Father-Son Relationships Quotes

Baseball is fathers and sons. Football is brothers beating each other up in the backyard.

Few sons are equal to their fathers; most fall short, all too few surpass them.

The thing that attracts people to "The Sopranos" is the family element. It shows that America still has a longing for that traditional upbringing.

I think for my parents it was like "A Boy Named Sue," the Johnny Cash song. A guy named Sue tries to track down his father to take it out on his father for naming him Sue. And his father says, "Look, I knew I wasn't going to be around. So I gave you the name so that you would grow up strong enough to take the hits and fight back." So I like to believe that's why my parents gave me this stupid name.

The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story.

Most of us have felt barriers between ourselves and our fathers and had thought that going it alone was part of what it meant to be a man. We tried to get close to our children when we became fathers, and yet the business of practicing masculinity kept getting in the way. We men have begun to talk about that.

Some gal would giggle and I'd get red, and some guy'd laugh and I'd bust his head. I tell ya, life ain't easy for a boy named Sue.

Few sons are like their fathers - many are worse, few better.

Justin Halpern tosses lightning bolts of laughter out of his pocket like he is shooting dice in a back alley. In one sweep of a paragraph, he ranges from hysterical to disgusting to touching--and does it all seamlessly. Sh*t My Dad Says is a really, really funny book.

Well the beauty of 'Iyanla: Fix My Life' is that men are in every show. To our surprise, some of the deepest healing demonstrations have been with the men - the sons, the fathers, the husbands - because they agree to participate with the wife or the daughter or whatever it is we are looking at, and it is there.

In England every man you meet is some man's son; in America, he may be some man's father.

Every boy, in his journey to become a man, takes an arrow in the center of his heart, in the place of his strength. Because the wound is rarely discussed and even more rarely healed, every man carries a wound. And the wound is nearly always given by his father.

Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later.

A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension.

The Orpheus myth is my favorite myth, and the prodigal son is my favorite parable.

Each of his son's had been his favorite child.

I've always had a particular affinity for father-son dramas.

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