Quotes about Fathers and sons

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A withered maple leaf has left its branch and is falling to the ground — its movements resemble those of a butterfly in flight. Isn't it strange? The saddest and deadest of things is yet so like the gayest and most vital of creatures?
I spent half my childhood trying to be like my dad. True for most boys, I think. It turns with adolescence. The last thi — Tucker Elliot, The Rainy Season
Hmm. Relationships between fathers and sons can be notoriously difficult, especially for two men who are as different as — Lynn Austin, Gods and Kings
If you can walk with the crowd and keep your virtue, or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch; If neither foes nor l — Rudyard Kipling, If: A Father's Advice to His Son
And William says, "I lost one son utterly."... ..."So I've held my tongue. But the truth is you didn't go to war. You we — Robert Olen Butler, Perfume River
All the men in Daddy's records sang of love with drastically imbalanced emotion. In the span of three minutes, they begg — Rashod Ollison, Soul Serenade: Rhythm, Blues & Coming of Age Through Vinyl
Fatherhood is sacred. — Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
And though I had misgiving--obvious ones, too--one overwhelming thing drove me on: on the borderlands, my father would n — Peter Geye, Wintering
Just that sons and fathersAre like mirrors and daughters are soft — Richard L. Ratliff
Help your fatherAs he ages And loses his strengthFor it was he who sheltered youAnd protected you from the stormsKhoiSan — rassool jibraeel snyman
One is worthy as a son when he removes all his father’s troubles. — Dada Bhagwan
He wishes he could remember everything. Anything. He doesn’t sense a bone in his body that can feel compassion or worthi — Christy A. Campbell, A Halo Sun
Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is a — Douglas MacArthur
Thoughts, pictures of him would come to me just a second after waking, shocking me from the forgetfulness of sleep, stri — Bernard Taylor, The Godsend
If you can keep your head when all about youAre losing theirs and blaming it on you,If you can trust yourself when all m — Rudyard Kipling, If: A Father's Advice to His Son
We have a dilemma, then,” Finnikin said fiercely. “Because I prayed that you would grow old and hold my children in your — Melina Marchetta, Finnikin of the Rock
Our era has produced many great men--- robber barons, masters of innovation, beast of business---whose staggering wealth — Anna Godbersen, Splendor
That had been the end of Communism. I had a feeling watching the tape that America would be next, but for once I kept my — Don J. Snyder, The Cliff Walk: A Memoir of a Job Lost and a Life Found
When she asked what my father taught me, I told her I couldn't put it into words. But then I lay awake watching the snow — Peter Geye
They both looked at me in a way that was fast becoming familiar: two parts bafflement to one part awe at my talent for m — David Bennun, Tick Bite Fever