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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son. -- Evelyn Waugh
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. -- Francis Ford Coppola
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. -- Danny DeVito
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. -- Blair Underwood
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. -- Alan Valentine
It's a father's duty to give his sons a fine chance. -- George Eliot
There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence. -- Samuel Johnson
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. -- Maya Angelou
To be calm when you've found something going on -- Cat Stevens
There is nothing like wounded affection for giving poignancy to anger. -- Elizabeth Gaskell
No love is greater than that of a father for His son. -- Dan Brown
Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons. -- Friedrich Schiller
I've been a biker, I've been a convict, I've been a husband, father, and son. -- Duane Chapman
For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time. -- Alan Valentine
[My father] loved me tenderly and shyly from a distance, and later on took a naive pride in seeing my name in print. -- Arthur Koestler
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. --
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. -- James A. Baldwin
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. -- Tom Hiddleston
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.' -- Garrett Hedlund
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. -- Evelyn Waugh
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. -- John Schneider
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. -- Steve Buscemi
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. -- Marco Rubio
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. -- Per Petterson
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. -- Max Born
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. -- Christopher Titus
The rich son waits for his father to die, the poor just drink and cry. -- Lou Reed
Sometimes, son," my father said, prying my fingers free, "you have to help the heroes along. -- Brandon Sanderson
The two greatest plays ever written were Hamlet and Oedipus Rex, and they're both about father-son relationships. -- Arthur Miller
Father and son are natural enemies and each is happier and more secure in keeping it that way. -- John Steinbeck
The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them. -- Confucius
When a father complains that his son has taken to evil ways, what should he do? Love him more than ever. -- Baal Shem Tov
Could a father not marry his son? -- Jeremy Irons
It's hard to kill that father-son bond. -- Adam Driver
You are "? truly your father's son, Harry. . . . -- J. K. Rowling
A dead father's counsel, a wise son heedeth. -- Esaias Tegner
Like father like son, like mother like daughter! -- Jamaica Kincaid
Tell my father I wish to be his son. -- Mario Puzo
What the father kept silent the son speaks out. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Like father, like son: every good tree maketh good fruits. -- William Langland
I am the son of an illiterate father and mother -- Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
If the father cannot, the son will finish the task. -- Idries Shah
What is the son but an extension of the father? -- Frank Herbert
Every father who ever lived has a dream for his son. -- Grantland Rice
If the father is not straight naider will be the son. -- Rod Stewart
Like father, like son, four years and this president is done. -- Dick Gephardt
The gun of the father is always the undoing of the son. -- Mohsin Hamid
Father of fathers, make me one, A fit example for a son. -- Douglas Malloch
Any father likes his son to take over from him if possible. -- Nicky Oppenheimer
I think the father-son love story is a universal one which transcends color. -- Lee Daniels
Earthshaker, Stormbreaker, Father of Horses. Hail, Perseus Jackson, Son of the Sea God -- Rick Riordan
Son,' my father said to me, 'someday this will all be yours. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Trane was the father. Pharoah was the son. I was the holy ghost. -- Albert Ayler
What was a lie in the father becomes a conviction in the son. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Son, anything can happen to anyone," my father told me, "but it usually doesn't. -- Philip Roth
Your son and your daughter needs an excellent father more than an excellent college. -- Nick Vujicic
The booby father craves a booby son, And by Heaven's blessing thinks himself undone. -- Edward Young
People say I look like my father. My son is very much like him. -- Carine Roitfeld
Jekyll had more than a father's interest; Hyde had more than a son's indifference. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
every father knows at once too much and too little about his own son ... -- Fanny Fern
A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler. -- Han Fei
Not every father gets a chance to start his son off in his own footsteps. -- Alan Ladd
I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship. -- Harrison Ford
What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave! -- St. Catherine of Siena
As the youngest, I wanted to be my father's son and perpetuate the family name -- Connie Chung
As the youngest, I wanted to be my father's son and perpetuate the family name. -- Connie Chung
[On the birth of son William:] Thank goodness he hasn't got ears like his father. -- Princess Diana
Every father should remember one day his son will follow his example, not his advice. -- Charles Kettering
