Warren Farrell Quotes

Raising children was not designed for single parents. (Which is why divorce was such a taboo prior to birth control.)

Warren Farrell

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• I wasn't rebellious. Other friends had far stricter parents and where there wasn't a relationship of respect and communication, they were usually the opposite; kids go to the other extreme.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
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  • Friends
  • Parents

• My parents never got carried away with the extraneous elements of being in the business.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Business
  • Parents
  • Never

• What you pay for an investment is the single biggest determinant for how successful that investment will be. When equity prices are high, your returns will be lower. When they are cheap, your returns will be higher.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • High
  • You
  • Single

• I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Time
  • God
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• I love being able to take a nap in the afternoon.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Love
  • Take
  • Nap

• According to my parents, I just started drumming when I was two. I traveled with them from five to seven on the road, playing percussion. Between 8 and 12, my dad sort of prepared me by teaching me every aspect of road life.

  

  Questlove
  • Life
  • Parents
  • Dad

• The identification of the genes which determine biological phenomena and the study of the control they exert on these phenomena has proven to be the most successful approach to a detailed understanding of the mechanism of biological processes.

  

  Baruj Benacerraf
  • Control
  • Understanding
  • Study

• I am a common man. Why do I need security?

  

  Kariya Munda
  • Man
  • Security

• I went to jail 44 times. I've been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road fighting for freedom... Yet Rosa Parks is better known in history than Ralph David Abernathy. Why is that?

  

  Ralph Abernathy
  • Why
  • History
  • Freedom

• You can't predict when a crisis might hit your family, whether it's with an elderly parent or with your children.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Children
  • Family
  • Parent

• When I was sixteen I started acting, and I also started to embrace my tradition and culture. I had a young medicine man interpret for me what it is to be an Indian. He really caught me at a good time because I was really vulnerable after the loss of my parents with all of the feelings of abandonment.

  

  Adam Beach
  • Time
  • Good
  • Parents

• It's not the last one. Five's out, six is coming out in November, that's a single chapter, and then seven is the big horrifying one. And I think a couple after that to wrap the thing up.

  

  Eddie Campbell
  • Up
  • Think
  • Single

• I was a very imaginative child, and my parents were very encouraging of that. My sister and I would put on plays; I would write my own stories.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Parents
  • Child
  • Sister

• The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Interesting
  • Question
  • Computers

• When you have girl children they torture you!

  

  Pat Benatar
  • Children
  • Girl
  • You

• America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Why
  • America
  • Government

• Spanglish is the encounter: perhaps the word is marriage or divorce of English and Spanish, but also of Anglo and Hispanic civilizations - not only in the United States but in the entire continent and, perhaps, also in Spain.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • Marriage
  • English
  • Divorce

• One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population.

  

  Wendy Craig
  • Children
  • Seven
  • Classroom

• Children, after all, are not just adults-in-the-making. They are people whose current needs and rights and experiences must be taken seriously.

  

  Alfie Kohn
  • Children
  • Needs
  • Experiences

• For a small population, Canada has always had a very strong and vibrant style.

  

  Coco Rocha
  • Strong
  • Small
  • Style

• From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia...could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Force
  • Author
  • Danger

• The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.

  

  Bodhidharma
  • Mind
  • Greed

• No people on earth can be held, as a people, to be an enemy, for all humanity shares the common hunger for peace and fellowship and justice. … No nation's security and well-being can be lastingly achieved in isolation but only in effective cooperation with fellow-nations.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • People
  • Earth
  • Peace

• Raising children was not designed for single parents. (Which is why divorce was such a taboo prior to birth control.)

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Children
  • Why
  • Parents