"Father's Day is hopefully a time when the culture says, 'This is our moment to look at who our men and boys are.'"

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Source : "102 years later, it's a new day for dads" by Nicholas K. Geranios, www.today.com. June 1, 2012.

Michael Gurian

#Father Quotes #Boys Quotes #Men Quotes

“I touched an Oscar once. Friend of mine has one, for writing. As soon as I touched it, he said, Now you'll never win one.”
“For this is wisdom: to live, to take what fate, or the Gods, may give.”
“The aim of my writing is to utterly remove the distance between author and reader so that the book becomes a sort of semipermeable membrane through which feelings, ideas, nutrients pass ...”
“The unknown is uncontrolled; no strategies exist that will enclose the endless territory of the new. Only by trusting in yourself and in this world can you get past the watchdogs of your fears and out of the iron gates of the already-known.”
“People like head trauma. They love knockouts. The crowd is silent, silent, silent... and then a knockout happens, and everyone goes native. There would be far fewer knockouts without the gloves.”
“How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball... The harder you grip the bat, the more you can swing it through the ball, and the farther the ball will go. I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.”
“We reward people for making money off money, and moving money around and dividing up mortgages a thousand times over, selling it to China... and it becomes this shell game.”
“I prefer the earlier birth control techniques, which ranged from the delicious (using honey as a spermicide) to the aerobic (jumping backward seven times after coitus).”

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