"It is important for a father who feels pushed away [by the mom] to say, in effect, When you do that, I feel unwanted as a father, or I feel my rough-housing is not bad parenting; it's my contribution to helping our child take risks. Women cannot hear what men do not say."

-- Warren Farrell

#Mom Quotes #Children Quotes #Father Quotes

“Oh, save me God, but not quite yet.”

Source : Francine du Plessix Gray (1981). “World without end: a novel”, Simon & Schuster
“Tis as easy to be heroes as to sit the idle slaves.”
“I came up in Brooklyn singing doo-wop music from the time I was 13 to the time I was 20. That music served a purpose of keeping a lot of people out of trouble, and also it was a passport from one neighborhood to another.”

Source : "Folk singer Richie Havens dead at 72" by Alan Duke, www.cnn.com. April 23, 2013.
“For others, in spite of myself, from myself.”
“Attractive Etonians who go straight onto the Stock Exchange missing University on their fathers advice: the raw material of the great bores.”
“We are living in the era of premeditation and the perfect crime. Our criminals are no longer helpless children who could plead love as their excuse. On the contrary, they are adults and the have the perfect alibi: philosophy, which can be used for any purpose - even for transforming murderers into judges.”
“As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.”
“The short lesson that comes out of long experience in political agitation is something like this: all the motive power in all of these movements is the instinct of religious feeling. All the obstruction comes from attempting to rely on anything else. Conciliation is the enemy.”

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