A father-son relationship is strong, like no other teammates. You could be straightforward with one another. -- Mario Andretti
If my father could watch my son for a while, he might realize his own immortality. -- Lincoln Steffens
Any son of a dictator, I'm sure, has major issues with their relationship with their father. -- Dominic Cooper
I would want my legacy to be that I was a great son, father and friend. -- Dante Hall
A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him -- Bible
George W. Bush, though a president's son, is cast as Reagan's heir even more than his father's. -- Nancy Gibbs
The Father to whom we pray is the glorious God who created worlds through His Beloved Son. -- Henry B. Eyring
Your secret yearnings and tearful pleadings will touch the heart of both the Father and the Son. -- Boyd K. Packer
Brother killing brother, father slaying son. From the looks of this old graveyard, hell nobody really won. -- Darryl Worley
As a father, I do everything my dad didn't do. My son Beau's birth changed my life. -- David Cassidy
You can have fun with a son, But you got to be a father to a girl. -- Oscar Hammerstein II
Did you see Walker's father? 'My son loves America.' Yeah, like O.J. loved his wife. -- Jay Leno
A wise son makes a glad father, But a foolish son is the grief of his mother. -- Solomon
Every divine action begins from the Father, proceeds through the Son, and is completed in the Holy Spirit. -- Saint Basil
We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Godhead consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is a material being. -- Orson Pratt
It was by faith, nothing wavering, that Joseph saw God our Eternal Father and Jesus Christ, His Son. -- Thomas S. Monson
The last time I put on this uniform (Cincinnati), I think I was eight, for a father-son game. -- Ken Griffey, Jr.
This caste system had grown by the practice of the son always following the business of the father. -- Swami Vivekananda
When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry. -- William Shakespeare
Heroism of your father doesn't make you a hero, heroism of you doesn't make your son a hero. -- Amit Kalantri
It has always touched my heart to sense so deeply how much the Father loved His eldest son. -- Robert D. Hales
In England every man you meet is some man's son; in America, he may be some man's father. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Give up bondage; become a son, be free, and then you can "see the Father", as did Jesus. -- Swami Vivekananda
Don't be a pal to your son. Be his father. What child needs a 40-year-old for a friend? -- Al Capp
Our Sabbath practices reveal which Trinity we truly worship: Father, Son, and Spirit... or me, myself, and I. -- Mark Hart
I think if I got a bicycle from my father, I should give a car to my son. -- Lech Walesa
Inerrancy matters because it honors the Spirit, who wants to honor the Son, who wants to honor the Father. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
It's something families could do together. They can be passed on from father to son, or father to daughter. -- Don Williams
It always seems to the brothers and the father that their brother or son didn't marry the right person. -- Anton Chekhov
Father to teenage son: My relationship with you is more important than anything I've got to say to you. -- Randy Alcorn
The fact my relationship with my son is so good makes me forgiving of my father and also appreciative. -- Anthony Kiedis
What greater ornament to a son than a father's glory, or to a father than a son's honorable conduct? -- Sophocles
My mother was an actress. My father was an actor and a director. I am the son of filmmakers. -- Sergio Leone
By the time a man realizes that his father was right, he has a son who thinks he's wrong. -- Charles Wadsworth
A son is not a judge of his father, but the conscience of the father is in his son. -- Simon Soloveychik
A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be. -- Frank A. Clark
With my first son I cut his umbilical cord and everything, so I'm a hands-on father, to say the least. -- Mekhi Phifer
His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son. -- John P. Marquand
His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son. -- John P. Marquand
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It is a great moment in life when a father sees a son grow taller than he or reach farther. -- Richard L. Evans
I think there comes a point in probably most father-son relationships where the son kind of starts becoming the parent. -- Francois Arnaud
As awkward as it sounds. I'm not Shane Larkin, Barry Larkin's son, anymore. It's Barry Larkin, the father of Shane Larkin. -- Shane Larkin
What people can't possibly imagine is what it's like to have two presidents who have a relationship as father and son. -- George W. Bush
EVERY ENDING IS A NEW BEGINNING. YOUR LUCKY NUMBER IS NONE. YOUR LUCKY COLOUR IS DEAD. Motto: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON. -- Neil Gaiman
Compulsory obedience to a master is a state of slavery, willing obedience to one's father is the glory of son ship. -- Mahatma Gandhi
God the Father's a deep root; the Son's the shoot that breaks into the world; the Spirit spreads the beauty & fragrance -- Tertullian
Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich. -- Robert Frost
The church's final word is not 'church' but the glory of the Father and the Son in the Spirit of liberty -- JÃ¼rgen Moltmann
A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair. -- Niccolo Machiavelli

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