Their lifelong love of learning, their remarkable wide-ranging intellectual curiosity, was fostered primarily by their father. He read aloud to them at night, eliciting their responses to works of his...
Theodore Roosevelt's father wrote him, I fear for your future. We cannot stand so corrupt a government for any great length of time.
(n.) The state of a parent; the office or character of a parent.
Though I suppose people do reproduce sometimes for that reason - for insurance against later regret. I think people have children for all manner of reasons - sometimes out of a pure desire to nurture...
We are now parents. The love for our offspring has opened up fresh fountains of love for each other. Edwin Stanton to his wife.
We can't surrender to the culture. We've minimized the role of fathers, so we've created a generation of barbarians, children who become men without growing up. They stay in boyhood through their 20s...
We no longer get work out of our children; today we get meaning.
When (The World According To) Garp was published, people who’d lost children wrote to me. ‘’I lost one, too,’’ they told me. I confessed to them that I hadn’t lost any children. I’m just a father with...
Why do men like me want sons? he wondered. It must be because they hope in their poor beaten souls that these new men, who are their blood, will do the things they were not strong enough nor wise enou...
Would you actually believe that you had committed your foolish acts in order to spare your son from committing them too? And could you in any way protect your son from Sansara? How could you? By means...
It's my responsibility to cultivate the man in my son. I can't be passive about that.
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