Alarms Quote by Henry James Download Open image “Though it might have its momentary alarms, paternity is not an exciting vocation.” — Henry James ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Alarms Exciting Might Momentary Vocation
It's a pity more men are not bastards by birth instead of vocation. — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
We must shift cultural attitudes about paternity leave from a luxury to a necessity. — Colin Allred Copy Share Image
A workplace culture where fathers are encouraged to take paternity leave would result in stronger families, a more equal labour market and a better… — David Lammy Copy Share Image
Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son. — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
If workplaces that enlist happiness consultants really care about worker satisfaction, why not offer better maternity and paternity policies? Daycare options? They could advise… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
Careers, when they take off, can take your mind off babies temporarily, but I think it always comes back to when the time is… — Joanna Page Copy Share Image
The nature of impending fatherhood is that you are doing something that you're unqualified to do, and then you become qualified while doing it. — John Green Copy Share Image
So much of parenting is following your instincts, and taking the time to actually know your child. — Nia Long Copy Share Image
Paternity is based anyhow only upon conviction: I am convinced, therefore, I am the father. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Commenting on paternity establishment programs: What these millions of children want and need is not a name on a form or a promise that… — David Blankenhorn Copy Share Image
Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors. — Henry James Copy Share Image
“In literature we move through a blest world in which we know nothing except by style, but in which everything is saved by it.” — Henry James Copy Share Image
“I shall stay here as long as I may, I don't want to think — I needn't think. I don't care for anything but… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“...It often seemed to her that she thought too much about herself, you could have made her blush any day of the year, by… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“I reflected acutely that the sense of such differences, such superiorities of quality, always, on the part of the majority—which could include even stupid,… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“She had had a real fright but had fallen back to earth. The odd thing was that in her fall her fear too had… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“She had never met a woman who had less of that fault which is the principal obstacle to friendship - the air of reproducing… — Henry James Copy Share Image
If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it. — Henry James Copy Share Image
It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games — Henry James Copy Share Image
Were the life of man prolonged, he would become such a proficient in villainy, that it would become necessary again to drown or to… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There's a statement from several members of the Senate, both Democrats and Republicans, including the Democratic leader, Charles Schumer; John McCain, the chair of… — George Stephanopoulos Copy Share Image
Here in the UK the audience immediately reacts and they get the fact that: "What would be the most annoying thing in the world?"… — Duncan Jones Copy Share Image
It is a hard matter for a man to lie all over, nature having provided king's evidence in almost every member. The hand will… — Washington Allston Copy Share Image
Who then is free? the wise man who is lord over himself; Whom neither poverty nor death, nor chains alarm; strong to withstand his… — Horace Copy Share Image
Modern man threw a brick through his own window in order to sell himself a burglar alarm. — Allen Carr Copy Share Image
I understand the power and the alarm of words - Not those that they applaud from theatre-boxes, but those which make coffins break from… — Vladimir Mayakovsky Copy Share Image
I don't know who Azazel is," he said. "Isn't he the cat from The Smurfs?" He cast about , but Isabelle just looked up… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The beloved may be treacherous, greasy-headed and given to evil habits, or else it can be a man in his late forties who works… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
Those who have past much of their lives in this great city, look upon its opulence and its multitudes, its extent and variety, with… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, I'm one of those idiots who knows everything about health and is in a constant state of alarm, and yet I continue to… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
When I see a new face, something sets off an alarm bell inside me. 'slow down! Danger!' Even when the attraction is strongest, I… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
