Father Son Relationship Quotes

“And the darkness of John's sin was like the darkness of the church on Saturday evenings[...] It was like his thoughts as he moved about the tabernacle in which his life had been spent; the tabernacle that he hated, yet loved and feared[...] The darkness of his sin was in the hardheartedness with which he resisted God's power; in the scorn that was often his while he listened to the crying, breaking voices, and watched the black skin glisten while they lifted up their arms and fell on their faces before the Lord. For he had made his decision. He would not be like his father, or his father's fathers. He would have another life.”
― James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain

“...it’s my job to lead you to success, and, if you fail, it’s because I failed, not you.’” (Spoken by Bracke, told by Eric)”
― Shannon A. Thompson, Minutes Before Sunset

“He was lashing himself again into an impotent rage, painful to a son to witness”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters

“Roger let go; they were now on firm ground, and he did not wish any watchers to think that he was exercising any constraint over his father; and this quiet obedience to his impatient commands did more to soothe the Squire than anything else could have effected just then.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters

“He's mad at me."
"For what?"
"For not being like him."
Eleanor looked dubious. "Has he been mad at you for the last sixteen years?"
"Basically.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

“Rock it man. I know you will”
― Paul McCartney

“Enfant, je t'en voulais de ne pas dire, de ne pas faire. Adulte, je comprends enfin que tu ne sais juste pas dire, tu ne sais juste pas faire.”
― Panayotis Pascot, La prochaine fois que tu mordras la poussière

“There is something special about baseball that goes far deeper than being a game. It is the father-son relationship that is built, the life lessons that are taught in the process of playing a game and the ability to overcome not succeeding all of the time and still considering yourself a success.”
― John Passaro, In the Zone and Other Sports Essays

“He knows something I don't. Perhaps he's looked into his own mirror and seen my father when I had only seen my father's absence. Perhaps my father taught my brother what it meant to be a Black man in the South too well: unsteady work, one dead-end job after another, institutions that systematically undervalue him as worker, a citizen, a human being.”
― Jesmyn Ward, Men We Reaped: A Memoir

“By God, don’t interrupt me! You’ll never be able to change what they say. You’ll never be able to stop them. The rumors will go on, and you can’t crush them, you can’t silence them. You can even kill a man, Justin, dozens of them, but the past will not change, and you’ll still be my son. Curse that fact if you wish, but you can’t change it. You’ll die trying… and that would break me as nothing else could, Justin.”
― Lisa Kleypas, When Strangers Marry

“This does not mean that when I had a syndicated column and became well known, he wasn't proud of what had been accomplished. He was simply unable to tell me. He told my sisters and he told his customers and he didn't hesitate to let on that we were related. But a wall from childhood separated us and he never could say "Well done."

Someone once told me that it was not unusual in a father-son relationship for the father to find it impossible to praise his son. I responded angrily, 'I don't care if it's usual or unusual, he could have said *something*.”
― Art Buchwald, Leaving Home

“The author "nails it" in terms of how to deal with a parent's dementia. Rather than browbeating the subject, the author "plays along" and tries to enter the subject's own dementia-challenged "reality." The book contains excellent coping strategies and methodology for dealing with someone suffering with and enduring the pain of dementia or Alzheimer's. It does so with sensitivity, candor and laugh-provoking humor.”
― Joel Kriofske

“Punctul final al călătoriei lor era un castel în apropierea cărora se aflau eleștee. Au ajuns la aceste eleștee într-o minunată după-amiază de vară târzie. Cerul era atât de albastru încât Gottfried nu s-a jenat să-i spună tatălui: "Uite ce albastru e cerul aici".”
― Alfred Kolleritsch , Die grüne Seite

“How can I say I'm like my father when we have never met? Not to mention he have never been there for me.”
― Wilfred Bostwick

“Se quedó quieto, observando, aspirando el olor de la muerte. El cuello de Bernie estaba muy delgado, pero los lóbulos de las orejas, que ya habían alcanzado un tamaño enorme, eran grandes y carnosos. El cuerpo que yacía en aquella cama de hospital no debería pertenecer al padre que Joshua conocía. ¿Adónde había ido a parar el verdadero Bernie?”
― Aleksandar Hemon, The Making of Zombie Wars

“Life had taken unexpected turns for Jeff, though of course he recognized that the CIA was the natural progression for him. Hell, it’s practically the family business…”
― C.G. Faulkner, Solitary Man

“It's too complex for logic, isn't it? A man's relationship with his father?”
― Jane Harper, The Dry

“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.”
― Rachel Cusk, Transit

“[About his pivot from George Washington University to New York University.] Then based solely on Shari's (a friend of a girlfriend) playful provocation, I auditioned for the theater program at NYU. ... This was an idiotic idea, all things considered. When I eventually pitched it to my parents on the phone, my mother shrieked what a mistake I was making. My dad just listened. ... {H]e said to my mother, 'Let's here him out.' I knew something other than money was behind that. Here was a man who had short-circuited his own dreams in order to provide for his family. 'You'll never be young enough to do this again,' he said.”
― Alec Baldwin, Nevertheless

“What a thrilling story of wartime survival!”
― Ann Kirschner, Sala's Gift: My Mother's Holocaust Story

“My dad said "Stay in school and I'll give you $18k and learn more". I said "I'll leave sooner and give you $18k”
― Pooria Arab

“When the son is looking for something on the Internet, he calls it "googling", but when his dad does the same thing he says: "I'll look that up on Google." When they disagree about something, the father says: "Well, it must be right, because I read it on Google!" and the son exclaims: "You don't actually read things on Google, Dad, you search for them there...”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“I hear your words like echoes through the veil, carried on winds that do not stir the living. We linger in thought and shadow, remembering, watching, waiting. Hope drifts between us like mist, touching but never holding.

Love lingers beyond time,
whispering, always”
― Jonathan Harnisch, Living Colorful Beauty