"Boys want to grow up to be like their male role models. And boys who grow up in homes with absent fathers search the hardest to figure out what it means to be male."

-- Geoffrey Canada

#Growing Up Quotes #Father Quotes #Home Quotes

“Every true writer is like a bird; he repeats the same song, the same theme, all his life. For me, this theme as always been revolt.”
“I can't tell you why there's a delay, but stick your head out of the window and you'll know why.”
“In a generation or two, or maybe sooner, young golfers of true sporting instinct will wonder why all this handling of the ball is necessary. It will seem to them that the game is not as good as it might be.”
“Love is a game that two can play and both win.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I write fiction. I make things up, it's what I do.”
“Is real, it is serious, it is growing, and it constitutes one of the greatest threats to our national security and, indeed, to global security.”

Source : "Obama's End Goal: World Without Nuclear Weapons". Interview with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. April 13, 2010.
“Most of the lyrics are rooted in my own experiences. But there is some sheer fabrication.”
“Caleb and Tris exchange a look. The skin on his face and on her knuckles is nearly the same colour, purple-blue-green, as if drawn with ink. This is what happens when siblings collide - they injure each other in the same way.”

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