What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

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Sons want their fathers' attention until the precise moment when fathers want their sons'. ― Fredrik Backman

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I think of your grandmother calling me and noting how you were growing tall and would one day try to “test me.” And I said to her that I would regard that day, should it come, as the total failure of fatherhood because if all I had over you were my hands, then I really had nothing at all. ― Ta-Nehisi Coates

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A true legacy can be recognized by the fact that it will be left standing when everything else that has attacked it is not. ― Craig D. Lounsbrough

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The measure of a man is determined by the distance between his knees and the ground. The less the distance, the greater the man. ― Craig D. Lounsbrough

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If I have held a part of myself back from my children, I have obviously spent some time calculating the expense of being a father. And the fact is, a real father doesn't do that kind of math. ― Craig D. Lounsbrough

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I blinked. Because even though my dad never, ever complained about being a young dad, I always wondered about his regrets. How his need to keep abandoned, sad things might apply to me, too. ― Maurene Goo

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We don't lose ourselves in parenthood. We find parts of ourselves we never knew existed. ― L.R. Knost

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watching his son in quick pulses of attention. ― Thomas Pynchon

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I am wounded. I am marked by old codes, which shielded me in one world and then chained me in the next. ― Ta-Nehisi Coates

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