Fathers And Sons Quotes

“If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;!”
― Rudyard Kipling, If: A Father's Advice to His Son

“If you can walk with the crowd and keep your virtue, or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch; If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute with 60 seconds worth of distance run- Yours is the earth and everything that's in it, And-which is more-you'll be a man my son.”
― Rudyard Kipling, If: A Father's Advice to His Son

“I read the first chapter of A Brief History of Time when Dad was still alive, and I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how compared to the universe and compared to time, it didn't even matter if I existed at all. When Dad was tucking me in that night and we were talking about the book, I asked if he could think of a solution to that problem. "Which problem?" "The problem of how relatively insignificant we are." He said, "Well, what would happen if a plane dropped you in the middle of the Sahara Desert and you picked up a single grain of sand with tweezers and moved it one millimeter?" I said, "I'd probably die of dehydration." He said, "I just mean right then, when you moved that single grain of sand. What would that mean?" I said, "I dunno, what?" He said, "Think about it." I thought about it. "I guess I would have moved one grain of sand." "Which would mean?" "Which would mean I moved a grain of sand?" "Which would mean you changed the Sahara." "So?" "So? So the Sahara is a vast desert. And it has existed for millions of years. And you changed it!" "That's true!" I said, sitting up. "I changed the Sahara!" "Which means?" he said. "What? Tell me."
"Well I'm not talking about painting the Mona Lisa or curing cancer. I'm just talking about moving that one grain of sand one millimeter." "Yeah? If you hadn't done it, human history would have been one way..." "Uh-huh?" "But you did do it, so...?" I stood on the bed, pointing one of my fingers at the fake stars, and screamed: "I changed the course of human history!" "That's right." "I changed the universe!" "You did." "I'm God!" "You're an atheist." "I don't exist!" I fell back onto the bed, into his arms, and we cracked up together.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer

“I know you're no worse than most men but I thought you were better. I never saw you as a man. I saw you as my father.”
― Arthur Miller, All My Sons

“Thoughts, pictures of him would come to me just a second after waking, shocking me from the forgetfulness of sleep, striking blows that were almost physical. And even in sleep I was not completely free. So often sleep brought dreams of him.”
― Bernard Taylor, The Godsend

“Boys do not long for fathers who will usher them through the gauntlet of psychological disconnect. They long for fathers who have themselves survived intact. Boys do not ache for their father's masculinity. They ache for their fathers' hearts.”
― T. Real

“Once I said to my father, 'Why do you want me?'

I still think that's the bravest thing I've ever done.”
― China Miéville, This Census-Taker

“Not long after our final lesson, on one of our Sundays at the lake, my father and I were walking along the shore when he noticed a small rock shaped like a bird. When he picked it up, I saw the quick gleam of satisfaction in his face and felt in an instant that I had less power to please him than a stone.”
― Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces

“I began to see that he was flawed. We are all flawed, but it is a powerful moment when you realize that about your parents. Still, I loved him no less for it. I know I have flaws, and my children are free to realize this and make their own corrections.”
― Ziauddin Yousafzai, Let Her Fly: A Father's Journey

“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.”
― Lynn Austin, Gods and Kings

“I spent half my childhood trying to be like my dad. True for most boys, I think. It turns with adolescence. The last thing I wanted was to be like my dad. It took becoming a man to realize how lucky I’d been. It took a few hard knocks in life to make me realize the only thing my dad had ever wanted or worked for was to give me a chance at being better than him.”
― Tucker Elliot, The Rainy Season

“I know. I’m sorry. You have my whole heart. You always did. You’re the best guy. You always were. If I’m not here you can still talk to me. You can talk to me and I’ll talk to you. You’ll see.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“My own view of Father was not nearly so high-flown or complicated. For me he was flesh and blood and until the day I left Memphis behind, to take up residence in Manhattan, he remained simply a barrier between me and any independent life I might aspire to- a barrier to any pursuit of ideas, interests, goals that my temperament guided me toward.”
― Peter Taylor, A Summons to Memphis

“They knew what powerful sons did to their fathers - Zeus' thunderbolts still smell of singed flesh and patricide.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“ولی یادت باشه، چیزی که آدم را انسان می کنه لباس تر و تمیزه، نه لباس فاخر و گران بها.”
― Carlo Collodi, Pinocchio

“The Musket's Progeny by Stewart Stafford

The musket's progeny, gunpowder's rise,
Heirloom ingot cast in festering dirt,
No scaldy-faced defecator's lies,
Can tarnish gold's immutable worth.

Besmirched, perpetual gleam to my eyes,
Ne'er base, but plundered from thy berth,
Another's private treasure, I cannot despise,
Until thy loan fadeth i' th' afterbirth.

With cloistered secrets to impart,
Our correspondence doth expand,
Let it encompass thy tiny heart,
For when it groweth to understand.

