Michael Gurian Quotes

Father's Day is hopefully a time when the culture says, 'this is our moment to look at who our men and boys are.'

Michael Gurian

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• I like a walking culture; I need to be in a city where you can walk everywhere.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • Culture
  • City
  • Walking

• If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.

  

  Yousuf Karsh
  • Great
  • Men
  • Single

• But all over Ohio - all over America - men and women are going back to work with the pride of building something stamped 'Made in America.'

  

  Ted Strickland
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn't we be taking the same risks in space?

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Men
  • Women
  • Why

• It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • People
  • Good
  • Men

• Men are what their mothers made them.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Men
  • Mom
  • Mother`s

• I worked with Ismail Merchant on 'The Mystic Masseur,' I did 'Sakina's Restaurant,' I've done plays, I've been on Broadway, I've done movies, I've done TV... but nothing has had the pop culture penetrative impact as 'The Daily Show' has. It's the nature of the beast.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Done
  • Nature
  • Culture

• Young women and men who joined the far-left groups did so for the best of reasons. They wanted to change the world. Many fought against the stifling atmosphere in many groups.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Men
  • Women
  • Love

• Women are choosing to stay single rather than marry men who can't step up and provide.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential high-mindedness of men when brought into stark confrontation with the issue of control over their security, and their property interests.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Men
  • Long
  • High

• When women and men can shed an equal quantity of tears in public, that's when we'll have equal power.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Power

• There had so lately been a large force of Spanish cavalry at the village, which had made a great impression on the minds of the young men, as to their power, consequence, which my appearance with 20 infantry was by no means calculated to remove.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Great
  • Men
  • Power

• As the war on terror continues, Americans must honor the brave men and women who gave their lives for the protection of this nation and the hope of peace.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Men
  • Women
  • War

• My goal is to give young girls confidence in this world so they can be more like men in the decision-making process.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • World
  • Men
  • Decision

• All men have a right to remain in a state of nature as long as they please; and in case of intolerable oppression, civil or religious, to leave the society they belong to, and enter into another.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Men
  • Long
  • Nature

• Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance they are altogether lighter than vanity.

  

  Vanity
  • Men
  • High
  • Balance

• Like the Paris riots, the struggle over French history raises grave questions for Europe. How does the presence of 20 million Muslims who come from nations where men believe their grandfathers were exploited and persecuted by Europeans advance the unity and security of Europe? How is Europe made stronger by such 'diversity'?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Believe
  • Men
  • History

• 'The child is essentially alien to this society of men and might express his position in the words of the Gospel: My kingdom is not of this world'

  

  Maria Montessori
  • World
  • Men
  • Society

• Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Men
  • Workers
  • Reaping

• Had she thought there was no meaning in life, no purpose, when God had gone? Yes, she had thought that. 'Well, there is now,' she said aloud, and again, louder: 'There is now!'

  

  Philip Pullman
  • Life
  • God
  • She

• The United Nations passed so-called sanctions again on North Korea, and they've said they 'will exercise their preemptive right to a nuclear attack.' I don't think this ought to be taken kindly.

  

  Oliver North
  • Think
  • Taken
  • Exercise

• The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates.

  

  Frank Chodorov
  • Up
  • Power
  • Giving

• Father's Day is hopefully a time when the culture says, 'this is our moment to look at who our men and boys are.'

  

  Michael Gurian
  • Men
  • Culture
  • Fathers Day