"If a man can't put his arms around his sons and help them, then what's the world coming to?"

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Source : "The Man Who Made Chicago Work". content.time.com. January 03, 1977.

Richard J. Daley

#Son Quotes #Men Quotes #World Quotes

“I make movies for my needs. My goal has never, never, never been to make shocking movie.”
“Probably my biggest challenge is not eating all the food that I want to eat sometimes.”
“The motive for purifying yourself - that you feel spiritually impure - will prevent any genuine gain until you learn to love the impurity you started with. Can any being seriously think that he is going to pass through the infinity of time without ever making another mistake? Quite often a flash of enlightenment will give you this message: Go back to where you started and learn to love it more.”

Source : Thaddeus Golas (2002). “The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment”, p.84, Gibbs Smith
“A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself.”
“I am strangely addicted to the writing of long letters, which, I am afraid, tire you; and for the future, I believe, I must be less communicative, in order to be less troublesome.”

Source : Mary Collyer (1749). “Felicia To Charlotte: Being Letters From A Young Lady in the Country, To Her Friend in Town : Containing A Series of the Most Interesting Events, Interspersed with Moral Reflections ...”, p.255
“Fear is instantly debilitating and love instantly empowering”
“I have a neighbor who knows 200 types of wine. ... I only know two types of wine - red and white. But my neighbor only knows two types of countries - industrialized and developing. And I know 200.”
“I did used to like trampolining, but Iâ€™m probably past it, I think. You need to have a really strong pelvic floor to be good at trampolining, and Iâ€™ve had three children.”

Source : "Tamsin Greig: Green Goddess". The Independent Interview, www.independent.co.uk. May 05, 2006.

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