Quotes
Authors
Michael Gurian

"The culture in which you parent, mentor, or educate boys exhorts them to be individualistic and group-oriented at once, but does not give them a tribal structure in which to accomplish both in balance. It used to be that the tribe formed a boy's character while the peer group existed primarily to test and befriend that character. Nowadays, boys' characters are often formed in the peer group. Mentors and intimate role models rarely exist to show the growing boy in any long-term and consistent way how both to serve a group and flourish as an independent self."

Source : Michael Gurian (2006). “The Wonder of Boys”, p.71, Penguin

Michael Gurian

#Character Quotes #Independent Quotes #Boys Quotes

“Now Daddy is part of God. I guess when you die you become much more bigger, because you're part of everything.”
“I will work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to preserve the Social Security promise that provides secure retirement benefits for all, especially those who are most at risk such as widows, orphans, and people with disabilities when the need arises.”
“I mean, everybody's star fades in every business; that's just a natural part of life.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I don't want to have a friend unless I can call them one of my best friends.”
“It may be years until the day My dreams will match up with my pay.”

Source : Song: Mushaboom, Album: Let It Die, 2005
“To all the secret writers, late-night painters, would-be singers, lapsed and scared artists of every stripe, dig out your paintbrush, or your flute, or your dancing shoes. Pull out your camera or your computer or your pottery wheel. Today, tonight, after the kids are in bed or when your homework is done, or instead of one more video game or magazine, create something, anything. Pick up a needle and thread, and stitch together something particular and honest and beautiful, because we need it. I need it. Thank you, and keep going.”
“My personal sense of humor is edgy, I would say more cable-like: words you're not allowed to say, ideas that the majority of people might say, "That's too risquÃ© for me."”
“I'm always going to hear people make that connection and I've just accepted it. It's alright. I'm just happy that I get to do my own thing now. I learned a lot from the show [the Voice] as far as being in the TV world and being in front of the camera, which is really great because I'm not as nervous in front of the camera as I was before.”

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