{"quotes":[{"text":"Our era has produced many great men--- robber barons, masters of innovation, beast of business---whose staggering wealth, incomparable ruthlessness and personal legends would seem to prove they are dominant species but then one has a look at their son, and doubts the theory of evolution entirely. -DR. Bertrand Legmam Cooper, Problems of Science and Society, Posted by One Who Has Known Both, 1900.","author":"Anna Godbersen","tags":["1900s","dr-bertrand-legman-cooper","evolution","fathers-and-sons","sons"],"id":14557,"author_id":"Anna+Godbersen"},{"text":"And though I had misgiving--obvious ones, too--one overwhelming thing drove me on: on the borderlands, my father would need me as much as I'd need him. That's what made me so blindly ready to go off with him. What boy doesn't wait his whole childhood to walk alongside his father on equal terms?","author":"Peter Geye","tags":["family","fathers-and-sons","growing-up"],"id":35640,"author_id":"Peter+Geye"},{"text":"Fatherhood is sacred.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["blessed-life","christian","christian-living","couple","divine","faith","father","father-s-day","fathers-and-sons","holy","life","love","marriage","parenting-advice","relationship","romance","spiritual"],"id":57514,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"If not for sports, I do not think my father would have ever talked to me.","author":"Pat Conroy","tags":["conversation","fathers-and-sons","sports"],"id":67686,"author_id":"Pat+Conroy"},{"text":"That had been the end of Communism. I had a feeling watching the tape that America would be next, but for once I kept my mouth shut. In my silence I felt our common ground: here we were, two men, neither young, neither with money, neither earning a penny or holding down a job or owning a house, both thoroughly confused by the way the world was turning.","author":"Don J. Snyder","tags":["america","change","communism","confusion","fathers-and-sons","progress"],"id":73040,"author_id":"Don+J.+Snyder"},{"text":"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.","author":"Ron Mayes","tags":["family-love","family-relationships","family-values","father","fathers-and-sons","inspirational","mother"],"id":77744,"author_id":"Ron+Mayes"},{"text":"He wishes he could remember everything. Anything. He doesn’t sense a bone in his body that can feel compassion or worthiness. Self-pity hides away as well, the lowest form of emotion not even capable of resting in his wrecked mind.","author":"Christy A. Campbell","tags":["bad-boys","boys","death","fathers-and-sons","fiction","girls","grief","love","mystery","paranormal","paranormal-romance","relationships","teenagers","teens","tragedy","ya","young-adult","young-adult-romance"],"id":100497,"author_id":"Christy+A.+Campbell"},{"text":"All the men in Daddy's records sang of love with drastically imbalanced emotion. In the span of three minutes, they begged for it and kicked it to the curb. They turned to anybody, even to God, with a perpetual request: Please send me someone to love. But once they got it, love scrambled them.","author":"Rashod Ollison","tags":["black-fathers-and-sons","fathers-and-sons","love","love-songs","music","soul-music","vinyl-records"],"id":119737,"author_id":"Rashod+Ollison"},{"text":"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.","author":"Arthur Miller","tags":["family-relationships","fathers-and-sons"],"id":145184,"author_id":"Arthur+Miller"},{"text":"Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid; one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.Build me a son whose wishbone will not be where his backbone should be; a son who will know Thee and that to know himself is the foundation stone of knowledge.Lead him, I pray, not in the path of ease and comfort, but under the stress and spur of difficulties and challenge. Here let him learn to stand up in the storm; here let him learn compassion for those who fail.Build me a son whose heart will be clean, whose goal will be high; a son who will master himself before he seeks to master other men; one who will learn to laugh, yet never forget how to weep; one who will reach into the future, yet never forget the past.And after all these things are his, add, I pray, enough of a sense of humor, so that he may always be serious, yet never take himself too seriously. Give him humility, so that he may always remember the simplicity of greatness, the open mind of true wisdom, the meekness of true strength.Then I, his father, will dare to whisper, 'I have not lived in vain.","author":"Douglas MacArthur","tags":["fathers-and-sons","prayer"],"id":147003,"author_id":"Douglas+MacArthur"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":34,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}