My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their genomes sequenced.
Can anyone be a father without beginning to be one? Yes, one who did not begin his existence. What begins to exist begins to be a father - God the Father did not begin at all. He is Father in the true sense, because He is not a son as well. Just as the Son is son in the true sense, because He is not a father as well. In our case, the word 'father' cannot be truly appropriate, because we must be fathers and sons.
It’s funny, though, speaking of fathers and sons, because me and John Goodman played father and son, like, five or six years ago in the film Death Sentence [2007], and I got back with him again in Inside Llewyn Davis.
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons.
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude for getting him into that predicament. But a child does owe his father a debt, if Dad, having gotten him into this peck of trouble, takes off his coat and buckles down to the job of showing his son how best to crash through it.
When I was a kid, my father told me every day, 'You're the most wonderful boy in the world, and you can do anything you want to.'
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