A father and two sons run Adelphia. It's a cable company. And they took from that company a billion dollars. A billion. Three people - three people took a billion dollars. What were they gonna do, start their own space program? 'Let's send the monkey to Mars, Dad!'

No intelligent black man or black woman in his or her right black mind wants white boys and white girls coming to their homes to marry their black sons and daughters.

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.

My father provided; he gathered things to himself and let them fall upon the world; my clothes, my food, my luxurious hopes had fallen to me from him, and for the first time his death seemed, even at its immense stellar remove of impossibility, a grave and dreadful threat.

Our genes keep unfolding as long as we live. Harry tastes in his teeth a sourness that offended him on his father's breath. Poor Pop. His face yellowed like a dried apricot at the end.

This is what a father ought to be about: helping his son to form the habit of doing right on his own initiative, rather than because he's afraid of some serious consequence.

You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes, even if it's just in your own eyes.

Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty: of having produced a son who raised his hand against him.

How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son's offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!

Like Franklin Roosevelt and Adlai Stevenson, he was a wellborn victim of Uberangstlichkeit, a mama's boy who reached his fullest dimensions in following maternal orders to be mercilessly ambitious.

Sons do not need you. They are always out of your reach, Walking strange waters.

Greatness of name in the father oftentimes overwhelms the son; they stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.

There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.

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

Few sons, indeed, are like their fathers. Generally they are worse; but just a few are better.

In order to get as much fame as one's father one has to be much more able than he.

Everyone calls his son his son, whether he has talents or has not talents.

Most sons of famous men lead mediocre lives, particularly those who have their fathers' Christian names and follow in their footsteps.

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a world war.

Tis a happy thing To be the father unto many sons.