Father-Son Dynamics Quotes

Most pro bodybuilders have bad relationships with their fathers. We want to prove something.

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.

I often wish I'd got on better with your father,' he said.

Few fathers care much for their sons, or at least, most of them care more for their money. Of those who really love their sons, few know how to do it.

I think there comes a point in probably most father-son relationships where the son kind of starts becoming the parent.

Whether you have an abusive father or the most amazing dad ever, every son is trying to find their way out from under the shadow of their dad.

If Obama came by his liberalism in the faculty lounge, then sure, he can see it hasn't worked, and he can modify it. But if Obama got his formative ideas when he was very young, and if they are the result of his traumatic relationship with his father, then they are built into his psyche.

It's a complex relationship when your dad happened to be president and you are president and then you have all the amateur psychology that goes on when people try to speculate about motivations.

The reservedness and distance that fathers keep, often deprive their sons of that refuge which would be of more advantage to them than an hundred rebukes or chidings.

Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons.