Quotes about Father and Son

Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son. Votes: 4

Frank Capra was a prop man, I think. John Ford was a prop man. It was a little bit of a father and son thing, and you kind of worked your way up. Votes: 4

In this movie, you have all the things you love from Tim. All the magic and the whimsy and the surreal, but he also has a fantastic story of a father and son that really gets under your skin. Votes: 4

I haven't done a lot of things in my career that my kids can watch, because they are 8, 6 and 3, and they are pretty young; so given the concepts that the film was about a superhero, it was a black superhero, and it was a father and son type partnership. Votes: 4

For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time, each eager to help the other to his side, but neither quite able to desert the loyalties of his contemporaries. The relationship is always changing and hence always fragile; nothing endures except the sense of difference. Votes: 4

It's a father's duty to give his sons a fine chance. Votes: 3

There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence. Votes: 3

If I could give you one thought, it would be to lift someone up. Lift a stranger up--lift her up. I would ask you, mother and father, brother and sister, lovers, mother and daughter, father and son, lift someone. The very idea of lifting someone up will lift you, as well. Votes: 3

To be calm when you've found something going on Votes: 2

There is nothing like wounded affection for giving poignancy to anger. Votes: 2

No love is greater than that of a father for His son. Votes: 2

Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters. Votes: 2

It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons. Votes: 2

I've been a biker, I've been a convict, I've been a husband, father, and son. Votes: 2

For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time. Votes: 2

[My father] loved me tenderly and shyly from a distance, and later on took a naive pride in seeing my name in print. Votes: 2

My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their genomes sequenced. Votes: 2

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons. Votes: 2

Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of kings - stories that taught us of the danger of hubris and the primacy of humility. Votes: 2

It's funny, though, speaking of fathers and sons, because me and John Goodman played father and son, like, five or six years ago in the film 'Death Sentence,' and I got back with him again in 'Inside Llewyn Davis.' Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

In 'Hardflip,' you have a relationship where the father and son haven't seen each other in 18 years, but they find they're very alike: pigheaded, stubborn, passionate. It's a wonderful story of how you can't get away from how similar you and your children are. Votes: 2

Nothing's really changed for me over the years. I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than that. Relationships are interesting to me. Not just between men and women but fathers and sons, brothers and sisters and friends. Votes: 2

Cuban agents are assigned to a Catholic Church where their instructions are to beat, jail and intimidate the Ladies In White that attend Mass and who afterwards peacefully take to the streets calling for the release of their husbands, sons and fathers who are political prisoners. Votes: 2

In the Wake' was a very bleak book. This relationship was not too good, the father and son. This time around, I wanted a father and a son who really loved each other, which would be visible on the first page and would still be there on the last page. Votes: 2

It is a fascinating fact that father and son have given the most striking evidence for the apparently contradictory properties of the electron: the father proving its character as a particle, the son its character as a wave... Thomson was extremely proud of his son's success and tried to assimilate the new results into his old convictions. Votes: 2

Fathers and sons are natural enemies. Look at any species. Shark, sees his father in the water, he's not thinking, Hey dad, wassup ? He's thinking, Back off, old man, this surfer carcass is mine. Of course, when his girlfriend swims up and she's like, Way, you know, there's enough surfer for everybody. You and your dad need to frenzy together more. Leave you father a thigh. Votes: 2

The rich son waits for his father to die, the poor just drink and cry. Votes: 1

Sometimes, son," my father said, prying my fingers free, "you have to help the heroes along. Votes: 1

The two greatest plays ever written were Hamlet and Oedipus Rex, and they're both about father-son relationships. Votes: 1

Father and son are natural enemies and each is happier and more secure in keeping it that way. Votes: 1

The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them. Votes: 1

When a father complains that his son has taken to evil ways, what should he do? Love him more than ever. Votes: 1

Could a father not marry his son? Votes: 0

It's hard to kill that father-son bond. Votes: 0

You are "” truly your father's son, Harry. . . . Votes: 0

A dead father's counsel, a wise son heedeth. Votes: 0

Like father like son, like mother like daughter! Votes: 0

Tell my father I wish to be his son. Votes: 0

What the father kept silent the son speaks out. Votes: 0

Like father, like son: every good tree maketh good fruits. Votes: 0

I am the son of an illiterate father and mother Votes: 0

If the father cannot, the son will finish the task. Votes: 0

What is the son but an extension of the father? Votes: 0

Every father who ever lived has a dream for his son. Votes: 0

If the father is not straight naider will be the son. Votes: 0

Like father, like son, four years and this president is done. Votes: 0

The gun of the father is always the undoing of the son. Votes: 0

Father of fathers, make me one, A fit example for a son. Votes: 0

Any father likes his son to take over from him if possible. Votes: 0

I think the father-son love story is a universal one which transcends color. Votes: 0

Earthshaker, Stormbreaker, Father of Horses. Hail, Perseus Jackson, Son of the Sea God Votes: 0

Son,' my father said to me, 'someday this will all be yours. Votes: 0

Trane was the father. Pharoah was the son. I was the holy ghost. Votes: 0

What was a lie in the father becomes a conviction in the son. Votes: 0

Son, anything can happen to anyone," my father told me, "but it usually doesn't. Votes: 0

Your son and your daughter needs an excellent father more than an excellent college. Votes: 0

The booby father craves a booby son, And by Heaven's blessing thinks himself undone. Votes: 0

People say I look like my father. My son is very much like him. Votes: 0

Jekyll had more than a father's interest; Hyde had more than a son's indifference. Votes: 0

every father knows at once too much and too little about his own son ... Votes: 0

A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler. Votes: 0

Not every father gets a chance to start his son off in his own footsteps. Votes: 0

I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship. Votes: 0

What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave! Votes: 0

As the youngest, I wanted to be my father's son and perpetuate the family name Votes: 0

As the youngest, I wanted to be my father's son and perpetuate the family name. Votes: 0

[On the birth of son William:] Thank goodness he hasn't got ears like his father. Votes: 0

Every father should remember one day his son will follow his example, not his advice. Votes: 0

A father-son relationship is strong, like no other teammates. You could be straightforward with one another. Votes: 0

If my father could watch my son for a while, he might realize his own immortality. Votes: 0

Any son of a dictator, I'm sure, has major issues with their relationship with their father. Votes: 0

I would want my legacy to be that I was a great son, father and friend. Votes: 0

A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him Votes: 0

George W. Bush, though a president's son, is cast as Reagan's heir even more than his father's. Votes: 0

The Father to whom we pray is the glorious God who created worlds through His Beloved Son. Votes: 0

Your secret yearnings and tearful pleadings will touch the heart of both the Father and the Son. Votes: 0

Brother killing brother, father slaying son. From the looks of this old graveyard, hell nobody really won. Votes: 0

As a father, I do everything my dad didn't do. My son Beau's birth changed my life. Votes: 0

You can have fun with a son, But you got to be a father to a girl. Votes: 0

Did you see Walker's father? 'My son loves America.' Yeah, like O.J. loved his wife. Votes: 0

A wise son makes a glad father, But a foolish son is the grief of his mother. Votes: 0

Every divine action begins from the Father, proceeds through the Son, and is completed in the Holy Spirit. Votes: 0

We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent. Votes: 0

The Godhead consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is a material being. Votes: 0

It was by faith, nothing wavering, that Joseph saw God our Eternal Father and Jesus Christ, His Son. Votes: 0

The last time I put on this uniform (Cincinnati), I think I was eight, for a father-son game. Votes: 0

This caste system had grown by the practice of the son always following the business of the father. Votes: 0

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry. Votes: 0

Heroism of your father doesn't make you a hero, heroism of you doesn't make your son a hero. Votes: 0

It has always touched my heart to sense so deeply how much the Father loved His eldest son. Votes: 0

In England every man you meet is some man's son; in America, he may be some man's father. Votes: 0

Give up bondage; become a son, be free, and then you can "see the Father", as did Jesus. Votes: 0

Don't be a pal to your son. Be his father. What child needs a 40-year-old for a friend? Votes: 0

Our Sabbath practices reveal which Trinity we truly worship: Father, Son, and Spirit... or me, myself, and I. Votes: 0

I think if I got a bicycle from my father, I should give a car to my son. Votes: 0

Inerrancy matters because it honors the Spirit, who wants to honor the Son, who wants to honor the Father. Votes: 0

It's something families could do together. They can be passed on from father to son, or father to daughter. Votes: 0

It always seems to the brothers and the father that their brother or son didn't marry the right person. Votes: 0

Father to teenage son: My relationship with you is more important than anything I've got to say to you. Votes: 0

The fact my relationship with my son is so good makes me forgiving of my father and also appreciative. Votes: 0

What greater ornament to a son than a father's glory, or to a father than a son's honorable conduct? Votes: 0

My mother was an actress. My father was an actor and a director. I am the son of filmmakers. Votes: 0

By the time a man realizes that his father was right, he has a son who thinks he's wrong. Votes: 0

A son is not a judge of his father, but the conscience of the father is in his son. Votes: 0

A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be. Votes: 0

With my first son I cut his umbilical cord and everything, so I'm a hands-on father, to say the least. Votes: 0

His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son. Votes: 0

His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son. Votes: 0

I'm the son of an everyman. My father is a teacher. He teaches physics at a boys' school in Sydney. Votes: 0

It is a great moment in life when a father sees a son grow taller than he or reach farther. Votes: 0

I think there comes a point in probably most father-son relationships where the son kind of starts becoming the parent. Votes: 0

As awkward as it sounds. I'm not Shane Larkin, Barry Larkin's son, anymore. It's Barry Larkin, the father of Shane Larkin. Votes: 0

What people can't possibly imagine is what it's like to have two presidents who have a relationship as father and son. Votes: 0

EVERY ENDING IS A NEW BEGINNING. YOUR LUCKY NUMBER IS NONE. YOUR LUCKY COLOUR IS DEAD. Motto: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON. Votes: 0

Compulsory obedience to a master is a state of slavery, willing obedience to one's father is the glory of son ship. Votes: 0

God the Father's a deep root; the Son's the shoot that breaks into the world; the Spirit spreads the beauty & fragrance Votes: 0

Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich. Votes: 0

The church's final word is not 'church' but the glory of the Father and the Son in the Spirit of liberty Votes: 0

A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair. Votes: 0

I say, Father, the years have brought me here, still your son, they have brought me to a life I cannot understand. Votes: 0

The first film I was in was called 'Straight Time.' I was five-years old, and I was playing my father's son. Votes: 0

Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him. Votes: 0

My son has a big Christmas problem - what do you buy for a father who has everything and you're using it? Votes: 0

I promise just to serve two terms. Republicans do it differently. They just have the son repeat the father's whole first term. Votes: 0

God eternally exists as three persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and each person is fully God, and there is one God. Votes: 0

The animus is symbolized by male figures appearing in a womans dreams and fantasies, as a husband, son, father, lover, Prince Charming. Votes: 0

I think in any father-son relationship, there's going to be times you say, 'Well, the apple didn't fall far from the tree.' Votes: 0

Our Father expects you to learn how to obtain that divine help by exercising faith in Him and His Holy Son, Jesus Christ. Votes: 0

[My son] will have a fairly stable future. Not one where the schoolyard talk is whose father grossed $8 million on his last picture. Votes: 0

From '41 to '51I was my folk's contrary son;I bit my father's hand right throughAnd broke my mother's heart in two. Votes: 0

What prayer could be more true before God the Father than that which the Son, who is Truth, uttered with His own lips? Votes: 0

I play the Father/Son every year on the PGA TOUR Champions. I split it between Jackie and Gary as my playing partners. Votes: 0

The central purpose of all scripture is to fill our souls with faith in God the Father and in His Son, Jesus Christ. Votes: 0

Instead of loving the Trinity of God (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit), we tend to love a different trinity: Me, myself, and I. Votes: 0

The closer the genetic relationship of the family members, as for example father-to-son, as opposed to uncle-to-nephew, the higher the degree of cooperation. Votes: 0

What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father. Votes: 0

A father who is a chronic debtor, an adulterous mother, a beautiful wife, and an unlearned son are enemies in one's own home. Votes: 0

The best advice I was ever given was on my twenty-first birthday when my father said, Son, here's a million dollars. Don't lose it. Votes: 0

Whether you're a mother or father, or a husband or a son, or a niece or a nephew or uncle, breast cancer doesn't discriminate. Votes: 0

I guess I'm like any other concerned father, except that nobody else's son guns a cycle over 17 pickups without holding on to the handlebars. Votes: 0

A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son. Votes: 0

I've started looking at my own father a bit funny. He assures me, though, that I really am the son of a Scottish postman. Votes: 0

My father always told me to wisen up, son. Cause if you hung with nine broke friends, you're bound to be the tenth one. Votes: 0

I was interested in the idea of succession - showing a father and a son both in their own time and drawing a contrast Votes: 0

A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension. Votes: 0

I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had. Votes: 0

Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth. Votes: 0

In Korea, it's a tradition to inherit your father's business. Unfortunately, I'm the only son in the entire family, so they were forcing too much. Votes: 0

Christmas is all about surrender. It's all about the surrender of the Son to obey the perfect will of the Father and enter human history. Votes: 0

Praise God, from whom all blessings flow! Praise Him, all creatures here below! Praise Him above, ye heavenly host! Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost! Votes: 0

As the son of a Protestant Christian mother and a Shia Muslim father, I have nevertheless ended up without a religious bone in my body. Votes: 0

Make us eternal truths receive, And practice all that we believe: Give us thyself, that we may see The Father and the Son, by thee. Votes: 0

It may be hard on some fathers not to have a son, but it is much harder on a boy not to have a father. Votes: 0

The only reason why I'm a Christian is because I'm a gift of the Father to the Son, not because of anything I've ever done. Votes: 0

Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars. Votes: 0

How deep the Father's love for us, How vast beyond all measure That He should give His only Son To make a wretch His treasure. Votes: 0

Well, I've always wanted to call my son Barr.""Like a tavern? Like a soap?""My father's name is Barr.""Oh. And I love it! Votes: 0

James Brown became my father. He would talk to me the way a father talked to a son. He became the father I never had. Votes: 0

The great challenge is to discover that we are truly invited to participate in the divine life of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Votes: 0

When my son came into my life, my priorities changed, because I wanted to have the relationship with him, that I didn't have with my father. Votes: 0

I'm a full-blooded Mexican. My mother was born in Zacatecas, Mexico, and my father - the son of Mexican immigrants - was born near Fresno, California. Votes: 0

Your peace of mind, your assurance of answers to vexing problems, your ultimate joy depend upon your trust in Heavenly Father and His Son, Jesus Christ. Votes: 0

Are we going to fire the father to hire the son? We want to create jobs for young people, but not at the expense of others. Votes: 0

If the Christians continue to desert Jesus Christ in His temple, will not the Heavenly Father take away from them His well-beloved Son Whom they neglect? Votes: 0

I was a class clown. My father was a class clown. My son has been a class clown, and it sort of ran in the family. Votes: 0

On the king's gate the moss grew gray;The king came not. They called him deadAnd made his eldest son one daySlave in his father's stead. Votes: 0

The son needs the father to have access to his source, and the father needs the son to have access to the future and the infinite. Votes: 0

I changed my mind because of a scene between Howard Cunningham and Richie. The father-son situation was written so movingly, I fell in love with the project. Votes: 0

Let me get it straight. Your father was king. You were his only son. Your father dies. You are of age. Your uncle becomes king." "Yes." "Unorthodox. Votes: 0

My favorite Elton John song is "Daniel"; my son is named Daniel and he's partly named after my wife's father, but also partly named after that song. Votes: 0

A good son obeys his father; A good student obeys his teacher;A good employee obeys his employer;Obedience lifts you to a higher position in life. Votes: 0

For the son of man shall come in the glory of His Father, with His angels; and then shall He reward every man according to his works. Votes: 0

My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty. Votes: 0

God the Father has reconciled His created but fallen world through the death of His Son, and renews it into a Kingdom of God by His Spirit. Votes: 0

I think Romeo and Juliet is uplifting. That's how much a son wishes to avenge his father. That is how much two young people can love each other. Votes: 0

I seldom remember my father, but I sneeze and rub my nose the way he did. I also love my son with grief and anger, as he did. Votes: 0

My Father's Eyes' is very personal. I realized that the closest I ever came to looking in my father's eyes was when I looked into my son's eyes. Votes: 0

To the Everlasting Father, And the Son who made us free And the Spirit, God proceeding From them Each eternally, Be salvation, honour, blessing, Might and endless majesty. Votes: 0

I don't have a college degree, and my father didn't have a college degree, so when my son, Zachary, graduated from college, I said, "My boy's got learnin'!" Votes: 0

Dads, is it too bold to hope that our children might have some small portion of the feeling for us that the Divine Son felt for His Father? Votes: 0

You live and die according to what goes on in yourself, which no one else can even begin to know, not even father, mother, wife, son, or daughter. Votes: 0

On the king's gate the moss grew gray; The king came not. They call'd him dead; And made his eldest son, one day, Slave in his father's stead. Votes: 0

Everyone's unique; no one's ever alike. But my son has the same good cheer as my father. He's capable of making a room happy with a few words. Votes: 0

'My Father's Eyes' is very personal. I realized that the closest I ever came to looking in my father's eyes was when I looked into my son's eyes. Votes: 0

Its a rare thing when a father and son can share the same experience. My father and I have seen all 19 Bond films together, two or three times. Votes: 0

To God the Father, God the Son, And God the Spirit, Three in One, Be honour, praise, and glory given By all on earth, and all in heaven. Votes: 0

When a script like 'Hardflip' comes along, with a real depiction of the rewards of a father-son relationship but also the difficulties of building one, you have my attention. Votes: 0

The Holy Ghost is the minister and messenger of the Father and the Son, and He testifies of both Their glorious, global reality and Their connection to us personally. Votes: 0

Christmas means giving. The Father gave his Son, and the Son gave his life. Without giving there is no true Christmas, and without sacrifice there is no true worship. Votes: 0

If God the Father and God the Son use light, knowledge, insight, understanding and wisdom to function on the earth, it means that is the greatest power in existence. Votes: 0

The Restoration began with the prayer of a 14-year-old boy and a vision of the Father and the Son. The dispensation of the fulness of times was ushered in. Votes: 0

You can love someone like your son, even if he's not your biological son, and you can love someone like your father, even if he's not your biological father. Votes: 0

Be a father, if not, why bother, son? A boy can make 'em, but a man can raise one. If you did it, admit it and stick with it. Votes: 0

I don't have a college degree, and my father didn't have a college degree, so when my son, Zachary, graduated from college, I said, 'My boy's got learnin'!' Votes: 0

You know my father as governor, as president, but I knew him as dad. I was so proud to have the Reagan name and to be Ronald Reagan's son. Votes: 0

As a servant desireth the approval of his master, and a son the approval of his father, so should we desire the approval of God and our own conscience. Votes: 0

What the world needs today more than anything else is an implicit faith in God, our Father, and in Jesus Christ, His Son, as the Redeemer of the world. Votes: 0

As my father always used to tell me, 'You see, son, there's always someone in the world worse off than you.' And I always used to think, 'So? Votes: 0

We also play a Father/Son at home and I play with Steve, too. I try to mix it up. We play two or three times a year, but that's about it. Votes: 0

Some of my favorite movies have explored the father-son dynamic, in a very loving way. It can be complicated, but at the end, it's that moment where you're crying because of that core relationship. Votes: 0

Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, So I make an idle boast; Jesus of the twice-turned cheek Lamb of God, although I speak With my mouth thus, in my heart Do I play a double part. Votes: 0

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat. Votes: -1