“I have a different mentality when it comes to catering to a man, I just won't allow it. Don't get me wrong, I'll do for you but I'm not taking care of no man and catering to him for life; he better be bringing something to the table. I learned that from my mother and my grandmother.” MenDifferentCareMotherTablesGrandmotherMentalityMy GrandmotherCateringDifferent Mentality Author:Teena Marie
“When I was a teenager, my father went bust. He could have declared himself bankrupt, but he was an honourable man and he insisted on paying back all his debts. That almost ruined the family. I was aware that my mother and father couldn't control things anymore. I guess I was afraid that we would end up on the street.” MenEndsMotherFatherStreetsDebtTeenagerRuinedMother And Father Author:Jo Nesbo
“My parents were very supportive and always encouraged us. My father was a gentle, nice man. My mother was quite a colourful character and a keen reader who encouraged me to write.” MenWritingCharacterMotherFatherParentNiceReaderGentleSupportiveColorfulNice Man Author:Alexander McCall Smith
“Connecting with my daughter is the most important thing in my life - the priority. I want to be a man who shows up for her. I want to have such a big influence on her, so that she knows she can call me about anything, which she does.” KnowsMenWantDoeImportantShowsBigsMotherInfluenceDaughterImportant ThingsPrioritiesMy DaughterCall MeConnectingBe A Man Author:Jamie Foxx
“A picture of Christ was hung in the back of a pulpit. When the minister rose to speak one Sunday morning, a little boy asked his mother, 'Mother, who is that man who stands so we can't see Jesus?'” MenLittlesChristianMotherJesusSpeakChristBoysMorningRoseChristian InspirationalMinistersSundayHungLittle BoysPulpitSunday Morning Author:Vance Havner
“Whatever a man loves he inevitably clings to, and in order not to lose it he rejects everything that keeps him from it. So he who loves God cultivates pure prayer, driving out every passion that keeps him from it. He who drives out self-love, the mother of the passions, will with God's help easily rid himself of the rest, such as anger, irritation, rancor and so on. But he who is dominated by self-love is overpowered by the other passions, even against his will. Self-love is the passion of attachment to the body.” MenSelfHelpingBodyMotherOrderPassionLosesPrayerLove IsSelf LovePureDrivingGod LoveRejectsAttachmentIrritationRancor Author:Maximus the Confessor
“My mother never married my father. She was married to and divorced from another man, then she married and divorced my stepfather and then, ultimately, they ended up getting back together.” MenTogetherMotherFatherMarriedDivorcedAnother ManBack TogetherStepfathersGetting Back Together Author:Jesse Metcalfe
“Freud, Sigmund: A man so dissatisfied with his own mother and father that he devoted his life to convincing everyone who would listen — or better still, talk — that their parents were just as bad.” MenStillsMotherFatherParentDevotedConvincingMother And FatherDissatisfied Author:John Ralston Saul
“When a man does not live with his children and does not get along with the mother of his children, his fatherhood becomes essentially untenable, regardless of how he feels, how hard he tries, or whether he is a good guy. Almost by definition, he has become de-fathered.” MenFeelsTryingChildrenDoeHardMotherGuyDefinitionsFatherhoodGood Guy Author:David Blankenhorn
“Children must grow not only in the body but in the spirit, and the mother longs to follow the mysterious spiritual journey of the beloved one who to-morrow will be the intelligent, divine creation, man.” MenChildrenBodySpiritualSpiritMotherGrowsJourneyCreationDivineIntelligentMysteriousBelovedLoved OnesMorrowSpiritual Journey Book:Montessori's Own Handbook Source: Montessori's Own Handbook
“I'm a first generation American. My mother is Italian and Russian and a lot of other things, and my father is Uruguayan. In fact, my mother's been married twice, and both men were Uruguayan. So I grew up in a very European/Latin American-influenced home.” MenFirstsFactsHomeMotherFatherGenerationsGrewMarriedGrew UpLatinItalianLatin AmericaLatin American Author:Sebastian Arcelus
“A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.” MenLifeHas BeensFeelingsMotherWinningSelf EsteemSelf RespectConqueror Book:Letters of Sigmund Freud Source: Letters of Sigmund Freud
“If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.” IfsMenHas BeensFeelingsMotherSonConfidenceMy SonDarlingTriumphantMother And SonMother SonUndisputedMother Son Relationship Author:Sigmund Freud
“I thought if my son was now eighteen years old and he was tempted to join the fight and take the burden of protecting his family - because it's always tempting especially for young men - what would I do as a mother to stop him?” IfsMenYearsYoungMotherFightingSonBurdenYoung ManMy SonTemptedEighteenTemptingEighteen Years Old Author:Nadine Labaki
“Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman.” MenHumansMotherArtistStruggleTreacherousRemorseless Author:George Bernard Shaw
“Raising a daughter is an extremely political act in this culture. Mothers have been placed in a no-win situation with their daught ers: if they teach their daughters simply how to get along in a world that has been shaped by men and male desires, then they betray their daughters' potential But, if they do not, they leave their daughters adrift in a hostile world without survival strategies.” IfsMenWorldHas BeensPoliticalMotherDesireCultureWinningSituationTeachSurvivalDaughterStrategyMalesBetrayHostileMother DaughterAdrift Author:Elizabeth Debold
“A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.” MenYearsMotherWomenBoysMinutesMomFoolTwentiesFoolishFoolishnessMothers DayAprilFooledFather SonAnother WomanPranksFools And FoolishnessFoolish ManApril Fools DayApril FoolsFools DayFunny April Fools DayFunny April Fools Author:Robert Frost
“I want my people to stay with me here. All the dead men will come to life again. Their spirits will come to their bodies again. We must wait here in the homes of our fathers and be ready to meet them in the bosom of our mother.” PeopleMenWantHomeBodySpiritMotherFatherWaitingReadyNativeNative AmericanOur FatherBosomsDead ManNative American WisdomGreat SpiritNative AmericaStay With MeGreat Native AmericanNative American EarthNative Wisdom Author:Wovoka
“What should a man do but be merry? For look you how cheerfully my mother looks, and my father died within's two hours.” MenShouldLooksTwoMotherFatherHoursDiedMerryFather DiedMy Father Died Book:Hamlet: Revised Edition Source: Hamlet: Revised Edition
“Most men are secretly still mad at their mothers for throwing away their comic books. They would be valuable now.” MenStillsBookWould BeMotherMadValuableComicThrowingComic BookThrowing Away Author:Rita Rudner