"Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead."

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Source : Augustus Y. Napier, PhD (2010). “The Fragile Bond: In Search of an Equal, Intimate and Enduring Marriage”, p.44, Harper Collins

Augustus Napier

#Inspiring Quotes #Mothers Day Quotes #Children Quotes

“Fear and greed are probably the worst emotions to have in connection with the purchase and sale of stocks.”
“The thing I remember about New York was how little I felt. I arrived with one small bag and $15.”
“What we need to know about loving is no great mystery. We all know what constitutes loving behavior; we need but act upon it, not continually question it. Over-analysis often confuses the issue and in the end brings us no closer to insight. We sometimes become too busy classifying, separating, and examining, to remember that love is easy. It's we who make it complicated.”
“What will our children do in the morning if they do not see us fly?”
“The first time I saw you,' he says, 'I knew we belonged together.”
“My plays tend to be peopled with outsiders in search of clarity.”
“In a cross-cultural study of 173 societies (by Herbert Barry and L. M. Paxson of the University of Pittsburgh) 76 societies typically had mother and infant sharing a bed; in 42 societies they shared a room but not a bed; and in the remaining 55 societies they shared a room with a bed unspecified. There were no societies in which infants routinely slept in a separate room.”
“The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth.”

Source : Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.68, Penguin

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