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They won't turn away a father who has come to find his son. — T.K. Naliaka

At the bottom, all wars are the same because they involve death and maiming and wounding, and grieving mothers, fathers, sons and daughters. — Tim O'Brien

Few fathers care much for their sons, or at least, most of them care more for their money. Of those who really love their sons, few know how to do it. — Lord Chesterfield

After all, no one is stupid enough to prefer war to peace; in peace sons bury their fathers and in war fathers bury their sons. — Herodotus

I say to all fathers - be as good as you can be- because your sons and daughters will follow in your footsteps. — Duane Chapman

We are born dead, and moreover we have long ceased to be the sons of living fathers. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Same-sex marriage will lead to "fathers marrying sons." — Jeremy Irons

After all, didn't all fathers in their secret hearts harbor a desire to kill their sons? — Khaled Hosseini

Fifty-story skyscrapers stood side by side with older ten-story buildings like fathers and sons at the urinal together. — Yahtzee Croshaw

One had to reach twenty-six to understand even in part the father one had. — Irvin Anthony

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

Football is multigenerational. It used to be about fathers taking their sons. Now we're taking our daughters, too. — Steve Tisch

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

I feel that the sins of the fathers should not be visited on the sons. — Cassandra Clare

I'm so proud of you that it makes me proud of me. I hope you know that. — John Green

Fathers have a lot to do to make up for having sons. — Friedrich Nietzsche

She chose to fight men everyday, and then fight their sons, who thought they knew better than their fathers. — E.K. Johnston

Once I said to my father, 'Why do you want me?'
I still think that's the bravest thing I've ever done. — China Mieville

One is worthy as a son when he removes all his father's troubles. — Dada Bhagwan

With sons and fathers, there's an inexplicable connection and imprint that your father leaves on you. — Brad Pitt

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

Today, Arizona's sons and daughters, mothers and fathers are proudly serving their country. — Jane D. Hull

Relationships are interesting to me. Not just between men and women, but fathers and sons, brothers and sisters and friends. — Steve Buscemi

All sons should write down every word of what their fathers have to say to them. — Abraham Verghese

They both looked at me in a way that was fast becoming familiar: two parts bafflement to one part awe at my talent for making a bad situation worse. — David Bennun

For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers. — Homer

Baseball is sunshine, green grass, fathers and sons, our rural past. — Albert Theodore Powers

Fathers left distinctive footprints; sons should think of noble footsteps — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Ever boy deserves a father. — Jonathan Hickman

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers. — Aldous Huxley

My father greeted me with his usual air of mild regret. — Evelyn Waugh

I know you're no worse than most men but I thought you were better. I never saw you as a man. I saw you as my father. — Arthur Miller

Fathers and sons and brothers, all of us tall and strong and failing. But all of us trying. — Sam Lansky

Few sons are like their fathers
most are worse, few better. — Homer

nothing can alter the fact that beneath the fascist insignia of their uniforms, these men are fathers, husbands, sons. I — Steven Pressfield

Natural law. Sons are put on this earth to trouble their fathers. — Paul Newman

I should no longer define myself as the son of a father who couldn't or hasn't or wouldn't or wasn't. — Cameron Conaway

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

As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless. — Lord Chesterfield

That was when the world wasn't so big and I could see everywhere. It was when my father was a hero and not a human. — Markus Zusak

Women are not always what we seem to be. What our reputations would tell you. Nor do we only exist in reference to our fathers, husbands, and sons. — Ruth Downie

No one is so foolish as to prefer to peace, war, in which, instead of sons burying their fathers, fathers bury their sons. — Croesus

If not for sports, I do not think my father would have ever talked to me. — Pat Conroy

Fathers who initiate their sons' first sexual experiences by taking them to prostitutes might as well deal them a crack pipe. — Birgit Waldschmidt

The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from fathers to sons. — Michael Lewis

Sons or fathers, poor men or rich men, sacred or secular: all are homosexual in their worship of everything phallic. — Phyllis Chesler

Fathers, sons, brothers, men everywhere: Your legacy will not perish if you take your partner's surname, or she keeps hers. — Zoe Saldana

In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons. — Herodotus

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

It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons. — Friedrich Schiller

When in many societies, fathers are usually known by their sons, I am one of the few fathers who is known by his daughter, and I'm proud of it. — Ziauddin Yousafzai

Fatherhood is sacred. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Remind your council that the sins of the fathers aren't that of the sons. — Amelia Hutchins

Rich men's sons are seldom rich men's fathers. — Herbert Kaufman

We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so. — Alexander Pope

Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat. — Hillary Rodham Clinton

There are many things for which I owe gratitude to my dad. Most of all, I am grateful to the only man who could love my mother more than me. — Ron Mayes

DESTINY (Determined Effort So Tanacious It Negates Yuck) — Frank Chase Jr

Success has many fathers, failure many sons. — Ryan Ross

Basketball allowed me to revere my father without him knowing what I was up to. I took up basketball as a form of homage and mimicry. — Pat Conroy

Many very strong fathers have turned out ineffectual sons by not allowing them to grow as men. — John Noble

In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons. — Herodotus

I can show him how to be the right kind of stupid. — Nick Harkaway

Cruelty is not the only way fathers can ruin their sons. Expectations can do the same damage. — Sarah MacLean