I believe that I am letting my kids see that a man can be tender, sensitive, warm, attentive to feelings, and present, just plain ...there. That's important to me, because I didn't get any of that from my own father, and I am realizing now how much I missed it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In all cases, excepting those of the bear and leopard, the female is less spirited than the male; in regard to the two exceptional... cases, the superiority in courage rests with the female. With all other animals the female is softer in disposition than the male, is more mischievous, less simple, more impulsive, and more attentive to the nurture of the young; the male, on the other hand, is more spirited than the female, more savage, more simple and less cunning. The traces of these differentiated characteristics are more or less visible everywhere, but they are especially visible where character is the more developed, and most of all in man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down pato...is which is something like the way a Swiss waiter talks, and that when I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split, and when I interrupt the velvety smoothness of my more or less literate syntax with a few sudden words of bar- room vernacular, that is done with the eyes wide open and the mind relaxed but attentive.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same field, it beholds, every hour, a picture which w...as never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is through attentive love, the ability to ask "What are you going through?" and the ability to hear the answer that the reality... of the child is both created and respected.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
She had once been a Catholic, but discovering that priests were infinitely more attentive when she was in process of losing or reg...aining faith in Mother Church, she maintained an enchantingly wavering attitude.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Children bring us a sense of intimacy which cannot be replicated in adult relationships. . . . Being attentive to physical comfort..., hurt feelings, the ability to play with total concentration and joy . . . the nakedness of childhood preoccupations helps us to keep in touch with ourselves, with the child imprisoned within each adult.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and ...favourable hearers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No society can survive without children. The rhetoric that holds children to be our greatest national resource is true, but the re...ality is that we do little to demonstrate any conviction of its truth. Becoming a parent and being a "good," concerned, and attentive parent may be the most significant contribution any adult can make to our society--and ultimately to the gross national product and to the future of the society.... Surely, it is time to acknowledge the contribution parents make in bearing, caring for, and rearing future generations of citizens, workers, and parents--even if they share personally in the rewards of having children. Surely, parenting is a life cycle stage warranting support at its inception and as an ongoing process by a society that needs and wants children.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »