When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father both cry.
William ShakespeareDon't force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It's the child's desire to play that matters, not the parent's desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun.
Tiger WoodsA man cannot speak to his son but as a father, to his wife but as a husband, to his enemy but upon terms, whereas a friend may speak as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person.
Francis BaconA father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.
Washington IrvingEvery girl should use what Mother Nature gave her, before Father Time takes it away.
Laurence J. PeterMothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
AristotleCertain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire, to our sons ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
Joseph AddisonOn his two younger sisters he then bestowed an equal portion of his fraternal tenderness, for he asked each of them how they did and observed that they both looked very ugly.
Jane AustenI wanted to be a skinny little ballerina, but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night.
Lady GagaThis is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.
AristotleMy dad loves what I do and I support my parents financially, because they didn't have a job that gave them a pension.
Marilyn MansonTo support mother and father to cherish wife and child and to have a simple livelihood, this is the good luck.
BuddhaIf 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 Arthur BaldwinFull fathom five thy father lies, of his bones are coral made. Those are pearls that were his eyes. Nothing of him that doth fade, but doth suffer a sea-change into something rich and strange.
William ShakespeareWhen 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.
Mark Twain