Best 46 quotes in «father son quotes» category

I'm a father; that's what matters most. Nothing matters more.

It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.

It is much easier to become a father than to be one.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.

I trust everyone. I just don't trust the devil inside them.

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

Mistrust makes life difficult. Trust makes it risky.

I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.

My father used to say that it's never too late to do anything you wanted to do. And he said, 'You never know what you can accomplish until you try.'

Many people say that government is necessary because some men cannot be trusted to look after themselves, but anarchists say that government is harmful because no men can be trusted to look after anyone else.

Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to look not only to our own interests, but also the interests of others.

Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.

One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad.

The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

The older I get, the smarter my father seems to get.

Set your expectations high; find men and women whose integrity and values you respect; get their agreement on a course of action; and give them your ultimate trust.

To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.

There comes a point in a relationship when you realize that you trust someone enough to let them keep their secrets.

To sit patiently with a yearning that has not yet been fulfilled, and to trust that, that fulfillment will come, is quite possibly one of the most powerful "magic skills" that human beings are capable of. It has been noted by almost every ancient wisdom tradition

Trust and honesty is an investment you put in people.

To her, the name of father was another name for love.

When I was a kid, my father told me every day, 'You're the most wonderful boy in the world, and you can do anything you want to.'

Ultimately, there can be no complete healing until we have restored our primal trust in life.

There will always be a few people who have the courage to love what is untamed inside us. One of those men is my father.

You can as easily love without trusting as you can hug without embracing.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself.

When a family is free of abuse and oppression, it can be the place where we share our deepest secrets and stand the most exposed, a place where we learn to feel distinct without being better, - and sacrifice for others without losing ourselves.

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

You can do anything you want to do.

I always play with words,now i'm out of words i don't know how to describe you because you're my Father.. But surely i can say i love you

Now, as they pressured perfect footprints into the snow that had been accumulating all day, his father took Harry's hand. "Heshele, how are you?" "OK, I guess." "Are you very sad?" "I don't know. I know I should be. But what does it mean to be sad?" His father stopped. He cupped his free hand to let the snow gather. It quickly turned from an inviting white coating to black-specked gray water. "Sadness is in my hand. In a second, a thing of beauty becomes dirty water; innocence leaves a child's eyes; he who strived for immortality lies forgotten under weeds. Sad is missing the love that death has sealed in the ground or that life has denied life to." "Then I'm sad. When you took my hand, I remembered how he took my hand when we went to the pier to fish. And I thought: That will never happen again. And then I thought: Up until now I never understood the word never, and there was a lump in my throat.

son -My teacher tells me beauty is on the inside. father -That's just something ugly people say

A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.

He paused by Theo's door, knocked with his free hand. "Get lost, creep." David looked down at Maddy. "I assume he means you." He

I missed the crowds in those big stadiums, the flashbulbs, the roaring cheers - the majesty of the whole thing. I missed it bitterly. So did my father. We shared a thirst to return; unspoken, undeniable.

Most dads had hobbies that they passed down to their sons; hunting, fishing, auto repair. Dad’s hobby was nuclear war, which meant his sons knew everything about it.

You’ve grown so tall, Mageling, in these four years,” she said, as if she hadn’t really looked at him for a while. “And handsome. Are you taller than your father was?” “So I’m told. It’s hard for me to remember now.” That was a lie. He remembered—exactly—the measure of his father’s arm around his shoulders, the distance between them when he leaned down to speak at Ash’s level, even the scent of him—leather and sweat and fresh mountain air.

Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten.

Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.

I admire those who trust and are trustworthy.

Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch.

I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life.