David Blankenhorn Quotes

Defining and celebrating the New Father are by far the most popular ideas in our contemporary discourse on fatherhood. Father as close and nurturing, not distant and authoritarian. Fatherhood as more than bread winning. Fatherhood as new-and-improved masculinity. Fathers unafraid of feelings. Fathers without sexism. Fatherhood as fifty-fifty parenthood, undistorted by arbitrary gender divisions or stifling social roles.

David Blankenhorn

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• Now that we have a true leader who stands for family and has a loving relationship with his wife, maybe black men and women will follow their example. We have a lot of faith and trust in President Obama because his integrity thus far has shown us a new level of manhood, fatherhood and husbandhood.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Men
  • Women
  • Family

• I'm always surprised when an actor goes so deeply into the truth that they shake you to your core.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Truth
  • You
  • Actor

• I just throw it out and see what happens. If it sounds and feels right, then I continue.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Right
  • See
  • Throw

• There are lots of concerns facing English football but for me the major one is the way in which football clubs are run by owners, whether they are growing organically and sustainably and how that is being policed by the football authorities.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Way
  • Football
  • Concerns

• Singing, for me, means singing as loud as I can.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Singing
  • I Can
  • Means

• What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Real
  • Friendship

• In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • World
  • Home
  • Weekend

• There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Faith
  • Worry

• I always say I write my own novels and the characters don't take control of me, but in fact, I look at the characters in the early stages and I think, 'What is he or she like,' and they slowly come together and they become the person they are.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Think
  • Control
  • Person

• I also care that the public are getting their 12 dollars worth when they go to a movie, and that they're not coming out not wanting to ever see a movie with me in it again. I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • People
  • Work
  • Movie

• People still do fall in and out of love and can and cannot express what they feel and are very much pained because the person they love is with somebody else. That's happening the whole world over, and I think it always has been.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • World
  • Always

• Velvet is great. It's warm as well. And it's snug.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Great
  • Warm
  • Velvet

• How dangerous emperors are when they go mad.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • Mad
  • Dangerous
  • Go

• The fear tactic is a tactic that's used by people who want to maintain control, and it's very effective.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • People
  • Fear
  • Control

• I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Depression

• I grew up on Long Island, and from as early as I can remember, as far back as first grade, I had two real passions - one of them was putting on plays, and the other was journalism. I was directing plays and editing school papers from first grade on, all the way through college.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Up
  • Long
  • Real

• Kindness and friendliness become aspects of personalized service or of public relations of big firms, rationalized to further the sale of something. With anonymous insincerity, the Successful Person thus makes an instrument of his own appearance and personality.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Service
  • Personality
  • Kindness

• The East will be seen to rush to the West and the South to the North in confusion round and about the universe, with great noise and trembling or fury.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Great
  • Universe

• Last night Alexis got his script for Angel. I was like, 'Oh, I would have been getting a Buffy script right now.'

  

  Alyson Hannigan
  • Night
  • Angel

• One of the most notable traits of the Mexican's character is his willingness to contemplate horror: he is even familiar and complacent in his dealings with it.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Character
  • Horror
  • Mexican

• If necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. And we're cooperating like never before.

  

  John Ashcroft
  • Mother
  • Father

• I am not gonna engage in a debate that Michael Jackson could be the biological father of any of those kids. I'm not havin it, not tonight. There's no way. Those kids are Whitey, Whitey McGee and Whitey McWhiterson!

  

  Kathy Griffin
  • Kids
  • Father

• From the cradle to the grave she is subject to the power and control of man. Father, guardian, or husband, one conveys her like some piece of merchandise over to the other.

  

  Ernestine Rose
  • Father
  • Control
  • Grave

• Defining and celebrating the New Father are by far the most popular ideas in our contemporary discourse on fatherhood. Father as close and nurturing, not distant and authoritarian. Fatherhood as more than bread winning. Fatherhood as new-and-improved masculinity. Fathers unafraid of feelings. Fathers without sexism. Fatherhood as fifty-fifty parenthood, undistorted by arbitrary gender divisions or stifling social roles.

  

  David Blankenhorn
  • Father
  • Winning
  • Social