"Family love can be a bore, but only……" — Frank Pittman
"Family love can be a bore, but only when you are hearing it, never when you are relating it to the ones who will be carrying it out for you. A family without a storyteller or two has no way to make sense out of their past and no way to get a sense of themselves."
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Frank Pittman
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26 Quotes by Frank Pittman
Frank Pittman has 26 quotes on this site.
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The most likely cause of a man's depression is his failure to be the man he thinks he should be
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Fathering is the most masculine thing a man can do
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A boy is not free to find a partner of his own as long as he must be the partner…
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A man doesn't have to have all the answers; children will teach him how to parent them, and in the…
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Fathering makes a man, whatever his standing in the eyes of the world, feel strong and good and important, just…
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The end product of child raising is not the child but the parent.
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Fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man.
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Men who have been raised violently have every reason to believe it is appropriate for them to control others through…
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Each generation's job is to question what parents accept on faith, to explore possibilities, and adapt the last generation's system…
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Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress.
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No one, however powerful and successful, can function as an adult if his parents are not satisfied with him.
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We know how powerful our mother was when we were little, but is our wife that powerful to us now?…
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More Bore Quotes
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one of 407 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I definitely see the good in people. Certainly in my own life I strive to be somebody who is functional…
— Alan Ball
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I actually regard Facebook as a huge bore, but I cannot refrain from participating in it. I guess I crave…
— Roseanne Barr
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Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
— Ambrose Bierce
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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.
— Josh Billings
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Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But…
— Bjork
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I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.
— Louise Brooks
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What men don't want, in fact what anyone who's any sort of thrill-seeking, intelligent adult doesn't want, is some crushing…
— Julie Burchill
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
— Samuel Butler
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There is no bore like a clever bore.
— Samuel Butler
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Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.
— Winston Churchill
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I love stories. When I'm writing, what I pretend subconsciously is that we're cavemen, we're sitting around the fire, and…
— Harlan Coben
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Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man-yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the…
— Marcus Aurelius
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