“Being a good human being is very easy: Be a good son, a good husband, a good parent and a good citizen.” HumansEasyParentHuman BeingsSonCitizensHusbandGood CitizenGood ParentGood HusbandGood Human Being Author:Siddharth Katragadda
“Most people define themselves by what they do - 'I'm a musician.' Then one day it occurred to me that I'm only a musician when I'm playing music - or writing music, or talking about music. I don't do that 24 hours a day. I'm also a father, a son, a husband, a citizen - I mean, when I go to vote, I'm not thinking of myself as 'a musician.'” PeopleThinkingWritingMeanFatherHoursTalkingSonCitizensOne DayHusbandMusicianVotePlaying MusicWriting Music Author:Herbie Hancock
“We carry adolescence around in our bodies all our lives. We get through the Car Crash Age alive and cruise through our early twenties as cool dudes, wily, dashing, winsome . . . shooting baskets, the breeze, the moon, and then we try to become caring men, good husbands, great fathers, good citizens.” MenTryingBodyAgeFatherOur LivesAliveCarCitizensMoonHusbandTwentiesCaringShootingCrashAdolescenceBreezeBasketsCruiseGood CitizenGreat FatherGood HusbandCar CrashDashingWinsome Author:Garrison Keillor
“As Indian citizens, we subsist on a regular diet of caste massacres and nuclear tests, mosque breakings and fashion shows, church burnings and expanding cell phone networks, bonded labor and the digital revolution, female infanticide and the NASDAQ crash, husbands who continue to burn their wives for dowry and our delectable stockpile of Miss Worlds. What's hard to reconcile oneself to, both personally and politically, is the schizophrenic nature of it.” WorldHardShowsChurchWifeFashionMissingRevolutionCitizensHusbandFemaleLaborTestsPhonesOneselfNuclearCellsBurningIndianDietsDigitalCrashExpandingCell PhoneReconcileMosquesCastesMassacresSchizophrenicFashion ShowDowryInfanticideDigital RevolutionDelectable Book:Power Politics Source: Power Politics
“Let that get you up in the morning and put the light in your eyes. I'm telling you, it makes you a better husband, mother, father, neighbor, citizen, when you have that light in your eye, that you feel so good, and you're a pleasant person to be around. "Good morning, sir. Did you find everything that you need? Oh, that's over in aisle seven. I'll come help you as soon as," that's the stuff. Find something. It could be planting flowers, especially if you can watch it.” IfsNeedsFeelsPersonsHelpingLightEyeMotherFatherStuffWatchesMorningFlowerCitizensHusbandSevenNeighborPleasantAisleLight In Your Eyes Author:Al Jarreau
“I am proud of my husband, Marcus, the love of my life, and his Swiss heritage. Even though I have been a dual citizen since I was married in 1978, I have never exercised any rights of that citizenship.” Has BeensRightsProudCitizensHusbandMarriedMy HusbandHeritageCitizenshipSwissLove Of My LifeDual Citizenship Author:Michele Bachmann
“I'm still divided in my principles and what I think is right and what I'm actually able to do, whether talking about writing or being a citizen or being a husband or being a father. And I'm trying to get better.” ThinkingWritingTryingStillsAbleFatherTalkingPrinciplesCitizensHusbandGet BetterDividedBeing A Father Author:John Edgar Wideman
“I'm a dual citizen, as are my husband and children. We have got eight passports between us; we're weighed down by them whenever we go anywhere.” ChildrenCitizensHusbandEightMy HusbandPassports Author:Emily Mortimer
“Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.” IfsMenFatherLiteratureWomenWifeDutyCitizensWords Of WisdomHusbandCreaturesRationalNeglectGood WifeVindicationHusband And Father Book:A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects Source: A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects
“He'll be delivered from madness. What then? He'll feel himself acceptable! What then? Do you think feelings like his can be simply re-attached, like plasters? Stuck on to other objects we select? Look at him! ... My desire might be to make this boy an ardent husband - a caring citizen - a worshipper of abstract and unifying God. My achievement, however, is more likely to make a ghost!” ThinkingFeelsLooksFeelingsMightDesireBoysObjectsCitizensHusbandAchievementMadnessCaringStuckGhostAbstractAcceptableSelectArdentUnifyingWorshippersPlasters Author:Peter Shaffer