father, Son, Advice

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• The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.

  Garrison Keillor

  Daughter, Fathers Day, Running

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