Chanakya Quotes

The fact my relationship with my son is so good makes me forgiving of my father and also appreciative.

The stag tells him that he is the eldest of the sons - the father's favorite - and he warns the father that if he tries to shoot any of the stags, their antlers will tear him to pieces.

It's about a father and daughter and the daughter's friend and her relationship with her current husband.

I would want my legacy to be that I was a great son, father and friend.

He's my father married to my sister. That makes me his son and his brother-in-law. That is such a moral transgression... I cannot see him. I cannot have a relationship with my father and be morally consistent. I lived with all these adopted children, so they are my family. To say Soon-Yi was not my sister is an insult to all adopted children.

I love my brother. But I'm not a yo-yo. He can't just keep spinning me in and out of his life.

When my son came into my life, my priorities changed, because I wanted to have the relationship with him, that I didn't have with my father.

Some of my favorite movies have explored the father-son dynamic, in a very loving way. It can be complicated, but at the end, it's that moment where you're crying because of that core relationship.

My father insisted that the boys in my life were directly responsible for my juvenile-delinquent tendencies. My mother, more accurately, assumed that I was the bad influence.

In England every man you meet is some man's son; in America, he may be some man's father.

If it were a choice between me getting killed or one of my friend's kids, I would happily take the shot.

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

I think the father-son dynamic is interesting. I don't have a male friend who hasn't had some kind of conflict with their dad, and I don't have a male friend who hasn't had some kind of conflict with their son.

A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension.

My mother, my father, I love 'em, I hate 'em, wish god I didnt have 'em, but thank god that he made 'em

Things a mother should know: how to comfort a son without exactly saying Daddy was wrong.

I went to my father's at night. He spoke of poor John [Boswell's brother] with disgust. I was shocked and said, "He's your son, and God made him." He answered very harshly, "If my sons are idiots, can I help it?

I think it's strange to live in a house with someone you cannot talk to-especially when that someone is your father-and the thought makes me a little sad.

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

Each of his son's had been his favorite child.

But no one walks out of his family without reprisals: a family is too disciplined an army to offer compassion to its deserters.

A son could bear with great complacency, the death of his father, while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to despair.

And he was my friend. Not that he wouldn't kill me if things turned out that way, but he wouldn't like doing it. With humans, what more could you ask for a friend?

Dad was a hypocrite. He could talk about peace and love to the world but he could never show it to his wife and son.

You are my queen. I’ve spent nine centuries seeking the mortal who would free this court, who would save my best friend’s son, who would save the lives of the rest of the girls who were not you. I’d die before I’d allow harm to you.” He bowed his head.