“My father worked in a post office and never made probably more than $8,000 a year as an employee of the post office, so when people can rise up from very modest circumstances and do well economically, I think that's a good thing about America, and we should encourage that kind of activity.” PeopleThinkingShouldYearsWellsKindMadeAmericaFatherCircumstancesActivityOfficeGood ThingsPostsEmployeeModestPost Office Author:David Rubenstein
“Could we know by what strange circumstances a man's genius became prepared for practical success, we should discover that the most serviceable items in his education were never entered in the bills which his father paid for.” KnowsMenShouldFatherEducationStrangeGeniusCircumstancesPaidBillsPreparedPracticalsItems Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“If I have accomplished anything, I owe it, among other fortunate circumstances, to the fact that through the early training bestowed on me by my father, I started, I may fairly say, with an advantage of a quarter of a century over my contemporaries.” IfsMayFactsFatherCenturyCircumstancesTrainingAdvantageFortunateAccomplishedQuartersQuarter Of A Century Book:Autobiography Source: Autobiography
“Mothers and fathers act in mostly similar ways toward their young children. Psychologists are still highlighting small differencesrather than the overwhelming similarities in parents' behaviors. I think this is a hangover from the 1950s re-emergence of father as a parent. He has to be special. The best summary of the evidence on mothers and fathers with their babies is that young children of both sexes, in most circumstances, like both parents equally well. Fathers, like mothers, are good parents first and gender representatives second.” ThinkingWayFirstsWellsChildrenStillsYoungMotherFatherSexParentSpecialBabyCircumstancesBehaviorEvidenceGenderOverwhelmingRepresentativesPsychologistSimilarityYoung ChildrenEmergenceMother And FatherHangoverSummaryGood ParentLike A MotherHighlighting Author:Sandra Scarr