Father Son Relationship Quotes

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

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

Before I began The Cider House Rules, I thought I wanted to write about a father-son relationship that was closer, more conflicted, and ultimately more loving, than most. Then I began to think of a relationship between an old orphanage director and an unadoptable orphan - a kid who goes out into the world and fails and keeps coming back, so that the old guy ends up with someone he's got to keep.

You don't buy into huge car chases or sensates or interstellar warfare, but you can buy into a loving relationship or a father-son relationship, and you can buy into the small humor. If you want to make your fiction universal, go small. That's the best way to do it.

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.

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

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

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

In a personal way, to do with family and the father-son relationship, in a kind of artistic way with regard to him being an art student. I also studied the visual arts at Lancaster University. I then decided to become an actor as he was becoming a musician. And then as an actor/performer, we have similar sort of interests - music hall and that whole world. So, there's a lot that I felt connected with.

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

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