When from distant quays, emotion sails,
My words guide thee in storms and gales.

© Stewart Stafford, 2024. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“He spent the strike slagging off other miners. He never shifted a single one of his prejudices. And recently, while we were making things nice at the house he was upstairs boiling with anger. The way he turns up at the football field all raging and full of spite about the boys trying to get a clear shot at the goal. Violence, man. At some level they pass that on to you, the violence. Unless you say no.”
― Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies

“Deion Sanders' ability to seamlessly embody the roles of coach, father, and mentor has inspired countless individuals, me included (BLOG - Deion Sanders: A Coach, A Father, A Blueprint for Success)”
― Carlos Wallace

“بعضی مواقع فکر می کنی وجودت اجتناب ناپذیر است، یعنی جهان بدون بودن تو از هم خواهد پاشید و یا اینکه پیش نخواهد رفت. بعد اتفاقی مانند این پیش خواهد آمد که متوجه می شوی:1( اجتناب ناپذیر هستی؛2( که اجتناب ناپذیر بودن چندان هم بد نیست.”
― Gianrico Carofiglio, Three O'Clock in the Morning

“می دانی، راه های شکوفایی نبوغ بی نهایت اند، تصورات فی البداهه بخش پایه ای اکتشافات علمی اند؛ حتی در کشف های ریاضی. و باید بگویم غیر ممکن است که این تصورات حاصل گنجینه ی پشتکار نباشند؛ نتیجه ی روشنی نخواهد داد.”
― Gianrico Carofiglio, Three O'Clock in the Morning

“می بایست در جوانی می مردم. نه جسما: به عنوان یک ریاضیدان می بایست می مردم. به محض اینکه حس می کردم توانم به اتمام رسیده، باید کارم را عوض می کردم. هر چقدر ماهر باشی- که من به اندازه ی کافی بودم- زمانی فرا می رسد که حس می کنی در برابر بالاتر از خود در یک حد متوسط قرار داری و بیشتر هم در برابر یک نابغه. آدم باید بتواند آن لحظه توقف کند، یعنی درست روی مرز توانش، ولی هرگز این اتفاق نمی افتد.”
― Gianrico Carofiglio, Three O'Clock in the Morning

“اغتشاشاتی در سر و جان آدمی هستند که کسی هرگز به آن پی نمی برد. و توضیح دادنش هم بیشتر سبب منقلب شدن آدم می شود.”
― Gianrico Carofiglio, Three O'Clock in the Morning

“پدرم تک نوازی کرد. نمی خواهم این جریان را حتی برای خودم هم بازگو کنم، ولی با غرور به چنین پدری افتخار می کردم، دلم می خواست به اطرافیانم بگویم که آن مرد بلندقد،لاغر و آراسته که پشت پیانو نشسته و قیافه اش کمتر از پنجاه سال می زند، پدر من است.”
― Gianrico Carofiglio, Three O'Clock in the Morning

“بی قصد گفتم:(( بعضی اوقات از خودم می پرسم، واقعا آزاد بودن چه معنی ای دارد.))
- من فکر می کنم که آزادی نمی تواند جز کمی بی گدار به آب زدن باشد. آزادی تعادلی متزلزل است، کمی خارج از حد و مرز بودن.”
― Gianrico Carofiglio, Three O'Clock in the Morning

“بیشتر مواقع حساب نمی کنیم کاری که برای بار نخست انجام می دهیم، نقطه ی پایان است و نه نقطه ی آغازش؛ در نیکی، و به ویژه در بدی. اگر اشتباه باشد، راه برگشتی در کار نیست.”
― Gianrico Carofiglio, Three O'Clock in the Morning

“گاهی مواقع باید حرف زد و هیچ چیزی را نباید ناگفته گذاشت؛ گاهی مواقع درست برعکس، باید سکوت کرد، چون در محیط چیزهای ملموس و گرانبهایی وجود دارند که حرفت می تواند به یک چشم برهم زدن نابودشان کند. دو اصل بسیار ساده اند؛ بخش مشکلش در تصمیم گیری است؛ کدام وقت یکی و کدام وقت آن دیگری را به کار ببری.”
― Gianrico Carofiglio, Three O'Clock in the Morning

“He ceded as a tree cedes: slowly, then inexorably.”
― Jack Wang, The Riveter

“For few are the children who turn out to be equals of their fathers, and the greater number are worse...”
― RIchard Lattimore; Homer, The Odyssey

“Made with love to celebrate Dads everywhere — especially mine.”
― Emna's Book Editions, My Dad Rocks: 101 Reasons Why I Love You, Dad: A Guided Fill-in-the-Blank Journal for Dad

“Ben smiled the kind of smile that a child reserves for his father on special occasions”
― Joel Burcat, Whiz Kid